Huayu Lu

16.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
340 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Huayu Lu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Huayu Lu has authored 340 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 303 papers in Atmospheric Science, 135 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 84 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Huayu Lu's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (281 papers), Geological formations and processes (92 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (84 papers). Huayu Lu is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (281 papers), Geological formations and processes (92 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (84 papers). Huayu Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Huayu Lu's co-authors include Zhisheng An, Thomas Stevens, Jef Vandenberghe, Shuangwen Yi, Junfeng Ji, Joseph A. Mason, Youbin Sun, Zhiwei Xu, Jun Chen and Xianyan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Huayu Lu

326 papers receiving 12.9k 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.

Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

2013 502 citations Huayu Lu, Jun Cheng et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment

2015 346 citations Huayu Lu, Daniel O. Breecker et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Huayu Lu	11.1k	5.6k	2.4k	2.2k	2.1k	340	13.2k
Christoph Spötl	10.5k 0.9×	5.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	317	13.2k
Zhengtang Guo	10.1k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	300	13.8k
Youbin Sun	7.5k 0.7×	3.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	148	9.0k
Jef Vandenberghe	10.4k 0.9×	6.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	276	13.0k
Chuan‐Chou Shen	10.0k 0.9×	3.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	341	14.3k
Stephen Burns	9.7k 0.9×	3.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	3.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.5×	150	12.0k
Jimin Sun	7.3k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	857 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	3.1k 1.5×	171	10.1k
Stephen C. Porter	9.9k 0.9×	3.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	99	12.0k
Steven C. Clemens	9.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	806 0.4×	119	10.2k
Françoise Gasse	8.2k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	797 0.4×	102	11.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Huayu Lu

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Shi, Shiyuan, Jiangfeng Shi, Takeshi Nakatsuka, et al.. (2025). Tree-ring oxygen isotope cross-dating between southeastern China and central Japan. Dendrochronologia. 91. 126319–126319. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Xuefeng, Yuan Yao, Lupeng Yu, et al.. (2025). Chronology of dozens of Late Paleolithic sites in the Ulan Buh Desert, northwest China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 368. 109573–109573. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Hanzhi, Huayu Lu, Zeyu Chen, et al.. (2025). Cenozoic global temperature and regional humidity changes jointly drove the silicate weathering evolution: A record from the Weihe Basin in Central China. Global and Planetary Change. 250. 104805–104805.

Zhang, Hanzhi, Chen Yang, Mengying Wu, et al.. (2025). Spatial provenance distributions in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implication for reconstruction of desert margin. Geomorphology. 475. 109663–109663. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xianyan, Long Yang, Zhijun Zhao, et al.. (2024). Quantitative assessment of the erosion and deposition effects of landslide-dam outburst flood, Eastern Himalaya. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7038–7038. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Lin, Chunmei Ma, Xiaojian Zhang, Liang Li, & Huayu Lu. (2024). Multi-proxy reconstruction of climate changes from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the Little Ice Age in Southeast China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 655. 112510–112510. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Huayu, et al.. (2024). Precipitation is the main control on the global distribution of soil clay minerals. Earth-Science Reviews. 257. 104891–104891. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yingying, Xianyan Wang, Rongqing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Drainage divide migration between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers at Eastern Qinling Mountains (central China): Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital rutile. Geomorphology. 467. 109483–109483. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Huayu, Han Luo, Jun Zhong, et al.. (2024). Erosion modulates the effect of chemical weathering on atmospheric pCO2, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Global and Planetary Change. 243. 104619–104619.

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Jia, Xin, Zhiping Zhang, Yonggang Sun, et al.. (2024). Amelioration of habitat since the early Holocene contributed to the origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China. Science China Earth Sciences. 67(8). 2535–2546. 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Rong, et al.. (2024). Magnesium Isotopes of Carbonate Reveal Seasonal Climate Variation in the Central East Asia During the Middle Eocene. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(10).

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Lu, Huayu, Jiangfeng Shi, Shiyuan Shi, et al.. (2024). Testing and assessment of high-precision and high-accuracy AMS-radiocarbon measurements at Nanjing University, China. Radiocarbon. 66(3). 568–579. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, et al.. (2023). Paleofire dynamics in response to climate change during late Miocene derived from microcharcoal records in the Weihe Basin. Quaternary International. 671. 44–51. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingjing, Huayu Lu, Jun Cheng, & Cheng Zhao. (2023). Global terrestrial monsoon area variations since Last Glacial Maximum based on TraCE21ka and PMIP4-CMIP6 simulations. Global and Planetary Change. 231. 104308–104308. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Chunmei, et al.. (2023). Climate remained a major driving factor of vegetation dynamics over the past 600 years in Huangshan Mountain, Southeast China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 321. 108389–108389. 6 indexed citations

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Breecker, Daniel O., et al.. (2023). A Humid East Asia During the Early Pliocene Indicated by Calcite Nodules From the Chinese Loess Plateau. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(7). 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Haibin, Jun Cheng, Qin Li, et al.. (2022). Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5334–5334. 82 indexed citations

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Gallagher, Timothy M., Hanzhi Zhang, Hanlin Wang, et al.. (2021). Regional Patterns in Miocene‐Pliocene Aridity Across the Chinese Loess Plateau Revealed by High Resolution Records of Paleosol Carbonate and Occluded Organic Matter. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(12). 9 indexed citations

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Yu, Kaifeng, Kai Hartmann, Veit Nottebaum, et al.. (2016). Discriminating sediment archives and sedimentary processes in the arid endorheic Ejina Basin, NW China using a robust geochemical approach. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 119. 128–144. 8 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Kai, Bernd Wünnemann, Klaus Reicherter, et al.. (2014). Late-Quaternary morphodynamics of Ejina Basin, Inner Mongolia, China: Quantification of neotectonic subsidence and palaeohydrological implications. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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