Yanjun Cai

13.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
131 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Yanjun Cai is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanjun Cai has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Atmospheric Science, 50 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 31 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Yanjun Cai's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (94 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (31 papers) and Geological formations and processes (30 papers). Yanjun Cai is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (94 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (31 papers) and Geological formations and processes (30 papers). Yanjun Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yanjun Cai's co-authors include Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An, R. Lawrence Edwards, Liangcheng Tan, C. A. Dykoski, Megan J. Kelly, Haiwei Zhang, J. Revenaugh, Meiqi Zhang and Yung‐Yang Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yanjun Cai

123 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China

2005 1.6k citations Hai Cheng, Yanjun Cai et al. profile →
Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

2004 1.1k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Global Monsoon Dynamics and Climate Change

2014 435 citations Zhisheng An, Youbin Sun et al. profile →
The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

2010 387 citations Yanjun Cai, Liangcheng Tan et al. profile →
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

2015 277 citations Wu Liu, María Martinón‐Torres et al. profile →
Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

2015 276 citations Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

2016 263 citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanjun Cai

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Population genomics reveals population structure and local adaptation of the Helicoverpa armigera lineage in Xinjiang, China 2025 ·Pest Management Science ·(unknown), Yanjun Cai, Jianpeng Zhang, John G. Oakeshott, Yidong Wu	2
2	Dipolar hydroclimate pattern changes in southwest China during the last deglaciation 2025 ·npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·(unknown), Yanhong Zheng, (unknown), (unknown), Mei He, (unknown), (unknown), Youfeng Ning, John Dodson, Hai Cheng, Yanjun Cai	2
3	The hominin teeth from the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong site, China 2025 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Xiujie Wu, María Martinón‐Torres, Song Xing, Shuwen Pei, Yanjun Cai, Haowen Tong, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Wu Liu	1
4	Western Pacific Subtropical High Modulates Regional Hydroclimate Changes on Multiple Timescales Over Central China 2025 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Yanjun Cai, Yanhong Zheng, Haiwei Zhang, Tao Han, (unknown), Xing Cheng, Le Ma, Chengcheng Liu, (unknown), Hai Cheng, Hong Yan	4
5	Coeval Holocene Stalagmites Record Multi‐Centennial Climate Variability and Drought in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Warren D. Sharp, Christopher W. Kinsley, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), B. A. McKenzie, Jessica Oster	0
6	Calcite recrystallization and its impact on speleothem geochemistry 2024 ·Sedimentary Geology ·Mei He, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), (unknown), Yanbin Lü, Xing Cheng, (unknown), Guozhen Wang, (unknown), Ting Wang, Le Ma, (unknown), Yu‐Ting Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Hanying Li, Hong Chang, Hong Yan, Hai Cheng	1
7	Early-Middle Holocene climate change and its impact on the succession of Neolithic cultures in southern Hangzhou Bay 2024 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Jing Lu, Haiwei Zhang, Rui Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng	0
8	Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Jonathan L. Baker, Rik Tjallingii, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), (unknown), Noel Amano, Kathleen R. Johnson, (unknown), Jeremy McCormack, Ola Kwiecien, (unknown), Yuri Dublyansky, (unknown), Hai Cheng, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach	6
9	Pre‐Industrial (1750–1850 CE) Cold Season Warmth in Northeastern China 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yuan Yao, Lu Wang, Yongsong Huang, Jie Liang, Richard S. Vachula, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng	6
10	Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China 2023 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Xiujie Wu, Shuwen Pei, Yanjun Cai, Haowen Tong, (unknown), Yi Yan, Song Xing, María Martinón‐Torres, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Wu Liu	6
11	Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra 2022 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Julien Louys, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J. Price, Kira Westaway, Yahdi Zaim, Yan Rizal, (unknown), (unknown), Agus Trihascaryo, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Ola Kwiecien, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), P Albers, John De Vos, Patrick Roberts	13
12	Asian Summer Monsoon Changes Inferred From a Stalagmite δ18O Record in Central China During the Last Glacial Period 2022 ·Frontiers in Earth Science ·Qingmin Chen, Xing Cheng, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), Junliang Zhang, Li Tang, Yi Hu, (unknown), Peng Wang, (unknown), Yu Zhang, (unknown), Jie Zhou, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, (unknown)	6
13	Speleothem‐Based Hydroclimate Reconstructions During the Penultimate Deglaciation in Northern China 2021 ·Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·(unknown), Yanjun Cai, Yanbin Lü, Le Ma, Xing Cheng, Chengcheng Liu, Hong Yan, Youbin Sun, Dong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Mei He, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	14
14	Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China 2021 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Xiujie Wu, Shuwen Pei, Yanjun Cai, Haowen Tong, Song Xing, Tea Jashashvili, Kristian J. Carlson, Wu Liu	11
15	Millennial‐Scale Monsoon Variability Modulated by Low‐Latitude Insolation During the Last Glaciation 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Gaojun Li, Yanjun Cai, Xing Cheng, Youbin Sun, Jiaju Zhao, (unknown), Le Ma, Zhisheng An	18
16	Analysis of Iodine Isotopes in Travertine from Baishuitai, Yunnan Province, China 2020 ·Atomic Spectroscopy ·Luyuan Zhang, Miao Fang, Hailong Sun, Xiaolin Hou, Yanjun Cai, Qi Liu, Ning Chen, Tong Zhang, Tong Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Yixuan Liu	1
17	Abrupt Freshening Since the Early Little Ice Age in Lake Sayram of Arid Central Asia Inferred From an Alkenone Isomer Proxy 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yuan Yao, Jianghu Lan, Jiaju Zhao, Richard S. Vachula, Hai Xu, Yanjun Cai, Hai Cheng, Yongsong Huang	19
18	Middle Pleistocene human femoral diaphyses from Hualongdong, Anhui Province, China 2020 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Song Xing, Xiujie Wu, Wu Liu, Shuwen Pei, Yanjun Cai, (unknown), Erik Trinkaus	6
19	Climate changes in northeastern margin of Tibetan Plateau since 8ka BP --- The speleothem records 2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Yanjun Cai, Zhengfeng An, Hangxin Cheng, (unknown), Liangcheng Tan	1
20	THE STUDY ON THE INITIAL THORIUM CORRECTION OF THE 230Th-234U-238U DATING OF THE SPLEOTHEM BY USING ISOCHRON METHOD 2005 ·Diqiu kexue jinzhan ·(unknown), Xianfeng Wang, Hai Cheng, (unknown), Zhisheng An, Yanjun Cai	1

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