Jiang Zhu

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
237 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Jiang Zhu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiang Zhu has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 154 papers in Atmospheric Science and 121 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jiang Zhu's work include Climate variability and models (138 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (113 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (93 papers). Jiang Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (138 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (113 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (93 papers). Jiang Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Jiang Zhu's co-authors include Lijing Cheng, Fei Zheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Zhendong Luo, I. M. Navon, Tim Boyer, Jiping Xie and Xiao Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Jiang Zhu

227 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2020 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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. Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015
    2017 523 citations Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth et al. Science Advances profile →
  2. Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century
    2020 330 citations Guancheng Li, Lijing Cheng et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  3. Past and future ocean warming
    2022 141 citations Lijing Cheng, Karina von Schuckmann et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jiang Zhu China 45 3.7k 3.3k 3.0k 685 545 237 6.7k
Henk A. Dijkstra Netherlands 50 5.6k 1.5× 5.1k 1.5× 4.5k 1.5× 153 0.2× 291 0.5× 405 9.3k
Klaus Fraedrich Germany 53 7.6k 2.0× 5.9k 1.8× 1.4k 0.5× 203 0.3× 715 1.3× 322 9.6k
Ibrahim Hoteit Saudi Arabia 45 3.5k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 3.6k 1.2× 173 0.3× 891 1.6× 395 7.8k
James M. Murphy United Kingdom 44 8.1k 2.2× 5.9k 1.8× 1.4k 0.5× 249 0.4× 547 1.0× 122 10.4k
Jean‐Louis Dufresne France 42 9.7k 2.6× 8.5k 2.6× 1.5k 0.5× 249 0.4× 478 0.9× 111 11.8k
Hartmut Graßl Germany 33 2.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.7× 850 0.3× 244 0.4× 478 0.9× 127 4.1k
A. J. Simmons United Kingdom 54 10.0k 2.7× 10.2k 3.1× 2.8k 0.9× 249 0.4× 846 1.6× 107 12.5k
James B. Elsner United States 44 4.2k 1.1× 4.2k 1.3× 1.7k 0.6× 76 0.1× 552 1.0× 178 7.2k
Jean‐Noël Thépaut United Kingdom 36 6.5k 1.7× 6.4k 1.9× 1.3k 0.4× 277 0.4× 1.3k 2.4× 79 8.8k
Max J. Suárez United States 59 13.0k 3.5× 12.2k 3.7× 3.4k 1.1× 298 0.4× 1.8k 3.3× 159 15.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jiang Zhu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiang Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jiang Zhu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jiang Zhu. The network helps show where Jiang Zhu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiang Zhu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jiang Zhu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jiang Zhu 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 Jiang Zhu. Jiang Zhu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tan, Zhetao, Karina von Schuckmann, Sabrina Speich, et al.. (2025). Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years. Nature Climate Change. 16(1). 58–68.
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Zhu, Jiang, et al.. (2025). Recent advances and potentiality of phenyllactic acid: Source, antimicrobial mechanism, and applications. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 158. 104926–104926. 1 indexed citations
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Ding, Ning, Xiao Tang, Huangjian Wu, et al.. (2024). Development of an integrated machine learning model to improve the secondary inorganic aerosol simulation over the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. Atmospheric Environment. 327. 120483–120483. 1 indexed citations
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Cheng, Lijing, Karina von Schuckmann, John Abraham, et al.. (2022). Past and future ocean warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(11). 776–794. 141 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Guancheng, Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu, et al.. (2020). Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century. Nature Climate Change. 10(12). 1116–1123. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Lijing, Kevin E. Trenberth, Nicolas Gruber, et al.. (2020). Improved Estimates of Changes in Upper Ocean Salinity and the Hydrological Cycle. Journal of Climate. 33(23). 10357–10381. 147 indexed citations
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Chen, Keyi, et al.. (2019). All‐Sky Assimilation of the MWHS‐2 Observations and Evaluation the Impacts on the Analyses and Forecasts of Binary Typhoons. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(12). 6359–6378. 36 indexed citations
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Zheng, Jie, Jiang Zhu, F. Fang, et al.. (2018). Performance of Adaptive Unstructured Mesh Modelling in Idealized Advection Cases over Steep Terrains. Atmosphere. 9(11). 444–444. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Lijing, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, et al.. (2017). Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015. Science Advances. 3(3). e1601545–e1601545. 523 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Lijing & Jiang Zhu. (2016). Benefits of CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble in Reconstructing Historical Ocean Subsurface Temperature Variations. Journal of Climate. 29(15). 5393–5416. 108 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhonghua, Gang Hu, Jiang Zhu, & Jian Ni. (2012). Aggregated spatial distributions of species in a subtropical karst forest, southwestern China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 6(2). 131–140. 37 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang. (2010). Ensemble-Based Surface O_3 Forecast over Beijing. Climatic and Environmental Research. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang. (2010). Preliminary Application of Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis in O_3 Simulation. Climatic and Environmental Research. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang. (2007). The Verifications for ENSO Ensemble Prediction System. Climatic and Environmental Research. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang. (2006). Ensemble Kalman Smoother and Ensemble Kalman Filter Approaches to the Joint Air Quality State and Emission Estimation Problem. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 8 indexed citations
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Jia-Qi, Mo, Lin Wan-Tao, & Jiang Zhu. (2004). Asymptotic behavior of solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations. Applied mathematics/Applied Mathematics. A Journal of Chinese Universities/Gao-xiao yingyong shuxue xuebao. 19(4). 367–373. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang, et al.. (1998). Estimating open boundary conditions from coastal tidal observations by adjoint approach. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 41(3). 330–336. 1 indexed citations

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