Yan Du

12.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
232 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Yan Du is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Du has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Oceanography, 165 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 91 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yan Du's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (184 papers), Climate variability and models (154 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers). Yan Du is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (184 papers), Climate variability and models (154 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (71 papers). Yan Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yan Du's co-authors include Shang‐Ping Xie, Gang Huang, Kaiming Hu, Hiroki Tokinaga, Tangdong Qu, Takeaki Sampe, Jan Hafner, Yuhong Zhang, Yiquan Qi and Gen Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Yan Du

214 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Cli... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2016 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 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.

  1. Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Climate during the Summer following El Niño
    2008 1.7k citations Yan Du et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. Indo-western Pacific ocean capacitor and coherent climate anomalies in post-ENSO summer: A review
    2016 605 citations Yan Du et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yan Du China 45 7.0k 6.6k 5.2k 592 443 232 8.8k
Yukio Masumoto Japan 39 5.5k 0.8× 5.2k 0.8× 3.3k 0.6× 298 0.5× 333 0.8× 122 6.8k
Jérôme Vialard France 51 6.9k 1.0× 7.0k 1.1× 5.2k 1.0× 169 0.3× 303 0.7× 150 8.7k
Gary Meyers Australia 40 5.2k 0.7× 5.0k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 429 0.7× 546 1.2× 67 6.5k
Weiqing Han United States 49 4.5k 0.6× 5.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.5× 272 0.5× 280 0.6× 150 6.3k
Julian P. McCreary United States 55 9.1k 1.3× 10.8k 1.6× 5.6k 1.1× 338 0.6× 859 1.9× 126 12.3k
Niklas Schneider United States 45 7.2k 1.0× 6.1k 0.9× 5.1k 1.0× 106 0.2× 612 1.4× 91 8.4k
Roger Lukas United States 45 5.1k 0.7× 7.3k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 321 0.5× 1.3k 3.0× 114 8.8k
Arne Biastoch Germany 43 4.5k 0.6× 5.1k 0.8× 3.5k 0.7× 221 0.4× 748 1.7× 147 7.0k
Benjamin S. Giese United States 31 5.0k 0.7× 4.8k 0.7× 3.4k 0.7× 118 0.2× 520 1.2× 58 6.1k
Wonsun Park Germany 39 3.5k 0.5× 2.6k 0.4× 3.5k 0.7× 129 0.2× 438 1.0× 126 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Du

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Du

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Du

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Du. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Du 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 Yan Du. Yan Du 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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Wang, Xiangpeng, Yan Du, Xiaoming Zhai, Yuhong Zhang, & Minyang Wang. (2025). Strong Long-Lived Kuroshio-Shed Anticyclonic Eddies and Their Reintensification in the Northern South China Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 55(10). 1645–1664.
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Du, Yan, et al.. (2024). CFD modeling of nonlinear tsunami wave run-up dynamics: Analytical calibration and estimation methods. Ocean Engineering. 313. 119495–119495. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Tianyu, et al.. (2023). Influence of rossby wave in southern Indian Ocean on the low frequency variability of eddy kinetic energy within agulhas current system. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 203. 104218–104218.
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Du, Yan, et al.. (2023). The Impact of the Eastern Pacific Fresh and Warm Pools on the Bimodal Seasonality of Barrier Layers. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(3). 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Yiping, Lanlan Zhang, Yi Liang, et al.. (2023). A contracting Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Early Heinrich Stadial 1. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4695–4695. 14 indexed citations
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He, Qingyou, Weikang Zhan, Shuqun Cai, et al.. (2023). Enhancing impacts of mesoscale eddies on Southern Ocean temperature variability and extremes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(39). e2302292120–e2302292120. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Zesheng, Yan Du, Renguang Wu, & Zhiping Wen. (2023). Atmospheric rivers over East Asia during early boreal summer: role of Indo-western Pacific Ocean capacitor. Climate Dynamics. 62(3). 2517–2531. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Ruyan, Yan Du, Ying Zhang, & Jianwei Chi. (2023). Nonlinear response of Equatorial Western Pacific phytoplankton blooms to ‘double-dip’ La Niña events. Environmental Research Communications. 5(5). 51005–51005. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuhong, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric Response of Sea Surface Salinity to Extreme Positive and Negative Indian Ocean Dipole in the Southern Tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Dongyan, John K. Keesing, Óscar Serrano, et al.. (2022). Wildfires enhance phytoplankton production in tropical oceans. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1348–1348. 32 indexed citations
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Feng, Yang, Yan Du, Karthik Balaguru, et al.. (2022). Drivers of Phytoplankton Variability in and Near the Pearl River Estuary, South China Sea During Typhoon Hato (2017): A Numerical Study. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(10). 10 indexed citations
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Feng, Yang, et al.. (2021). A Surface pCO2 Increasing Hiatus in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Since 2010. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(21). 4 indexed citations
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Du, Yan, Tianyu Wang, Shuibo Hu, et al.. (2020). High-Frequency Variations in Pearl River Plume Observed by Soil Moisture Active Passive Sea Surface Salinity. Remote Sensing. 12(3). 563–563. 8 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xuhua, et al.. (2018). Dynamics of Eddy Generation in the Central Bay of Bengal. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(9). 6861–6875. 76 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xuhua, Julian P. McCreary, Bo Qiu, Yiquan Qi, & Yan Du. (2017). Intraseasonal‐to‐semiannual variability of sea‐surface height in the astern, equatorialIndianOcean and southernBay ofBengal. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(5). 4051–4067. 46 indexed citations
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Du, Yan, et al.. (2013). Impact of Indian Ocean Dipole on the salinity budget in the equatorial Indian Ocean. AGUFM. 2013. 19 indexed citations
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Du, Yan, et al.. (2012). Abnormal upwelling and chlorophyll-a concentration off South Vietnam in summer 2007. AGUFM. 2012. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiangyun, Jie Cai, Ting Zhang, & Yan Du. (2012). The Potential Contribution of Plant DNA Barcoding and iFlora to Plant Germplasm Conservation. 34(6). 539–539. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Yan, Dongxiao Wang, Weidong Zhou, Weiqiang Wang, & Xiongbin Liu. (2004). Intercomparison of three South China Sea circulation models. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 23(1). 41–50. 4 indexed citations

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