Qinqin Kong

914 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 626 citations indexed

About

Qinqin Kong is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qinqin Kong has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 626 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 8 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qinqin Kong's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (9 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Qinqin Kong is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (9 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers). Qinqin Kong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Qinqin Kong's co-authors include Matthew Huber, Quansheng Ge, Jianchao Xi, Hayley J. Fowler, Selma B. Guerreiro, Stephen Blenkinsop, Xiaofeng Li, Jingyun Zheng, Xinge Wang and Meifeng Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Qinqin Kong

21 papers receiving 613 citations

Hit Papers

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15
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. Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events
    2025 16 citations Tom Matthews, Colin Raymond et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qinqin Kong United States 13 340 209 170 125 102 22 626
Wen-Ching Chuang United States 11 188 0.6× 326 1.6× 197 1.2× 20 0.2× 95 0.9× 14 558
Asbjørn Aaheim Norway 13 198 0.6× 127 0.6× 94 0.6× 33 0.3× 52 0.5× 28 562
Honghui Zhang China 11 361 1.1× 196 0.9× 167 1.0× 82 0.7× 15 0.1× 37 606
Fahim Tonmoy Australia 13 248 0.7× 95 0.5× 62 0.4× 42 0.3× 165 1.6× 22 488
Paul Coseo United States 12 285 0.8× 448 2.1× 557 3.3× 73 0.6× 28 0.3× 22 760
Peiheng Yu China 13 251 0.7× 137 0.7× 53 0.3× 32 0.3× 33 0.3× 32 475
M. Niknejad Iran 5 202 0.6× 158 0.8× 77 0.5× 89 0.7× 34 0.3× 7 378
Sainan Zhang China 7 317 0.9× 144 0.7× 80 0.5× 58 0.5× 55 0.5× 17 452
Yaser Abunnasr Lebanon 12 199 0.6× 176 0.8× 186 1.1× 61 0.5× 62 0.6× 23 444
Annegret Kindler Germany 13 213 0.6× 151 0.7× 94 0.6× 34 0.3× 27 0.3× 16 380

Countries citing papers authored by Qinqin Kong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qinqin Kong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qinqin Kong

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Karamperidou, Christina, et al.. (2025). El Niño Enhances Exposure to Humid Heat Extremes With Regionally Varying Impacts During Eastern Versus Central Pacific Events. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4). 1 indexed citations
2.
Mishra, Vimal, Qinqin Kong, Colin Raymond, et al.. (2025). Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming and ENSO Variability. Earth s Future. 13(11). 1 indexed citations
3.
Kong, Qinqin, Colin Raymond, Cascade Tuholske, et al.. (2025). Spatial Patterns of Historical Changes in Human Heat Stress Disagree Across Metrics. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(20).
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Kong, Qinqin & Matthew Huber. (2025). A global high-resolution and bias-corrected dataset of CMIP6 projected heat stress metrics. Scientific Data. 12(1). 246–246. 2 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin, et al.. (2025). Climate change will increase high-temperature risks, degradation, and costs of rooftop photovoltaics globally. Joule. 10(1). 102218–102218. 1 indexed citations
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Matthews, Tom, Colin Raymond, Josh Foster, et al.. (2025). Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(3). 193–210. 16 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kong, Qinqin & Matthew Huber. (2025). A Linear Sensitivity Framework to Understand the Drivers of the Wet‐Bulb Globe Temperature Changes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(5). 2 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin & Matthew Huber. (2024). A New, Zero‐Iteration Analytic Implementation of Wet‐Bulb Globe Temperature: Development, Validation, and Comparison With Other Methods. GeoHealth. 8(10). e2024GH001068–e2024GH001068. 5 indexed citations
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Vecellio, Daniel J., Qinqin Kong, W. Larry Kenney, & Matthew Huber. (2023). Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(42). e2305427120–e2305427120. 52 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin & Matthew Huber. (2023). Regimes of Soil Moisture–Wet-Bulb Temperature Coupling with Relevance to Moist Heat Stress. Journal of Climate. 36(22). 7925–7942. 16 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin & Matthew Huber. (2022). Explicit Calculations of Wet‐Bulb Globe Temperature Compared With Approximations and Why It Matters for Labor Productivity. Earth s Future. 10(3). 61 indexed citations
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Haqiqi, Iman, Qinqin Kong, Matthew Huber, et al.. (2022). The Poverty Impacts of Labor Heat Stress in West Africa Under a Warming Climate. Earth s Future. 10(11). 23 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin, Jingyun Zheng, Hayley J. Fowler, Quansheng Ge, & Jianchao Xi. (2018). Climate change and summer thermal comfort in China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 137(1-2). 1077–1088. 23 indexed citations
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Roshan, Gholamreza, et al.. (2018). Spatial and temporal analysis of outdoor human thermal comfort during heat and cold waves in Iran. Weather and Climate Extremes. 19. 58–67. 30 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin, Quansheng Ge, Jianchao Xi, & Jingyun Zheng. (2016). Human-biometeorological assessment of increasing summertime extreme heat events in Shanghai, China during 1973–2015. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 130(3-4). 1055–1064. 12 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin, et al.. (2015). Spatial polarization of villages in tourist destinations: A case study from Yesanpo, China. Journal of Mountain Science. 12(4). 1038–1050. 20 indexed citations
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Xi, Jianchao, et al.. (2015). Spatial morphology evolution of rural settlements induced by tourism. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 25(4). 497–511. 63 indexed citations
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Xi, Jianchao, Xinge Wang, Qinqin Kong, & Nan Zhang. (2014). Spatial morphology evolution of rural settlements induced by tourism: A comparative study of three villages in Yesanpo tourism area, China. 69(4). 531–540. 1 indexed citations
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Kong, Qinqin, Quansheng Ge, Jingyun Zheng, & Jianchao Xi. (2014). Prolonged dry episodes over Northeast China during the period 1961–2012. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 122(3-4). 711–719. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Meifeng, et al.. (2014). Changes in land use of a village driven by over 25 years of tourism: The case of Gougezhuang village, China. Land Use Policy. 40. 119–130. 66 indexed citations

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