Zhengyu Liu

25.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
446 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

Zhengyu Liu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengyu Liu has authored 446 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 327 papers in Atmospheric Science, 270 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 184 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Zhengyu Liu's work include Climate variability and models (259 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (193 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (155 papers). Zhengyu Liu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (259 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (193 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (155 papers). Zhengyu Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Zhengyu Liu's co-authors include John E. Kutzbach, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Lixin Wu, Feng He, Michael Notaro, Jiang Zhu, Esther C. Brady, Qinyu Liu, Michael A. Alexander and Guangshan Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zhengyu Liu

431 papers receiving 18.1k 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.

Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

2012 1.1k citations Feng He, Zhengyu Liu et al. profile →
Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

2013 502 citations Zhengyu Liu, Esther C. Brady et al. profile →
The Holocene temperature conundrum

2014 353 citations Zhengyu Liu, Jiang Zhu et al. profile →
Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation

2014 230 citations Christo Buizert, Feng He et al. profile →
Seasonal origin of the thermal maxima at the Holocene and the last interglacial

2021 200 citations Zhengyu Liu, Mi Yan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhengyu Liu United States	71	13.7k	9.0k	5.5k	2.9k	2.3k	446	18.5k
Axel Timmermann United States	74	14.4k 1.0×	12.8k 1.4×	8.1k 1.5×	3.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	262	20.8k
Fortunat Joos Switzerland	70	9.8k 0.7×	8.9k 1.0×	5.0k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	957 0.4×	226	17.7k
Tandong Yao China	88	24.5k 1.8×	11.5k 1.3×	2.1k 0.4×	5.3k 1.8×	2.3k 1.0×	520	33.0k
James W. C. White United States	68	14.9k 1.1×	9.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.3×	4.4k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	176	20.3k
Paul J. Valdes United Kingdom	73	12.4k 0.9×	5.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.4×	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	365	17.8k
J. X. Mitrovica United States	77	12.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.3×	6.7k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	4.2k 1.8×	286	21.5k
Sandy P. Harrison United Kingdom	83	15.7k 1.1×	10.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.4×	4.7k 1.6×	3.8k 1.7×	296	22.8k
Jonathan T. Overpeck United States	66	12.8k 0.9×	5.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.3×	4.6k 1.6×	3.0k 1.3×	162	18.5k
Malcolm T. McCulloch Australia	98	9.0k 0.7×	5.6k 0.6×	6.5k 1.2×	9.7k 3.3×	2.5k 1.1×	376	32.0k
Paul A. Mayewski United States	73	19.8k 1.4×	5.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.4×	5.8k 2.0×	3.0k 1.3×	375	23.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhengyu Liu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Zhengyu, et al.. (2025). The response of AUSM to precession forcing and its relation to EASM and EAWM. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1).

Gu, Sifan, et al.. (2025). A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Dai, Zhangjun, et al.. (2025). Lateral residual stress effect on the swelling pressure of compacted expansive soil and microscopic mechanism. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 84(3). 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Chenyu, Lijing Cheng, Zhengyu Liu, & Peter U. Clark. (2025). Increase in Deglacial Ocean Heat Content Linked to Contrasts in Extratropical Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(14).

Lu, Yaru, Meng Li, Zhenting Zhang, et al.. (2024). Visible-light-induced tandem reaction of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones, alkenes, and sulfonyl chlorides. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 22(33). 6799–6809. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Haohao, Lili Lei, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, & Zhe‐Min Tan. (2024). A Hybrid Gain Analog Offline EnKF for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(1). 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Min, Liang Shi, Li Chen, et al.. (2024). A water mediated multicomponent reaction for the synthesis of novel spirooxindole derivatives and their antifungal activity. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 22(17). 3459–3467. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Zhengyu, Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, et al.. (2023). Tropical mountain ice core δ ¹⁸ O: A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change. Science Advances. 9(45). eadi6725–eadi6725. 8 indexed citations

Wen, Qin, Chenyu Zhu, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2023). Separating Direct Heat Flux Forcing and Freshwater Feedback on AMOC Change Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(22). 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengyu, et al.. (2023). Reconstruction of Past Antarctic Temperature Using Present Seasonal δ18O–Inversion Layer Temperature: Unified Slope Equations and Applications. Journal of Climate. 36(9). 2933–2957. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Yonggang, et al.. (2022). Impact of Dust on Climate and AMOC During the Last Glacial Maximum Simulated by CESM1.2. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(3). 7 indexed citations

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Brady, Esther C., Samantha Stevenson, David A. Bailey, et al.. (2019). The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(8). 2547–2566. 152 indexed citations

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Stevenson, Samantha, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2019). Volcanic Eruption Signatures in the Isotope‐Enabled Last Millennium Ensemble. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 34(8). 1534–1552. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengyu, et al.. (2019). On the linearity of the temperature response in Holocene: the spatial and temporal dependence. 1 indexed citations

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Tabor, Clay, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2018). Interpreting Precession‐Driven δ¹⁸O Variability in the South Asian Monsoon Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(11). 5927–5946. 66 indexed citations

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Thibodeau, Benoît, Christelle Not, Jiang Zhu, et al.. (2018). Last Century Warming Over the Canadian Atlantic Shelves Linked to Weak Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(22). 37 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhengyao, Zhengyu Liu, Guangshan Chen, & Jian Guan. (2017). Evolution and forcing mechanisms of ENSO over the last 300,000 years in CCSM3. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, John W., Jessica L. Blois, Glenn Manion, et al.. (2012). 571 Generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM) of late-Quaternary variations in palynological compositional dissimilarity. 58. 257–258. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, John W., Heather M. Kharouba, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2012). The ice age ecologist: testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(3). 289–301. 47 indexed citations

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Shi, Zhengguo, Xiaodong Liu, Youbin Sun, et al.. (2011). Distinct responses of East Asian summer and winter monsoons to astronomical forcing. Climate of the past. 7(4). 1363–1370. 47 indexed citations

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