Bo Qiu

19.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
236 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Bo Qiu is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Qiu has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Oceanography, 157 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 120 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Bo Qiu's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (206 papers), Climate variability and models (150 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (62 papers). Bo Qiu is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (206 papers), Climate variability and models (150 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (62 papers). Bo Qiu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Bo Qiu's co-authors include Shuiming Chen, Patrice Klein, Zhengguang Zhang, Niklas Schneider, Rui Xin Huang, Lee‐Lueng Fu, Roger Lukas, Hideharu Sasaki, Kathryn A. Kelly and Terrence M. Joyce and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Bo Qiu

231 papers receiving 14.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

2012 585 citations Lixin Wu, Bo Qiu et al. profile →
Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

2015 520 citations Lixin Wu, Bo Qiu et al. profile →
Oceanic mass transport by mesoscale eddies

2014 461 citations Zhengguang Zhang, Bo Qiu et al. profile →
Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

2019 303 citations Lee‐Lueng Fu, Guillaume Lapeyre et al. profile →
Tracking the seasonal and inter-annual variations of global gross primary production during last four decades using satellite near-infrared reflectance data

2020 224 citations Yongguang Zhang, Bo Qiu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bo Qiu United States	64	12.7k	9.6k	6.9k	1.0k	486	236	14.7k
Gregory C. Johnson United States	56	8.9k 0.7×	6.0k 0.6×	5.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	238 0.5×	163	11.6k
Robert H. Weisberg United States	55	7.5k 0.6×	4.4k 0.5×	4.2k 0.6×	956 0.9×	60 0.1×	238	9.6k
Gurvan Madec France	69	12.3k 1.0×	10.1k 1.1×	9.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	359 0.7×	211	15.9k
Amy Clement United States	45	4.0k 0.3×	7.2k 0.8×	8.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	201 0.4×	126	10.5k
E. Maier‐Reimer Germany	56	5.8k 0.5×	4.6k 0.5×	5.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	107 0.2×	129	9.9k
Richard E. Thomson Canada	45	4.8k 0.4×	2.8k 0.3×	2.8k 0.4×	2.0k 2.0×	244 0.5×	233	8.8k
Tetsuzo Yasunari Japan	51	2.9k 0.2×	9.3k 1.0×	8.7k 1.2×	639 0.6×	105 0.2×	163	11.1k
James R. Ledwell United States	32	5.0k 0.4×	2.6k 0.3×	2.6k 0.4×	497 0.5×	72 0.1×	58	5.9k
David W. J. Thompson United States	50	4.5k 0.4×	15.4k 1.6×	15.5k 2.2×	785 0.8×	52 0.1×	128	17.8k
Dongxiao Wang China	51	6.8k 0.5×	4.4k 0.5×	3.9k 0.6×	625 0.6×	853 1.8×	396	8.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Qiu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xueyin, Bolan Gan, Zhengguang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Oceanic uptake of CO ₂ enhanced by mesoscale eddies. Science Advances. 11(24). eadt4195–eadt4195. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Shaoqing Zhang, Xiaopei Lin, Bo Qiu, & Yang Gao. (2025). Transformations between Normal and Abnormal Mesoscale Eddies in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 55(3). 257–275.

Lei, Xiaoxuan, Judun Zheng, Liwen Liang, et al.. (2024). The cyclization of human salivary Histatin 1 via click chemistry for skin wound healing. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 204. 106978–106978. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhiwei, Bo Qiu, Jiwei Tian, et al.. (2024). Submesoscale Eddies Detected by SWOT and Moored Observations in the Northwestern Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(15). 22 indexed citations

Cao, Haijin, Mara Freilich, Xiangzhou Song, et al.. (2024). Isopycnal Submesoscale Stirring Crucially Sustaining Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum in Ocean Cyclonic Eddies. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 7 indexed citations

Qiu, Bo, et al.. (2023). Doubling of surface oceanic meridional heat transport by non-symmetry of mesoscale eddies. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5460–5460. 18 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhongxiang & Bo Qiu. (2023). Seasonal West‐East Seesaw of M₂ Internal Tides From the Luzon Strait. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(3). 12 indexed citations

Qiu, Bo, Shuiming Chen, & Eitarou Oka. (2023). Why Did the 2017 Kuroshio Large Meander Event Become the Longest in the Past 70 Years?. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(10). 32 indexed citations

Torres, Héctor, Patrice Klein, Jinbo Wang, et al.. (2022). Wind work at the air-sea interface: a modeling study in anticipation of future space missions. Geoscientific model development. 15(21). 8041–8058. 13 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, Toshiya Nakano, Shuiming Chen, & Patrice Klein. (2022). Bi‐Directional Energy Cascades in the Pacific Ocean From Equator to Subarctic Gyre. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(8). 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Xue, Shaoqing Zhang, Xiaopei Lin, Bo Qiu, & Lisan Yu. (2021). Characteristics of 3‐Dimensional Structure and Heat Budget of Mesoscale Eddies in the South Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(5). 8 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, et al.. (2021). Period‐Lengthening of the Mindanao Current Variability From the Long‐Term Tide Gauge Sea Level Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(8). 4 indexed citations

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Jing, Zhao, Shengpeng Wang, Lixin Wu, et al.. (2020). Maintenance of mid-latitude oceanic fronts by mesoscale eddies. Science Advances. 6(31). eaba7880–eaba7880. 56 indexed citations

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Torres, Héctor, Patrice Klein, Lia Siegelman, et al.. (2019). Diagnosing Ocean‐Wave‐Turbulence Interactions From Space. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(15). 8933–8942. 14 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, et al.. (2019). Retrieval of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and advancements in carbon cycle application. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 23(1). 37–52. 25 indexed citations

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Klein, Patrice, Guillaume Lapeyre, Lia Siegelman, et al.. (2019). Ocean‐Scale Interactions From Space. Earth and Space Science. 6(5). 795–817. 110 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xuhua, Julian P. McCreary, Bo Qiu, Yiquan Qi, & Yan Du. (2017). Intraseasonal‐to‐semiannual variability of sea‐surface height in the astern, equatorialIndianOcean and southernBay ofBengal. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(5). 4051–4067. 46 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, Shuiming Chen, & Niklas Schneider. (2016). Inter-decadal modulations in the dynamic state of the Kuroshio Extension system: 1905-2016. Japan Geoscience Union. 5 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, Shuiming Chen, Patrice Klein, Hideharu Sasaki, & Yoshikazu Sasai. (2014). Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability Along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Qiu, Bo, Shuiming Chen, Lixin Wu, & S. Kida. (2014). Wind- versus Eddy-Forced Regional Sea Level Trends and Variability in the North Pacific Ocean. Journal of Climate. 28(4). 1561–1577. 56 indexed citations

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