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

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.

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 →
The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate

2005 2.1k citations Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng et al. Science profile →
A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China

2005 1.6k citations Hai Cheng, Yanjun Cai et al. profile →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230

2000 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

2004 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
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 →
Ice Age Terminations

2009 743 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. Science profile →
El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium

2003 725 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
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 →
Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

2013 502 citations Hai Cheng, Yongjin Wang et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

2013 452 citations Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al. profile →
Global Monsoon Dynamics and Climate Change

2014 435 citations Zhisheng An, Yanjun Cai et al. profile →
The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

2010 387 citations Yanjun Cai, Liangcheng Tan et al. profile →
Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles

2014 370 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

2017 368 citations Hai Cheng et al. profile →
Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey

2009 362 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
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 →
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

2015 277 citations Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

2015 276 citations Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

2016 263 citations Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng et al. profile →
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 →
Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during 33,800 to 5500 years B.P.

2015 242 citations Anil K. Gupta, Steven C. Clemens et al. profile →
Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France

2016 150 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Stalagmite multi-proxy records reveal spatial complexity of precipitation and monsoon variability in China over past 60 years 2025 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·(unknown), Yao Wu, Chao‐Jun Chen, (unknown), Huai Su, Hanying Li, Hai Cheng, (unknown), Jun‐Yun Li, Youfeng Ning, Ting‐Yong Li	3
2	Chinese speleothem evidence of the early-mid Holocene transition and the instability of Asian summer monsoon 2025 ·Global and Planetary Change ·Bin Zhao, Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, (unknown), Quan Wang, (unknown), Qingfeng Shao, Hai Cheng, Yijia Liang	1
3	A half-century drying in Gobi Oasis, possible role of ENSO and warming/moistening of Northwest China 2025 ·Global and Planetary Change ·Qiang Li, Yifan Wu, Xiangyu Duan, Yu Liu, Changfeng Sun, (unknown), Qiufang Cai, Meng Ren, Jiachuan Wang, (unknown), Hai Cheng	0
4	Rhythmic Indian Summer Monsoon variability inferred from stalagmite δ18O and δ13C record during Middle to Late Holocene transition 2025 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·A.C. Narayana, Pradeep Kumar Gautam, Pankaj Kumar, M. G. Yadava, (unknown), Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng, (unknown), R. A. Jani	1
5	An integrated study of constraining the initial 230Th of a stalagmite and its implications 2024 ·Quaternary Geochronology ·(unknown), (unknown), Hai Cheng, (unknown), Xing Cheng, Mei He, (unknown), Le Ma, (unknown), Yanbin Lü, Ling Yang, R. Lawrence Edwards	4
6	Calcite recrystallization and its impact on speleothem geochemistry 2024 ·Sedimentary Geology ·Mei He, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), (unknown), Yanbin Lü, Xing Cheng, (unknown), Guozhen Wang, (unknown), Ting Wang, Le Ma, (unknown), Yu‐Ting Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Hanying Li, Hong Chang, Hong Yan, Hai Cheng	1
7	Early-Middle Holocene climate change and its impact on the succession of Neolithic cultures in southern Hangzhou Bay 2024 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Jing Lu, Haiwei Zhang, Rui Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng	0
8	Constraining the age of the Pleistocene sedimentary infill of Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, N Spain) through a multi-technique dating approach 2024 ·Quaternary Geochronology ·(unknown), Martina Demuro, José E. Ortíz, (unknown), (unknown), Mathieu Duval, Hai Cheng, Trinidad Torres, (unknown), Christophe Falguères, Olivier Tombret, N. Garcı́a, Arantza Aranburu, Asier Gómez‐Olivencia, Juan Luís Arsuaga	1
9	A high-resolution multiproxy speleothem record of Eastern China hydroclimate variation during last glacial maximum 2024 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·(unknown), Hongbin Zhang, Michael L. Griffiths, Chengfei He, (unknown), Junhua Huang, Hai Cheng, Wei Guo, Shitou Wu, (unknown), Youfeng Ning, Lin Chen, Canfa Wang, Zongmin Zhu, Shucheng Xie	2
10	Mercury deposition in central China from the Last Glacial Maximum to the early Holocene recorded in an accurately-dated stalagmite 2024 ·Science Bulletin ·Yanzhen Li, Liangcheng Tan, (unknown), Hai Xu, (unknown), David B. Kemp, (unknown), Le Ma, Chunju Huang, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng	0
11	Coupled Ocean-atmospheric forcing on Indian Summer Monsoon variability during the middle Holocene: Insights from the Core Monsoon Zone speleothem record 2024 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·(unknown), Anil K. Gupta, Steven C. Clemens, Hai Cheng, (unknown)	8
12	Research progress on the authenticity of duck blood 2024 ·Microchemical Journal ·Jie Fang, Jiali Xing, Xiaorong Xu, (unknown), Hongliang Zhu, Yingying Wu, Hai Cheng, Cancan Chen, Liyu Shi, Zhenfeng Yang	0
13	Multicentennial-scale coupling of the East Asian monsoon to North Atlantic climates during the Last Glacial Maximum 2024 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·(unknown), Yijia Liang, Kan Zhao, Yongjin Wang, (unknown), Quan Wang, (unknown), Jianshun Chen, Hai Cheng, (unknown)	1
14	Karst-ecological changes during the middle and late Holocene in Southwest China revealed by δ18O and δ13C records in a stalagmite 2023 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Rong Duan, Ting‐Yong Li, Jun‐Yun Li, Christoph Spötl, Hong‐Chun Li, Haibo Wang, Hai Cheng, Youfeng Ning, Chuan‐Chou Shen, (unknown), Chao‐Jun Chen, Tsai‐Luen Yu, R. Lawrence Edwards, Ziqi Liu	7
15	Record of the last interglacial sea level highstand based on new coastal deposits in the Cantabrian margin (Northern Iberian Peninsula) 2023 ·Continental Shelf Research ·(unknown), Arantza Aranburu, (unknown), (unknown), Hai Cheng, Martín Arriolabengoa, Eneko Iriarte	0
16	Anthropogenically-induced atmospheric Pb cycle in low-latitude Asia since the Industrial Revolution recorded by high-resolution stalagmites 2023 ·Global and Planetary Change ·Tianli Wang, (unknown), Chuan‐Chou Shen, Sakonvan Chawchai, Adi Torfstein, Ashish Sinha, Hai Xu, Tsai‐Luen Yu, (unknown), Xiqian Wang, (unknown), Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Zhisheng An, Liangcheng Tan	6
17	Simultaneous Rapid Determination of Seven Alternaria Toxins in Tuberous Crops during Storage Using QuEChERS Coupled with Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry 2023 ·Foods ·Jiali Xing, Xi Wu, Xiaorong Xu, Hai Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yu Liu	3
18	Distinguishing the combined vegetation and soil component of δ ¹³ C variation in speleothem records from subsequent degassing and prior calcite precipitation effects 2023 ·Climate of the past ·Heather Stoll, (unknown), Franziska A. Lechleitner, (unknown), (unknown), Jakub Śliwiński, Carlos Pérez‐Mejías, Hai Cheng, Denis Scholz	9
19	Asian monsoon intensity coupled to Antarctic climate during Dansgaard–Oeschger 8 and Heinrich 4 glacial intervals 2022 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Yijia Liang, (unknown), Yongjin Wang, Kan Zhao, Shaohua Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	7
20	ENSO Drove 2500-Year Collapse of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs 2012 ·Science ·Lauren T. Toth, Richard B. Aronson, Steven V. Vollmer, (unknown), Dunia H. Urrego, Hai Cheng, Ian C. Enochs, David J. Combosch, Robert van Woesik, Ian G. Macintyre	120

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