Tianyi Sun

857 total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 517 citations indexed

About

Tianyi Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Tianyi Sun has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 517 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Tianyi Sun's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers), Climate variability and models (5 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (3 papers). Tianyi Sun is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers), Climate variability and models (5 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (3 papers). Tianyi Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Tianyi Sun's co-authors include Ilissa Ocko, Steven P. Hamburg, Doria R. Gordon, Catherine Ivanovich, Yuko Okumura, Drew Shindell, Denise L. Mauzerall, Michael Oppenheimer, Stephen W. Pacala and Yangyang Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Tianyi Sun

12 papers receiving 501 citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

2021 209 citations Ilissa Ocko, Tianyi Sun et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Future warming from global food consumption

2023 131 citations Catherine Ivanovich, Tianyi Sun et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tianyi Sun United States	8	233	147	112	77	61	13	517
Ilissa Ocko United States	12	393 1.7×	225 1.5×	117 1.0×	161 2.1×	125 2.0×	18	891
Jiang Zhu China	14	181 0.8×	120 0.8×	140 1.3×	50 0.6×	60 1.0×	36	601
Sayaka Yoshikawa Japan	13	374 1.6×	38 0.3×	58 0.5×	47 0.6×	167 2.7×	32	1.1k
William Battye United States	15	260 1.1×	429 2.9×	94 0.8×	29 0.4×	180 3.0×	28	937
В. Н. Коротков Russia	13	309 1.3×	116 0.8×	105 0.9×	33 0.4×	40 0.7×	61	643
Xiaolin Ma China	14	98 0.4×	130 0.9×	129 1.2×	64 0.8×	70 1.1×	31	555
David A. Lutz United States	18	364 1.6×	154 1.0×	175 1.6×	9 0.1×	96 1.6×	50	816
Adrian Macey United Kingdom	6	260 1.1×	76 0.5×	231 2.1×	102 1.3×	123 2.0×	11	593
Ann R. Stavert Australia	9	354 1.5×	200 1.4×	66 0.6×	63 0.8×	72 1.2×	14	577

Countries citing papers authored by Tianyi Sun

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tianyi Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tianyi Sun

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

1.

Albertson, J. D., Scott C. Herndon, Conner Daube, et al.. (2025). Quantification of Hydrogen Emission Rates Using Downwind Plume Characterization Techniques. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(12). 6016–6024. 2 indexed citations

2.

Li, Meng, Xiao Ding, Chao Tian, et al.. (2025). Correlation between night sweats and season fluctuation in China. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1423698–1423698.

3.

DiNezio, Pedro, Timothy M. Shanahan, Tianyi Sun, et al.. (2025). Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk. Nature. 644(8077). 676–683. 1 indexed citations

4.

Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2024). Climate Impacts of Hydrogen and Methane Emissions Can Considerably Reduce the Climate Benefits across Key Hydrogen Use Cases and Time Scales. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(12). 5299–5309. 39 indexed citations

5.

Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2023). Distortion of sectoral roles in climate change threatens climate goals. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 3 indexed citations

6.

Ivanovich, Catherine, Tianyi Sun, Doria R. Gordon, & Ilissa Ocko. (2023). Future warming from global food consumption. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 297–302. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Sun, Tianyi, Ilissa Ocko, & Steven P. Hamburg. (2022). The value of early methane mitigation in preserving Arctic summer sea ice. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44001–44001. 4 indexed citations

8.

Morée, Anne L., et al.. (2021). Cancellation of the Precessional Cycle in δ ¹⁸ O Records During the Early Pleistocene. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). 7 indexed citations

9.

Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2021). Path to net zero is critical to climate outcome. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22173–22173. 52 indexed citations

10.

Ocko, Ilissa, Tianyi Sun, Drew Shindell, et al.. (2021). Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 54042–54042. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

Sun, Tianyi & Yuko Okumura. (2020). Impact of ENSO‐Like Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability on the Relative Frequency of El Niño and La Niña Events. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(3). 11 indexed citations

12.

Sun, Tianyi & Yuko Okumura. (2019). Role of Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing from the South and North Pacific in Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability. Journal of Climate. 32(13). 4013–4038. 14 indexed citations

13.

Okumura, Yuko, Tianyi Sun, & Xian Wu. (2017). Asymmetric Modulation of El Niño and La Niña and the Linkage to Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability. Journal of Climate. 30(12). 4705–4733. 44 indexed citations

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