Jianli Chen

11.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
189 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Jianli Chen is a scholar working on Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jianli Chen has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Oceanography, 65 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 62 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jianli Chen's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (137 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (62 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (51 papers). Jianli Chen is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (137 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (62 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (51 papers). Jianli Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Jianli Chen's co-authors include Clark R. Wilson, B. D. Tapley, Matthew Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, C.R. Wilson, Zizhan Zhang, Ki‐Weon Seo, Bridget R. Scanlon, Li Jin and T. H. Syed and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jianli Chen

171 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Estimating groundwater storage changes in the Mississippi River basin (USA) using GRACE

2006 511 citations Jianli Chen, Clark R. Wilson et al. profile →
Analysis of terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE and GLDAS

2008 502 citations Jianli Chen, Clark R. Wilson et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Global evaluation of new GRACE mascon products for hydrologic applications

2016 423 citations Bridget R. Scanlon, Zizhan Zhang et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Applications and Challenges of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Satellite Gravimetry

2022 150 citations Jianli Chen, Anny Cazenave et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jianli Chen	6.7k	2.6k	2.2k	2.2k	2.1k	189	8.7k
Felix W. Landerer	6.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	3.3k 1.5×	1.2k 0.5×	85	8.8k
Clark R. Wilson	4.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	131	5.8k
D. N. Wiese	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	967 0.5×	55	5.6k
R. S. Nerem	5.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	171	8.3k
John Wahr	13.7k 2.0×	5.0k 2.0×	4.6k 2.1×	3.4k 1.5×	4.7k 2.2×	205	19.6k
Andreas Güntner	2.5k 0.4×	897 0.3×	921 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	669 0.3×	157	5.7k
Himanshu Save	2.7k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	713 0.3×	60	3.6k
S. B. Luthcke	3.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	875 0.4×	117	5.9k
Benjamin F. Chao	3.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	823 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	166	4.2k
Frédéric Frappart	2.6k 0.4×	671 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	3.7k 1.7×	344 0.2×	242	7.4k

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Wang, Shuo, et al.. (2025). Global assessment and hotspots of lake drought. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Liao, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Widespread Sensitivity of Vegetation to the Transition From Normal Droughts to Flash Droughts. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6).

Zhong, Bo, et al.. (2024). Investigation of 2020–2022 extreme floods and droughts in Sichuan Province of China based on joint inversion of GNSS and GRACE/GFO data. Journal of Hydrology. 632. 130868–130868. 19 indexed citations

Ma, Zhihao, Shuang Cui, & Jianli Chen. (2024). Demand response through ventilation and latent load adjustment for commercial buildings in humid climate zones. Applied Energy. 373. 123940–123940. 10 indexed citations

Li, Yilin, et al.. (2024). Subgraph matching-based reference placement for printed circuit board designs. The Journal of Supercomputing. 80(16). 24324–24357.

Tao, Xiaochun, et al.. (2024). Growth of Spontaneous Nucleation AlN Crystals by Al-Base Alloy Evaporation in Nitrogen Atmosphere. Crystals. 14(4). 331–331. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Jae‐Seung, et al.. (2024). High‐Resolution Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates From GRACE and Land Surface Models. Water Resources Research. 60(2). 12 indexed citations

Wang, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Interannual Glacial Mass Changes in High Mountain Asia and Connections to Climate Variability. Remote Sensing. 16(18). 3426–3426.

Shen, Yunzhong, et al.. (2024). Improved GRACE‐FO Gravity Field Solution by Combining Different Accelerometer Transplant Products. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(5). 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Yuyue, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Climatic Conditions, Human Activities, and Catchment Characteristics on the Propagation From Meteorological to Agricultural and Hydrological Droughts in China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(24). 14 indexed citations

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Xu, Yuyue, Jianli Chen, Qing Liu, et al.. (2023). Continuing Severe Water Shortage in the Water‐Receiving Area of the South‐To‐North Water Diversion Eastern Route Project From 2002 to 2020. Water Resources Research. 59(10). 13 indexed citations

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Barnoud, Anne, Julia Pfeffer, Marie‐Laure Frery, et al.. (2021). Contributions of Altimetry and Argo to Non‐Closure of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget Since 2016. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 50 indexed citations

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Xu, Yuyue, Li Jin, Jida Wang, et al.. (2020). Assessing water storage changes of Lake Poyang from multi-mission satellite data and hydrological models. Journal of Hydrology. 590. 125229–125229. 41 indexed citations

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Kang, Zhigui, B. D. Tapley, Jianli Chen, John Ries, & Srinivas Bettadpur. (2019). Geocenter motion time series derived from GRACE GPS and LAGEOS observations. Journal of Geodesy. 93(10). 1931–1942. 7 indexed citations

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Scanlon, Bridget R., Zizhan Zhang, Himanshu Save, et al.. (2016). Global evaluation of new GRACE mascon products for hydrologic applications. Water Resources Research. 52(12). 9412–9429. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Jianli. (2008). Feature Extraction Based on Subspace Energy of Local Discriminant Basis. Journal of Air Force Engineering University. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianli. (2004). THE CHARACTERISTICS AND ORE EXPLORATION OF MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN ER'LANGPING GROUP MARINE VOLCANIC ROCKS. Geology and Prospecting. 2 indexed citations

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Wilson, Clark R. & Jianli Chen. (2003). The Hydrology Bureau of the Global Geophysical Fluids Center. 30. 153–156.

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Chen, Jianli. (1993). The excitation effects of water distribution on polar motion - review and theory.. 11(4). 309–314. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianli, M A. Miller, & Kamy Sepehrnoori. (1991). Comparisons of counter-current imbibition transfer functions in dual porosity models of naturally fractured reservoirs. 15(2). 115–147. 2 indexed citations

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