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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 56 848 776 108 108 214 11375
Materials Science 56 8251 7978 2394 2386 215 11344

Yang Lu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yang Lu between 1991 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yang Lu published across 36 years, from 1991 to 2026, averaging 11.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 56 publications in 2022. 43 of the 402 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 56. Peak 56 publications in 2022. 1991: 1 publication 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 0 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 4 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 18 publications 2017: 27 publications 2018: 24 publications 2019: 40 publications 2020: 30 publications 2021: 37 publications 2022: 56 publications 2023: 41 publications 2024: 44 publications 2025: 42 publications 2026: 1 publication
1991 2026

402 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yang Lu: publications per year, 1991 to 2026
Year Publications
1991 1
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 2
1999 2
2000 0
2001 1
2002 0
2003 0
2004 0
2005 0
2006 0
2007 0
2008 2
2009 5
2010 7
2011 7
2012 2
2013 1
2014 4
2015 8
2016 18
2017 27
2018 24
2019 40
2020 30
2021 37
2022 56
2023 41
2024 44
2025 42
2026 1
Total 402
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Yang Lu publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yang Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 207–216 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 214 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125 214
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Yang Lu D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yang Lu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 56 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48 56
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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Overview

Yang Lu is a researcher affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their academic work spans a wide range of topics primarily within engineering and materials science, with a focus on various specialized subfields.

The main fields of study associated with Yang Lu include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these areas, their research further narrows down to subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials

Yang Lu's work covers several important academic topics including:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics

The research output includes a significant volume of published papers. Recent notable publications are:

  • Lattice oxygen activation enabled by high-valence metal sites for enhanced water oxidation (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Elastic straining of free-standing monolayer graphene (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Confined Growth of Silver-Copper Janus Nanostructures with {100} Facets for Highly Selective Tandem Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • Local chemical fluctuation mediated ductility in body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys (2021, Materials Today)
  • Achieving large uniform tensile elasticity in microfabricated diamond (2020, Science)

Yang Lu frequently publishes in several academic venues, among which the most common are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Materials Today
  • Small

Their collaborative network shows recurrent coauthorship with several researchers, including:

  • Rong Fan
  • Xiaobin Feng
  • Xiaocui Li
  • Juzheng Chen
  • Liqiang Wang

Best Publications

  • Mechanical Metamaterials and Their Engineering Applications

    James Utama Surjadi;Libo Gao;Huifeng Du;Xiang Li

  • Lattice oxygen activation enabled by high-valence metal sites for enhanced water oxidation

    Ning Zhang;Xiaobin Feng;Dewei Rao;Xi Deng

  • Cold welding of ultrathin gold nanowires

    Yang Lu;Jian Yu Huang;Chao Wang;Shouheng Sun

  • Elastic straining of free-standing monolayer graphene.

    Ke Cao;Shizhe Feng;Ying Han;Libo Gao;Libo Gao

  • Controlled propulsion and cargo transport of rotating nickel nanowires near a patterned solid surface.

    Li Zhang;Tristan Petit;Tristan Petit;Yang Lu;Bradley E. Kratochvil

  • Ultralarge elastic deformation of nanoscale diamond

    Amit Banerjee;Daniel Bernoulli;Hongti Zhang;Muk Fung Yuen

  • Approaching the ideal elastic strain limit in silicon nanowires

    Hongti Zhang;Jerry Tersoff;Shang Xu;Huixin Chen

  • Asymmetric flexural behavior from bamboo's functionally graded hierarchical structure: underlying mechanisms.

    Meisam K. Habibi;Arash T. Samaei;Behnam Gheshlaghi;Jian Lu

  • Local chemical fluctuation mediated ductility in body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

    Yeqiang Bu;Yuan Wu;Zhifeng Lei;Xiaoyuan Yuan

  • Crack propagation in bamboo's hierarchical cellular structure.

    Meisam K. Habibi;Yang Lu

  • Achieving large uniform tensile elasticity in microfabricated diamond

    Chaoqun Dang;Jyh-Pin Chou;Jyh-Pin Chou;Bing Dai;Chang-Ti Chou

  • Flexible Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitor Based on Nickel-Cobalt Double Hydroxide and Pen Ink Electrodes on Metallized Carbon Fiber.

    Libo Gao;James Utama Surjadi;Ke Cao;Hongti Zhang

  • Hierarchical nanostructured aluminum alloy with ultrahigh strength and large plasticity

    Ge Wu;Chang Liu;Ligang Sun;Qing Wang;Qing Wang

  • Nanocrystalline high-entropy alloy (CoCrFeNiAl0.3) thin-film coating by magnetron sputtering

    Weibing Liao;Weibing Liao;Si Lan;Si Lan;Libo Gao;Hongti Zhang

  • Fracture of Sub‐20nm Ultrathin Gold Nanowires

    Yang Lu;Jun Song;Jian Yu Huang;Jun Lou

  • Sub-thermionic, ultra-high-gain organic transistors and circuits

    Zhongzhong Luo;Boyu Peng;Junpeng Zeng;Zhihao Yu;Zhihao Yu

  • Novel 2D metamaterials with negative Poisson’s ratio and negative thermal expansion

    Xiang Li;Libo Gao;Libo Gao;Wenzhao Zhou;Yuejiao Wang

  • Interface Toughness of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Epoxy Composites

    Yogeeswaran Ganesan;Cheng Peng;Yang Lu;Phillip E. Loya

  • Wearable and flexible thin film thermoelectric module for multi-scale energy harvesting

    Vaithinathan Karthikeyan;James Utama Surjadi;Joseph C.K. Wong;Venkataraman Kannan

  • Crystallized Monolayer Semiconductor for Ohmic Contact Resistance, High Intrinsic Gain, and High Current Density.

    Boyu Peng;Ke Cao;Albert Ho Yuen Lau;Ming Chen

  • Seed-assisted smart construction of high mass loading Ni–Co–Mn hydroxide nanoflakes for supercapacitor applications

    Shaoran Yang;Chun Wu;Junjie Cai;Ying Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Lou
Jun Lou Rice University
Jian Song
Jian Song Tsinghua University
Yue Hao
Yue Hao Xidian University
Jian Lu
Jian Lu City University of Hong Kong
Ji-Jung Kai
Ji-Jung Kai City University of Hong Kong
Chun-Sing Lee
Chun-Sing Lee City University of Hong Kong
Yong Yang
Yong Yang City University of Hong Kong
Robert K.Y. Li
Robert K.Y. Li City University of Hong Kong
Denvid Lau
Denvid Lau City University of Hong Kong
C.T. Liu
C.T. Liu City University of Hong Kong

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