Yu Liu

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
252 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Yu Liu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Liu has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Atmospheric Science, 173 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Yu Liu's work include Tree-ring climate responses (146 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (136 papers) and Climate variability and models (76 papers). Yu Liu is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (146 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (136 papers) and Climate variability and models (76 papers). Yu Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Yu Liu's co-authors include Qiufang Cai, Huiming Song, Junyan Sun, Qiang Li, Hans W. Linderholm, Guang Bao, Zhisheng An, Changfeng Sun, Yuli Shan and Ming Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Yu Liu

232 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Liu China	39	3.8k	3.7k	783	433	375	252	5.6k
T. J. Conway United States	35	6.0k 1.6×	4.4k 1.2×	239 0.3×	338 0.8×	513 1.4×	96	8.1k
M. Noguer United Kingdom	7	3.6k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	252 0.3×	227 0.5×	380 1.0×	12	5.9k
Wolfgang Knorr Germany	39	5.1k 1.3×	3.0k 0.8×	649 0.8×	156 0.4×	573 1.5×	87	7.2k
Ning Zeng United States	49	6.5k 1.7×	3.3k 0.9×	675 0.9×	301 0.7×	1.0k 2.7×	217	9.4k
Guus J. M. Velders Netherlands	31	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	155 0.2×	619 1.4×	630 1.7×	75	6.4k
Wouter Peters Netherlands	41	5.4k 1.4×	4.2k 1.1×	194 0.2×	169 0.4×	554 1.5×	137	6.6k
B.A. Callander United Kingdom	7	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	294 0.4×	520 1.2×	455 1.2×	15	4.9k
J. B. Miller United States	53	9.4k 2.5×	6.5k 1.7×	286 0.4×	258 0.6×	804 2.1×	161	11.6k
Yi Liu China	29	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	129 0.2×	172 0.4×	410 1.1×	152	3.4k
Andrei Sokolov United States	37	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	116 0.1×	1.1k 2.6×	579 1.5×	105	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Liu

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

All Works

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Li, Qiang, Yifan Wu, Xiangyu Duan, et al.. (2025). A half-century drying in Gobi Oasis, possible role of ENSO and warming/moistening of Northwest China. Global and Planetary Change. 248. 104769–104769.

Zhang, Hui, et al.. (2025). Spatial pattern and methylation process of mercury enrichment in lake sediments during glacial periods in cold and arid regions. Environmental Pollution. 368. 125792–125792.

Peng, Liang, Kang Dang, Mian Zhou, et al.. (2025). TIPS: Two-level prompt selection for more stability-plasticity balance in continual learning. Pattern Recognition. 171. 112276–112276.

Liu, Yu, et al.. (2025). A New Perspective on Functional Zoning by Integrating Coupling Coordination Analysis of Ecological Environment and Urbanization Level: A Case Study of Inner Mongolia. Land. 14(8). 1692–1692.

Liu, Yu, et al.. (2025). Spatial patterns and temporal evolution of tree radial growth responses to climate in the Tianshan Mountains. Dendrochronologia. 92. 126349–126349.

Liu, Zihong, Jie Wang, Jiguang Wang, et al.. (2025). Temperature-pressure-flow rate synergy effect on corrosion behavior of supercritical CO2 pipelines: Optimal conditions and FeCO₃ film mechanism. Electrochimica Acta. 548. 147943–147943.

Li, Qiang, Yu Liu, Lu Wang, et al.. (2024). A regime shift between soil moisture and temperature in the 1950s over the permafrost region of Northeast China. Land Degradation and Development. 35(5). 1863–1873. 5 indexed citations

Xie, Mei, Qiufang Cai, Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Assessing climatic response and drought resilience in growth of Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. and Tsuga chinensis Pritz. on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains. Global Ecology and Conservation. 53. e02999–e02999. 2 indexed citations

Cai, Qiufang, Mei Xie, Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). The influence of North Atlantic sea surface temperature fluctuations on the climate of the Qinling-Bashan Mountains, China based on a 250 year tree-ring record. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 649. 112320–112320. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chi, et al.. (2024). Unified regularity measures for sample-wise learning and generalization. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).

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Klötzli, Urs, Pitsanupong Kanjanapayont, Qiuli Li, et al.. (2024). The Late Cambrian to Neogene Evolution of the Khanom Core Complex (Peninsular Thailand). Lithosphere. 2024(1). 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Changfeng, Qiang Li, Yu Liu, et al.. (2023). Human activities have more impacts on the recent discharge reduction of the largest tributary of the Yellow River relative to last three centuries. The Science of The Total Environment. 890. 164217–164217. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Qiang Li, Meng Ren, et al.. (2023). A 195-Year Growing Season Relative Humidity Reconstruction Using Tree-Ring Cellulose δ13C in the Upper Tarim River Basin, NW China. Forests. 14(4). 682–682. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Lu Sun, Sheng Xu, et al.. (2023). Cosmogenic nuclide chronological constraints on the late Cenozoic strata of the Linxia Basin, northeast Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 626. 111695–111695. 1 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Benjamin Ng, Tao Geng, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(6). 407–418. 69 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, et al.. (2023). UAV path planning algorithm based on improved RRT. 68–68. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongyan, Deliang Chen, Peng Zhang, et al.. (2022). The 1820s Marks a Shift to Hotter‐Drier Summers in Western Europe Since 1360. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(15). 7 indexed citations

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Bao, Guang, Yu Liu, Na Liu, & Hongtao Wang. (2020). Radial growth response ofPinus tabulaeformisto temperature during the growth season in southeastern Gansu, China. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 102(3). 185–195. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Shichun, et al.. (2017). Cutting Process and Mechanism of Graphene Oxide Sheets in Water by Ultrasonic. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 38(1). 20. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Limin Ma, Qiufang Cai, et al.. (2001). Seasonal temperature reconstruction from Central China based on Tree-Ring data. Journal of Palaeosciences. 50((1-3)). 89–94. 6 indexed citations

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