Tonghua Wu

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
200 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Tonghua Wu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Tonghua Wu has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Environmental Engineering and 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Tonghua Wu's work include Climate change and permafrost (167 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (152 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (57 papers). Tonghua Wu is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (167 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (152 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (57 papers). Tonghua Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Tonghua Wu's co-authors include Guodong Cheng, Lin Zhao, Xiaodong Wu, Guojie Hu, Ren Li, Changwei Xie, Defu Zou, Xiaofan Zhu, Yongping Qiao and Qiangqiang Pang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Tonghua Wu

187 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Responses of permafrost to climate change and their environmental significance, Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

2007 758 citations Guodong Cheng, Tonghua Wu profile →
A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau

2017 671 citations Defu Zou, Lin Zhao et al. profile →
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

2021 297 citations Tonghua Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tonghua Wu China	38	5.1k	1.1k	892	730	666	200	6.3k
Huijun Jin China	52	6.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	635 0.7×	758 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	224	8.3k
Guojie Hu China	34	3.7k 0.7×	594 0.5×	679 0.8×	525 0.7×	384 0.6×	145	4.4k
Qingbai Wu China	52	7.6k 1.5×	907 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	812 1.2×	283	9.7k
Frederick E. Nelson United States	47	8.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	935 1.0×	764 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	139	9.2k
Yongjian Ding China	46	5.5k 1.1×	2.8k 2.4×	791 0.9×	605 0.8×	849 1.3×	223	7.6k
Kenneth M. Hinkel United States	41	5.0k 1.0×	596 0.5×	585 0.7×	404 0.6×	760 1.1×	123	5.8k
Jeffrey M. McKenzie Canada	39	2.6k 0.5×	655 0.6×	950 1.1×	251 0.3×	639 1.0×	97	4.5k
Defu Zou China	30	2.8k 0.5×	420 0.4×	467 0.5×	464 0.6×	284 0.4×	100	3.3k
Sean K. Carey Canada	43	2.7k 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	831 0.9×	204 0.3×	983 1.5×	128	5.1k
G. N. Flerchinger United States	39	2.2k 0.4×	1.8k 1.6×	1.0k 1.2×	287 0.4×	814 1.2×	145	4.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Tonghua, Hasi Bagan, Xudong Zhu, et al.. (2025). Revealing the dual impacts of climate change and grazing on vegetation in Mongolia: Permafrost buffering and the paradox of greening. Advances in Climate Change Research. 16(4). 830–845.

Zou, Defu, Guojie Hu, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2025). Ground surface temperature variations and their links to permafrost distribution in the Genhe River Basin, Da Xing'anling Mountain Range. Advances in Climate Change Research. 16(6). 1218–1228.

Chen, Jie, Tonghua Wu, Lin Liu, et al.. (2024). Elevation-dependent shift of landslide activity in mountain permafrost regions of the Qilian Mountains. Advances in Climate Change Research. 15(6). 1067–1077. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Xin, Tonghua Wu, Dashtseren Avirmed, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal variations of permafrost extent in Mongolia during 1950–2022. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112558–112558. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Sizhong, Xi Wen, Xiaodong Wu, et al.. (2024). Biogeographic patterns shape the bacterial community beyond permafrost gradients. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 124084–124084. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yifan, Lin Zhao, Defu Zou, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Soil Temperature and Its Change Trends in the Permafrost Regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Land. 13(7). 1029–1029.

Wu, Tonghua, Xiaodong Wu, Sizhong Yang, et al.. (2023). Carbon budgets and environmental controls in alpine ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. CATENA. 229. 107224–107224. 12 indexed citations

Cao, Xiaoyan, Xiaodong Wu, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2023). Spatial-temporal variation in XCH4 during 2009–2021 and its driving factors across the land of the Northern Hemisphere. Atmospheric Research. 291. 106811–106811. 3 indexed citations

Ma, Junjie, Ren Li, Hongchao Liu, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of CLM5.0 for simulating surface energy budget and soil hydrothermal regime in permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 332. 109380–109380. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Lin, et al.. (2023). Mapping and Characterizing Rock Glaciers in the Arid Western Kunlun Mountains Supported by InSAR and Deep Learning. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(9). 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenhao, Ren Li, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Patterns and Regional Differences in Soil Thermal Conductivity on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1168–1168. 9 indexed citations

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Zou, Defu, Lin Zhao, Guangyue Liu, et al.. (2022). Vegetation Mapping in the Permafrost Region: A Case Study on the Central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 14(1). 232–232. 6 indexed citations

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Mu, Cuicui, Tonghua Wu, Wenxin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Changes in different land cover areas and NDVI values in northern latitudes from 1982 to 2015. Advances in Climate Change Research. 12(4). 456–465. 31 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China. Earth system science data. 13(8). 4207–4218. 126 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Defu Zou, Guojie Hu, et al.. (2021). A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2021). A 1 km resolution soil organic carbon dataset for frozen ground in the Third Pole. Earth system science data. 13(7). 3453–3465. 52 indexed citations

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Ni, Jie, Tonghua Wu, Xiaofan Zhu, et al.. (2020). Simulation of the Present and Future Projection of Permafrost on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau with Statistical and Machine Learning Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 116 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenhui, Changwei Xie, Lin Zhao, et al.. (2020). Rapid expansion of lakes in the endorheic basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since 2000 and its potential drivers. CATENA. 197. 104942–104942. 57 indexed citations

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Du, Erji, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, et al.. (2016). The relationship between the ground surface layer permittivity and active-layer thawing depth in a Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau permafrost area. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 126. 55–60. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Tonghua. (2009). Effects of irrigation amount and stage on nitrogen accumulation,distribution,translocation and soil NO_3~--N content in high-yield wheat. Plant Nutrition and Fertilizing Science. 4 indexed citations

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