Lili Lei

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Lili Lei is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lili Lei has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Atmospheric Science, 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Lili Lei's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (45 papers), Climate variability and models (40 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (17 papers). Lili Lei is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (45 papers), Climate variability and models (40 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (17 papers). Lili Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Lili Lei's co-authors include Defu He, Shibo Lu, Yang Song, Mengting Liu, Huahong Shi, Siyu Wu, Jiani Hu, Kathleen M. Raley‐Susman, Chengjin Cao and Yongming Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lili Lei

74 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Microplastic particles cause intestinal damage and other ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 2018 250 500 750 1000
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. Microplastic particles cause intestinal damage and other adverse effects in zebrafish Danio rerio and nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
    2017 1.1k citations Lili Lei, Siyu Wu et al. profile →
  2. Microplastic and mesoplastic pollution in farmland soils in suburbs of Shanghai, China
    2018 984 citations Mengting Liu, Shibo Lu et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
  3. Microplastics in soils: Analytical methods, pollution characteristics and ecological risks
    2018 761 citations Defu He, Shibo Lu 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
Lili Lei China 23 3.3k 2.1k 917 662 637 83 4.5k
Barbara M. Scholz‐Böttcher Germany 27 2.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 463 0.5× 172 0.3× 139 0.2× 57 3.3k
Shanshan Zhang China 22 1.7k 0.5× 666 0.3× 266 0.3× 463 0.7× 112 0.2× 80 2.6k
Xueqiang Lu China 22 1.2k 0.4× 673 0.3× 417 0.5× 118 0.2× 279 0.4× 87 2.1k
Liang‐Ying Liu China 32 2.1k 0.6× 876 0.4× 381 0.4× 270 0.4× 303 0.5× 87 3.7k
Yuxin Sun China 31 1.6k 0.5× 465 0.2× 222 0.2× 164 0.2× 184 0.3× 105 3.7k
Cristina Romera‐Castillo Spain 27 1.1k 0.3× 886 0.4× 318 0.3× 84 0.1× 235 0.4× 44 3.0k
Shaoliang Zhang China 25 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 474 0.5× 112 0.2× 128 0.2× 83 2.9k
Xinhong Wang China 37 1.8k 0.5× 313 0.1× 152 0.2× 215 0.3× 739 1.2× 156 4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Lili Lei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lili Lei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lili Lei

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

All Works

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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2025). Mega‐Tripolar Precipitation Change Accompanying Water Isotopes in Holocene Asian Summer Monsoon Reanalysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(17).
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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2025). A new last two millennium reanalysis based on hybrid gain analog offline EnKF and an expanded proxy database. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Haohao, Lili Lei, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, & Zhe‐Min Tan. (2024). A Hybrid Gain Analog Offline EnKF for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(1). 6 indexed citations
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Hu, Wan‐Ping, Liang Ning, Zhengyu Liu, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing tropical monthly sea surface temperature variability by assimilating coral proxy datasets. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1).
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Lei, Lili, et al.. (2024). Understanding the initial conditions contributing to the rapid intensification of typhoons through ensemble sensitivity analysis. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 18(2). 100552–100552.
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Wang, Zhongrui, Lili Lei, J. G. Anderson, Zhe‐Min Tan, & Yi Zhang. (2023). Convolutional Neural Network‐Based Adaptive Localization for an Ensemble Kalman Filter. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 4 indexed citations
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Pan, Liang & Lili Lei. (2023). International trade friction and firm cash holdings. Finance research letters. 55. 103976–103976. 9 indexed citations
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Satoh, Masaki, Jian‐Feng Gu, Lili Lei, et al.. (2023). Predictability of the Most Long‐Lived Tropical Cyclone Freddy (2023) During Its Westward Journey Through the Southern Tropical Indian Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 8 indexed citations
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Kou, Xingxia, Zhen Peng, Meigen Zhang, et al.. (2023). The carbon sink in China as seen from GOSAT with a regional inversion system based on the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) and ensemble Kalman smoother (EnKS). Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(12). 6719–6741. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qinghong, et al.. (2023). Preface to the Special Issue on the 14th International Conference on Mesoscale Convective Systems and High-Impact Weather. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 40(5). 745–746. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Yue, et al.. (2023). Multi-scale characteristics of an extreme rain event in Shandong Province, produced by Typhoon Lekima (2019). Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 6 indexed citations
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Peng, Zhen, Lili Lei, Zhe‐Min Tan, et al.. (2023). Dynamics-based estimates of decline trend with fine temporal variations in China's PM 2.5 emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(22). 14505–14520. 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Shuang, Rui Li, Xiaolin Zhang, et al.. (2023). The effects of pharmaceutical interventions on potentially inappropriate medications in older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1154048–1154048. 12 indexed citations
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Shi, Xiaoming, et al.. (2022). Deep Learning Augmented Data Assimilation: Reconstructing Missing Information with Convolutional Autoencoders. Monthly Weather Review. 150(8). 1977–1991. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, Mengting, Shibo Lu, Yang Song, et al.. (2018). Microplastic and mesoplastic pollution in farmland soils in suburbs of Shanghai, China. Environmental Pollution. 242(Pt A). 855–862. 984 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Siyu, Lili Lei, Yang Song, et al.. (2018). Mutation of hop-1 and pink-1 attenuates vulnerability of neurotoxicity in C. elegans: the role of mitochondria-associated membrane proteins in Parkinsonism. Experimental Neurology. 309. 67–78. 39 indexed citations
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Lei, Lili. (2011). A hybrid nudging-ensemble kalman filter approach to data assimilation. 2 indexed citations
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Lei, Lili. (2009). A hybrid ensemble Kalman filter approach to data assimilation in a two-dimensional shallow water model. 4 indexed citations

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