Teh‐Lung Ku

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Teh‐Lung Ku is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Teh‐Lung Ku has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Teh‐Lung Ku's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (11 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers). Teh‐Lung Ku is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (11 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers). Teh‐Lung Ku collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Teh‐Lung Ku's co-authors include Kevin G. Knauss, Wallace S. Broecker, Hong‐Chun Li, Michael L. Bender, J. Goddard, David L. Thurber, R. K. Matthews, Kenneth J. Mesolella, William Heyden Easton and Shangde Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Teh‐Lung Ku

53 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Uranium in open ocean: concentration and isotopic composi... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Uranium in open ocean: concentration and isotopic composition
    1977 552 citations Teh‐Lung Ku, Kevin G. Knauss Deep Sea Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Teh‐Lung Ku United States 30 1.9k 952 697 602 584 54 3.3k
B.L.K. Somayajulu India 35 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 755 1.1× 421 0.7× 396 0.7× 114 4.1k
W. Berry Lyons United States 31 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 619 0.9× 290 0.5× 379 0.6× 84 3.5k
Minoru Koide United States 37 1.5k 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 797 1.1× 414 0.7× 364 0.6× 76 5.3k
H. H. Veeh Australia 27 1.2k 0.6× 632 0.7× 624 0.9× 482 0.8× 542 0.9× 43 2.2k
Μ. Ivanovich United Kingdom 29 1.2k 0.7× 592 0.6× 390 0.6× 559 0.9× 334 0.6× 67 3.1k
Margaret Leinen United States 34 2.5k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 684 1.0× 551 0.9× 1.0k 1.7× 57 3.7k
B. Grant United States 13 1.1k 0.6× 1.4k 1.5× 485 0.7× 922 1.5× 484 0.8× 13 3.6k
N.S. Belshaw United Kingdom 27 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 1.3× 796 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 643 1.1× 33 3.6k
Abraham Lerman United States 27 1.1k 0.6× 960 1.0× 699 1.0× 297 0.5× 577 1.0× 56 3.4k
S. Krishnaswami India 49 2.5k 1.3× 3.4k 3.6× 711 1.0× 1.1k 1.8× 461 0.8× 110 6.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Teh‐Lung Ku

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Teh‐Lung Ku

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Wenbo, Tim K. Lowenstein, H. Roy Krouse, Ronald J. Spencer, & Teh‐Lung Ku. (2004). A 200,000-year δ18O record of closed-basin lacustrine calcite, Death Valley, California. Chemical Geology. 216(1-2). 99–111. 11 indexed citations
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Roback, Robert, Thomas M. Johnson, Travis McLing, et al.. (2001). Uranium isotopic evidence for groundwater chemical evolution and flow patterns in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer, Idaho. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 113(9). 1133–1141. 40 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung, et al.. (2001). Determination of sedimentary rate in estuary and coast by228Th technique. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 19(4). 368–374. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hong‐Chun, James L. Bischoff, Teh‐Lung Ku, Steven P. Lund, & Lowell Stott. (2000). Climate Variability in East-Central California during the Past 1000 Years Reflected by High-Resolution Geochemical and Isotopic Records from Owens Lake Sediments. Quaternary Research. 54(2). 189–197. 43 indexed citations
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Bell, J. W., et al.. (1995). Late Quaternary geomorphology and soils in Crater Flat, Yucca Mountain area, southern Nevada. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 107(4). 379–395. 22 indexed citations
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Slate, Janet L., et al.. (1991). Soil-Carbonate Genesis in the Pinacate Volcanic Field, Northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Quaternary Research. 35(3-Part1). 400–416. 20 indexed citations
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Hammond, Douglas E., et al.. (1990). Radium 228 distribution and mixing in San Nicolas and San Pedro Basins, southern California Borderland. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 95(C3). 3321–3335. 19 indexed citations
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Leslie, Bret W., Douglas E. Hammond, & Teh‐Lung Ku. (1990). Temporal Changes in Decay-Series Isotope Concentrations in Response to Flow Conditions in the Sssdp Well, Salton Sea, California. MRS Proceedings. 212. 1 indexed citations
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Kaufman, Aaron & Teh‐Lung Ku. (1989). The U-series ages of carnotites and implications regarding their formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 53(10). 2675–2681. 6 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung, et al.. (1987). 10Be distribution and uranium-series dating of salt samples from salt playae in the Chaidamu Basin, Qinghai, northwest China. Geochemistry. 6(3). 257–263. 1 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung, et al.. (1984). The dating of impure carbonates with decay-series isotopes. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. 223(2-3). 563–571. 140 indexed citations
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Kusakabe, Masashi & Teh‐Lung Ku. (1984). Incorporation of Be isotopes and other trace metals into marine ferromanganese deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 48(11). 2187–2193. 24 indexed citations
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Pope, Kevin, Curtis Runnels, & Teh‐Lung Ku. (1984). Dating Middle Palaeolithic red beds in southern Greece. Nature. 312(5991). 264–266. 19 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung, et al.. (1979). Th230-U234 dating of pedogenic carbonates in gravelly desert soils of Vidal Valley, southeastern California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 90(11). 1063–1063. 104 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung & Kevin G. Knauss. (1977). Uranium in open ocean: concentration and isotopic composition. Deep Sea Research. 24(11). 1005–1017. 552 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ku, Teh‐Lung & James Kern. (1974). Uranium-Series Age of the Upper Pleistocene Nestor Terrace, San Diego, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 85(11). 1713–1713. 46 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung & Wallace S. Broecker. (1969). Radiochemical studies on manganese nodules of deep-sea origin. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 16(6). 625–637. 100 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung. (1968). Protactinium 231 method of dating coral from Barbados Island. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 73(6). 2271–2276. 59 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung & Wallace S. Broecker. (1967). Uranium, thorium, and protactinium in a manganese nodule. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2(4). 317–320. 53 indexed citations
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Ku, Teh‐Lung. (1965). An evaluation of the U234/U238method as a tool for dating pelagic sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 70(14). 3457–3474. 175 indexed citations

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