Fei‐Fei Jin

35.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
307 papers, 26.6k citations indexed

About

Fei‐Fei Jin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Fei‐Fei Jin has authored 307 papers receiving a total of 26.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 278 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 232 papers in Atmospheric Science and 204 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Fei‐Fei Jin's work include Climate variability and models (276 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (180 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (122 papers). Fei‐Fei Jin is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (276 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (180 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (122 papers). Fei‐Fei Jin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Fei‐Fei Jin's co-authors include Soon‐Il An, Jong‐Seong Kug, Axel Timmermann, J. David Neelin, Hong‐Li Ren, Malte F. Stuecker, Jianping Li, Wenjun Zhang, Wenju Cai and Éric Guilyardi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fei‐Fei Jin

293 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

Increasing frequency of extreme El ... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2014 1997 2009 2008 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming
    2014 1.6k citations Axel Timmermann, Michael J. McPhaden et al. profile →
  2. An Equatorial Ocean Recharge Paradigm for ENSO. Part I: Conceptual Model
    1997 1.3k citations Fei‐Fei Jin profile →
  3. El Niño in a changing climate
    2009 1.3k citations Jong‐Seong Kug, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  4. Two Types of El Niño Events: Cold Tongue El Niño and Warm Pool El Niño
    2008 1.2k citations Jong‐Seong Kug, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  5. The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño
    2010 975 citations Soon‐Il An, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  6. Understanding ENSO Diversity
    2014 808 citations Andrew T. Wittenberg, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  7. ENSO theory
    1998 758 citations Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  8. Thermal Controls on the Asian Summer Monsoon
    2012 698 citations Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  9. ENSO and greenhouse warming
    2015 645 citations Soon‐Il An, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  10. Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming
    2014 498 citations Axel Timmermann, Malte F. Stuecker et al. profile →
  11. Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming
    2015 494 citations Michael J. McPhaden, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  12. An empirical seasonal prediction model of the east Asian summer monsoon using ENSO and NAO
    2009 464 citations Jianping Li, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →
  13. Sea surface temperature in the north tropical Atlantic as a trigger for El Niño/Southern Oscillation events
    2013 461 citations Jong‐Seong Kug, Fei‐Fei Jin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fei‐Fei Jin United States 75 23.5k 19.2k 15.3k 1.3k 590 307 26.6k
Mojib Latif Germany 79 19.7k 0.8× 16.6k 0.9× 11.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 687 1.2× 311 23.5k
Clara Deser United States 88 24.7k 1.1× 21.8k 1.1× 11.2k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 776 1.3× 225 28.7k
Michael J. McPhaden United States 90 25.3k 1.1× 17.5k 0.9× 23.3k 1.5× 2.8k 2.2× 574 1.0× 420 32.2k
Nick A Rayner United Kingdom 33 17.7k 0.8× 15.2k 0.8× 9.4k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 363 0.6× 58 20.5k
Shang‐Ping Xie United States 107 35.6k 1.5× 29.6k 1.5× 25.3k 1.7× 1.8k 1.4× 468 0.8× 498 41.2k
Toshio Yamagata Japan 87 24.8k 1.1× 18.4k 1.0× 19.1k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 1.7× 291 30.5k
Wenju Cai Australia 72 16.3k 0.7× 12.1k 0.6× 9.5k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 819 1.4× 318 21.0k
Thomas L. Delworth United States 73 18.1k 0.8× 15.2k 0.8× 7.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 805 1.4× 207 21.9k
Matthew H. England Australia 71 12.5k 0.5× 11.7k 0.6× 8.9k 0.6× 2.1k 1.6× 490 0.8× 288 18.3k
Brian J. Soden United States 57 17.5k 0.7× 15.8k 0.8× 5.0k 0.3× 717 0.5× 507 0.9× 157 19.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fei‐Fei Jin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Wenjun, Guosen Chen, Pang‐Chi Hsu, et al.. (2025). Tripling of MJO residence time over the rapidly warming Indian Ocean during summer monsoon. Science Bulletin. 70(7). 1174–1181. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, I.‐I., Hui Wu, Yezhi Lin, et al.. (2025). Widespread sea surface salinification induced by tropical cyclones over the Changjiang River Plume. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Chen, Zhiwei, Fei‐Fei Jin, Tao Wu, et al.. (2024). Polypyrrole-encapsulated TiSe2 with excellent electrochemical performance for potassium-ion storage. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1006. 176287–176287. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Siyu, Rong Fu, Hui Wang, & Fei‐Fei Jin. (2023). The Influence of Southeastern South American Rainfall on Weather Patterns Over the Tropical Atlantic, Northwestern Africa and Western Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(20). 1 indexed citations
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Jiang, Feng, Wenjun Zhang, Fei‐Fei Jin, et al.. (2023). Resolving the Tropical Pacific/Atlantic Interaction Conundrum. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(13). 22 indexed citations
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Almar, Rafaël, Julien Boucharel, Grégoire Abessolo Ondoa, et al.. (2023). Influence of El Niño on the variability of global shoreline position. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3133–3133. 40 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenjun, et al.. (2023). Seasonal-varying characteristics of tropical Pacific westerly wind bursts during El Niño due to annual cycle modulation. Climate Dynamics. 62(1). 299–314. 3 indexed citations
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Yao, Shuai‐Lei, Wen Zhou, Fei‐Fei Jin, & Fei Zheng. (2021). North Atlantic as a Trigger for Pacific‐Wide Decadal Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 21 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Masahiro, et al.. (2021). Mode of Precipitation Variability Generated by Coupling of ENSO With Seasonal Cycle in the Tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(16). 5 indexed citations
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Boucharel, Julien, et al.. (2017). Air‐sea fluxes for Hurricane Patricia (2015): Comparison with supertyphoon Haiyan (2013) and under different ENSO conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(8). 6076–6089. 19 indexed citations
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Hayashi, Michiya & Fei‐Fei Jin. (2017). Subsurface Nonlinear Dynamical Heating and ENSO Asymmetry. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(24). 28 indexed citations
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Xie, Ruihuang, Fei‐Fei Jin, & Fei Huang. (2015). An Improved Atmospheric Component of Zebiak-Cane Model for Simulating ENSO Winds. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 93(5). 535–550. 3 indexed citations
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Mu, Jingli, et al.. (2015). Effects of CO 2 -driven ocean acidification on early life stages of marine medaka ( Oryzias melastigma ). Biogeosciences. 12(12). 3861–3868. 25 indexed citations
14.
Stein, Karl, Axel Timmermann, Niklas Schneider, Fei‐Fei Jin, & Malte F. Stuecker. (2014). ENSO Seasonal Synchronization Theory. Journal of Climate. 27(14). 5285–5310. 102 indexed citations
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Ren, Hong‐Li, Fei‐Fei Jin, Malte F. Stuecker, & Ruihuang Xie. (2013). ENSO Regime Change since the Late 1970s as Manifested by Two Types of ENSO. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 91(6). 835–842. 41 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenjun, Fei‐Fei Jin, Hong‐Li Ren, Jianping Li, & Jingxia Zhao. (2012). Differences in Teleconnection over the North Pacific and Rainfall Shift over the USA Associated with Two Types of El Niño during Boreal Autumn. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 90(4). 535–552. 50 indexed citations
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Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu, Masahide Kimoto, Masayoshi Ishii, et al.. (2012). Predictability of a Stepwise Shift in Pacific Climate during the Late 1990s in Hindcast Experiments Using MIROC. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 90A(0). 1–21. 28 indexed citations
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Kug, Jong‐Seong, Fei‐Fei Jin, Axel Timmermann, & In‐Sik Kang. (2007). Tropical Pacific Warming and Intensifying Interaction between El Nino and Intraseasonal Wind Activities. 한국기상학회 학술대회 논문집. 220–221. 1 indexed citations
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Kang, In-Sik, Soon‐Il An, & Fei‐Fei Jin. (2001). A Systematic Approximation of the SST Anomaly Equation for ENSO.. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 79(1). 1–10. 74 indexed citations
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An, Soon‐Il, Fei‐Fei Jin, & In-Sik Kang. (1999). The Role of Zonal Advection Feedback in Phase Transition and Growth of ENSO in the Cane-Zebiak Model. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 77(6). 1151–1160. 64 indexed citations

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