Meng Lu

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
57 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Meng Lu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meng Lu has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Meng Lu's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (15 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Meng Lu is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (15 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Meng Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Meng Lu's co-authors include Bo Li, Changming Fang, Yiqi Luo, Xuhui Zhou, Chang Liu, Jun Cui, Jiakuan Chen, Yuanhe Yang, Xin Yang and Qiang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Meng Lu

51 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Effects of straw carbon input on carbon dynamics in agricultural soils: a meta‐analysis

2014 901 citations Chang Liu, Meng Lu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Minor stimulation of soil carbon storage by nitrogen addition: A meta-analysis

2010 414 citations Meng Lu, Xuhui Zhou et al. profile →
Responses of ecosystem nitrogen cycle to nitrogen addition: a meta‐analysis

2010 409 citations Meng Lu, Changming Fang et al. profile →
Wetland carbon storage controlled by millennial-scale variation in relative sea-level rise

2019 331 citations Meng Lu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meng Lu China	22	2.2k	1.6k	1.0k	873	642	57	3.8k
J. Albaladejo Spain	39	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	785 0.8×	679 0.8×	440 0.7×	79	4.3k
Sébastien Fontaine France	21	3.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	776 0.8×	622 0.7×	766 1.2×	35	4.1k
Shaoshan An China	39	3.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	873 0.9×	478 0.5×	345 0.5×	106	4.5k
Weijun Shen China	38	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	408 0.6×	142	4.3k
Abad Chabbi France	32	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	970 1.0×	627 0.7×	695 1.1×	87	4.1k
Jennifer L. Soong United States	23	3.6k 1.6×	2.1k 1.3×	750 0.7×	621 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	37	4.8k
Iain P. Hartley United Kingdom	32	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	932 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	436 0.7×	94	4.5k
Dashuan Tian China	33	3.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	919 1.4×	108	4.8k
Barbara Kitzler Austria	27	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	823 0.8×	661 0.8×	663 1.0×	57	3.7k
Daniel Liptzin United States	26	2.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	972 1.0×	660 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	63	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Meng Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meng Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meng Lu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xincheng, Mudi Xiong, Xiaole Zhang, et al.. (2025). Optimizing cadmium phytoremediation with phytohormone combinations. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89(2).

Lu, Meng, Jianqing Wu, Liding Chen, et al.. (2025). Global change pattern of sedimentary nitrogen isotope during the Anthropocene epoch. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Ding, Kai, Yuting Zhang, Yiman Zhang, et al.. (2024). Long-term cover crop monocultures and mixtures improve soil multifunctionality and shift microbial communities and functions. European Journal of Agronomy. 157. 127188–127188. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuting, Kai Ding, Meng Lu, et al.. (2024). Soil multifunctionality and nutrient cycling-related genes in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations: Metagenomic perspective insights into ecological restoration. Industrial Crops and Products. 222. 119608–119608. 4 indexed citations

Ding, Kai, Liyao Chen, Yiman Zhang, et al.. (2024). Long-term cover crops boost multi-nutrient cycling and subsurface soil carbon sequestration by alleviating microbial carbon limitation in a subtropical forest. CATENA. 244. 108252–108252. 9 indexed citations

Zhu, Chenxi, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Outcomes of Diastasis Recti Abdominis in Postpartum Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study. International Urogynecology Journal. 35(12). 2413–2421.

Li, Debao, Chuansheng Wu, Biao Zhu, et al.. (2024). Contrasting effects of nitrogen addition and soil warming on soil respiration in an old-growth subtropical forest. Ecological Frontiers. 45(1). 248–256.

Zhou, Chenglong, Xinghua Yang, Yuzhi Liu, et al.. (2023). Terrain effects of the Tibetan Plateau on dust aerosol distribution over the Tarim Basin, China. Atmospheric Research. 298. 107143–107143. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Tianliang, et al.. (2023). Observing a dust aerosol layer at a height of 3–4 km above the ground on the southern margin of the Tarim Basin. Atmospheric Environment. 318. 120236–120236. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Fan, Jianping Huang, Chenglong Zhou, et al.. (2023). Desert Abiotic Carbon Sequestration Weakening by Precipitation. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(18). 7174–7184. 13 indexed citations

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Lu, Meng, Tianliang Zhao, Qing He, et al.. (2022). Dust Radiative Effect Characteristics during a Typical Springtime Dust Storm with Persistent Floating Dust in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1167–1167. 12 indexed citations

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Huo, Wen, Fan Yang, Xiefei Zhi, et al.. (2022). A Comparative Study on the Difference in Meteorological Monitoring between Constructed Green Land and Natural Sandy Land. Sustainability. 14(3). 1076–1076. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chenglong, Yuzhi Liu, Qing He, et al.. (2022). Dust Characteristics Observed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle over the Taklimakan Desert. Remote Sensing. 14(4). 990–990. 12 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chenglong, Fan Yang, Meng Lu, et al.. (2022). Saltation Activity on Non-Dust Days in the Taklimakan Desert, China. Remote Sensing. 14(9). 2099–2099. 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lingyan, Xuhui Zhou, Yanghui He, et al.. (2022). Global systematic review with meta-analysis shows that warming effects on terrestrial plant biomass allocation are influenced by precipitation and mycorrhizal association. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4914–4914. 79 indexed citations

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Zhou, Juan, et al.. (2022). Effects of nitrogen addition and warming on nematode ecological indices: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Soil Biology. 110. 103407–103407. 3 indexed citations

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Pan, Honglin, Xinghua Yang, Kanike Raghavendra Kumar, et al.. (2020). A 10-year climatology of globally distributed ice cloud properties inferred from the CALIPSO observations. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Honglin, Wen Huo, Minzhong Wang, et al.. (2020). Insight into the climatology of different sand-dust aerosol types over the Taklimakan Desert based on the observations from radiosonde and A-train satellites. Atmospheric Environment. 238. 117705–117705. 18 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chenglong, Ali Mamtimin, Honglin Pan, et al.. (2019). Relationship between air temperature and horizontal sand-dust flux observed in the Taklimakan Desert, China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 138(3-4). 1845–1852. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Chang, Meng Lu, Jun Cui, Bo Li, & Changming Fang. (2014). Effects of straw carbon input on carbon dynamics in agricultural soils: a meta‐analysis. Global Change Biology. 20(5). 1366–1381. 901 indexed citations breakdown →

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