Dan Zhu

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Dan Zhu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Zhu has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dan Zhu's work include Climate variability and models (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Dan Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Dan Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Dan Zhu's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Ye Huang, Huizhong Shen, Shu Tao, Guofeng Shen, Bin Wang, Yanyan Zhang, Rong Wang, Yuanchen Chen and Bengang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dan Zhu

121 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global Atmospheric Emissions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from 1960 to 2008 and Future Predictions

2013 697 citations Huizhong Shen, Dan Zhu et al. profile →
Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

2018 313 citations Dan Zhu et al. profile →
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Zhu China	31	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	817	468	137	4.2k
Shilpa Rao Austria	27	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	395 0.5×	487 1.0×	52	4.6k
Yilong Wang China	27	1.5k 1.0×	983 0.7×	668 0.5×	459 0.6×	194 0.4×	106	2.8k
Anthony J. Dore United Kingdom	32	837 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	400 0.5×	138 0.3×	93	2.9k
Ping Wang China	37	907 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	348 0.4×	1.0k 2.2×	207	5.0k
John T. Walker United States	41	1.8k 1.2×	2.6k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	307 0.4×	215 0.5×	144	5.3k
Jeroen Staelens Belgium	32	1.0k 0.7×	637 0.5×	413 0.3×	657 0.8×	230 0.5×	67	3.0k
Xiaochun Wang China	36	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	499 0.4×	372 0.5×	795 1.7×	254	4.5k
Carsten Ambelas Skjøth United Kingdom	43	640 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	575 0.7×	82 0.2×	130	4.7k
Ruth M. Doherty United Kingdom	35	1.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	298 0.4×	146 0.3×	110	4.6k
S. P. Urbanski United States	32	3.9k 2.6×	2.7k 2.0×	952 0.8×	903 1.1×	85 0.2×	69	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Zhu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Zhu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dan Zhu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dan Zhu 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 Dan Zhu. Dan Zhu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Runping, et al.. (2025). The effects of self-management education on self-efficacy, self-esteem, and health behaviors among patients with stroke. Medicine. 104(7). e40758–e40758.

Xi, Yi, Philippe Ciais, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2025). Representing high-latitude deep carbon in the pre-industrial state of the ORCHIDEE-MICT land surface model (r8704). Geoscientific model development. 18(18). 6043–6062.

Zhu, Dan, et al.. (2024). Building Ecosystems: The Transformative Role of Beavers. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Xiaobing, Chan Wu, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2024). Safety and Efficacy of Multiple Escalating Doses of RC28-E for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Phase 1b Trial. Ophthalmology and Therapy. 13(9). 2405–2415. 1 indexed citations

Xi, Yi, Chunjing Qiu, Yuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Assessment of a tiling energy budget approach in a land surface model, ORCHIDEE-MICT (r8205). Geoscientific model development. 17(12). 4727–4754. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Qian, et al.. (2024). A Recombinant Thermophilic and Glucose-Tolerant GH1 β-Glucosidase Derived from Hehua Hot Spring. Molecules. 29(5). 1017–1017. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Lu, Yu Zhang, Di Xu, et al.. (2024). Overexpression of USP8 inhibits inflammation and ferroptosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by regulating the OTUB1/SLC7A11 signaling pathway. Allergologia et Immunopathologia. 52(4). 60–67. 4 indexed citations

Li, Chunyan, Mei Zhong, Hansen Xu, et al.. (2024). Response of bacterial and fungal communities in natural biofilms to bioavailable heavy metals in a mining-affected river. Water Research. 267. 122470–122470. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Dan, et al.. (2023). A Study of the Overall Evolution Behaviors of Pulses and Flares within Gamma-Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 23–23. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Shijie, et al.. (2023). Shock-induced potassium and zinc isotope fractionation in ordinary chondrites and its implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 349. 1–10. 3 indexed citations

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Ciais, Philippe, Chunjing Qiu, Agnès Ducharne, et al.. (2021). Wetlands of North Africa During the Mid‐Holocene Were at Least Five Times the Area Today. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 8 indexed citations

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Qiu, Chunjing, Philippe Ciais, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2021). Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands. Science Advances. 7(23). 52 indexed citations

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Yin, Zun, Catherine Ottlé, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of ORCHIDEE-MICT-simulated soil moisture over China and impacts of different atmospheric forcing data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(10). 5463–5484. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Chao Yue, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). ORCHIDEE-MICT-BIOENERGY: an attempt to represent the production of lignocellulosic crops for bioenergy in a global vegetation model. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2249–2272. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Lan‐Hua, Yi Zhang, Jiazhi Wang, et al.. (2018). High genetic diversity in hard ticks from a China-Myanmar border county. Parasites & Vectors. 11(1). 469–469. 29 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dan, Philippe Ciais, Jinfeng Chang, et al.. (2018). The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the productivity paradox during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(4). 640–649. 44 indexed citations

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Yu, Bingwen, et al.. (2015). 原子発光分析のための新しいキロワットマイクロ波プラズマトーチ(kW-MPT)励起源の開発. 36(11). 2157–2159. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qing, Jinxun Liu, Changhui Peng, et al.. (2014). Modelling methane emissions from natural wetlands by development and application of the TRIPLEX-GHG model. Geoscientific model development. 7(3). 981–999. 82 indexed citations

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Wang, Rong, Shu Tao, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2013). High-resolution mapping of combustion processes and implications for CO ₂ emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(10). 5189–5203. 166 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dan. (2006). Isolation,Purification and Structure Characterization of Polysaccharide POPIIIa from Portulace oleracea L.. Jiguang shengwu xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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