Wusheng Yu

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Wusheng Yu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wusheng Yu has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Atmospheric Science, 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 32 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Wusheng Yu's work include Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (32 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers) and Climate variability and models (27 papers). Wusheng Yu is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (32 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers) and Climate variability and models (27 papers). Wusheng Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Wusheng Yu's co-authors include Tandong Yao, Anxin Lu, Huabiao Zhao, Xiaoxin Yang, Wei Yang, Baiqing Xu, Xuejun Guo, Lonnie G. Thompson, Daniel Joswiak and Dambaru Ballab Kattel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Wusheng Yu

55 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

2012 2.2k citations Tandong Yao, Lonnie G. Thompson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
A review of climatic controls on δ¹⁸O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations

2013 722 citations Tandong Yao, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wusheng Yu China	30	4.2k	2.2k	1.1k	743	633	57	5.2k
Lide Tian China	34	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	827 0.8×	586 0.8×	441 0.7×	116	3.5k
Huabiao Zhao China	21	3.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	351 0.3×	447 0.6×	423 0.7×	54	4.9k
Lide Tian China	32	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	489 0.7×	545 0.9×	72	3.8k
Daniel Joswiak China	24	3.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	227 0.2×	540 0.7×	481 0.8×	37	4.6k
Barbara Stenni Italy	39	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	596 0.5×	161 0.2×	1.3k 2.1×	130	4.5k
Keqin Duan China	22	2.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	184 0.2×	473 0.6×	295 0.5×	74	3.5k
Yanbin Lei China	25	1.8k 0.4×	939 0.4×	139 0.1×	618 0.8×	286 0.5×	47	2.4k
Douglas R. Hardy United States	29	3.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	168 0.2×	128 0.2×	635 1.0×	57	3.8k
Yafeng Shi China	24	2.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	142 0.1×	345 0.5×	611 1.0×	81	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wusheng Yu

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Zhang, Jingyi, Wusheng Yu, Lonnie G. Thompson, et al.. (2025). Shifting influences of Indian Ocean Dipole and western Pacific subtropical high on annual precipitation δ18O in southern East Asia. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhengyu, et al.. (2025). Precipitation oxygen isotope variability across timescales in East Asia records two sub-processes of summer monsoon system. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Guo, Rong, Wusheng Yu, Jingyi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Different Dynamics Drive Indian Ocean Moisture to the Southern Slope of Central Himalayas: An Isotopic Approach. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(11).

Yu, Wusheng, Rong Guo, Lonnie G. Thompson, et al.. (2024). Water isotope ratios reflect convection intensity rather than rain type proportions in the pantropics. Science Advances. 10(33). eado3258–eado3258. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingyi, Wusheng Yu, Stephen Lewis, et al.. (2023). Controls on Stable Water Isotopes in Monsoonal Precipitation Across the Bay of Bengal: Atmosphere and Surface Analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(5). 10 indexed citations

You, Chao, et al.. (2022). Variability of Levoglucosan in Precipitation in Lhasa as a Proxy for Tracing Vegetation Fires. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 6(12). 2760–2766. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Wusheng, Lun Luo, Xiaoming Liu, et al.. (2022). How do precipitation events modify the stable isotope ratios in leaf water at Lhasa on the southern Tibetan Plateau?. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 58(3). 229–246.

Yu, Wusheng, Stephen Lewis, Lonnie G. Thompson, et al.. (2022). Inverse altitude effect disputes the theoretical foundation of stable isotope paleoaltimetry. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4371–4371. 23 indexed citations

Cui, Jiangpeng, Lide Tian, & Wusheng Yu. (2021). Organic contamination in online laser-based plant stem and leaf water isotope measurements for pre-extracted samples. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 57(3). 262–270. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Wusheng, Andreas Schneider, Tobias Borsdorff, et al.. (2021). Interannual Variation in Stable Isotopes in Water Vapor Over the Northern Tibetan Plateau Linked to ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(8). 3 indexed citations

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Li, Shenghai, Tandong Yao, Wei Yang, Wusheng Yu, & Meilin Zhu. (2018). Glacier Energy and Mass Balance in the Inland Tibetan Plateau: Seasonal and Interannual Variability in Relation to Atmospheric Changes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(12). 6390–6409. 48 indexed citations

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Yao, Tandong, et al.. (2018). Glacier Energy and Mass Balance in the Inland Tibetan Plateau: Seasonal and Interannual Variability in Relation to Atmospheric Changes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Shenghai, Tandong Yao, Wusheng Yu, Wei Yang, & Meilin Zhu. (2018). Energy and mass balance characteristics of the Guliya ice cap in the West Kunlun Mountains, Tibetan Plateau. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 159. 71–85. 18 indexed citations

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Yu, Wusheng, Lide Tian, Y. Ma, Bing Xu, & Dongmei Qu. (2015). Simultaneous monitoring of stable oxygen isotope composition in water vapour and precipitation over the central Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(18). 10251–10262. 56 indexed citations

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Yao, Tandong, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Jing Gao, et al.. (2013). A review of climatic controls on δ¹⁸O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations. Reviews of Geophysics. 51(4). 525–548. 722 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yao, Tandong, Lonnie G. Thompson, Wei Yang, et al.. (2012). Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings. Nature Climate Change. 2(9). 663–667. 2225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Yongqin, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, et al.. (2011). Microbial diversity in the snow, a moraine lake and a stream in Himalayan glacier. Extremophiles. 15(3). 411–421. 37 indexed citations

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Yu, Wusheng, Yaoming Ma, Weizhen Sun, & Yu Wang. (2009). Climatic significance of δ18O records from precipitation on the western Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 54(16). 2732–2741. 23 indexed citations

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Yu, Wusheng, Tandong Yao, Lide Tian, et al.. (2006). Relationships between δ 18O in summer precipitation and temperature and moisture trajectories at Muztagata, western China. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 49(1). 27–35. 36 indexed citations

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Xiang, Shurong, Tandong Yao, Lizhe An, et al.. (2004). Vertical quantitative and dominant population distribution of the bacteria isolated from the Muztagata ice core. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 48(10). 1728–1739. 12 indexed citations

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