2026 Lin-gun Liu: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	54	2756	2514	9	8	163	8719

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Earth Science

2756

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163

8719

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Lin-gun Liu is a researcher affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan, specializing primarily in the fields of physics and astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, notably astronomy and astrophysics, geophysics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main topics covered by Liu's research include astro and planetary science, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, crystal structures and properties, planetary science and exploration, and scientific research and discoveries.

Lin-gun Liu has contributed scholarly articles to multiple scientific journals. Recent publications include:

The Anecdote of Liuite -In View of the Progress of Modern Technology, There Might Be No More New Minerals to Be Found on the Earth after another Half a Century (2023, Advances in Anthropology)
Water on/in Mars and the Moon (2022, Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Atmospheres and Oceans of Terrestrial Planets (2024, Japan Journal of Research)
The Proto-Atmosphere of Terrestrial Planets (2025, European journal of applied sciences)

These papers reflect Liu's engagement with planetary atmospheres, mineralogy, and planetary exploration topics.

Publication venues where Liu's work frequently appears include:

Advances in Anthropology
Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Japan Journal of Research
European journal of applied sciences

Liu's research often intersects detailed studies in astro and planetary science with geophysical and material properties investigations. The blend of topics such as planetary atmospheres and mineralogical analyses underlines a multidisciplinary approach within their expertise.

Best Publications

Synthesis of a perovskite-type polymorph of CaSiO3

Lin-Gun Liu;A.E. Ringwood

343
Citations
Silicate perovskite from phase transformations of pyrope‐garnet at high pressure and temperature

Lin-gun Liu

301
Citations
The effects of pressure and temperature on nonstoichiometric wüstite, Fe x O: The iron-rich phase boundary

C. A. McCammon;Lin-gun Liu

234
Citations
Effect of pressure on the crystal structure and the lattice parameters of BaO

Lin-gun Liu;William A. Bassett

229
Citations
Elements, Oxides, and Silicates: High Pressure Phases with Implications for the Earth's Interior

Lin-gun Liu;William A. Bassett

225
Citations
Effects of H2O on the phase behaviour of the forsterite-enstatite system at high pressures and temperatures and implications for the Earth

Lin-gun Liu

198
Citations
Compression of Ag and phase transformation of NaCl

Lin‐gun Liu;William A. Bassett

197
Citations
Compression of ferromagnesian garnets and the effect of solid solutions on the bulk modulus

Taro Takahashi;Lin-Gun Liu

189
Citations
Post-oxide phases of forsterite and enstatite

Lin-gun Liu

182
Citations
The post-spinel phase of forsterite

Lin-Gun Liu

182
Citations
Elasticity of single-crystal calcite and rhodochrosite by Brillouin spectroscopy

Chien-Chih Chen;Chung-Cherng Lin;Lin-Gun Liu;Stanislav V. Sinogeikin

175
Citations
High-pressure phase transformations of albite, jadeite and nepheline

Lin-Gun Liu;Lin-Gun Liu

175
Citations
New high pressure phases of ZrO2 and HfO2

Lin-Gun Liu

173
Citations
Effect of pressure on the lattice parameters of stishovite

Lin-Gun Liu;William A. Bassett;Taro Takahashi

162
Citations
Orthorhombic perovskite phases observed in olivine, pyroxene and garnet at high pressures and temperatures

Lin-Gun Liu

160
Citations
A Fluorite Isotype of SnO2 and a New Modification of TiO2: Implications for the Earth's Lower Mantle

Lin-Gun Liu

160
Citations
On the 650-km seismic discontinuity

Lin-Gun Liu

160
Citations
The melting of iron up to 200 kbar

Lin-Gun Liu;William A. Bassett

158
Citations
The high-pressure phases of MgSiO3

Lin-Gun Liu

146
Citations
The system enstatite-pyrope at high pressures and temperatures and the mineralogy of the earth's mantle

Lin-Gun Liu;Lin-Gun Liu

145
Citations
Changes of the crystal structure and the lattice parameter of SrO at high pressure

Lin-gun Liu;William A. Bassett

132
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Bassett Cornell University

Tetsuo Irifune Ehime University

Terrence P. Mernagh Australian National University

Toru Inoue Hiroshima University

Taro Takahashi Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Chih-An Huh Academia Sinica

Raymond Jeanloz University of California, Berkeley

A.E. Ringwood Australian National University

Jay D. Bass University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stanislav V. Sinogeikin DAC Tools LLC

External Links

Personal website of Lin-gun Liu

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