Hua Lu

5.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
53 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Hua Lu is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Lu has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Health, 12 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Hua Lu's work include Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 papers). Hua Lu is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 papers). Hua Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Hua Lu's co-authors include Janet B. Croft, James B. Holt, Timothy J. Cunningham, Anne G. Wheaton, Xingyou Zhang, Yong Liu, Kurt J. Greenlund, Paul I. Eke, Daniel P. Chapman and Dafna Kanny and has published in prestigious journals such as The EMBO Journal, American Journal of Epidemiology and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Hua Lu

53 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Prevalence of Healthy Sleep Duration among Adults — United States, 2014

2016 660 citations Yong Liu, Anne G. Wheaton et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →
Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans — United States, 1999–2015

2017 284 citations Timothy J. Cunningham, Janet B. Croft et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →
Health-Related Behaviors by Urban-Rural County Classification — United States, 2013

2017 246 citations Janet B. Croft, Hua Lu et al. profile →
Periodontitis prevalence in adults ≥ 65 years of age, in the USA

2016 238 citations Paul I. Eke, Wenche S. Borgnakke et al. profile →
National, State-Level, and County-Level Prevalence Estimates of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Self-Reporting a Lifetime Diagnosis of Depression — United States, 2020

2023 99 citations Benjamin Lee, Yan Wang et al. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Lu United States	29	745	597	583	552	524	53	3.7k
Joan M. Dorn United States	34	512 0.7×	1.4k 2.4×	493 0.8×	167 0.3×	908 1.7×	89	4.7k
Lin Yang Canada	40	815 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	352 0.6×	390 0.7×	1.6k 3.0×	294	6.6k
Marie Zins France	43	2.3k 3.1×	1.1k 1.8×	467 0.8×	1.2k 2.1×	795 1.5×	327	7.2k
Bobby L. Jones United States	29	960 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	366 0.6×	750 1.4×	549 1.0×	73	6.7k
Gregory A. Talavera United States	38	1.5k 2.0×	1.6k 2.7×	343 0.6×	879 1.6×	1.1k 2.1×	250	6.5k
Daniela Sotres‐Alvarez United States	37	826 1.1×	2.1k 3.6×	1.1k 1.9×	482 0.9×	1.4k 2.6×	229	5.0k
James B. Holt United States	30	797 1.1×	518 0.9×	81 0.1×	753 1.4×	508 1.0×	68	4.2k
Aida L. Giachello United States	27	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	190 0.3×	601 1.1×	908 1.7×	82	4.3k
Stefanos Tyrovolas Spain	28	745 1.0×	617 1.0×	239 0.4×	950 1.7×	614 1.2×	74	3.8k
Ruoling Chen United Kingdom	38	718 1.0×	594 1.0×	164 0.3×	716 1.3×	550 1.0×	163	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Hua Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hua Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hua Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hua Lu 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 Hua Lu. Hua Lu 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

Watson, Kathleen B., et al.. (2024). Chronic Disease Indicators: 2022–2024 Refresh and Modernization of the Web Tool. Preventing Chronic Disease. 21. E46–E46. 4 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, Yan Wang, Yong Liu, et al.. (2023). County-Level Geographic Disparities in Disabilities Among US Adults, 2018. Preventing Chronic Disease. 20. E37–E37. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Benjamin, Yan Wang, Susan A. Carlson, et al.. (2023). National, State-Level, and County-Level Prevalence Estimates of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Self-Reporting a Lifetime Diagnosis of Depression — United States, 2020. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 72(24). 644–650. 99 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Yan, Xingyou Zhang, Hua Lu, Janet B. Croft, & Kurt J. Greenlund. (2022). Constructing Statistical Intervals for Small Area Estimates Based on Generalized Linear Mixed Model in Health Surveys. Open Journal of Statistics. 12(1). 70–81. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yong, Kurt J. Greenlund, Brenna VanFrank, et al.. (2022). Smoking Cessation Among U.S. Adult Smokers With and Without Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2018. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 62(4). 492–502. 18 indexed citations

Chen, Dongzhen, Hua Lu, Shengyang Zhang, et al.. (2021). The association between extreme temperature and pulmonary tuberculosis in Shandong Province, China, 2005–2016: a mixed method evaluation. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 402–402. 12 indexed citations

Eke, Paul I., Hua Lu, Xingyou Zhang, et al.. (2018). Geospatial distribution of periodontists and US adults with severe periodontitis. The Journal of the American Dental Association. 150(2). 103–110. 13 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, Xingyou Zhang, James B. Holt, Dafna Kanny, & Janet B. Croft. (2018). Quantifying spatial accessibility in public health practice and research: an application to on-premise alcohol outlets, United States, 2013. International Journal of Health Geographics. 17(1). 23–23. 17 indexed citations

Samanic, Claudine, et al.. (2018). Achieving Excellence in the Practice of Chronic Disease Epidemiology. Preventing Chronic Disease. 15. E146–E146. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yong, Janet B. Croft, Anne G. Wheaton, et al.. (2016). Clustering of Five Health-Related Behaviors for Chronic Disease Prevention Among Adults, United States, 2013. Preventing Chronic Disease. 13. E70–E70. 55 indexed citations

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Lang, Jason E., et al.. (2016). Comparing 2 National Organization-Level Workplace Health Promotion and Improvement Tools, 2013–2015. Preventing Chronic Disease. 13. E136–E136. 8 indexed citations

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Croft, Janet B., Hua Lu, Xingyou Zhang, & James B. Holt. (2016). Geographic Accessibility of Pulmonologists for Adults With COPD. CHEST Journal. 150(3). 544–553. 56 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, James B. Holt, Yiling J. Cheng, et al.. (2015). Population-based geographic access to endocrinologists in the United States, 2012. BMC Health Services Research. 15(1). 541–541. 95 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xingyou, James B. Holt, Hua Lu, et al.. (2013). Neighborhood commuting environment and obesity in the United States: An urban–rural stratified multilevel analysis. Preventive Medicine. 59. 31–36. 46 indexed citations

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Brantley, Mary D., Hua Lu, Wanda D. Barfield, James B. Holt, & Alcia Williams. (2012). Mapping US Pediatric Hospitals and Subspecialty Critical Care for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, 2008. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 6(2). 117–125. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xingyou, Hua Lu, & James B. Holt. (2011). Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study. International Journal of Health Geographics. 10(1). 31–31. 221 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua & Andrew Gelman. (2003). A Method for Estimating Design-based Sampling Variances for Surveys with Weighting, Poststratification, and Raking. Journal of Official Statistics. 19(2). 133. 23 indexed citations

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Fung, Leslie W.‐M., Chakravarthy Narasimhan, Hua Lu, & Maxwell P. Westerman. (1989). Reduced water exchange in sickle cell anemia red cells: a membrane abnormality. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 982(1). 167–172. 12 indexed citations

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Fung, L.W.‐M., Hua Lu, Rex P. Hjelm, & Michael E. Johnson. (1989). Quantitative detection of rapid motions in spectrin by NMR. Life Sciences. 44(11). 735–740. 13 indexed citations

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Fung, L.W.‐M., Hua Lu, Rex P. Hjelm, & Michael E. Johnson. (1986). Selective detection of rapid motions in spectrin by NMR. FEBS Letters. 197(1-2). 234–238. 18 indexed citations

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