Kefu Yu

Kefu Yu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

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Kefu Yu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

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Overview

Best Publications

• Underestimated Microplastic Pollution Derived from Fishery Activities and “Hidden” in Deep Sediment

  Baoming Xue;Linlin Zhang;Ruilong Li;Yinghui Wang

  370
  Citations

• Coral reefs in the South China Sea: Their response to and records on past environmental changes

  KeFu Yu

  292
  Citations

• Accumulation and partitioning of seven trace metals in mangroves and sediment cores from three estuarine wetlands of Hainan Island, China.

  Yao-Wen Qiu;Ke-Fu Yu;Gan Zhang;Wen-Xiong Wang

  231
  Citations

• Occurrence and distribution of antibiotics in mariculture farms, estuaries and the coast of the Beibu Gulf, China: Bioconcentration and diet safety of seafood.

  Ruiling Zhang;Jiying Pei;Ruijie Zhang;Shaopeng Wang

  205
  Citations

• Reconstruction of storm/tsunami records over the last 4000 years using transported coral blocks and lagoon sediments in the southern South China Sea

  Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Jian-Xin Zhao;Qi Shi;Qing-Shan Meng

  175
  Citations

• Holocene marine 14C reservoir age variability: Evidence from 230Th‐dated corals in the South China Sea

  Kefu Yu;Kefu Yu;Quan Hua;Jian-xin Zhao;Ed Hodge

  157
  Citations

• Legacy and alternative per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in a subtropical marine food web from the Beibu Gulf, South China: Fate, trophic transfer and health risk assessment.

  Chang-Gui Pan;Shao-Ke Xiao;Ke-Fu Yu;Qi Wu

  135
  Citations

• High-frequency winter cooling and reef coral mortality during the Holocene climatic optimum

  Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Jian-Xin Zhao;Tung-Sheng Liu;Gang-Jian Wei

  135
  Citations

• Mid-late Holocene monsoon climate retrieved from seasonal Sr/Ca and delta O-18 records of Porites lutea corals at Leizhou Peninsula, northern coast of South China Sea

  Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Jian-Xin Zhao;Gang-Jian Wei;Xin-Rong Cheng

  134
  Citations

• U-series dating of dead Porites corals in the South China sea: Evidence for episodic coral mortality over the past two centuries

  Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Jian-Xin Zhao;Qi Shi;Te-Gu Chen

  130
  Citations

• High-precision 238U–234U–230Th disequilibrium dating of the recent past: a review

  Jian-xin Zhao;Ke-fu Yu;Ke-fu Yu;Yue-xing Feng

  129
  Citations

• Chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in the Xijiang River basin, South China

  Quanzhou Gao;Quanzhou Gao;Zhen Tao;Xiakun Huang;Ling Nan

  124
  Citations

• Delta O-18, Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca records of Porites lutea corals from Leizhou Peninsula, northern South China Sea, and their applicability as paleoclimatic indicators

  Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Jian-Xin Zhao;Gang-Jian Wei;Xin-Rong Cheng

  123
  Citations

• Instability in a marginal coral reef: the shift from natural variability to a human‐dominated seascape

  Matt Lybolt;David Neil;Jianxin Zhao;Yuexing Feng

  114
  Citations

• Dynamic distribution of microplastics in mangrove sediments in Beibu Gulf, South China: Implications of tidal current velocity and tidal range.

  Linlin Zhang;Shuaipeng Zhang;Jing Guo;Kefu Yu

  109
  Citations

• Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of organophosphate esters in tropical marine food web, South China Sea.

  Yang Ding;Minwei Han;Zhiqiang Wu;Ruijie Zhang;Ruijie Zhang

  106
  Citations

• Bioconcentration of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and organochlorine pesticides in algae is an important contaminant route to higher trophic levels

  Yao-Wen Qiu;Eddy Y. Zeng;Hanlin Qiu;Kefu Yu

  104
  Citations

• Heavy metal pollution recorded in Porites corals from Daya Bay, northern South China Sea

  Tian-Ran Chen;Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Shu Li;Gilbert J. Price

  104
  Citations

• East Asian Summer Monsoon variations in the past 12.5 ka: High-resolution delta O-18 record from a precisely dated aragonite stalagmite in central China

  Hui-Ling Zhang;Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Yue-Xing Feng

  103
  Citations

• Long-term Decline of a Fringing Coral Reef in the Northern South China Sea

  Meixia Zhao;Kefu Yu;Qiaomin Zhang;Qi Shi

  100
  Citations

• Storm cycles in the last millennium recorded in Yongshu Reef, southern South China Sea

  Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Ke-Fu Yu;Jian-Xin Zhao;Kenneth D Collerson;Qi Shi

  96
  Citations

• Occurrence, sources and transport of antibiotics in the surface water of coral reef regions in the South China Sea: Potential risk to coral growth.

  Ruijie Zhang;Ruiling Zhang;Kefu Yu;Yinghui Wang

  96
  Citations

• Sea surface temperature records in the northern South China Sea from mid-Holocene coral Sr/Ca ratios

  Gangjian Wei;Gangjian Wei;Wenfeng Deng;Kefu Yu;Xian-hua Li

  94
  Citations

• Occurrence, phase distribution, and bioaccumulation of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in mariculture farms of the Beibu Gulf, China: A health risk assessment through seafood consumption.

  Ruijie Zhang;Kefu Yu;An Li;Weibin Zeng

  91
  Citations

• Twenty-five years of change in scleractinian coral communities of Daya Bay (northern South China Sea) and its response to the 2008 AD extreme cold climate event

  TianRan Chen;KeFu Yu;KeFu Yu;Qi Shi;Shu Li

  91
  Citations