C. K. Shum

17.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
380 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

C. K. Shum is a scholar working on Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, C. K. Shum has authored 380 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Oceanography, 106 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in C. K. Shum's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (238 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (72 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (64 papers). C. K. Shum is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (238 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (72 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (64 papers). C. K. Shum collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. C. K. Shum's co-authors include B. D. Tapley, Shin‐Chan Han, Chung‐Yen Kuo, Hyongki Lee, Christopher Jekeli, Yuchan Yi, R. J. Eanes, Guoqing Zhang, Kun Yang and Tandong Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

C. K. Shum

364 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

2020 407 citations C. K. Shum et al. profile →
Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

2017 371 citations C. K. Shum, Wei Feng et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes

2018 339 citations C. K. Shum et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. K. Shum United States	51	5.7k	3.1k	2.6k	2.2k	1.7k	380	10.4k
Anny Cazenave France	56	6.3k 1.1×	4.3k 1.4×	3.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	196	11.3k
Jianli Chen United States	51	6.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	189	8.7k
Sean Swenson United States	48	8.0k 1.4×	6.3k 2.1×	4.4k 1.7×	2.6k 1.2×	2.8k 1.6×	86	15.8k
Andreas Güntner Germany	48	2.5k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	921 0.4×	897 0.5×	157	5.7k
D. P. Chambers United States	44	6.0k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	127	7.3k
B. D. Tapley United States	59	11.4k 2.0×	3.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	5.1k 2.4×	4.8k 2.8×	279	15.1k
Clark R. Wilson United States	39	4.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	968 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	131	5.8k
Ole Andersen Denmark	43	4.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	852 0.4×	482 0.3×	277	6.6k
John Wahr United States	67	13.7k 2.4×	3.4k 1.1×	6.0k 2.3×	4.6k 2.1×	5.0k 2.9×	205	19.6k
M. M. Watkins United States	29	7.8k 1.4×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	5.1k 2.4×	5.3k 3.1×	94	11.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. K. Shum

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mark, Bryan G., et al.. (2025). Localized environmental variability within the Hindukush-Himalayan region of Pakistan. Environmental Earth Sciences. 84(4).

Akyılmaz, Orhan, et al.. (2024). High-resolution temporal gravity field data products: Monthly mass grids and spherical harmonics from 1994 to 2021. Scientific Data. 11(1). 71–71. 5 indexed citations

Montillet, Jean‐Philippe, Gaël Kermarrec, Ehsan Forootan, et al.. (2024). How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 12(2). 67–89. 14 indexed citations

Shum, C. K., Ehsan Forootan, Wei Feng, et al.. (2022). Understanding Water Level Changes in the Great Lakes by an ICA-Based Merging of Multi-Mission Altimetry Measurements. Remote Sensing. 14(20). 5194–5194. 2 indexed citations

Pan, Yuanjin, et al.. (2022). Spatially heterogeneous nonlinear signal in Antarctic ice-sheet mass loss revealed by GRACE and GPS. Geophysical Journal International. 233(2). 826–838. 8 indexed citations

Shin, Young Hong, C. K. Shum, Carla Braitenberg, et al.. (2022). Decoupled Lithospheric Folding, Lower Crustal Flow Channels, and the Growth of Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(13). 7 indexed citations

Pan, Yuanjin, et al.. (2022). Intradecadal Fluctuations and Three‐Dimensional Crustal Kinematic Deformation of the Tianshan and Pamir Derived From Multi‐Geodetic Imaging. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(1). 10 indexed citations

Pan, Yuanjin, Hao Ding, Jiangtao Li, et al.. (2022). Transient hydrology-induced elastic deformation and land subsidence in Australia constrained by contemporary geodetic measurements. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 588. 117556–117556. 18 indexed citations

Bao, Lifeng, et al.. (2021). Altimeter-derived marine gravity variations reveal the magma mass motions within the subaqueous Nishinoshima volcano, Izu–Bonin Arc, Japan. Journal of Geodesy. 95(5). 4 indexed citations

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Jin, Taoyong, et al.. (2020). The Balance and Abnormal Increase of Global Ocean Mass Change From Land Using GRACE. Earth and Space Science. 7(5). 5 indexed citations

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Encarnação, J., Pieter Visser, Daniel Arnold, et al.. (2020). Description of the multi-approach gravity field models from Swarm GPS data. Earth system science data. 12(2). 1385–1417. 42 indexed citations

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Forootan, Ehsan, Mehdi Khaki, Maike Schumacher, et al.. (2018). Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003–2016 and their relationships with teleconnections. The Science of The Total Environment. 650(Pt 2). 2587–2604. 170 indexed citations

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Kuo, Chung‐Yen, et al.. (2017). Impact of Geophysical and Datum Corrections on Absolute Sea-Level Trends from Tide Gauges around Taiwan, 1993–2015. Water. 9(7). 480–480. 12 indexed citations

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Su, Xiaoli, C. K. Shum, Junyi Guo, et al.. (2017). High-Resolution Interannual Mass Anomalies of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by Combining GRACE Gravimetry and ENVISAT Altimetry. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(1). 539–546. 8 indexed citations

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Forootan, Ehsan, Jürgen Kusche, Matthieu Talpe, C. K. Shum, & Michael Schmidt. (2017). Developing a Complex Independent Component Analysis (CICA) Technique to Extract Non-stationary Patterns from Geophysical Time Series. Surveys in Geophysics. 39(3). 435–465. 16 indexed citations

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Tseng, Kuo‐Hsin, Chung-Pai Chang, C. K. Shum, et al.. (2016). Quantifying Freshwater Mass Balance in the Central Tibetan Plateau by Integrating Satellite Remote Sensing, Altimetry, and Gravimetry. Remote Sensing. 8(6). 441–441. 12 indexed citations

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Cazenave, Anny, D. P. Chambers, Paolo Cipollini, et al.. (2010). The challenge for measuring sea level rise and regional and global trends. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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Shum, C. K., et al.. (2009). Quantifying Geophysical Causes of Present-Day Sea Level Rise. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009.

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Ballu, Valérie, et al.. (2004). Absolute local sea surface in the Vanuatu Archipelago from GPS, satellite altimetry and pressure gauge data. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Christensen, E. J., Bruce Haines, S. J. Keihm, et al.. (1994). Calibration of TOPEX/POSEIDON at Platform Harvest. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 99(C12). 24465–24485. 93 indexed citations

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