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

A High-Resolution Absolut... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2001 2005 2008 2016 2000 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. 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 →
  2. The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate
    2005 2.1k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. Science profile →
  3. 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 →
  4. 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 →
  5. The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230
    2000 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  6. Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon
    2004 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  7. 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 →
  8. Ice Age Terminations
    2009 743 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  9. El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium
    2003 725 citations K. M. Cobb, C.D. Charles et al. profile →
  10. 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 →
  11. Sea-Surface Temperature from Coral Skeletal Strontium/Calcium Ratios
    1992 630 citations R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  12. Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon
    2013 502 citations Hai Cheng, Yongjin Wang et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
  13. Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity
    2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al. Nature Communications profile →
  14. 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 →
  15. Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles
    2014 370 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. 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 →
  17. The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
    2015 277 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  18. Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y
    2015 276 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  19. Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales
    2016 263 citations Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  20. Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France
    2016 150 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
R. Lawrence Edwards 30.7k 11.2k 9.8k 7.7k 7.3k 480 38.1k
Zhisheng An 40.4k 1.3× 14.4k 1.3× 8.4k 0.9× 7.8k 1.0× 7.6k 1.0× 509 48.1k
Hai Cheng 39.5k 1.3× 14.4k 1.3× 12.0k 1.2× 10.1k 1.3× 9.8k 1.3× 729 47.4k
S. J. Johnsen 28.8k 0.9× 5.5k 0.5× 7.6k 0.8× 5.0k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 191 31.6k
Nicholas J Shackleton 27.2k 0.9× 7.2k 0.6× 10.7k 1.1× 7.1k 0.9× 4.7k 0.6× 156 30.5k
Édouard Bard 20.7k 0.7× 6.0k 0.5× 7.5k 0.8× 5.3k 0.7× 3.6k 0.5× 275 24.6k
Andrew Murray 26.4k 0.9× 9.6k 0.9× 4.7k 0.5× 7.7k 1.0× 6.7k 0.9× 542 33.7k
Minze Stuiver 21.9k 0.7× 5.4k 0.5× 9.3k 1.0× 9.1k 1.2× 4.9k 0.7× 134 30.7k
Wallace S. Broecker 28.2k 0.9× 6.2k 0.6× 11.5k 1.2× 6.0k 0.8× 3.4k 0.5× 379 41.9k
Maureen E. Raymo 17.7k 0.6× 4.8k 0.4× 5.3k 0.5× 4.4k 0.6× 3.1k 0.4× 113 20.7k
David A Hodell 16.9k 0.5× 4.2k 0.4× 6.8k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 2.6k 0.4× 292 21.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hayes, Christopher T., Robert F. Anderson, Erin Black, et al.. (2025). Hydrothermal Plumes Act as a Regional Boundary Sink of 230Th in the Equatorial Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(4). 1 indexed citations
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Cacho, Isabel, Heather Stoll, Ana Moreno, et al.. (2025). New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records. Climate of the past. 21(2). 465–487. 1 indexed citations
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Dutton, Andrea, et al.. (2025). Episodic reef growth in the Last Interglacial driven by competing influence of polar ice sheets to sea level rise. Science Advances. 11(24). eadu3701–eadu3701.
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Moreno, Ana, Yuri Dublyansky, Christoph Spötl, et al.. (2025). Temperature variability in southern Europe over the past 16 500 years constrained by speleothem fluid inclusion water isotopes. Climate of the past. 21(7). 1235–1261.
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Cheng, Hai, Xing Cheng, Mei He, et al.. (2024). An integrated study of constraining the initial 230Th of a stalagmite and its implications. Quaternary Geochronology. 80. 101497–101497. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Hai, et al.. (2024). Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye. Nature Communications. 15(1). 11 indexed citations
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Krause, Claire E., Michael K. Gagan, Peter O. Hopcroft, et al.. (2024). Tropical vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years from model simulations and stalagmites in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Quaternary Research. 118. 126–141.
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Duan, Rong, Ting‐Yong Li, Jun‐Yun Li, et al.. (2023). Karst-ecological changes during the middle and late Holocene in Southwest China revealed by δ18O and δ13C records in a stalagmite. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 615. 111437–111437. 7 indexed citations
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Chiang, Hong‐Wei, Belle Philibosian, A. J. Meltzner, et al.. (2023). Investigating spatio-temporal variability of initial 230Th/232Th in intertidal corals. Quaternary Science Reviews. 307. 108005–108005. 1 indexed citations
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Mudelsee, Manfred, et al.. (2023). Solar Forcing of ENSO on Century Timescales. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Yijia, Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Asian monsoon intensity coupled to Antarctic climate during Dansgaard–Oeschger 8 and Heinrich 4 glacial intervals. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 7 indexed citations
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Fleitmann, Dominik, John Haldon, Raymond S. Bradley, et al.. (2022). Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia. Science. 376(6599). 1317–1321. 31 indexed citations
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Thompson, D. M., Julia E. Cole, Janice Lough, et al.. (2021). Impacts of Coral Growth on Geochemistry: Lessons From the Galápagos Islands. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(4). 15 indexed citations
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Arriolabengoa, Martín, Ma Ángeles Medina‐Alcaide, Olivia Rivero, et al.. (2020). From cave geomorphology to Palaeolithic human behaviour: speleogenesis, palaeoenvironmental changes and archaeological insight in the Atxurra‐Armiña cave (northern Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Quaternary Science. 35(6). 841–853. 17 indexed citations
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Dee, Sylvia, K. M. Cobb, Julien Emile‐Geay, et al.. (2020). No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium. Science. 367(6485). 1477–1481. 78 indexed citations
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Sinha, Ashish, Gayatri Kathayat, Harvey Weiss, et al.. (2019). Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax6656–eaax6656. 79 indexed citations
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Duan, Wuhui, Hai Cheng, Ming Tan, Xianglei Li, & R. Lawrence Edwards. (2019). Timing and structure of Termination II in north China constrained by a precisely dated stalagmite record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 512. 1–7. 15 indexed citations
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Wong, C. I., Valdir F. Novello, David McGee, et al.. (2019). Reconstruction of Holocene coupling between the South American Monsoon System and local moisture variability from speleothem δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 210. 51–63. 27 indexed citations
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Kathayat, Gayatri, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, et al.. (2018). Timing and Structure of the 4.2 ka BP Event in the Indian Summer Monsoon Domain from an Annually-Resolved Speleothem Record from Northeast India. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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