Kaiming Hu

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Kaiming Hu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaiming Hu has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 75 papers in Atmospheric Science and 43 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Kaiming Hu's work include Climate variability and models (78 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (40 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (38 papers). Kaiming Hu is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (78 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (40 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (38 papers). Kaiming Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Kaiming Hu's co-authors include Gang Huang, Shang‐Ping Xie, Yan Du, Hiroki Tokinaga, Takeaki Sampe, Jan Hafner, Renguang Wu, Yu Kosaka, Jasti S. Chowdary and Ping Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kaiming Hu

102 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Cli... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2016 500 1000 1.5k
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. Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Climate during the Summer following El Niño
    2008 1.7k citations Kaiming Hu, Gang Huang et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. Indo-western Pacific ocean capacitor and coherent climate anomalies in post-ENSO summer: A review
    2016 605 citations Kaiming Hu, Gang Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kaiming Hu China 34 5.5k 4.8k 3.2k 155 151 106 6.1k
Jeff Knight United Kingdom 38 6.3k 1.2× 5.8k 1.2× 2.0k 0.6× 291 1.9× 153 1.0× 82 7.1k
Yu Kosaka Japan 36 6.5k 1.2× 5.6k 1.2× 3.3k 1.0× 103 0.7× 140 0.9× 103 7.2k
Yayoi Harada Japan 13 4.4k 0.8× 4.2k 0.9× 1.4k 0.4× 273 1.8× 179 1.2× 28 5.2k
Timothy Andrews United Kingdom 44 6.5k 1.2× 5.6k 1.2× 1.1k 0.3× 184 1.2× 150 1.0× 90 7.2k
Mingyue Chen United States 24 4.0k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 361 2.3× 319 2.1× 35 5.1k
Sumant Nigam United States 43 5.7k 1.1× 5.0k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 246 1.6× 144 1.0× 85 6.2k
J. K. Willis United States 31 2.6k 0.5× 2.1k 0.4× 2.7k 0.8× 138 0.9× 129 0.9× 83 4.4k
Qing Bao China 31 3.6k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 847 0.3× 202 1.3× 233 1.5× 144 4.6k
Kristopher B. Karnauskas United States 31 2.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 78 0.5× 55 0.4× 113 3.7k
Xiaosong Yang United States 29 2.5k 0.5× 2.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 91 0.6× 63 0.4× 85 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kaiming Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kaiming Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaiming Hu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kaiming Hu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kaiming Hu 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 Kaiming Hu. Kaiming Hu 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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Cao, Xi, Renguang Wu, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2025). The southward shift of hurricane genesis over the northern Atlantic Ocean. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Sirui, et al.. (2025). The Reversibility of Antarctic Sea Ice Loss Under CO 2 Removal Scenarios. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(17).
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Li, Jie, Yongjie Zhang, Yanyang Zhao, et al.. (2025). Differential effects of Ca2+ and Mn2+ on cyanobacterial mineralization and organic matter preservation. Chemical Geology. 695. 123049–123049. 1 indexed citations
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Han, Zuozhen, Jie Li, Yanyang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Dissolved Mn2+ promotes microbially-catalyzed protodolomite precipitation in brackish oxidized water. Chemical Geology. 650. 121986–121986. 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanyang, Xiangyu Wei, Xiao Gao, et al.. (2024). A comparison of the proto-dolomite induced by cyanobacteria and halophilic bacteria: implications for dolomite-inducing microbe identification. Journal of Palaeogeography. 14(1). 277–290. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wen, Weichen Tao, Gang Huang, et al.. (2024). Ongoing intensification of anomalous Western North Pacific anticyclone during post-El Niño summer with achieved carbon neutrality. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Kaiming, et al.. (2024). Optimal Atmospheric Heat Sources for the Interannual Variability of South Asian Summer Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(21). 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Shijie, Ping Huang, Lin Wang, et al.. (2024). Robust changes in global subtropical circulation under greenhouse warming. Nature Communications. 15(1). 96–96. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Binhao, Kaiming Hu, Chuqiao Li, et al.. (2024). Geographic distribution of bacterial communities of inland waters in China. Environmental Research. 249. 118337–118337. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Ya, Kaiming Hu, Gang Huang, & Weichen Tao. (2023). The Role of Nonlinear Energy Advection in Forming Asymmetric Structure of ENSO Teleconnections Over the North Pacific and North America. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(17). 10 indexed citations
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Lin, Jintai, Chunjiang Zhou, Lulu Chen, et al.. (2022). Sulfur emissions from consumption by developed and developing countries produce comparable climate impacts. Nature Geoscience. 15(3). 184–189. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Su, Gang Huang, Kaiming Hu, et al.. (2022). The deep blue day is decreasing in China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 147(3-4). 1675–1684. 2 indexed citations
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Long, Shang‐Min, Gen Li, Kaiming Hu, & Jun Ying. (2020). Origins of the IOD-like Biases in CMIP Multimodel Ensembles: The Atmospheric Component and Ocean–Atmosphere Coupling. Journal of Climate. 33(24). 10437–10453. 19 indexed citations
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Huang, Gang, et al.. (2017). Interannual variation of precipitation over the Hengduan Mountains during rainy season. International Journal of Climatology. 38(4). 2112–2125. 27 indexed citations
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Hu, Kaiming, et al.. (2016). Chronology of Petrogenesis and Mineralization of Datongkeng Porphyry W-Mo Deposit in West Zhejiang. 41(9). 1450. 5 indexed citations
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Bai, Jiangping, et al.. (2016). Effects of Drought and Salt Stress on Subcellular Structure and Physiological and Biochemistry Indicators of Potato Plantlets. 36(11). 2240. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Kaiming, et al.. (2014). Spatial distribution characteristics of water quality pollution in the Lake Taihu basin, Jiangsu Province. Journal of Lake Sciences. 26(2). 200–206. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Kaiming. (2008). Impact of North Indian Ocean SSTA on Northwest Pacific Lower Layer Anomalous Anticyclone in Summer. Nanjing Qixiang Xueyuan xuebao. 8 indexed citations

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