Sihan Li

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sihan Li is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sihan Li has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sihan Li's work include Climate variability and models (32 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (11 papers). Sihan Li is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (32 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (11 papers). Sihan Li collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Sihan Li's co-authors include Philip W. Mote, Friederike E. L. Otto, Mu Xiao, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Sarah Sparrow, Heidi Cullen, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Roop Singh, Karsten Haustein and Julie Arrighi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Cleaner Production and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sihan Li

60 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Dramatic declines in snowpack in the western US

2018 466 citations Philip W. Mote, Sihan Li et al. profile →
Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

2017 332 citations Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

2021 242 citations Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karsten Haustein et al. Natural hazards and earth system sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sihan Li United Kingdom	24	1.5k	998	324	237	157	67	2.3k
Vasileios Syrris Italy	20	1.0k 0.7×	321 0.3×	38 0.1×	386 1.6×	76 0.5×	43	1.8k
Andries Kruger South Africa	17	1.9k 1.3×	882 0.9×	461 1.4×	284 1.2×	59 0.4×	41	2.8k
Cezar Ionescu Germany	6	581 0.4×	490 0.5×	59 0.2×	221 0.9×	239 1.5×	21	1.4k
Saini Yang China	24	930 0.6×	450 0.5×	218 0.7×	312 1.3×	315 2.0×	67	2.0k
Eric Gilleland United States	25	2.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	522 1.6×	109 0.5×	22 0.1×	70	2.9k
Kamal Ahmed Malaysia	37	3.1k 2.1×	1.5k 1.5×	998 3.1×	159 0.7×	85 0.5×	70	4.3k
Thomas Houet France	26	1.3k 0.9×	444 0.4×	165 0.5×	636 2.7×	114 0.7×	75	2.2k
A. Retalis Greece	21	903 0.6×	561 0.6×	240 0.7×	364 1.5×	57 0.4×	69	1.8k
Paul Pilon Canada	16	3.4k 2.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.9k 5.8×	490 2.1×	72 0.5×	22	4.5k
Hans Jørgen Henriksen Denmark	26	1.2k 0.8×	154 0.2×	1.3k 3.9×	256 1.1×	176 1.1×	58	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sihan Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sihan Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sihan Li

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

Barbosa, Maria Lucia Ferreira, Rafael Veiga, Renata Pacheco Quevedo, et al.. (2025). Attributing a deadly landslide disaster in Southeastern Brazil to human-induced climate change. Weather and Climate Extremes. 50. 100811–100811.

Robinson, Tom, Alexander L. Densmore, Nick Rosser, et al.. (2025). Impacts from cascading multi-hazards using hypergraphs: a case study from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(1). 267–285. 2 indexed citations

Emmer, Adam, et al.. (2025). Causes, consequences and implications of the 2023 landslide-induced Lake Rasac glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(3). 1207–1228. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Taigang, Weicai Wang, Ioannis Kougkoulos, et al.. (2025). High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11173–11173.

Li, Sihan, et al.. (2025). Genetic characterization of an H3N2 canine influenza virus strain in China in 2023—acquisition of novel human-like amino acid substitutions. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 12. 1552115–1552115. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Jin, Sihan Li, Yuhang Tian, et al.. (2025). Example dependent cost sensitive learning based selective deep ensemble model for customer credit scoring. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 6000–6000. 2 indexed citations

Kimutai, Joyce, Clair Barnes, Mariam Zachariah, et al.. (2025). Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa. Weather and Climate Extremes. 47. 100745–100745.

Crespo, Natália Machado, Cassiano Antônio Bortolozo, Andrew James Hartley, et al.. (2024). Extreme rainfall and landslides as a response to human-induced climate change: a case study at Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2020. Natural Hazards. 120(12). 10835–10860. 11 indexed citations

Vries, Maximillian Van Wyk de, Alexander L. Densmore, Mark Kincey, et al.. (2024). Detection of slow‐moving landslides through automated monitoring of surface deformation using Sentinel‐2 satellite imagery. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(4). 1397–1410. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Sihan, Deyong Yu, & Xinyu Li. (2023). Exploring the impacts of ecosystem services on human well-being in Qinghai Province under the framework of the sustainable development goals. Journal of Environmental Management. 345. 118880–118880. 29 indexed citations

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Vautard, Robert, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, R. M. Bonnet, et al.. (2023). Human influence on growing-period frosts like in early April 2021 in central France. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(3). 1045–1058. 13 indexed citations

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Abatzoglou, John T., et al.. (2022). Anthropogenic Influence on Recent Severe Autumn Fire Weather in the West Coast of the United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(4). 26 indexed citations

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Harrington, Luke J., Piotr Wolski, Izidine Pinto, et al.. (2022). Limited role of climate change in extreme low rainfall associated with southern Madagascar food insecurity, 2019–21. Environmental Research Climate. 1(2). 21003–21003. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Sihan, et al.. (2022). Farm Fatal Injury Trends in Illinois from 1999 to 2019. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health. 28(2). 99–108. 4 indexed citations

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Undorf, Sabine, Kathryn Allen, Sihan Li, et al.. (2020). Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change: are high-temperature extremes important for adaptation in Scotland?. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34051–34051. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Sihan. (2020). Trends, Development and Issues in Tourism Information System. 2(14).

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Li, Sihan, David E. Rupp, Philip W. Mote, et al.. (2019). Reducing climate model biases by exploring parameter space with large ensembles of climate model simulations and statistical emulation. Geoscientific model development. 12(7). 3017–3043. 13 indexed citations

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Sparrow, Sarah, Fangxing Tian, Sihan Li, et al.. (2018). Attributing human influence on the July 2017 Chinese heatwave: the influence of sea-surface temperatures. Environmental Research Letters. 13(11). 114004–114004. 33 indexed citations

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Haustein, Karsten, Emily Barbour, Sarah Sparrow, et al.. (2018). Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0degrees’ warmer worlds – How anthropogenic aerosols change the story. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Oldenborgh, Geert Jan van, Karin van der Wiel, Antonia Sebastian, et al.. (2017). Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017. Environmental Research Letters. 12(12). 124009–124009. 332 indexed citations breakdown →

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