Qing Pei

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Qing Pei is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Qing Pei has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Qing Pei's work include Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers). Qing Pei is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers). Qing Pei collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Qing Pei's co-authors include Harry F. Lee, David Zhang, Jane Zhang, Baosheng Li, Yulun An, Cong Wang, Guodong Li, David Dian Zhang, Zhonghao Zhang and Jinbao Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Qing Pei

63 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

2021 175 citations Dagomar Degroot, Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Qing Pei

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Sarah L. O’Hara United Kingdom

Harry F. Lee Hong Kong

Wei Qi China

Jennifer M. Fitchett South Africa

Georgina H. Endfield United Kingdom

R. B. Alley United States

Jacques Grinevald Switzerland

Chris Hewitt United Kingdom

T. F. Stocker Switzerland

Mario Krapp Germany

Sarah L. O’Hara United Kingdom

Qing Pei

617 ×0.8

AS

343 ×0.6

GPC

369 ×1.4

PALEO

126 ×0.5

MMPL

336 ×1.4

SPS

Citations per year, relative to Qing Pei Qing Pei (= 1×) peers Sarah L. O’Hara

Countries citing papers authored by Qing Pei

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qing Pei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Qing Pei. 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 Qing Pei. The network helps show where Qing Pei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qing Pei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qing Pei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qing Pei 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 Qing Pei. Qing Pei 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

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Liu, Runqing, Weiguo Cao, Qing Pei, et al.. (2025). Effects of RDX and HMX on the thermal stability properties of modified double-base propellants. FirePhysChem. 5(5). 420–427. 13 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2025). Climate change and migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age. Geografie. 130(3). 299–320.

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Fei, Jie & Qing Pei. (2025). Drought in 1628 CE and the beginning of massive migration from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan. Geografie. 130(3). 321–337.

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2024). Cost of resilience to climate change: migration, conflicts, and epidemics in imperial China. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114025–114025. 1 indexed citations

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White, Sam, Qing Pei, Katrin Kleemann, et al.. (2022). New perspectives on historical climatology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 14(1). 25 indexed citations

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Camenisch, Chantal, et al.. (2022). A Bayesian approach to historical climatology for the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century. Climate of the past. 18(11). 2449–2462. 5 indexed citations

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Nash, David J., George Adamson, Linden Ashcroft, et al.. (2021). Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art. Climate of the past. 17(3). 1273–1314. 31 indexed citations

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Degroot, Dagomar, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Martin Bauch, et al.. (2021). Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change. Nature. 591(7851). 539–550. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, David Dian, Matthew R. Bennett, Hai Cheng, et al.. (2021). Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet. Science Bulletin. 66(24). 2506–2515. 32 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2021). The impacts of urban vitality and urban density on innovation: Evidence from China's Greater Bay Area. Habitat International. 119. 102490–102490. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, David Dian, Qing Pei, Harry F. Lee, et al.. (2020). Climate change fostered cultural dynamics of human resilience in Europe in the past 2500 years. The Science of The Total Environment. 744. 140842–140842. 7 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2018). Introduction to the Climate Records of Imperial China. Environmental History. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Fei, Xufeng, Wanzhen Chen, Shuqing Zhang, et al.. (2018). The spatio-temporal distribution and risk factors of thyroid cancer during rapid urbanization–A case study in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 630. 1436–1445. 22 indexed citations

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Lee, Harry F., et al.. (2016). Climate change and epidemics in Chinese history: A multi-scalar analysis. Social Science & Medicine. 174. 53–63. 21 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, David Zhang, Guodong Li, & Harry F. Lee. (2015). Climate Change and the Macroeconomic Structure in Pre-Industrial Europe: New Evidence from Wavelet Analysis. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0126480–e0126480. 32 indexed citations

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Lee, Harry F., et al.. (2015). Quantifying the Intra-Regional Precipitation Variability in Northwestern China over the Past 1,400 Years. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0131693–e0131693. 13 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, David Zhang, Guodong Li, Bruce Winterhalder, & Harry F. Lee. (2015). Epidemics in Ming and Qing China: Impacts of changes of climate and economic well-being. Social Science & Medicine. 136-137. 73–80. 30 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, David Zhang, Harry F. Lee, & Guodong Li. (2014). Climate Change and Macro-Economic Cycles in Pre-Industrial Europe. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e88155–e88155. 43 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2014). Long-term regional precipitation disparity in northwestern China and its driving forces. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 1 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing, et al.. (2009). A study of legal attributes of carbon emission rights in carbon trading. Ecological Economy. 5(1). 11–19. 2 indexed citations

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