Lihua Ran

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 797 citations indexed

About

Lihua Ran is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lihua Ran has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 797 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Oceanography, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lihua Ran's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (13 papers). Lihua Ran is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (13 papers). Lihua Ran collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and Iceland. Lihua Ran's co-authors include Hui Jiang, Jón Eiríksson, Karen Luise Knudsen, Jianfang Chen, Marit‐Solveig Seidenkrantz, Zhi Yang, Martin G. Wiesner, Svante Björck, Jingjing Zhang and Hongliang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Limnology and Oceanography and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Lihua Ran

36 papers receiving 793 citations

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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.

Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

2021 173 citations Paul Tréguer, Jill Sutton et al. Biogeosciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lihua Ran China	13	420	324	207	199	111	39	797
Michiel V. M. Kienhuis Netherlands	10	442 1.1×	214 0.7×	231 1.1×	421 2.1×	93 0.8×	13	856
Dawei Li China	18	356 0.8×	208 0.6×	220 1.1×	227 1.1×	35 0.3×	57	750
Sebastiaan van de Velde Belgium	18	170 0.4×	276 0.9×	176 0.9×	277 1.4×	218 2.0×	41	848
Xiaole Sun Sweden	17	297 0.7×	262 0.8×	306 1.5×	188 0.9×	119 1.1×	41	840
Yazhi Bai China	13	250 0.6×	116 0.4×	135 0.7×	141 0.7×	36 0.3×	33	544
Xiaoxia Lü China	13	359 0.9×	144 0.4×	227 1.1×	250 1.3×	29 0.3×	38	595
Jonaotaro Onodera Japan	21	680 1.6×	533 1.6×	413 2.0×	253 1.3×	72 0.6×	58	1.0k
М. Д. Кравчишина Russia	17	331 0.8×	747 2.3×	420 2.0×	225 1.1×	74 0.7×	169	1.1k
Allyson C. Tessin United States	13	249 0.6×	137 0.4×	158 0.8×	146 0.7×	158 1.4×	21	500
Karoliina A. Koho Netherlands	19	559 1.3×	562 1.7×	187 0.9×	540 2.7×	111 1.0×	29	926

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lihua Ran

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

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Chen, Liqiao, Yuanli Zhu, Lihua Ran, et al.. (2025). Regulation of phytoplankton community by mesoscale eddies and the East Indian Coastal Current in the southwestern Bay of Bengal during the northeast monsoon. Marine Environmental Research. 212. 107524–107524.

Peng, Hong, Ying Zheng, Meng Zhou, et al.. (2025). Climate change regulated carbonate production and accumulation in the Guaymas Basin over the past ca. 450,000 years. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 666. 112864–112864. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Zhi, Jianfang Chen, Xiaoqun Xu, et al.. (2025). Seasonal agricultural activities and monsoon shifts drive fluctuations in nitrogen levels in eutrophic coastal waters: A case study of Xiangshan Bay, China. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 212. 117535–117535. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Xiao, et al.. (2025). Development and validation of a predictive model for the risk of symptomatic adjacent segmental degeneration after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Frontiers in Neurology. 16. 1530257–1530257.

Liu, Qian, Xiaogu Wang, Dong Sun, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneous marine environments diversify microbial-driven polymetallic nodule formation in the South China Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Linhong, Tianyu Wang, Xiaoyan Zhan, et al.. (2024). Aptamer-based DNAzyme walker electrochemical biosensing strategy for Acinetobacter baumannii detection. Bioelectrochemistry. 163. 108895–108895.

Jalali, Bassem, Xinhong Wang, Asif Inam, et al.. (2024). Distribution and Sources of Organic Matter in Surface Sediments of the Karachi Coast, Pakistan. Journal of Ocean University of China. 23(6). 1561–1571. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingjing, et al.. (2023). Biological carbon pump responses to multiscale physical processes: a review of sediment trap studies in the South China Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Chenggang, Ruijie Ye, Yuanli Zhu, et al.. (2023). Vertical variation of bacterial production and potential role in oxygen loss in the southern Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1250575–1250575. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Hongliang, Jingjing Zhang, Jiliang Xuan, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric Response of the Biological Carbon Pump to the ENSO in the South China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 8 indexed citations

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Tréguer, Paul, Jill Sutton, Mark A. Brzezinski, et al.. (2021). Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean. Biogeosciences. 18(4). 1269–1289. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Zhi, Jianfang Chen, Hongliang Li, et al.. (2018). Sources of nitrate in Xiangshan Bay (China), as identified using nitrogen and oxygen isotopes. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 207. 109–118. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Hongliang, Martin G. Wiesner, Jianfang Chen, et al.. (2017). Long-term variation of mesopelagic biogenic flux in the central South China Sea: Impact of monsoonal seasonality and mesoscale eddy. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 126. 62–72. 33 indexed citations

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Ran, Lihua, et al.. (2015). 南シナ海の北西部の堆積物捕獲器中のフラックスと円石藻属種組成変化を記録した。【JST・京大機械翻訳】. 37(12). 11–18. 6 indexed citations

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Ran, Lihua, Jianfang Chen, Martin G. Wiesner, et al.. (2015). Variability in the abundance and species composition of diatoms in sinking particles in the northern South China Sea: Results from time-series moored sediment traps. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 122. 15–24. 32 indexed citations

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Eiríksson, Jón, Karen Luise Knudsen, Guðrún Larsen, et al.. (2010). Coupling of palaeoceanographic shifts and changes in marine reservoir ages off North Iceland through the last millennium. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 302(1-2). 95–108. 48 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hui, et al.. (2009). Surface sediment diatoms from the western Pacific marginal seas and their correlation to environmental variables. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 27(3). 674–682. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hui, Jian Ren, Karen Luise Knudsen, Jón Eiríksson, & Lihua Ran. (2007). Summer sea-surface temperatures and climate events on the North Icelandic shelf through the last 3000 years. Chinese Science Bulletin. 52(6). 789–796. 15 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hui, et al.. (2006). Impact of the Kuroshio Current on the South China Sea based on a 115 000 year diatom record. Journal of Quaternary Science. 21(4). 377–385. 32 indexed citations

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Ran, Lihua & Hui Jiang. (2005). DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE SURFACE SEDIMENT DIATOMS FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND THEIR PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE. 22(1). 97–106. 6 indexed citations

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