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Lan Zhao

Decision Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2007
Scientific Computing and Data ManagementDistributed and Parallel Computing SystemsEnvironmental Monitoring and Data ManagementResearch Data Management PracticesGeographic Information Systems Studies

Publications

85

Citations

572

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
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Lan Zhao's work centers on building software tools and platforms for managing and analyzing large geospatial and economic datasets, including systems for regional data generation and geographic data analysis. The research combines scientific computing infrastructure with data management practices to support research in areas like agricultural economics and environmental monitoring. This is applied, tool-building research rather than purely theoretical work.

Scientific computing and data infrastructureGeospatial data analysis toolsResearch data management platformsDistributed computing systemsEnvironmental and economic data integration

Publication output peaked around 2017 and has since settled into a slower, steady pace of about 2 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 11 publications11172018: 6 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×7
  • Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing×3
  • Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing×2
  • AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×2
  • HubZero×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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