Link Ji

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Link Ji is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Link Ji has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Oceanography and 13 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Link Ji's work include Climate variability and models (16 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (14 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). Link Ji is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (16 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (14 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). Link Ji collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Link Ji's co-authors include Ping Chang, Hong Li, R. Saravanan, Howard F. Seidel, Li Zhang, Bin Wang, Tim Li, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Yue Fang and Daniel J. Vimont and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Link Ji

21 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

A decadal climate variation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from thermodynamic air-sea interactions

1997 520 citations Ping Chang, Link Ji et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Link Ji United States	16	1.8k	1.5k	1.4k	124	94	21	2.1k
Igor Kamenkovich United States	23	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	67 0.5×	78 0.8×	71	2.2k
Wilbert Weijer United States	23	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	121 1.0×	176 1.9×	59	2.2k
Laura Jackson United Kingdom	29	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	54 0.4×	94 1.0×	56	2.4k
Till Kuhlbrodt United Kingdom	19	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	76 0.6×	76 0.8×	39	2.0k
Tomoki Tozuka Japan	32	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	198 1.6×	104 1.1×	94	3.3k
Daifang Gu United States	7	1.0k 0.6×	824 0.5×	979 0.7×	89 0.7×	101 1.1×	7	1.4k
Kyong‐Hwan Seo South Korea	30	2.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	820 0.6×	61 0.5×	20 0.2×	86	2.4k
Robert M. Chervin United States	18	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	902 0.6×	46 0.4×	41 0.4×	43	1.6k
J. D. Opsteegh Netherlands	19	827 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	342 0.2×	116 0.9×	65 0.7×	35	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Link Ji

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Fields of papers citing papers by Link Ji

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Link Ji

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schmidt, M. W., et al.. (2017). Deglacial Tropical Atlantic subsurface warming links ocean circulation variability to the West African Monsoon. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15390–15390. 5 indexed citations

Wan, Xiuquan, Ping Chang, C. S. Jackson, Link Ji, & Mingkui Li. (2011). Plausible effect of climate model bias on abrupt climate change simulations in Atlantic sector. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 58(17-18). 1904–1913. 5 indexed citations

Saenger, Casey, Ping Chang, Link Ji, Delia W Oppo, & Anne L. Cohen. (2009). Tropical Atlantic climate response to low‐latitude and extratropical sea‐surface temperature: A Little Ice Age perspective. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(11). 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Li, Ping Chang, & Link Ji. (2009). Linking the Pacific Meridional Mode to ENSO: Coupled Model Analysis. Journal of Climate. 22(12). 3488–3505. 64 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, Rong Zhang, Wilco Hazeleger, et al.. (2008). Oceanic link between abrupt changes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the African monsoon. Nature Geoscience. 1(7). 444–448. 133 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, Li Zhang, R. Saravanan, et al.. (2007). Pacific meridional mode and El Niño—Southern Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(16). 307 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, Yue Fang, R. Saravanan, Link Ji, & Howard F. Seidel. (2006). The cause of the fragile relationship between the Pacific El Niño and the Atlantic Niño. Nature. 443(7109). 324–328. 195 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, R. Saravanan, Faming Wang, & Link Ji. (2004). Predictability of Linear Coupled Systems. Part II: An Application to a Simple Model of Tropical Atlantic Variability. Journal of Climate. 17(7). 1487–1503. 11 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, R. Saravanan, & Link Ji. (2003). Tropical Atlantic seasonal predictability: The roles of El Niño remote influence and thermodynamic air‐sea feedback. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(10). 42 indexed citations

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Schneider, Edwin K., Ben P. Kirtman, David G. DeWitt, et al.. (2003). Retrospective ENSO Forecasts: Sensitivity to Atmospheric Model and Ocean Resolution. Monthly Weather Review. 131(12). 3038–3060. 48 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Benjamin S. Giese, Link Ji, Howard F. Seidel, & Fan Wang. (2001). Decadal change in the south tropical Pacific in a Global Assimilation Analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(18). 3461–3464. 25 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Link Ji, & R. Saravanan. (2001). A Hybrid Coupled Model Study of Tropical Atlantic Variability. Journal of Climate. 14(3). 361–390. 98 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, R. Saravanan, Link Ji, & Gabriele C. Hegerl. (2000). The Effect of Local Sea Surface Temperatures on Atmospheric Circulation over the Tropical Atlantic Sector. Journal of Climate. 13(13). 2195–2216. 182 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Link Ji, Hong Li, Cécile Penland, & Ludmila Matrosova. (1998). Prediction of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(8). 1193–1196. 19 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Link Ji, & Hong Li. (1997). A decadal climate variation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from thermodynamic air-sea interactions. Nature. 385(6616). 516–518. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Ping, Link Ji, Hong Li, & Moritz Flügel. (1996). Chaotic dynamics versus stochastic processes in El Niño-Southern Oscillation in coupled ocean-atmosphere models. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 98(2-4). 301–320. 88 indexed citations

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Stewart, Robert H., C. K. Shum, B. D. Tapley, & Link Ji. (1996). Statistics of geostrophic turbulence in the southern ocean from satellite altimetry and numerical models. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 98(2-4). 599–613. 15 indexed citations

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Ding, Zhonghai, Link Ji, & Jianxin Zhou. (1996). Constrained LQR Problems in Elliptic Distributed Control Systems with Point Observations. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 34(1). 264–294. 14 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Link Ji, Bin Wang, & Tim Li. (1995). Interactions between the Seasonal Cycle and El Niño-Southern Oscillation in an Intermediate Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 52(13). 2353–2372. 104 indexed citations

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Chang, Ping, Bin Wang, Tim Li, & Link Ji. (1994). Interactions between the seasonal cycle and the Southern Oscillation ‐ Frequency entrainment and chaos in a coupled ocean‐atmosphere model. Geophysical Research Letters. 21(25). 2817–2820. 124 indexed citations

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