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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 75 730 647 52 50 310 17947

Huayu Lu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Huayu Lu between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Huayu Lu published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 14 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2023. 57 of the 405 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2023. 1997: 2 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 26 publications 2016: 20 publications 2017: 33 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 31 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 37 publications 2024: 30 publications 2025: 27 publications
1997 2025

405 publications in total across all disciplines

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Huayu Lu: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 2
1998 3
1999 7
2000 6
2001 3
2002 2
2003 5
2004 9
2005 5
2006 9
2007 7
2008 6
2009 5
2010 9
2011 11
2012 11
2013 9
2014 10
2015 26
2016 20
2017 33
2018 19
2019 21
2020 17
2021 31
2022 25
2023 37
2024 30
2025 27
Total 405
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Huayu Lu publications per year - data summary

  • Huayu Lu, a Earth Science scholar from Nanjing University, has 405 publications recorded across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1997 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2023, with 37 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1997 and 2002, with 2 publications each.
  • The rate of publication averages 14.0 papers per year over the whole span, or 14.0 per year counting only the 29 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 150 publications, 37% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1997-2006: 51 publications (5.1 per year); 2007-2016: 114 publications (11.4 per year); 2017-2025: 240 publications (26.7 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Huayu Lu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Huayu Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 308–317 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 310 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107 310
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Huayu Lu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,176 Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 58 ranges running from 38–47 to 603+ publications.
  • Huayu Lu, a Earth Science scholar from Nanjing University, records 310 publications - the 88th percentile of the discipline.
  • 88% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Huayu Lu, and about 12% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 168–177 publications range, and Huayu Lu ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 128–137 publications, holding 557 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 58% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 178–187 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 603 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Huayu Lu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Huayu Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 75 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52 75
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Huayu Lu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,176 Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 77 ranges running from 30 to 106+ D-Index.
  • Huayu Lu, a Earth Science scholar from Nanjing University, records 75 D-Index - the 93rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 93% of ranked Earth Science scientists score the same or lower than Huayu Lu, and about 7% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44 D-Index range, and Huayu Lu ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 36 D-Index, holding 389 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 62% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 49 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Huayu Lu is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a significant body of work within multiple related subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change, and Paleontology.

The main topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Huayu Lu has contributed to a number of recent publications, among which are:

  • "Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China" (2023) published in Nature Communications
  • "Increasing summer precipitation in arid Central Asia linked to the weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in the recent decades" (2020) published in International Journal of Climatology
  • "Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "Critical transitions in Chinese dunes during the past 12,000 years" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "Vegetation feedback causes delayed ecosystem response to East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall during the Holocene" (2021) published in Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably:

  • Xianyan Wang
  • Shuangwen Yi
  • Hanzhi Zhang
  • Hanlin Wang
  • Zhiwei Xu

Huayu Lu's work is regularly published in several key venues including:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geomorphology
  • Nature Communications

The researcher has produced over 250 publications predominantly addressing themes within Earth and Planetary Sciences and their subfields, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to studying past climate dynamics, geological changes, and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Xinyu Wen;E.C. Brady;B. Otto-Bliesner

  • Nd and Sr isotopic characteristics of Chinese deserts: Implications for the provenances of Asian dust

    Jun Chen;Gaojun Li;Jiedong Yang;Wenbo Rao

  • Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment.

    Junsheng Nie;Thomas Stevens;Martin Rittner;Daniel Stockli

  • Variation of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Shuangwen Yi;Zhengyu Liu;Joseph A. Mason

  • Bimodal grain-size distribution of Chinese loess, and its palaeoclimatic implications

    Donghuai Sun;Jan Bloemendal;David K Rea;Zhisheng An

  • Genetic linkage between the Yellow River, the Mu Us desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau

    T. Stevens;T. Stevens;A. Carter;T.P. Watson;P. Vermeesch

  • Leaf wax lipids as paleovegetational and paleoenvironmental proxies for the Chinese Loess Plateau over the last 170 kyr

    Zhaohui Zhang;Meixun Zhao;Meixun Zhao;Geoffrey Eglinton;Geoffrey Eglinton;Huayu Lu

  • Late Quaternary aeolian dust input variability on the Chinese Loess Plateau: inferences from unmixing of loess grain-size records

    Maarten A. Prins;Mirjam Vriend;Govert Nugteren;Jef Vandenberghe

  • Astronomical calibration of loess-paleosol deposits at Luochuan, central Chinese Loess Plateau

    Huayu Lu;Xiaodong Liu;Fuqing Zhang;Zhisheng An

  • Aeolian sediment evidence that global cooling has driven late Cenozoic stepwise aridification in central Asia

    H. Lu;X. Wang;L. Li

  • Grain-size and accumulation rate records from Late Cenozoic aeolian sequences in northern China: Implications for variations in the East Asian winter monsoon and westerly atmospheric circulation

    Donghuai Sun;Ruixia Su;Jan Bloemendal;Huayu Lu

  • Lower temperature as the main cause of C4 plant declines during the glacial periods on the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Zhaohui Zhang;Meixun Zhao;Huayu Lu;Anthony M. Faiia

  • Penetration of Atlantic westerly winds into Central and East Asia

    Jef Vandenberghe;Hans Renssen;Ko van Huissteden;Govert Nugteren

  • Late Quaternary aeolian activity in the Mu Us and Otindag dune fields (north China) and lagged response to insolation forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Xiaodong Miao;Yali Zhou;Yali Zhou;Joseph Mason

  • Zr/Rb ratio in the Chinese loess sequences and its implication for changes in the East Asian winter monsoon strength

    Jun Chen;Yang Chen;Lianwen Liu;Junfeng Ji

  • Ice core evidence for a very tight link between North Atlantic and east Asian glacial climate

    Urs Ruth;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Regine Röthlisberger;Regine Röthlisberger;Marie-Louise Siggaard-Andersen

  • Holocene climate changes over the desert/loess transition of north-central China

    Jule Xiao;Toshio Nakamura;Huayu Lu;Guangyu Zhang

  • Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records

    Thomas Stevens;Simon J. Armitage;Huayu Lu;David S.G. Thomas

  • Periodicities of palaeoclimatic variations recorded by loess-paleosol sequences in China

    Huayu Lu;Fuqing Zhang;Xiaodong Liu;Robert A. Duce

  • Dune mobility and aridity at the desert margin of northern China at a time of peak monsoon strength

    J.A. Mason;H. Lu;Y. Zhou;X. Miao

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens Uppsala University
Jef Vandenberghe
Jef Vandenberghe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Junfeng Ji
Junfeng Ji Nanjing University
Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joseph A. Mason
Joseph A. Mason University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nanjing University
Youbin Sun
Youbin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pieter Vermeesch
Pieter Vermeesch University College London
Jan-Pieter Buylaert
Jan-Pieter Buylaert Technical University of Denmark
Sergio Andò
Sergio Andò University of Milano-Bicocca

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