Tong Lee

19.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
243 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Tong Lee is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tong Lee has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Oceanography, 97 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 76 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Tong Lee's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (112 papers), Climate variability and models (94 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (33 papers). Tong Lee is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (112 papers), Climate variability and models (94 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (33 papers). Tong Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Hong Kong. Tong Lee's co-authors include Michael J. McPhaden, Ichiro Fukumori, Jin‐Yi Yu, Dimitris Menemenlis, Hsun‐Ying Kao, Lee‐Lueng Fu, Jochem Marotzke, D.C. McClurg, Michelle M. Gierach and Séverine Fournier and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Tong Lee

230 papers receiving 11.2k 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.

Understanding ENSO Diversity

2014 808 citations Tong Lee, Yan Xue et al. profile →
Poised Chromatin at the ZEB1 Promoter Enables Breast Cancer Cell Plasticity and Enhances Tumorigenicity

2013 672 citations Tong Lee et al. profile →
Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central‐equatorial Pacific

2010 621 citations Tong Lee, Michael J. McPhaden Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

2023 261 citations Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang et al. Annals of the New York 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
Tong Lee United States	56	6.7k	6.4k	4.9k	667	537	243	11.5k
Jianping Li China	68	5.5k 0.8×	13.5k 2.1×	13.0k 2.6×	613 0.9×	258 0.5×	773	21.1k
Zhaohua Wu China	36	1.6k 0.2×	3.8k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	546 0.8×	775 1.4×	139	15.2k
Peter J. Webster United States	63	8.5k 1.3×	17.1k 2.7×	15.7k 3.2×	209 0.3×	106 0.2×	156	21.8k
Richard A. Kerr United States	32	972 0.1×	2.3k 0.4×	2.0k 0.4×	645 1.0×	261 0.5×	1.0k	7.9k
Bernd Jähne Germany	35	1.8k 0.3×	1.2k 0.2×	1.3k 0.3×	307 0.5×	564 1.1×	189	9.0k
J. G. Anderson United States	63	2.2k 0.3×	10.9k 1.7×	13.1k 2.6×	475 0.7×	640 1.2×	341	17.3k
Kenji Matsuura Japan	39	799 0.1×	1.8k 0.3×	1.1k 0.2×	589 0.9×	747 1.4×	392	11.0k
Qingyun Duan China	74	998 0.1×	15.8k 2.5×	9.5k 1.9×	518 0.8×	609 1.1×	326	26.9k
Wen Chen China	62	4.7k 0.7×	13.0k 2.0×	11.5k 2.3×	154 0.2×	98 0.2×	616	16.7k
John Church Australia	62	9.4k 1.4×	7.8k 1.2×	5.9k 1.2×	1.4k 2.0×	45 0.1×	239	16.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Tong Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tong Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tong Lee

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

David, Cédric H., Michael Denbina, J. T. Reager, et al.. (2025). Intrinsic Spatial Scales of River Stores and Fluxes and Their Relative Contributions to the Global Water Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ou, Tong Lee, Thomas Frederikse, et al.. (2024). What Forcing Mechanisms Affect the Interannual Sea Level Co‐Variability Between the Northeast and Southeast Coasts of the United States?. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(1). 7 indexed citations

Torres, Héctor, Patrice Klein, Tong Lee, et al.. (2023). Anticipated Capabilities of the ODYSEA Wind and Current Mission Concept to Estimate Wind Work at the Air–Sea Interface. Remote Sensing. 15(13). 3337–3337. 15 indexed citations

Bommasani, Rishi, Percy Liang, & Tong Lee. (2023). Holistic Evaluation of Language Models. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1525(1). 140–146. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

Yu, Lisan, Frederick M. Bingham, Tong Lee, et al.. (2021). Revisiting the Global Patterns of Seasonal Cycle in Sea Surface Salinity. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 15 indexed citations

Lee, Tong, et al.. (2021). The effect of mentoring and self-esteem on job satisfaction: a comparative study between U.S.-born and foreign-born faculty. Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning. 29(4). 412–429. 3 indexed citations

Olmedo, Estrella, Carolina Gabarró, Verónica González‐Gambau, et al.. (2018). Seven Years of SMOS Sea Surface Salinity at High Latitudes: Variability in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions. Remote Sensing. 10(11). 1772–1772. 49 indexed citations

Li, J.‐L. F., E. Suhas, Mark Richardson, et al.. (2018). The Impacts of Bias in Cloud‐Radiation‐Dynamics Interactions on Central Pacific Seasonal and El Niño Simulations in Contemporary GCMs. Earth and Space Science. 5(2). 50–60. 7 indexed citations

Fournier, Séverine, et al.. (2017). Modulation of the Ganges‐Brahmaputra River Plume by the Indian Ocean Dipole and Eddies Inferred From Satellite Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(12). 9591–9604. 58 indexed citations

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Fournier, Séverine, J. T. Reager, Tong Lee, et al.. (2017). SMAP observes flooding from land to sea: The Texas event of 2015. EGUGA. 19407. 29 indexed citations

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McGregor, Shayne, Alex Sen Gupta, Dietmar Dommenget, et al.. (2016). Factors influencing the skill of synthesized satellite wind products in the tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(2). 1072–1089. 13 indexed citations

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Lee, Tong, Thomas Meißner, Frank Wentz, & Gary Lagerloef. (2016). Evaluation of sea surface salinity retrieval from SMAP. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Nianzhen, Qin Chen, Tong Lee, et al.. (2011). IonFlux: A Microfluidic Patch Clamp System Evaluated with Human Ether-à-go-go Related Gene Channel Physiology and Pharmacology. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 9(6). 608–619. 31 indexed citations

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Fujii, Yosuke, Tong Lee, Michele M. Rienecker, et al.. (2010). Role of the Ocean Observing System in an End-to-End Seasonal Forecasting System. 262–278. 16 indexed citations

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Dombrowsky, E., Laurent Bertino, Gary B. Brassington, et al.. (2009). GODAE Systems in Operation. Oceanography. 22(3). 80–95. 76 indexed citations

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Menemenlis, Dimitris, Jean‐Michel Campin, Patrick Heimbach, et al.. (2008). ECCO2: High Resolution Global Ocean and Sea Ice Data Synthesis. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 328 indexed citations

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Lee, Tong, et al.. (2004). The 1997-99 abrupt change of the upper ocean temperature in the northcentral Pacific. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Tong, et al.. (2004). Real-time Automation of Water Supply and Distribution for the City of Jacksonville, Florida, USA (特集シミュレーション技術). 9(3). 15–29. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Tong. (2004). Decadal weakening of the shallow overturning circulation in the South Indian Ocean. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 12 indexed citations

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Chung, Fu-Lai & Tong Lee. (1994). A fuzzy learning model for membership function estimation and pattern classification. 426–431 vol.1. 7 indexed citations

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