Hai Cheng

79.0k total citations · 26 hit papers
729 papers, 47.4k citations indexed

About

Hai Cheng is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hai Cheng has authored 729 papers receiving a total of 47.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 631 papers in Atmospheric Science, 293 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 179 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Hai Cheng's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (616 papers), Geological formations and processes (181 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (179 papers). Hai Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (616 papers), Geological formations and processes (181 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (179 papers). Hai Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Hai Cheng's co-authors include R. Lawrence Edwards, Zhisheng An, Yongjin Wang, Xianfeng Wang, Xinggong Kong, Chuan‐Chou Shen, R. Lawrence Edwards, Yanjun Cai, Ashish Sinha and Megan J. Kelly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hai Cheng

688 papers receiving 46.1k citations

Hit Papers

A High-Resolution Absolut... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2001 2005 2005 2008 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China
    2001 2.6k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  2. The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate
    2005 2.1k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. Science profile →
  3. A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China
    2005 1.6k citations Rodney K. Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  4. Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years
    2008 1.6k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  5. 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 →
  6. Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
    2013 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  7. The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230
    2000 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  8. Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon
    2004 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  9. A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record
    2008 862 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  10. Ice Age Terminations
    2009 743 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
  11. El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium
    2003 725 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  12. Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies
    2004 648 citations R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  13. Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon
    2013 502 citations Hai Cheng, Yongjin Wang et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
  14. Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity
    2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  15. Global Monsoon Dynamics and Climate Change
    2014 435 citations Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  16. The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation
    2010 387 citations Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  17. Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles
    2014 370 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  18. The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues
    2017 368 citations Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  19. Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey
    2009 362 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  20. Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period): two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) and three new stages/subseries
    2018 281 citations Hai Cheng et al. profile →
  21. The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
    2015 277 citations Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  22. Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y
    2015 276 citations Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  23. Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales
    2016 263 citations Hai Cheng, Christoph Spötl et al. profile →
  24. East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I
    2018 253 citations Hongbin Zhang, Michael L. Griffiths et al. Science profile →
  25. Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during 33,800 to 5500 years B.P.
    2015 242 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
  26. Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France
    2016 150 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Hai Cheng 39.5k 14.4k 12.0k 10.1k 9.8k 729 47.4k
Zhisheng An 40.4k 1.0× 14.4k 1.0× 8.4k 0.7× 7.8k 0.8× 7.6k 0.8× 509 48.1k
R. Lawrence Edwards 30.7k 0.8× 11.2k 0.8× 9.8k 0.8× 7.7k 0.8× 7.3k 0.8× 480 38.1k
S. J. Johnsen 28.8k 0.7× 5.5k 0.4× 7.6k 0.6× 5.0k 0.5× 7.0k 0.7× 191 31.6k
Wallace S. Broecker 28.2k 0.7× 6.2k 0.4× 11.5k 1.0× 6.0k 0.6× 3.4k 0.4× 379 41.9k
Nicholas J Shackleton 27.2k 0.7× 7.2k 0.5× 10.7k 0.9× 7.1k 0.7× 4.7k 0.5× 156 30.5k
Andrew Murray 26.4k 0.7× 9.6k 0.7× 4.7k 0.4× 7.7k 0.8× 6.7k 0.7× 542 33.7k
Édouard Bard 20.7k 0.5× 6.0k 0.4× 7.5k 0.6× 5.3k 0.5× 3.6k 0.4× 275 24.6k
Minze Stuiver 21.9k 0.6× 5.4k 0.4× 9.3k 0.8× 9.1k 0.9× 4.9k 0.5× 134 30.7k
Fahu Chen 21.4k 0.5× 6.6k 0.5× 5.0k 0.4× 5.9k 0.6× 5.0k 0.5× 586 27.9k
David A Hodell 16.9k 0.4× 4.2k 0.3× 6.8k 0.6× 7.0k 0.7× 2.6k 0.3× 292 21.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zheng, Yanhong, Mei He, Youfeng Ning, et al.. (2025). Dipolar hydroclimate pattern changes in southwest China during the last deglaciation. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Jia, Yan Yang, Hai Cheng, et al.. (2025). Hydroclimate variability in southwest China during Marine Isotope Stage 9: Insights from multi–proxy stalagmite records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 355. 109268–109268.
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Wu, Yao, Chao‐Jun Chen, Huai Su, et al.. (2025). Stalagmite multi-proxy records reveal spatial complexity of precipitation and monsoon variability in China over past 60 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. 353. 109240–109240. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Bin, Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, et al.. (2025). Chinese speleothem evidence of the early-mid Holocene transition and the instability of Asian summer monsoon. Global and Planetary Change. 254. 105010–105010. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Qiang, Yifan Wu, Xiangyu Duan, et al.. (2025). A half-century drying in Gobi Oasis, possible role of ENSO and warming/moistening of Northwest China. Global and Planetary Change. 248. 104769–104769.
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Li, Qiang, Yu Liu, Lu Wang, et al.. (2024). A regime shift between soil moisture and temperature in the 1950s over the permafrost region of Northeast China. Land Degradation and Development. 35(5). 1863–1873. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Hai, Xing Cheng, Mei He, et al.. (2024). An integrated study of constraining the initial 230Th of a stalagmite and its implications. Quaternary Geochronology. 80. 101497–101497. 4 indexed citations
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He, Mei, Yanjun Cai, Yanbin Lü, et al.. (2024). Calcite recrystallization and its impact on speleothem geochemistry. Sedimentary Geology. 470. 106725–106725. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Jing, et al.. (2024). Early-Middle Holocene climate change and its impact on the succession of Neolithic cultures in southern Hangzhou Bay. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 659. 112652–112652.
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Demuro, Martina, José E. Ortíz, Mathieu Duval, et al.. (2024). Constraining the age of the Pleistocene sedimentary infill of Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, N Spain) through a multi-technique dating approach. Quaternary Geochronology. 83. 101576–101576. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hongbin, Michael L. Griffiths, Chengfei He, et al.. (2024). A high-resolution multiproxy speleothem record of Eastern China hydroclimate variation during last glacial maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews. 350. 109152–109152. 2 indexed citations
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Stoll, Heather, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Jakub Śliwiński, et al.. (2023). Distinguishing the combined vegetation and soil component of δ 13 C variation in speleothem records from subsequent degassing and prior calcite precipitation effects. Climate of the past. 19(12). 2423–2444. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jingyao, Yan Yang, Kexin Wang, et al.. (2023). Different responses of precipitation patterns to the East Asian summer monsoon weakening: The 7.2 and 8.2 ka events. Quaternary Science Reviews. 319. 108329–108329. 12 indexed citations
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Duan, Rong, Ting‐Yong Li, Jun‐Yun Li, et al.. (2023). Karst-ecological changes during the middle and late Holocene in Southwest China revealed by δ18O and δ13C records in a stalagmite. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 615. 111437–111437. 7 indexed citations
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Liang, Yijia, Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Asian monsoon intensity coupled to Antarctic climate during Dansgaard–Oeschger 8 and Heinrich 4 glacial intervals. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 7 indexed citations
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Koltai, Gabriella, Hai Cheng, & Christoph Spötl. (2018). Palaeoclimate significance of speleothems in crystalline rocks: a test case from the Late Glacial and early Holocene (Vinschgau, northern Italy). Climate of the past. 14(3). 369–381. 7 indexed citations
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Aranburu, Arantza, Juan Luís Arsuaga, Maria Blanca Ruíz Zapata, et al.. (2013). Upper Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental records in Cueva Mayor karst (Atapuerca, Spain) from different proxies: speleothem crystal fabrics, palynology, and archaeology. International Journal of Speleology. 43(1). 1–14. 34 indexed citations
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Toth, Lauren T., Richard B. Aronson, Steven V. Vollmer, et al.. (2012). ENSO Drove 2500-Year Collapse of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs. Science. 337(6090). 81–84. 120 indexed citations

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