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Yongjun Lu 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 Yongjun Lu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 89 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yongjun Lu 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 Yongjun Lu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yongjun Lu is affiliated with the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety in Australia.

Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics. Other notable subfields include Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geology.

Key research topics covered by Yongjun Lu include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Yongjun Lu has published extensively, with selected recent papers including:

  • "Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth's earliest continental crust," 2021, Nature
  • "Recycled volatiles determine fertility of porphyry deposits in collisional settings," 2020, American Mineralogist
  • "The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes," 2021, Precambrian Research
  • "Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents," 2022, Nature
  • "Geology and origin of the Zhunuo porphyry copper deposit, Gangdese belt, southern Tibet," 2020, Mineralium Deposita

Their work has been disseminated in various academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Nature
  • Mineralium Deposita

Yongjun Lu often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • R.H. Smithies
  • Laure Martin
  • Anthony I.S. Kemp
  • M.T.D. Wingate
  • Xiang Sun

Best Publications

  • Lithospheric Architecture of the Lhasa Terrane and Its Control on Ore Deposits in the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

    Zengqian Hou;Lianfeng Duan;Yongjun Lu;Yuanchuan Zheng

  • A genetic linkage between subduction- and collision-related porphyry Cu deposits in continental collision zones

    Zengqian Hou;Zhiming Yang;Yongjun Lu;Anthony Kemp

  • High-Mg diorite from Qulong in southern Tibet: Implications for the genesis of adakite-like intrusions and associated porphyry Cu deposits in collisional orogens

    Zhi-Ming Yang;Yong-Jun Lu;Zeng-Qian Hou;Zhao-Shan Chang

  • Zircon Compositions as a Pathfinder for Porphyry Cu ± Mo ± Au Deposits

    Yong-Jun Lu;Robert R. Loucks;Marco Fiorentini;T. Campbell McCuaig

  • Geochemical, Sr-Nd-Pb, and zircon Hf-O isotopic compositions of Eocene-Oligocene shoshonitic and potassic adakite-like felsic intrusions in Western Yunnan, SW China: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Yong Jun Lu;Robert Kerrich;Campbell T. Mccuaig;Zheng Xiang Li

  • Fluid flux melting generated postcollisional high Sr/Y copper ore–forming water-rich magmas in Tibet

    Yong-Jun Lu;Robert R. Loucks;Marco L. Fiorentini;Zhi-Ming Yang

  • Cretaceous–Cenozoic tectonic history of the Jiaojia Fault and gold mineralization in the Jiaodong Peninsula, China: constraints from zircon U–Pb, illite K–Ar, and apatite fission track thermochronometry

    Jun Deng;Changming Wang;Changming Wang;Leon Bagas;Emmanuel John M. Carranza

  • Intracontinental eocene-oligocene porphyry Cu mineral systems of Yunnan, Western Yangtze Craton, China: Compositional characteristics, sources, and implications for continental collision metallogeny

    Yong Jun Lu;Robert Kerrich;Robert Kerrich;Anthony I S Kemp;T. Campbell McCuaig

  • Terrane boundary and spatio-temporal distribution of ore deposits in the Sanjiang Tethyan Orogen: Insights from zircon Hf-isotopic mapping

    Changming Wang;Changming Wang;Leon Bagas;Yongjun Lu;Yongjun Lu;M. Santosh;M. Santosh

  • Zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of potassic felsic intrusions in western Yunnan, SW China: Constraints on the relationship of magmatism to the Jinsha suture

    Yong-jun Lu;Robert Kerrich;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;T. Campbell McCuaig

  • A metasomatized lithospheric mantle control on the metallogenic signature of post-subduction magmatism

    David A. Holwell;Marco Fiorentini;Iain McDonald;Yongjun Lu;Yongjun Lu

  • Two distinct origins for Archean greenstone belts

    R. Hugh Smithies;Tim J. Ivanic;Jack R. Lowrey;Paul A. Morris

  • Paleogene post-collisional lamprophyres in western Yunnan, western Yangtze Craton: Mantle source and tectonic implications

    Yong-Jun Lu;T. Campbell McCuaig;Zheng-Xiang Li;Fred Jourdan

  • No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth's crust in the Archean

    Robert H. Smithies;Yongjun Lu;Tim E. Johnson;Tim E. Johnson;Christopher L. Kirkland

  • Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth's earliest continental crust

    Robert H Smithies;Robert H Smithies;Yongjun Lu;Yongjun Lu;Christopher L Kirkland;Tim E Johnson;Tim E Johnson

  • Miocene ultrapotassic, High-Mg dioritic, and adakite-like rocks from Zhunuo in Southern Tibet: Implications for mantle metasomatism and porphyry copper mineralization in collisional orogens

    Xiang Sun;Xiang Sun;Yong Jun Lu;Yong Jun Lu;T. Campbell McCuaig;You Ye Zheng

  • Recycled volatiles determine fertility of porphyry deposits in collisional settings

    Bo Xu;Bo Xu;Zeng Qian Hou;William L. Griffin;Yongjun Lu;Yongjun Lu

  • Lake hydrology, water quality and ecology impacts of altered river–lake interactions: advances in research on the middle Yangtze river

    Guishan Yang;Qi Zhang;Rongrong Wan;Xijun Lai

  • GIS-based 3D prospectivity mapping: A case study of Jiama copper-polymetallic deposit in Tibet, China

    Keyan Xiao;Nan Li;Alok Porwal;Alok Porwal;Eun-Jung Holden

  • Age and origin of the Bulangshan and Mengsong granitoids and their significance for post-collisional tectonics in the Changning–Menglian Paleo-Tethys Orogen

    Changming Wang;Changming Wang;Jun Deng;M. Santosh;Yongjun Lu

  • Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents

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Frequent Co-Authors

Zengqian Hou
Zengqian Hou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher L. Kirkland
Christopher L. Kirkland Curtin University
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia
Leon Bagas
Leon Bagas University of Western Australia
Zhiming Yang
Zhiming Yang North Carolina Central University
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Tim E. Johnson
Tim E. Johnson Curtin University
Craig J.R. Hart
Craig J.R. Hart University of British Columbia
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
Robert Kerrich
Robert Kerrich University of Saskatchewan

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