Lei Gu

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lei Gu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Gu has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Water Science and Technology and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lei Gu's work include Climate variability and models (23 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (22 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (17 papers). Lei Gu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (23 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (22 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (17 papers). Lei Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Norway. Lei Gu's co-authors include Jiabo Yin, Jie Chen, Shenglian Guo, Chong‐Yu Xu, Louise Slater, Lihua Xiong, Pierre Gentine, Hua Chen, Huimin Wang and Jong‐Suk Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lei Gu

92 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events

2023 240 citations Jiabo Yin, Pierre Gentine et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Gu China	26	1.2k	573	399	203	159	100	2.0k
Liping Zhang China	26	1.2k 1.0×	810 1.4×	430 1.1×	323 1.6×	166 1.0×	125	2.2k
Wietse Franssen Netherlands	14	940 0.8×	1.3k 2.3×	309 0.8×	359 1.8×	147 0.9×	26	2.4k
Zhongsheng Chen China	25	1.1k 0.9×	580 1.0×	679 1.7×	221 1.1×	84 0.5×	76	2.0k
Xiaogang He China	29	1.7k 1.4×	873 1.5×	904 2.3×	341 1.7×	146 0.9×	78	2.7k
Tabea Lissner Germany	12	764 0.6×	200 0.3×	300 0.8×	232 1.1×	206 1.3×	24	1.7k
Tianbao Zhao China	31	1.5k 1.2×	287 0.5×	959 2.4×	183 0.9×	184 1.2×	107	2.8k
Xiaofan Zeng China	21	818 0.7×	535 0.9×	221 0.6×	247 1.2×	108 0.7×	38	1.4k
Jie He China	13	1.4k 1.1×	501 0.9×	1.1k 2.7×	449 2.2×	70 0.4×	65	2.4k
Remus Prăvălie Romania	27	1.2k 1.0×	366 0.6×	277 0.7×	323 1.6×	248 1.6×	42	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lei Gu. 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 Lei Gu. The network helps show where Lei Gu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Gu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gu, Lei, et al.. (2025). An exploration of the research framework for the coupling of farmland and rural residential land use transition under the perspective of spatial production. 资源科学. 47(1). 54–67.

Gu, Lei, Dominik L. Schumacher, Erich Fischer, et al.. (2025). Flash drought impacts on global ecosystems amplified by extreme heat. Nature Geoscience. 18(8). 709–715. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Pengcheng, Lei Gu, Pan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Exceptional mechanical properties of dual-phase heterogenous structure in Cf/C and superalloy joints via cold spray additive manufacturing-assisted brazing. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 244. 46–59. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Pengcheng, et al.. (2025). Integrated filler metal/base metal manufacturing via cold spray additive manufacturing for brazing Cf/SiC and superalloy. 1(1). 100012–100012. 3 indexed citations

Zhong, Shengyuan, et al.. (2024). Short-term thermal parameter prediction of building energy system based on MIE-JANET method. Energy Conversion and Management. 314. 118664–118664. 4 indexed citations

Gu, Lei, et al.. (2024). The Application and Accuracy of Big Data in Financial Market Forecasting. 10(4). p294–p294.

Xu, Yichao, et al.. (2024). Ancient wisdom: A new perspective on the past and future Chinese precipitation patterns based on the twenty-four solar terms. Journal of Hydrology. 641. 131873–131873. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingyun, Lei Gu, Qingmei Su, et al.. (2024). Ultranarrow Deep-Blue Luminescence of Perovskite Nanocrystals by A-Site Cation Control. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(24). 31524–31533. 3 indexed citations

Gu, Lei, et al.. (2024). Telecoupling Effects among Provinces of Cultivated Land Grain Production in the Last 30 Years: Evidence from China. Agriculture. 14(7). 1121–1121. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Ruizhi, et al.. (2023). Exercise attenuates neuronal degeneration in Parkinson’s disease rat model by regulating the level of adenosine 2A receptor. Folia Neuropathologica. 61(2). 217–223. 1 indexed citations

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Yin, Jiabo, Pierre Gentine, Louise Slater, et al.. (2023). Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events. Nature Sustainability. 6(3). 259–272. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gu, Lei, Jiabo Yin, Louise Slater, et al.. (2022). Intensification of Global Hydrological Droughts Under Anthropogenic Climate Warming. Water Resources Research. 59(1). 41 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Jie Chen, Jiabo Yin, et al.. (2022). Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(8). 99 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Hao Wu, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2022). The effects of elemene emulsion injection on rat fecal microbiota and metabolites: Evidence from metagenomic exploration and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 913461–913461. 1 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Jie Chen, Jiabo Yin, Chong‐Yu Xu, & Hua Chen. (2020). Drought hazard transferability from meteorological to hydrological propagation. Journal of Hydrology. 585. 124761–124761. 94 indexed citations

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Yin, Jiabo, Shenglian Guo, Lei Gu, et al.. (2020). Blending multi-satellite, atmospheric reanalysis and gauge precipitation products to facilitate hydrological modelling. Journal of Hydrology. 593. 125878–125878. 88 indexed citations

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Chen, Jie, et al.. (2020). Runoff response to 1.5℃ and 2.0℃ global warming for the Yangtze River basin. Advances in Climate Change Research. 0. 1 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Jie Chen, Chong‐Yu Xu, et al.. (2019). The contribution of internal climate variability to climate change impacts on droughts. The Science of The Total Environment. 684. 229–246. 68 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, et al.. (2015). Spatial-temporal Evolution of River Baseflow in Northern Shaanxi. Diqiu kexue jinzhan. 30(7). 802–811. 1 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei. (2005). Population distribution and its change in Xinjiang since the founding of the people’ s republic of China. 1 indexed citations

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