Hua Lu

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Hua Lu is a scholar working on Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Lu has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Soil Science, 15 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Hua Lu's work include Land Rights and Reforms (16 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Hua Lu is often cited by papers focused on Land Rights and Reforms (16 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Hua Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Hua Lu's co-authors include Hualin Xie, Long Qian, Xinmin Zhang, Hualiang Lu, Qiang Gao, Yafen He, Zhilong Wu, Tiangui Lv, Hao Hu and Weiwei Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Hua Lu

31 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Household-owned farm machinery vs. outsourced machinery services: The impact of agricultural mechanization on the land leasing behavior of relatively large-scale farmers in China

2022 158 citations Long Qian, Hua Lu et al. Land Use Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Lu China	17	543	472	460	262	175	32	1.3k
QU Fu-tian China	14	538 1.0×	697 1.5×	465 1.0×	249 1.0×	186 1.1×	52	1.4k
Wenqiu Ma China	22	655 1.2×	177 0.4×	1.2k 2.5×	206 0.8×	176 1.0×	47	1.7k
Aad Kessler Netherlands	20	451 0.8×	655 1.4×	294 0.6×	102 0.4×	320 1.8×	49	1.4k
Sylvester Mpandeli South Africa	26	296 0.5×	257 0.5×	311 0.7×	81 0.3×	141 0.8×	54	1.8k
Alexander Gocht Germany	17	437 0.8×	233 0.5×	460 1.0×	151 0.6×	156 0.9×	45	1.3k
Yanbo Qu China	23	639 1.2×	161 0.3×	1.3k 2.7×	295 1.1×	214 1.2×	65	1.8k
Mark Brady Sweden	21	310 0.6×	155 0.3×	514 1.1×	291 1.1×	183 1.0×	51	1.3k
Shunbo Yao China	21	252 0.5×	425 0.9×	1.2k 2.5×	377 1.4×	351 2.0×	91	1.9k
Nicholas J. Hogarth Finland	17	316 0.6×	160 0.3×	1.0k 2.2×	384 1.5×	271 1.5×	36	1.6k
Pranay Ranjan United States	15	438 0.8×	170 0.4×	382 0.8×	252 1.0×	172 1.0×	33	1.2k

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

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hua Lu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hua Lu. The network helps show where Hua Lu may publish in the future.

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

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2025). The impact of sci-tech finance on urban carbon emission efficiency: Evidence from 281 cities in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 536. 147207–147207.

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2025). Impact of Rural Non‐Agricultural Employment on Eco‐Efficiency of Farmland Utilization in China: Evidence From 31 Years. Land Degradation and Development. 36(8). 2690–2701. 2 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2024). Development of green and low-carbon agriculture through grain production agglomeration and agricultural environmental efficiency improvement in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 442. 141128–141128. 28 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2024). Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance and Environmental Regulation on Eco‐Efficiency of Farmland Utilization in China. Land Degradation and Development. 36(1). 172–183. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Su, et al.. (2023). Impact of agricultural production outsourcing service and land fragmentation on agricultural non-point source pollution in China: Evidence from Jiangxi Province. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 11 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2023). Do farmers' social networks aggravate cultivated land abandonment? A case study in Ganzhou, China. Land Degradation and Development. 34(15). 4699–4711. 7 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2023). How does agricultural production outsourcing services affect chemical fertilizer use under topographic constraints: a farm-level analysis of China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(45). 100861–100872. 14 indexed citations

Lu, Hua, et al.. (2023). Impact of Land Property Rights Security Cognition on Farmland Quality Protection: Evidence from Chinese Farmers. Land. 12(1). 188–188. 8 indexed citations

Qian, Long, et al.. (2022). Household-owned farm machinery vs. outsourced machinery services: The impact of agricultural mechanization on the land leasing behavior of relatively large-scale farmers in China. Land Use Policy. 115. 106008–106008. 158 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lu, Hua, et al.. (2022). Impact of agricultural production outsourcing services on carbon emissions in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(13). 35985–35995. 11 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, et al.. (2021). Spatial-Temporal Pattern and Evolution Trend of the Cultivated Land Use Eco-Efficiency in the National Pilot Zone for Ecological Conservation in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(1). 111–111. 26 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, et al.. (2020). Impact of household land endowment and environmental cognition on the willingness to implement straw incorporation in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 262. 121479–121479. 91 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, et al.. (2019). Effect of the grain-growing purpose and farm size on the ability of stable land property rights to encourage farmers to apply organic fertilizers. Journal of Environmental Management. 251. 109621–109621. 88 indexed citations

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Lv, Tiangui, et al.. (2019). A Game Theory-Based Approach for Exploring Water Resource Exploitation Behavior in the Poyang Lake Basin, China. Sustainability. 11(22). 6237–6237. 8 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, et al.. (2018). Determinants of cultivated land recuperation in ecologically damaged areas in China. Land Use Policy. 81. 160–166. 62 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua, Hualin Xie, Yafen He, Zhilong Wu, & Xinmin Zhang. (2018). Assessing the impacts of land fragmentation and plot size on yields and costs: A translog production model and cost function approach. Agricultural Systems. 161. 81–88. 130 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua & Hualin Xie. (2017). Impact of changes in labor resources and transfers of land use rights on agricultural non-point source pollution in Jiangsu Province, China. Journal of Environmental Management. 207. 134–140. 138 indexed citations

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Xie, Hualin & Hua Lu. (2017). Impact of land fragmentation and non-agricultural labor supply on circulation of agricultural land management rights. Land Use Policy. 68. 355–364. 131 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, et al.. (2011). Orchard Facilities and Equipment for Litchi and Longan in China. 2011 Louisville, Kentucky, August 7 - August 10, 2011. 4 indexed citations

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Lu, Hua. (2004). China’s Strategic Oil Reserves and the Establishment of the Oil Spill Contingency System. Maritime Economics & Logistics. 6(4). 349–359. 1 indexed citations

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