Aijun Ding

30.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
296 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Aijun Ding is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Aijun Ding has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 254 papers in Atmospheric Science, 154 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 153 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Aijun Ding's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (243 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (148 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (106 papers). Aijun Ding is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (243 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (148 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (106 papers). Aijun Ding collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Aijun Ding's co-authors include Tao Wang, Xin Huang, Congbin Fu, Wei Nie, Jian Gao, Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Zilin Wang, Veli‐Matti Kerminen and Jianning Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Aijun Ding

284 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A review of biomass burning: Emissions and impacts on air quality, health and climate in China

2016 925 citations Shuxiao Wang, Aijun Ding et al. profile →
Aerosol and boundary-layer interactions and impact on air quality

2017 617 citations Aijun Ding, Tijian Wang et al. profile →
Aggravating O3 pollution due to NOx emission control in eastern China

2019 302 citations Xin Huang, Aijun Ding et al. profile →
Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

2022 257 citations Aijun Ding et al. profile →
Amplified transboundary transport of haze by aerosol–boundary layer interaction in China

2020 243 citations Xin Huang, Aijun Ding et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Air quality and health co-benefits of China’s carbon dioxide emissions peaking before 2030

2022 217 citations Xin Huang, Derong Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Aijun Ding	12.1k	8.6k	6.8k	3.6k	1.2k	296	15.4k
Lin Zhang	7.7k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	4.5k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	913 0.8×	337	12.6k
Leiming Zhang	9.0k 0.7×	9.5k 1.1×	6.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	492	18.6k
Zhenxing Shen	8.0k 0.7×	8.2k 0.9×	2.9k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	340	13.6k
Hang Su	10.5k 0.9×	7.2k 0.8×	5.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	965 0.8×	284	13.7k
Dongsheng Ji	6.8k 0.6×	6.2k 0.7×	3.1k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	199	8.4k
Armin Sorooshian	7.4k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	4.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	618 0.5×	261	10.4k
Gehui Wang	8.1k 0.7×	7.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	244	11.5k
Yanlin Zhang	5.4k 0.4×	4.5k 0.5×	2.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	768 0.6×	347	9.5k
Rodney J. Weber	23.8k 2.0×	17.6k 2.0×	11.3k 1.7×	5.3k 1.5×	2.7k 2.2×	283	27.4k
R. J. Yokelson	12.8k 1.1×	5.7k 0.7×	9.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	141	15.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aijun Ding

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fu, Congbin, et al.. (2025). Global warming intensifies extreme day-to-day temperature changes in mid–low latitudes. Nature Climate Change. 16(1). 69–76.

Wang, Jiandong, Jiaping Wang, Nicole Riemer, et al.. (2025). Steady-state mixing state of black carbon aerosols from a particle-resolved model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(3). 1869–1881.

Qin, Yue, Mi Zhou, Xin Huang, et al.. (2024). Amplified positive effects on air quality, health, and renewable energy under China’s carbon neutral target. Nature Geoscience. 17(5). 411–418. 44 indexed citations

Wang, Jinbo, Jiaping Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Impacts of elevated anthropogenic emissions on physicochemical characteristics of black-carbon-containing particles over the Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(19). 11063–11080.

Wang, Zilin, Xin Huang, Qianqian Huang, & Aijun Ding. (2024). Environmental impacts of aerosol radiative effect and urbanization and their interactions over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei City cluster. Urban Climate. 56. 102020–102020. 2 indexed citations

Nie, Wei, Yuliang Liu, Chao Yan, et al.. (2024). Field Evidence of Nocturnal Multiphase Production of Iodic Acid. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 11(7). 709–715. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Mingxu, Yu Song, Xingjie Lu, et al.. (2024). Substantial nitrogen abatement accompanying decarbonization suppresses terrestrial carbon sinks in China. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7738–7738. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Chao, Jiandong Wang, Zhouyang Zhang, et al.. (2024). An observation-constrained estimation of brown carbon aerosol direct radiative effects. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(5). 3065–3078. 6 indexed citations

Lou, Sijia, Xin Huang, Lian Xue, et al.. (2023). Stratospheric Aerosol and Ozone Responses to the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(4). 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Liangduo, Ximeng Qi, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2023). High Concentration of Atmospheric Sub‐3 nm Particles in Polluted Environment of Eastern China: New Particle Formation and Traffic Emission. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(22). 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Zechen, Kan Huang, Xuguang Chi, et al.. (2023). Impact of mineral dust photocatalytic heterogeneous chemistry on the formation of the sulfate and nitrate: A modelling study over East Asia. Atmospheric Environment. 316. 120166–120166. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Ruoxin, Tengyu Liu, Xin Huang, et al.. (2023). Characteristics and sources of atmospheric ammonia at the SORPES station in the western Yangtze river delta of China. Atmospheric Environment. 318. 120234–120234. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Peng, Wei Nie, Xuguang Chi, et al.. (2022). Aircraft Study of Secondary Aerosols in Long‐Range Transported Air Masses From the North China Plain by a Mid‐Latitude Cyclone. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(4). 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Yongchun, Junlei Zhan, Feixue Zheng, et al.. (2022). Dust emission reduction enhanced gas-to-particle conversion of ammonia in the North China Plain. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6887–6887. 25 indexed citations

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Kokkonen, Tom, Yuning Xie, Pauli Paasonen, et al.. (2021). The effect of urban morphological characteristics on the spatial variation of PM _2.5 air quality in downtown Nanjing. Environmental Science Atmospheres. 1(7). 481–497. 8 indexed citations

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Kulmala, Markku, Tom Kokkonen, Juha Pekkanen, et al.. (2021). Opinion: Gigacity – a source of problems or the new way to sustainable development. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(10). 8313–8322. 21 indexed citations

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Lappalainen, Hanna K., Tuukka Petäjä, Timo Vihma, et al.. (2021). Overview: Recent advances on the understanding of the Northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China – Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) program perspective.

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Jiang, Yiquan, Xiu‐Qun Yang, Xiaohong Liu, et al.. (2017). Anthropogenic aerosol effects on East Asian winter monsoon: The role of black carbon‐induced Tibetan Plateau warming. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(11). 5883–5902. 49 indexed citations

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Kontkanen, Jenni, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Lauri Ahonen, et al.. (2016). A global view on atmospheric concentrations of sub-3 nm particles measured with the Particle Size Magnifier. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Xin, Aijun Ding, Lixia Liu, et al.. (2016). Effects of aerosol–radiation interaction on precipitation duringbiomass-burning season in East China. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(15). 10063–10082. 113 indexed citations

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