Hongru Yan

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Hongru Yan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongru Yan has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Atmospheric Science, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Hongru Yan's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (15 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Hongru Yan is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (15 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Hongru Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Hongru Yan's co-authors include Jianping Huang, Zhanqing Li, Tianhe Wang, Patrick Minnis, L. Ruby Leung, Jinqiang Zhang, Qian Chen, Daniel Rosenfeld, Jiwen Fan and J. Kirk Ayers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Hongru Yan

16 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate effects of dust aerosols over East Asian arid and semiarid regions

2014 491 citations Jianping Huang, Tianhe Wang et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers

Hongru Yan

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HTM

Stephanie Fiedler Germany

Guy Dagan Israel

Zijiang Zhou China

Pavel Kishcha Israel

Marc Mallet France

Narendra Nelli United Arab Emirates

Tom Goren Germany

M.A. Silva-Dias Brazil

Christina Hsu United States

T. L. Kubar United States

Stephanie Fiedler Germany

Hongru Yan

1.1k ×0.9

GPC

1.0k ×0.9

320 ×1.6

108 ×0.9

HTM

80 ×1.1

Citations per year, relative to Hongru Yan Hongru Yan (= 1×) peers Stephanie Fiedler

Countries citing papers authored by Hongru Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongru Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongru Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hongru Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hongru Yan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Hongru Yan. Hongru Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Fan, Jiwen, Yuwei Zhang, Zhanqing Li, et al.. (2025). Unveiling Aerosol Impacts on Deep Convective Clouds: Scientific Concept, Modeling, Observational Analysis, and Future Direction. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(15). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Min, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of reanalysis 3-D aerosol products against CALIPSO measurements over the Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric Research. 322. 108126–108126.

Yan, Hongru, et al.. (2025). How Have Emissions and Weather Patterns Contributed to Air Pollution in Lanzhou, China?. Atmosphere. 16(3). 314–314.

Wang, Tianhe, et al.. (2024). Can the aerosol pollution extreme events be revealed by global reanalysis products?. The Science of The Total Environment. 923. 171424–171424. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Yuzhi, Jianping Huang, Tianhe Wang, et al.. (2022). Aerosol-cloud interactions over the Tibetan Plateau: An overview. Earth-Science Reviews. 234. 104216–104216. 47 indexed citations

He, Yongli, Jianping Huang, Yu Ren, et al.. (2021). The Mechanism of Increasing Summer Water Vapor Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(10). 42 indexed citations

Wang, Tianhe, Ying Han, Jianping Huang, et al.. (2020). Climatology of Dust‐Forced Radiative Heating Over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surroundings. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(17). 44 indexed citations

Yan, Hongru, Jianping Huang, Yongli He, et al.. (2020). Atmospheric Water Vapor Budget and Its Long‐Term Trend Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(23). 50 indexed citations

Yan, Hongru & Tianhe Wang. (2020). Ten Years of Aerosol Effects on Single-Layer Overcast Clouds over the US Southern Great Plains and the China Loess Plateau. Advances in Meteorology. 2020. 1–15. 15 indexed citations

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Yan, Hongru, Zhanqing Li, Jianping Huang, Maureen Cribb, & Jianjun Liu. (2014). Long-term aerosol-mediated changes in cloud radiative forcing of deep clouds at the top and bottom of the atmosphere over the Southern Great Plains. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(14). 7113–7124. 34 indexed citations

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Huang, Jianping, et al.. (2014). Climate effects of dust aerosols over East Asian arid and semiarid regions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(19). 491 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Hongru, Jianping Huang, Patrick Minnis, et al.. (2014). Comparison of CERES-MODIS cloud microphysical properties with surface observations over Loess Plateau. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 153. 65–76. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingjing, Jianping Huang, Bin Chen, et al.. (2014). Comparisons of PBL heights derived from CALIPSO and ECMWF reanalysis data over China. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 153. 102–112. 61 indexed citations

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Fan, Jiwen, L. Ruby Leung, Daniel Rosenfeld, et al.. (2013). Microphysical effects determine macrophysical response for aerosol impacts on deep convective clouds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(48). E4581–90. 287 indexed citations

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Zhao, C., Xiaohong Liu, Yun Qian, et al.. (2012). Sensitivity of Radiative Fluxes at Top of Atmosphere to Cloud-Microphysics and Aerosol Parameters in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Hongru, Jianping Huang, Patrick Minnis, Tianhe Wang, & Jianrong Bi. (2011). Comparison of CERES surface radiation fluxes with surface observations over Loess Plateau. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(6). 1489–1500. 50 indexed citations

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Huang, Jianping, Patrick Minnis, Hongru Yan, et al.. (2010). Dust aerosol effect on semi-arid climate over Northwest China detected from A-Train satellite measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(14). 6863–6872. 145 indexed citations

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Li, Jiming, Yuhong Yi, Patrick Minnis, et al.. (2010). Radiative effect differences between multi-layered and single-layer clouds derived from CERES, CALIPSO, and CloudSat data. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 112(2). 361–375. 74 indexed citations

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