Willie Soon

4.3k total citations
114 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Willie Soon is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Willie Soon has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 45 papers in Atmospheric Science and 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Willie Soon's work include Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (30 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers). Willie Soon is often cited by papers focused on Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (30 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers). Willie Soon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and China. Willie Soon's co-authors include S. L. Baliunas, Sallie L. Baliunas, David R. Legates, Dmitry D. Sokoloff, Ronan Connolly, Peter Frick, Michael Connolly, Jun Lin, Hong Yan and Rodolfo G. Cionco and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Willie Soon

105 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Willie Soon United States 29 1.2k 1.1k 946 314 303 114 2.9k
J. M. Vaquero Spain 29 1.1k 0.9× 2.5k 2.2× 1.1k 1.2× 847 2.7× 728 2.4× 214 3.9k
C. Fröhlich Switzerland 31 2.5k 2.2× 1.9k 1.7× 1.9k 2.0× 391 1.2× 321 1.1× 108 4.8k
Katja Matthes Germany 30 3.7k 3.1× 1.3k 1.1× 3.0k 3.2× 614 2.0× 168 0.6× 93 4.5k
Eugene Rozanov Switzerland 43 4.8k 4.2× 2.1k 1.8× 3.8k 4.1× 311 1.0× 164 0.5× 227 6.1k
Charles Bardeen United States 36 2.6k 2.2× 906 0.8× 2.3k 2.5× 155 0.5× 66 0.2× 90 3.7k
Joanna D. Haigh United Kingdom 38 5.1k 4.3× 1.7k 1.5× 4.6k 4.9× 711 2.3× 278 0.9× 127 6.9k
Tao Li China 30 1.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 587 0.6× 332 1.1× 181 0.6× 164 2.8k
Henry N. Pollack United States 38 2.0k 1.7× 179 0.2× 827 0.9× 244 0.8× 188 0.6× 99 6.4k
Manoj Joshi United Kingdom 39 3.2k 2.7× 1.1k 1.0× 3.7k 3.9× 638 2.0× 45 0.1× 137 5.8k
John R. Delaney United States 41 1.3k 1.1× 273 0.2× 235 0.2× 633 2.0× 388 1.3× 104 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Willie Soon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Willie Soon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willie Soon

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Herrera, Víctor Manuel Velasco, Willie Soon, A. Özgüç, et al.. (2025). Solar Flare Activity, 1937–2024: Introducing the New Hemispheric Solar Flare Index (hSFI) in the Context of 2024's Major Solar Storm Events. Space Weather. 23(11).
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Qiu, Shican, Zhe Wang, Gaopeng Lu, et al.. (2024). First observations of the transient luminous event effect on ionospheric Schumann resonance, based on the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(14). 8519–8527. 1 indexed citations
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Qiu, Shican, Willie Soon, Víctor Manuel Velasco Herrera, et al.. (2023). Peculiar Wave Structure of the Mesospheric Sporadic Sodium Layer Observed by Lidars in Hefei (31.8°N, 117.3°E) and Wuhan (30.5°N, 114°E), Central China. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(16).
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Qiu, Shican, Willie Soon, Mingjiao Jia, et al.. (2023). Solitary wave characteristics on the fine structure of the mesospheric sporadic sodium layer. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Connolly, Ronan, Michael Connolly, Willie Soon, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset. Atmosphere. 13(2). 285–285. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Chengcheng, Hong Yan, Xiaolin Ma, et al.. (2019). Temperature seasonality and ENSO variability in the northern South China Sea during the Medieval Climate Anomaly interval derived from the Sr/Ca ratios of Tridacna shell. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 180. 103880–103880. 15 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie, Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly, et al.. (2018). Comparing the current and early 20th century warm periods in China. Earth-Science Reviews. 185. 80–101. 31 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie, et al.. (2017). Our oceans – Our future: New evidence-based sea level records from the Fiji islands indicating no rise in ocean level. Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change. 2 indexed citations
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Usoskin, Ilya, R. Arlt, Eleanna Asvestari, et al.. (2015). The Maunder minimum (1645–1715) was indeed a grand minimum: A reassessment of multiple datasets. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 96 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie, et al.. (2015). Keeping it simple: the value of an irreducibly simple climate model. Science Bulletin. 60(15). 1378–1390. 4 indexed citations
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Kolláth, Z., K. Oláh, T. Granzer, et al.. (2009). Multiple and changing cycles of active stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 87 indexed citations
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Green, Kesten C., J. Scott Armstrong, & Willie Soon. (2008). Benchmark forecasts for climate change. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 1 indexed citations
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Green, Kesten C., Willie Soon, & J. Scott Armstrong. (2008). Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie, et al.. (2003). Year Without a Summer. 32(3). 13. 10 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie & S. L. Baliunas. (2002). Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations
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Soon, Willie, et al.. (2001). Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions: Unknowns and uncertainties. AGUFM. 2001. 1 indexed citations
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Baliunas, Sallie L., R. A. Donahue, Willie Soon, & Gregory W. Henry. (1998). Activity Cycles in Lower Main Sequence and POST Main Sequence Stars: The HK Project. ASPC. 154. 153. 4 indexed citations
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Frick, Peter, et al.. (1997). Wavelet Analysis of Stellar Chromospheric Activity Variations. The Astrophysical Journal. 483(1). 426–434. 73 indexed citations

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