Ashish Sinha

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Ashish Sinha is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashish Sinha has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Atmospheric Science, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Ashish Sinha's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (18 papers). Ashish Sinha is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (18 papers). Ashish Sinha collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Ashish Sinha's co-authors include Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Lowell Stott, Gayatri Kathayat, Youfeng Ning, Xianfeng Wang, Haiwei Zhang, Xianglei Li, Liang Yi and Max Berkelhammer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ashish Sinha

71 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

2016 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al. profile →
Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

2016 263 citations Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ashish Sinha	5.1k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	74	5.7k
Francisco W. Cruz	4.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	102	5.8k
Megan J. Kelly	5.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	661 0.6×	13	5.9k
Liang Yi	4.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	845 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	790 0.7×	109	4.7k
Yan Zhao	6.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	1.8k 1.6×	141	7.8k
Youfeng Ning	3.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	985 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	559 0.5×	75	4.3k
Karin Holmgren	5.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	73	6.3k
C. A. Dykoski	4.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	525 0.5×	7	4.9k
Blas L. Valero‐Garcés	6.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.8×	1.7k 1.4×	745 0.7×	240	8.6k
Russell N. Drysdale	5.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	493 0.4×	196	6.6k
Gilles Ramstein	4.3k 0.9×	816 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	748 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	119	5.7k

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Li, Yanzhen, Chunju Huang, David B. Kemp, et al.. (2025). Indian summer monsoon variability across the last 9000 years: New evidence from stalagmites of southwestern China. Global and Planetary Change. 255. 105092–105092.

Xiang, Mi, Ashish Sinha, Dianbing Liu, et al.. (2025). Solar activity and air-sea interactions in the North Atlantic drive multidecadal to centennial-scale hydroclimate variability in arid Central Asia during the Mid-Late Holocene. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 680. 113327–113327.

Zhang, Qiong, et al.. (2024). Seasonal to decadal variations of precipitation oxygen isotopes in northern China linked to the moisture source. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 21 indexed citations

Wang, Tianli, Chuan‐Chou Shen, Sakonvan Chawchai, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenically-induced atmospheric Pb cycle in low-latitude Asia since the Industrial Revolution recorded by high-resolution stalagmites. Global and Planetary Change. 232. 104337–104337. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Jingyao, Hai Cheng, Jie Cao, et al.. (2023). Orchestrated decline of Asian summer monsoon and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in global warming period. 1(1). 1–9. 23 indexed citations

Tan, Liangcheng, et al.. (2023). Karst carbon sink processes and effects: A review. Quaternary International. 652. 63–73. 17 indexed citations

Shah, Santosh K., Max Berkelhammer, Qiang Li, et al.. (2022). Regional tree-ring oxygen isotope deduced summer monsoon drought variability for Kumaun-Gharwal Himalaya. Quaternary Science Reviews. 301. 107927–107927. 6 indexed citations

Chhetri, Parveen K., et al.. (2021). Climate-Driven Differences in Growth Performance of Cohabitant Fir and Birch in a Subalpine Forest in Dhorpatan Nepal. Forests. 12(9). 1137–1137. 11 indexed citations

Kathayat, Gayatri, Ashish Sinha, Masahiro Tanoue, et al.. (2021). Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haiwei, Hai Cheng, Yanjun Cai, et al.. (2020). Effect of precipitation seasonality on annual oxygen isotopic composition in the area of spring persistent rain in southeastern China and its paleoclimatic implication. Climate of the past. 16(1). 211–225. 33 indexed citations

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Sinha, Ashish, Gayatri Kathayat, Harvey Weiss, et al.. (2019). Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax6656–eaax6656. 79 indexed citations

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Kathayat, Gayatri, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, et al.. (2018). Timing and Structure of the 4.2 ka BP Event in the Indian Summer Monsoon Domain from an Annually-Resolved Speleothem Record from Northeast India. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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Kathayat, Gayatri, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the timing and structure of the 4.2 ka event in the Indian summer monsoon domain from an annually resolved speleothem record from Northeast India. Climate of the past. 14(12). 1869–1879. 80 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haiwei, Hai Cheng, Yanjun Cai, et al.. (2018). Hydroclimatic variations in southeastern China during the 4.2 ka event reflected by stalagmite records. Climate of the past. 14(11). 1805–1817. 66 indexed citations

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Li, Hanying, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, et al.. (2018). Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago. Climate of the past. 14(12). 1881–1891. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Hanying, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, et al.. (2018). Speleothem Evidence for Megadroughts in the SW Indian Ocean during the Late Holocene. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, Ashish Sinha, Manfred Mudelsee, et al.. (2014). On the low-frequency component of the ENSO–Indian monsoon relationship: a paired proxy perspective. Climate of the past. 10(2). 733–744. 17 indexed citations

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Mazumdar, Asis, et al.. (2012). Sexual Dimorphism and Regional Difference in Size of Sacrum: A Study in Eastern India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Johnson, Kathleen R., et al.. (2011). A Multi-proxy Reconstruction of Hydrologic Variability over the Last Millennium from a Sierra Nevada Mountain Stalagmite. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Sinha, Ashish, et al.. (2005). Possible Solar Forcing of Late Holocene Indian Monsoon Rainfall. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 2 indexed citations

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