Wenju Cai

476 total papers · 32.3k total citations
315 papers, 20.8k citations indexed

About

Wenju Cai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenju Cai has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 20.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 277 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 214 papers in Atmospheric Science and 211 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Wenju Cai's work include Climate variability and models (272 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (192 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (78 papers). Wenju Cai is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (272 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (192 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (78 papers). Wenju Cai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Wenju Cai's co-authors include Tim Cowan, Agus Santoso, Lixin Wu, Michael J. McPhaden, Guojian Wang, Axel Timmermann, Peter van Rensch, Matthew H. England, Matthew Collins and Fei‐Fei Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wenju Cai

299 papers receiving 20.4k citations

Hit Papers

Increasing frequency of e... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2014 2014 2010 2015 2012 500 1000 1.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming
    2014 1.6k citations Wenju Cai, Matthieu Lengaigne et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  2. Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus
    2014 1.1k citations Matthew H. England, Shayne McGregor et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  3. The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño
    2010 970 citations Matthew Collins, Soon‐Il An et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  4. ENSO and greenhouse warming
    2015 637 citations Wenju Cai, Agus Santoso et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  5. Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents
    2012 578 citations Lixin Wu, Wenju Cai et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  6. Weather conditions conducive to Beijing severe haze more frequent under climate change
    2017 515 citations Wenju Cai, Ke Li et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  7. Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate
    2015 512 citations Dunxin Hu, Lixin Wu et al. Nature profile →
  8. Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming
    2015 491 citations Wenju Cai, Guojian Wang et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  9. Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming
    2018 429 citations Wenju Cai, Guojian Wang et al. Nature profile →
  10. Teleconnection Pathways of ENSO and the IOD and the Mechanisms for Impacts on Australian Rainfall
    2011 398 citations Wenju Cai, Peter van Rensch et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  11. The Defining Characteristics of ENSO Extremes and the Strong 2015/2016 El Niño
    2017 375 citations Agus Santoso, Michael J. McPhaden et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  12. ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing
    2018 372 citations Sang‐Wook Yeh, Wenju Cai et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  13. Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño
    2019 255 citations Bin Wang, Xiao Luo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios
    2022 148 citations Wenju Cai, Benjamin Ng et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  15. Increased occurrences of consecutive La Niña events under global warming
    2023 132 citations Tao Geng, Fan Jia et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wenju Cai 16.2k 12.0k 9.4k 2.3k 1.0k 315 20.8k
Gabriel A. Vecchi 24.6k 1.5× 21.1k 1.8× 11.5k 1.2× 2.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 279 30.3k
Jonathan M. Gregory 17.1k 1.1× 14.6k 1.2× 6.8k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.6× 280 23.8k
Thomas L. Delworth 18.1k 1.1× 15.1k 1.3× 7.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.7× 206 21.8k
Yochanan Kushnir 14.4k 0.9× 12.1k 1.0× 6.8k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 972 0.9× 153 18.0k
David J. Karoly 13.0k 0.8× 11.0k 0.9× 4.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 729 0.7× 206 16.5k
Clara Deser 24.5k 1.5× 21.7k 1.8× 11.1k 1.2× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 225 28.4k
Mojib Latif 19.7k 1.2× 16.6k 1.4× 11.7k 1.2× 1.2k 0.5× 892 0.9× 311 23.4k
E. Roeckner 15.3k 0.9× 14.4k 1.2× 4.0k 0.4× 910 0.4× 863 0.8× 145 18.4k
David S. Battisti 13.6k 0.8× 13.8k 1.1× 6.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 423 0.4× 189 20.7k
Peter J. Webster 17.1k 1.1× 15.7k 1.3× 8.4k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 746 0.7× 156 21.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenju Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenju Cai

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

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