R. Lawrence Edwards

64.4k total citations · 20 hit papers
480 papers, 38.1k citations indexed

About

R. Lawrence Edwards is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Lawrence Edwards has authored 480 papers receiving a total of 38.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 390 papers in Atmospheric Science, 183 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 125 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in R. Lawrence Edwards's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (388 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (125 papers) and Geological formations and processes (116 papers). R. Lawrence Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (388 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (125 papers) and Geological formations and processes (116 papers). R. Lawrence Edwards collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. R. Lawrence Edwards's co-authors include Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An, Yongjin Wang, Xianfeng Wang, Xinggong Kong, Chuan‐Chou Shen, Megan J. Kelly, Jeffrey A. Dorale, Yanjun Cai and Ashish Sinha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

R. Lawrence Edwards

466 papers receiving 36.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China

2001 2.6k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate

2005 2.1k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. Science profile →
Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

2008 1.6k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

2016 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230

2000 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

2004 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record

2008 862 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
Ice Age Terminations

2009 743 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium

2003 725 citations K. M. Cobb, C.D. Charles et al. profile →
Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies

2004 648 citations Xianfeng Wang, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Sea-Surface Temperature from Coral Skeletal Strontium/Calcium Ratios

1992 630 citations R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

2013 502 citations Hai Cheng, Yongjin Wang et al. profile →
Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al. Nature Communications profile →
The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

2010 387 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles

2014 370 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Nature Communications profile →
Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey

2009 362 citations Dominik Fleitmann, Hai Cheng et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

2015 277 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

2015 276 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

2016 263 citations Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France

2016 150 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Hydrothermal Plumes Act as a Regional Boundary Sink of ²³⁰Th in the Equatorial Pacific 2025 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·(unknown), Christopher T. Hayes, Robert F. Anderson, Erin Black, R. Lawrence Edwards, Martin Q. Fleisher, Xianglei Li, Phoebe J. Lam, (unknown)	1
2	New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records 2025 ·Climate of the past ·(unknown), Isabel Cacho, Heather Stoll, Ana Moreno, Joan O. Grimalt, Francisco Javier Sierro, Joan J. Fornós, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	1
3	An integrated study of constraining the initial 230Th of a stalagmite and its implications 2024 ·Quaternary Geochronology ·(unknown), (unknown), Hai Cheng, (unknown), Xing Cheng, Mei He, (unknown), Le Ma, (unknown), Yanbin Lü, Ling Yang, R. Lawrence Edwards	4
4	Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Okan Tüysüz, (unknown), Dominik Fleitmann	11
5	Tropical vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years from model simulations and stalagmites in Sulawesi, Indonesia 2024 ·Quaternary Research ·Claire E. Krause, (unknown), Michael K. Gagan, Peter O. Hopcroft, Gavin Dunbar, Wahyoe S. Hantoro, John Hellström, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Henri Wong, Bambang W. Suwargadi, Paul J. Valdes, Hamdi Rifai	0
6	Reconstructing hydroclimate changes over the past 2500 years using speleothems from Pyrenean caves (NE Spain) 2024 ·Climate of the past ·Miguel Bartolomé, Ana Moreno, Carlos Sancho, Isabel Cacho, Heather Stoll, Negar Haghipour, Ãnchel Belmonte, Christoph Spötl, John Hellström, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng	6
7	The control of particulate matter and hydrogeochemistry on uranium–thorium partition coefficients in two representative lakes, Qaidam Basin, China 2023 ·Sedimentary Geology ·Pu Zhang, Zhe Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Guangyou Zhu, R. Lawrence Edwards	1
8	Karst-ecological changes during the middle and late Holocene in Southwest China revealed by δ18O and δ13C records in a stalagmite 2023 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Rong Duan, Ting‐Yong Li, Jun‐Yun Li, Christoph Spötl, Hong‐Chun Li, Haibo Wang, Hai Cheng, Youfeng Ning, Chuan‐Chou Shen, (unknown), Chao‐Jun Chen, Tsai‐Luen Yu, R. Lawrence Edwards, Ziqi Liu	7
9	Solar Forcing of ENSO on Century Timescales 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Manfred Mudelsee, Christoph Spötl, R. Lawrence Edwards	5
10	Asian monsoon intensity coupled to Antarctic climate during Dansgaard–Oeschger 8 and Heinrich 4 glacial intervals 2022 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Yijia Liang, (unknown), Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, Shaohua Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	7
11	Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia 2022 ·Science ·Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Raymond S. Bradley, Stephen Burns, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Christoph C. Raible, Matthew J. Jacobson, Albert Matter	31
12	Impacts of Coral Growth on Geochemistry: Lessons From the Galápagos Islands 2021 ·Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·(unknown), D. M. Thompson, Julia E. Cole, Janice Lough, Neal E. Cantin, (unknown), Alexander W. Tudhope, Lael Vetter, (unknown), R. Lawrence Edwards	15
13	No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium 2020 ·Science ·Sylvia Dee, K. M. Cobb, Julien Emile‐Geay, Toby R. Ault, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, C.D. Charles	78
14	From cave geomorphology to Palaeolithic human behaviour: speleogenesis, palaeoenvironmental changes and archaeological insight in the Atxurra‐Armiña cave (northern Iberian Peninsula) 2020 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Martín Arriolabengoa, (unknown), Ma Ángeles Medina‐Alcaide, Olivia Rivero, Joseba Ríos-Garaizar, (unknown), (unknown), Arantza Aranburu, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Diego Gárate Maidagán	17
15	Timing and structure of Termination II in north China constrained by a precisely dated stalagmite record 2019 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Wuhui Duan, Hai Cheng, Ming Tan, Xianglei Li, R. Lawrence Edwards	15
16	Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 2019 ·Science Advances ·Ashish Sinha, Gayatri Kathayat, Harvey Weiss, Hanying Li, Hai Cheng, (unknown), Adam W. Schneider, Max Berkelhammer, (unknown), Lowell Stott, R. Lawrence Edwards	79
17	Evaluating the timing and structure of the 4.2 ka event in the Indian summer monsoon domain from an annually resolved speleothem record from Northeast India 2018 ·Climate of the past ·Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, Max Berkelhammer, Haiwei Zhang, (unknown), Hanying Li, Xianglei Li, Youfeng Ning, R. Lawrence Edwards	80
18	Growth rates of speleothems in NW Iberian Peninsula over the last two glacial cycles and relationship with climate 2013 ·Quaternary Research ·Heather Stoll, Ana Moreno, Ana Méndez-Vicente, Saúl González‐Lemos, (unknown), María José Domínguez‐Cuesta, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Xianfeng Wang	2
19	Speleothems as sensitive recorders of volcanic eruptions - the Bronze Age Minoan eruption recorded in a stalagmite from Turkey 2012 ·EGUGA ·Dominik Fleitmann, Andrea Borsato, Silvia Frisia, S. Badertscher, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Okan Tüysüz	1
20	A Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Hydrologic Variability over the Last Millennium from a Sierra Nevada Mountain Stalagmite 2011 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Kathleen R. Johnson, Max Berkelhammer, Ashish Sinha, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	1

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