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Liping Zhu 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 Liping Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 227 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Liping Zhu 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 Liping Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Liping Zhu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Their scientific work primarily focuses on topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Recent papers authored by Liping Zhu include:

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • In-situ water quality investigation of the lakes on the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Science Bulletin
  • Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration, 2021, Science Advances
  • A new finding on the prevalence of rapid water warming during lake ice melting on the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Science Bulletin

Liping Zhu frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Junbo Wang
  • Jianting Ju
  • Qingfeng Ma
  • Baojin Qiao
  • Qiangqiang Kou

Major publication venues for their work consist of:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

  • Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review

    Fahu Chen;Jifeng Zhang;Jianbao Liu;Xianyong Cao

  • Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau

    Eryuan Liang;Yafeng Wang;Shilong Piao;Xiaoming Lu

  • Quantitative analysis of lake area variations and the influence factors from 1971 to 2004 in the Nam Co basin of the Tibetan Plateau

    LiPing Zhu;ManPing Xie;YanHong Wu

  • Modern pollen distributions in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the development of transfer functions for reconstructing Holocene environmental changes

    Houyuan Lu;Naiqin Wu;Kam-biu Liu;Liping Zhu

  • Temporal-spatial differences in lake water storage changes and their links to climate change throughout the Tibetan Plateau

    Baojin Qiao;Baojin Qiao;Liping Zhu;Liping Zhu;Ruimin Yang;Ruimin Yang

  • Glacial distribution and mass balance in the Yarlung Zangbo River and its influence on lakes

    TanDong Yao;ZhiGuo Li;Wei Yang;XueJun Guo

  • Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau in response to shifting atmospheric circulation since the LGM

    Liping Zhu;Liping Zhu;Xinmiao Lü;Xinmiao Lü;Junbo Wang;Junbo Wang;Ping Peng

  • Changes of water clarity in large lakes and reservoirs across China observed from long-term MODIS

    Shenglei Wang;Shenglei Wang;Junsheng Li;Bing Zhang;Zhongping Lee

  • ROOF OF THE WORLD: Tibetan Observation and Research Platform

    Yaoming Ma;Shichang Kang;Liping Zhu;Baiquing Xu

  • The response of lake-glacier variations to climate change in Nam Co Catchment, central Tibetan Plateau, during 1970-2000

    Yanhong Wu;Liping Zhu

  • Investigation of bathymetry and water quality of Lake Nam Co, the largest lake on the central Tibetan Plateau, China

    Junbo Wang;Liping Zhu;Gerhard Daut;Jianting Ju

  • Environmental changes since 8.4 ka reflected in the lacustrine core sediments from Nam Co, central Tibetan Plateau, China

    Liping Zhu;Yanhong Wu;Junbo Wang;Xiao Lin

  • TIBETAN OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH PLATFORM Atmosphere-Land Interaction over a Heterogeneous Landscape

    Ma YM(马耀明);Kang SC(康世昌);Zhu LP(朱立平);Xu BQ(徐柏青)

  • Estimation and trend detection of water storage at Nam Co Lake, central Tibetan Plateau

    Bing Zhang;Yanhong Wu;Liping Zhu;Junbo Wang

  • Multispherical interactions and their effects on the Tibetan Plateau's earth system: a review of the recent researches

    Tandong Yao;Fuyuan Wu;Lin Ding;Jimin Sun

  • Spatiotemporal variations in volume of closed lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their climatic responses from 1976 to 2013

    Ruimin Yang;Liping Zhu;Liping Zhu;Junbo Wang;Junbo Wang;Jianting Ju

  • Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon (IOSM)-dynamics within the past 4 ka recorded in the sediments of Lake Nam Co, central Tibetan Plateau (China)

    Thomas Kasper;Torsten Haberzettl;Stefan Doberschütz;Gerhard Daut

  • Glacier and lake variations in the Yamzhog Yumco basin, southern Tibetan Plateau, from 1980 to 2000 using remote-sensing and GIS technologies

    Qinghua Ye;Liping Zhu;Hongxing Zheng;Renji Naruse

  • Linkages of the dynamics of glaciers and lakes with the climate elements over the Tibetan Plateau

    Jian Sun;Jian Sun;Tiancai Zhou;Tiancai Zhou;Miao Liu;Youchao Chen

  • A Multi-Proxy Approach to Reconstruct the Hydrological Changes and Holocene Climate Development of Nam Co, Central Tibet

    G. Gleixner;I. Muegler;R. Maeusbacher;G. Daut

  • Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau in response to shifting atmospheric circulation since the LGM

    Liping Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Wang
Yong Wang Nanjing Tech University
Torsten Haberzettl
Torsten Haberzettl Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Antje Schwalb
Antje Schwalb Technische Universität Braunschweig
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Toshio Nakamura
Toshio Nakamura Nagoya University
Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Houyuan Lu
Houyuan Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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