Mi Yan

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mi Yan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mi Yan has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Atmospheric Science, 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mi Yan's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Climate variability and models (38 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (17 papers). Mi Yan is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Climate variability and models (38 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (17 papers). Mi Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Mi Yan's co-authors include Jian Liu, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, Samantha C. Bova, Yair Rosenthal, Shital P. Godad, Bin Wang, Weiyi Sun, Chunhan Jin and Chengfei He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Mi Yan

67 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Seasonal origin of the thermal maxima at the Holocene and the last interglacial

2021 200 citations Zhengyu Liu, Mi Yan et al. profile →
Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

2021 159 citations Bao Yang, Chun Qin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mi Yan China	19	950	518	198	141	140	73	1.3k
Shuangye Wu United States	25	925 1.0×	674 1.3×	197 1.0×	93 0.7×	104 0.7×	74	1.5k
Valérie Daux France	30	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 2.0×	410 2.1×	158 1.1×	97 0.7×	80	2.7k
György Sípos Hungary	18	365 0.4×	134 0.3×	238 1.2×	86 0.6×	198 1.4×	91	973
Kita Macário Brazil	22	657 0.7×	356 0.7×	731 3.7×	156 1.1×	369 2.6×	150	1.9k
Ruimin Yang China	13	569 0.6×	193 0.4×	110 0.6×	54 0.4×	94 0.7×	26	799
Martine Floch France	5	1.2k 1.2×	350 0.7×	462 2.3×	188 1.3×	165 1.2×	9	1.7k
Jonas Mažeika Lithuania	17	289 0.3×	138 0.3×	104 0.5×	70 0.5×	89 0.6×	94	797
Angela F. Dickens United States	15	801 0.8×	438 0.8×	329 1.7×	45 0.3×	77 0.6×	24	1.4k
Sébastien Bertrand Belgium	30	1.3k 1.4×	107 0.2×	409 2.1×	125 0.9×	497 3.5×	90	2.3k
E. J. Stone United Kingdom	21	1.2k 1.2×	267 0.5×	290 1.5×	208 1.5×	106 0.8×	35	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mi Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mi Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mi Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mi Yan. The network helps show where Mi Yan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mi Yan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Tao, Qin Wen, Jian Liu, et al.. (2025). Distinct response of Arabian sea upwelling and Indian summer monsoon rainfall on the millennial timescale. Quaternary Science Reviews. 352. 109198–109198.

Zhou, Liang, et al.. (2025). Achieving excellent corrosion resistance in Nd–Ce–Fe–B magnets via oxygen partial pressure regulation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(44). 22178–22185.

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).

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

Wen, Qin, Zhengyu Liu, Steven C. Clemens, et al.. (2024). Grand dipole response of Asian summer monsoon to orbital forcing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Liu, Jian, Qin Wen, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2024). The Influence of Increased CO₂ Concentrations on AMOC Interdecadal Variability Under the LGM Background. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(3). 1 indexed citations

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).

He, Jiazhi, Weiyi Sun, Bin Wang, et al.. (2024). Opposing Changes in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Variability Produced by Orbital and Anthropogenic Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17). 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yueyuan, Xianfeng Shen, Shuai Guo, et al.. (2024). Iron Oxide Clusters as Electron Donors Under Light Enhance Oxygen Reduction Kinetics at Atomically Dispersed Fe for Photocatalytic CH₄ Partial Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(7). e202419075–e202419075. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, Weiyi Sun, Jian Liu, et al.. (2023). Impact of centennial-scale solar activity reduction on the weakened Asian monsoon event at 9.2 ka BP. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 628. 111771–111771. 1 indexed citations

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Wen, Qin, Chenyu Zhu, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2023). Separating Direct Heat Flux Forcing and Freshwater Feedback on AMOC Change Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(22). 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhengyu, Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, et al.. (2023). Tropical mountain ice core δ ¹⁸ O: A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change. Science Advances. 9(45). eadi6725–eadi6725. 8 indexed citations

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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2022). Modulating and Resetting Impacts of Different Volcanic Eruptions on North Atlantic SST Variations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(16). 8 indexed citations

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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear Responses of Droughts Over China to Volcanic Eruptions at Different Drought Phases. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(4). 9 indexed citations

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Wen, Qin, Mi Yan, Zhengyu Liu, & Jian Liu. (2022). Responses of East Asian Winter Monsoon‐Australian Summer Monsoon to Local and Remote Orbital Forcing During Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(10). 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Bao, Chun Qin, Achim Bräuning, et al.. (2021). Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2020). One Drought and One Volcanic Eruption Influenced the History of China: The Late Ming Dynasty Mega‐drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 37 indexed citations

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Wang, Bin, Jian Liu, Deliang Chen, et al.. (2020). Global and Polar Region Temperature Change Induced by Single Mega Volcanic Eruption Based on Community Earth System Model Simulation. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 12 indexed citations

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Sun, Weiyi, Bin Wang, Qiong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Northern Hemisphere Land Monsoon Precipitation Increased by the Green Sahara During Middle Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(16). 9870–9879. 35 indexed citations

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Yan, Mi. (2013). Variation characteristics and causes analysis of acid rain in Shenzhen city. Soil and Environmental Sciences.

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