Cheng Lü

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Cheng Lü is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Lü has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 50 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 20 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cheng Lü's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (52 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (50 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (20 papers). Cheng Lü is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (52 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (50 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (20 papers). Cheng Lü collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Cheng Lü's co-authors include Xuwen Qin, Hongfeng Lu, Zenggui Kuang, Wenwei Xie, Haijun Qiu, Beibei Kou, Jiangong Wei, Qianyong Liang, Hailong Lu and Jingan Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Applied Energy and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Lü

57 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The first offshore natural gas hydrate production test in... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The first offshore natural gas hydrate production test in South China Sea
    2018 813 citations Xuwen Qin, Cheng Lü et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cheng Lü China 19 1.7k 1.5k 562 526 442 62 1.9k
Xuwen Qin China 18 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 501 0.9× 493 0.9× 320 0.7× 68 1.7k
Kiyofumi Suzuki Japan 25 2.3k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 834 1.5× 775 1.5× 382 0.9× 68 2.5k
Yuri F. Makogon United States 10 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 518 0.9× 699 1.3× 176 0.4× 19 1.8k
Machiko Tamaki Japan 13 1.0k 0.6× 785 0.5× 336 0.6× 406 0.8× 162 0.4× 25 1.1k
Zheng Su China 17 733 0.4× 607 0.4× 392 0.7× 266 0.5× 285 0.6× 45 1.2k
Erik Spangenberg Germany 24 1.2k 0.7× 984 0.7× 898 1.6× 410 0.8× 296 0.7× 58 2.1k
Jun Yoneda Japan 30 3.8k 2.2× 2.7k 1.9× 1.6k 2.9× 820 1.6× 676 1.5× 62 4.0k
Yoshihiro Konno Japan 31 4.0k 2.3× 3.0k 2.0× 1.4k 2.5× 1.4k 2.6× 615 1.4× 65 4.1k
Boris Bukhanov Russia 18 872 0.5× 405 0.3× 379 0.7× 308 0.6× 150 0.3× 48 1.1k
Yizhao Wan China 16 705 0.4× 555 0.4× 311 0.6× 153 0.3× 241 0.5× 57 966

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cheng Lü

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Lü

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng Lü. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng Lü based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cheng Lü. Cheng Lü is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Xu, Tao, Shouding Li, Peng Guo, et al.. (2025). Comparative analysis of three heating methods for natural gas hydrate production: Electric heating, steam injection, and hot water injection. Applied Thermal Engineering. 269. 126131–126131. 3 indexed citations
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Lü, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Predicting permeability of natural gas hydrate reservoir based on machine learning assisted by sparrow search algorithm. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 257. 214192–214192.
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Xia, Yuxuan, Derek Elsworth, Sai Xu, et al.. (2025). Pore-scale gas–water two-phase flow and relative permeability characteristics of disassociated hydrate reservoir. Petroleum Science. 22(8). 3344–3356. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yuxuan, Bo Zhang, Rick Chalaturnyk, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CO2 hydrate sequestration through underlying methane hydrate production: A novel strategy for carbon storage. Energy. 326. 136144–136144. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yuxuan, Rick Chalaturnyk, Shouding Li, et al.. (2025). Synergistic exploitation of gas hydrates through surface seawater injection coupled with depressurization: Application and optimization in the South China Sea. International Journal of Mining Science and Technology. 35(11). 1921–1937. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yuxuan, Shouding Li, Jianming He, et al.. (2024). Optimization of the natural gas hydrate hot water injection production method: Insights from numerical and phase equilibrium analysis. Applied Energy. 361. 122963–122963. 24 indexed citations
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Li, Yuxuan, Shouding Li, Jianming He, et al.. (2024). Optimizing CO2 Hydrate Sequestration in Subsea Sediments through Cold Seawater Pre-Injection. Sustainability. 16(19). 8548–8548. 2 indexed citations
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Xie, Pengfei, Cheng Lü, Bin Li, et al.. (2024). Influence of layered hydrate accumulation on mechanical behavior of marine silty clay in South China Sea: Experimental study and constitutive modeling. Ocean Engineering. 313. 119604–119604. 3 indexed citations
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Xia, Yuxuan, Sai Xu, Cheng Lü, Pål Østebø Andersen, & Jianchao Cai. (2023). Characterization and capillary pressure curve estimation of clayey-silt sediment in gas hydrate reservoirs of the South China Sea. ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH. 10(3). 200–207. 8 indexed citations
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Luo, Wanjing, et al.. (2023). A new study of multi-phase mass and heat transfer in natural gas hydrate reservoir with an embedded discrete fracture model. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Bian, Hang, Xuwen Qin, Zhiyuan Wang, et al.. (2023). Pore-Scale Investigation of Decomposition-Methods-Dependent Fluid Flow Properties in Hydrate-Bearing Sediments. SPE Journal. 29(1). 138–156. 2 indexed citations
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Lü, Cheng, Yuxuan Xia, Xuwen Qin, et al.. (2022). Micro- and Nanoscale Pore Structure Characterization and Mineral Composition Analysis of Clayey-Silt Hydrate Reservoir in South China Sea. Geofluids. 2022. 1–10. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Qibing, Ren Wang, Jiaxin Sun, et al.. (2021). Effect of Drilling Fluid Invasion on Natural Gas Hydrate Near-Well Reservoirs Drilling in a Horizontal Well. Energies. 14(21). 7075–7075. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Youhong, et al.. (2018). Microbial Gas in the Mohe Permafrost, Northeast China and its Significance to Gas Hydrate Accumulation in Permafrost across China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 92(6). 2251–2266. 3 indexed citations
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Lü, Cheng, et al.. (2012). Application of Logging Data in Calculating Mud Shale Thickness. Zhongguo shiyou kantan. 17(5). 1 indexed citations

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