Keqin Duan

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Keqin Duan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keqin Duan has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Atmospheric Science, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Keqin Duan's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (42 papers), Climate variability and models (26 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (25 papers). Keqin Duan is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (42 papers), Climate variability and models (26 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (25 papers). Keqin Duan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Keqin Duan's co-authors include Tandong Yao, Lonnie G. Thompson, Baiqing Xu, Xiaoxin Yang, Xuejun Guo, Wusheng Yu, Huabiao Zhao, Anxin Lu, Wei Yang and Yang Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Keqin Duan

72 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

2012 2.2k citations Tandong Yao, Lonnie G. Thompson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keqin Duan China	22	2.9k	1.5k	473	295	217	74	3.5k
Dambaru Ballab Kattel China	13	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	378 0.8×	255 0.9×	170 0.8×	19	3.0k
Huabiao Zhao China	21	3.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	447 0.9×	423 1.4×	278 1.3×	54	4.9k
Anxin Lu China	9	2.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	438 0.9×	269 0.9×	189 0.9×	15	3.1k
Daniel Joswiak China	24	3.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	540 1.1×	481 1.6×	232 1.1×	37	4.6k
Tandong Yao China	26	2.0k 0.7×	801 0.5×	405 0.9×	259 0.9×	159 0.7×	67	2.5k
Lide Tian China	34	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	586 1.2×	441 1.5×	299 1.4×	116	3.5k
Jianchen Pu China	26	2.1k 0.7×	818 0.5×	325 0.7×	207 0.7×	91 0.4×	55	2.4k
Yongping Shen China	22	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	582 1.2×	348 1.2×	103 0.5×	71	2.9k
Thomas Condom France	29	1.7k 0.6×	980 0.7×	548 1.2×	349 1.2×	75 0.3×	81	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keqin Duan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duan, Keqin, et al.. (2025). First record of Eopycna concinna (Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from China. Oriental Insects. 60(1). 52–61.

Li, Xing, et al.. (2024). Biomass burning in Peninsular Southeast Asia intensifies meteorological drought in Southwest China. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175788–175788. 1 indexed citations

Duan, Keqin, et al.. (2024). Northward shift of Indian summer monsoon and intensifying winter westerlies cause stronger precipitation seasonality over Pamirs and its downstream basins in the 21st century. The Science of The Total Environment. 926. 171891–171891. 1 indexed citations

Li, Liang, Keqin Duan, Junhua Yang, et al.. (2024). Source and variability of formaldehyde in the Fenwei Plain: An integrated multi-source satellite and emission inventory study. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 150. 254–266. 2 indexed citations

Duan, Keqin, Peihong Shi, Shuangshuang Li, et al.. (2023). Sensitive temperature changes on the Tibetan Plateau in response to global warming. Atmospheric Research. 294. 106948–106948. 21 indexed citations

Yang, Junhua, Shichang Kang, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2022). South Asian black carbon is threatening the water sustainability of the Asian Water Tower. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7360–7360. 40 indexed citations

Duan, Keqin, et al.. (2020). Temporal and Spatial Characteristics and Possible Causes Research of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Warming from 1980 to 2016. Gaoyuan qixiang. 39(3). 459–466. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Ji & Keqin Duan. (2019). What is the main driving force of hydrological cycle variations in the semiarid and semi-humid Weihe River Basin, China?. The Science of The Total Environment. 684. 254–264. 43 indexed citations

Wang, Feiyu, et al.. (2019). Partitioning climate and human contributions to changes in mean annual streamflow based on the Budyko complementary relationship in the Loess Plateau, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 665. 579–590. 47 indexed citations

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Wang, Bin, et al.. (2017). New Research Progress of the Transport Dynamics and the Accumulation Factor of the Aeolian Dust in Chinese Loess Plateau. Knowledge Repository of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, CAS (Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research). 37(2). 237–246. 1 indexed citations

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Duan, Keqin. (2017). Simulation and prediction of equilibrium line altitude of glaciers in the eastern Tibetan plateau. EGUGA. 7743. 13 indexed citations

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Duan, Keqin, et al.. (2016). Effect of lake surface temperature on the summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science. 13(5). 802–810. 8 indexed citations

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Yao, Tandong, Lonnie G. Thompson, Wei Yang, et al.. (2012). Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings. Nature Climate Change. 2(9). 663–667. 2225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yao, Tandong, Keqin Duan, Bing Xu, et al.. (2008). Precipitation record since AD 1600 from ice cores on the central Tibetan Plateau. Climate of the past. 4(3). 175–180. 53 indexed citations

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Yao, Tandong, et al.. (2008). Ice core precipitation record in central Tibetan plateau since AD 1600. 3 indexed citations

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Uetake, Jun, Akiko Sakai, Koji Fujita, et al.. (2006). Preliminary observations of sub-surface and shallow ice core at July 1st Glacier, China in 2002-2004. 23. 85–93. 2 indexed citations

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Sakai, Akiko, Koji Fujita, Sumito Matoba, et al.. (2006). Meteorological observation at July 1st Glacier in northwest China from 2002 to 2005. 23. 23–32. 14 indexed citations

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Sakai, Akiko, Koji Fujita, Masayoshi Nakawo, et al.. (2004). Glaciological observations on July 1st glacier in Qilian mountains of west China during summer 2002. 21. 31–36. 2 indexed citations

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Duan, Keqin & Tandong Yao. (2003). Monsoon Variability in the Himalayas under the Condition of Global Waming. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 81(2). 251–257. 27 indexed citations

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Tian, Lide, Tandong Yao, Atusi Numaguti, & Keqin Duan. (2001). Relation between stable isotope in monsoon precipitation in southern Tibetan Plateau and moisture transport history. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 44(S1). 267–274. 51 indexed citations

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