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D-Index
66
Citations
21288
World Ranking
1282
National Ranking
81

Xiaodong Liu 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 Xiaodong Liu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 246 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiaodong Liu 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 Xiaodong Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xiaodong Liu is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their work spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with notable contributions to Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Frequent coauthors in their research include Zhengguo Shi, Xiaoning Xie, Xinzhou Li, Hui Sun, and Zhisheng An.

Xiaodong Liu has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Some recent scientific papers authored or contributed to by Xiaodong Liu include:

  • Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Behaviour in public open spaces: A systematic review of studies with quantitative research methods, 2022, Building and Environment
  • Sc2CF2/Janus MoSSe heterostructure: A potential Z-scheme photocatalyst with ultra-high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency, 2021, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Late Quaternary Extension Rates Across the Northern Half of the Yadong-Gulu Rift: Implication for East-West Extension in Southern Tibet, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

    N. Pepin;R. S. Bradley;H. F. Diaz;M. Baraer

  • Climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades

    Xiaodong Liu;Baode Chen

  • Asynchronous Holocene optimum of the East Asian monsoon

    Zhisheng An;Stephen C. Porter;Stephen C. Porter;John E. Kutzbach;Wu Xihao

  • Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

    Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Steven M. Colman;Weijian Zhou;Xiaoqiang Li

  • The Influence of Mechanical and Thermal Forcing by the Tibetan Plateau on Asian Climate

    Wu;GX;Guoxiong;Liu

  • Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Steven C. Clemens;Ji Shen;Xiaoke Qiang

  • Elevation dependency of recent and future minimum surface air temperature trends in the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhigang Cheng;Libin Yan;Zhi-Yong Yin

  • Sensitivity of East Asian monsoon climate to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhi-Yong Yin

  • Temporal trends and variability of daily maximum and minimum, extreme temperature events, and growing season length over the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau during 1961-2003

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhi-Yong Yin;Xuemei Shao;Ningsheng Qin

  • Reconstruction of the 30–40 ka bp enhanced Indian monsoon climate based on geological records from the Tibetan Plateau

    Yafeng Shi;Ge Yu;Xiaodong Liu;Bingyuan Li

  • Simulation of the evolutionary response of global summer monsoons to orbital forcing over the past 280,000 years

    J. E. Kutzbach;Xiaodong Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Guangshan Chen

  • Analyses of the spring dust storm frequency of northern China in relation to antecedent and concurrent wind, precipitation, vegetation, and soil moisture conditions

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhi-Yong Yin;Xiaoye Zhang;Xuchao Yang

  • A 10,000 year record of dune activity, dust storms, and severe drought in the central Great Plains

    Xiaodong Miao;Joseph A. Mason;James B. Swinehart;David B. Loope

  • Spatial and Temporal Variation of Summer Precipitation over the Eastern Tibetan Plateau and the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Xiaodong Liu;Zhi-Yong Yin

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

    Huayu Lu;Xiaodong Liu;Fuqing Zhang;Zhisheng An

  • Amplitude of climatic changes in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Tandong Yao;Xiaodong Liu;Ninglian Wang;Yafeng Shi

  • Astronomical and glacial forcing of East Asian summer monsoon variability

    Youbin Sun;John Kutzbach;Zhisheng An;Steven Clemens

  • Enhanced climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau due to doubling CO2: a model study

    B. Chen;B. Chen;W. C. Chao;X. Liu

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

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

  • Evaluating regional cloud-permitting simulations of the WRF model for the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE, Darwin 2006)

    Yi Wang;Yi Wang;Charles N. Long;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Jimy Dudhia

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
Buwen Dong
Buwen Dong University of Reading
John E. Kutzbach
John E. Kutzbach University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yangang Liu
Yangang Liu Brookhaven National Laboratory
Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Hong Chang
Hong Chang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University
Weijian Zhou
Weijian Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Youbin Sun
Youbin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

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