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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
80
Citations
20614
World Ranking
972
National Ranking
97

Yonglong Lu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yonglong Lu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 266 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Yonglong Lu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yonglong Lu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Yonglong Lu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work contributing to various subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Within these areas, they have explored key topics including:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Yonglong Lu's frequent collaborators include Shuai Song, Meng Zhang, Pei Wang, Haotian Cui, and Di Du.

Their research has been published in a range of academic venues, with recurrent contributions to:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Yonglong Lu are:

  • "Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Author Correction: Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Ecology of industrial pollution in China," 2020, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
  • "Evaluating the potential health and economic effects of nitrogen fertilizer application in grain production systems of China," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Yonglong Lu has received recognition in the scientific community as a Member of Academia Europaea (2019) and as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2012).

Best Publications

  • Impacts of soil and water pollution on food safety and health risks in China

    Yonglong Lu;Shuai Song;Ruoshi Wang;Zhaoyang Liu

  • Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Ruixue Lei

  • Policy: Five priorities for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

    Yonglong Lu;Nebojsa Nakicenovic;Martin Visbeck;Anne-Sophie Stevance

  • A spatial temporal assessment of pollution from PCBs in China.

    Ying Xing;Yonglong Lu;Richard W. Dawson;Richard W. Dawson;Yajuan Shi

  • Industrial source identification and emission estimation of perfluorooctane sulfonate in China.

    Shuangwei Xie;Tieyu Wang;Shijie Liu;Kevin C. Jones

  • Major threats of pollution and climate change to global coastal ecosystems and enhanced management for sustainability.

    Yonglong Lu;Jingjing Yuan;Xiaotian Lu;Chao Su

  • Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path

    Yonglong Lu;Yonglong Lu;Yueqing Zhang;Xianghui Cao;Chenchen Wang

  • Heavy metals in agricultural soils and crops and their health risks in Swat District, northern Pakistan

    Kifayatullah Khan;Yonglong Lu;Hizbullah Khan;Muhammad Ishtiaq

  • Perfluorinated compounds in water, sediment, soil and biota from estuarine and coastal areas of Korea

    Jonathan E. Naile;Jong Seong Khim;Tieyu Wang;Chunli Chen

  • Global synthesis of the classifications, distributions, benefits and issues of terracing

    Wei Wei;Wei Wei;Die Chen;Lixin Wang;Stefani Daryanto

  • Changes and challenges: China's environmental management in transition

    Guizhen He;Yonglong Lu;Arthur P.J. Mol;Theo Beckers;Theo Beckers

  • Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals.

    Michael Obersteiner;Brian Walsh;Stefan Frank;Petr Havlík

  • A review of sources, multimedia distribution and health risks of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in China

    Tieyu Wang;Pei Wang;Jing Meng;Shijie Liu

  • Addressing China's grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability.

    Yonglong Lu;Alan Jenkins;Robert C. Ferrier;Mark Bailey

  • Drivers of change in China’s energy-related CO2 emissions

    Xiaoqi Zheng;Xiaoqi Zheng;Yonglong Lu;Yonglong Lu;Jingjing Yuan;Yvette Baninla

  • Effects of land use on concentrations of metals in surface soils and ecological risk around Guanting Reservoir, China

    Wei Luo;Yonglong Lu;John P Giesy;John P Giesy;John P Giesy;Tieyu Wang

  • Multiple crop bioaccumulation and human exposure of perfluoroalkyl substances around a mega fluorochemical industrial park, China: Implication for planting optimization and food safety.

    Zhaoyang Liu;Yonglong Lu;Xin Song;Kevin Jones

  • Author Correction: Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Ruixue Lei

  • Health risks associated with heavy metals in the drinking water of Swat, northern Pakistan

    Kifayatullah Khan;Kifayatullah Khan;Yonglong Lu;Hizbullah Khan;Shahida Zakir

  • Pollution pathways and release estimation of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in central and eastern China.

    Zhaoyang Liu;Yonglong Lu;Pei Wang;Tieyu Wang

  • Occurrence and transport of 17 perfluoroalkyl acids in 12 coastal rivers in south Bohai coastal region of China with concentrated fluoropolymer facilities

    Pei Wang;Yonglong Lu;Tieyu Wang;Yaning Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Tieyu Wang
Tieyu Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
Jong Seong Khim
Jong Seong Khim Seoul National University
Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Andrew J. Sweetman
Andrew J. Sweetman Lancaster University
Andrew C. Johnson
Andrew C. Johnson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Wenyou Hu
Wenyou Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Alan Jenkins
Alan Jenkins UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Paul D. Jones
Paul D. Jones University of Saskatchewan

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