Yaoming Ma

14.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
367 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Yaoming Ma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaoming Ma has authored 367 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 281 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 272 papers in Atmospheric Science and 70 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Yaoming Ma's work include Climate variability and models (176 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (121 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (116 papers). Yaoming Ma is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (176 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (121 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (116 papers). Yaoming Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Yaoming Ma's co-authors include Zhongbo Su, Lei Zhong, Weiqiang Ma, Xuelong Chen, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Kun Yang, Tandong Yao, Toshio Koike, Binbin Wang and Mhd. Suhyb Salama and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yaoming Ma

347 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Third Pole Environment (TPE)

2012 751 citations Lonnie G. Thompson, Yaoming Ma et al. profile →
Persistent and enhanced carbon sequestration capacity of alpine grasslands on Earth’s Third Pole

2023 84 citations Yuyang Wang, Yaoming Ma et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yaoming Ma	6.1k	5.9k	1.9k	1.5k	1.2k	367	9.2k
Scott Denning	8.0k 1.3×	5.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	897 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	126	9.4k
David Gochis	6.2k 1.0×	5.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	3.6k 2.4×	665 0.5×	146	8.9k
Werner Eugster	6.1k 1.0×	3.8k 0.6×	996 0.5×	649 0.4×	2.1k 1.7×	188	8.9k
T. H. Painter	5.3k 0.9×	8.9k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.7×	172	12.4k
Samuel Levis	11.1k 1.8×	7.3k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	2.6k 2.1×	81	15.1k
Michael Barlage	4.9k 0.8×	4.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	406 0.3×	106	7.2k
Agnès Ducharne	3.2k 0.5×	2.0k 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	678 0.6×	86	5.1k
Jun Qin	5.0k 0.8×	5.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	872 0.7×	121	9.2k
Yongjian Ding	2.8k 0.5×	5.5k 0.9×	791 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	849 0.7×	223	7.6k
Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho	3.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.3×	577 0.5×	87	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yaoming Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yu, Haipeng, Zeyong Hu, Yaoming Ma, et al.. (2025). Long-term land–atmosphere energy and water exchange observational dataset over central Tibetan Plateau. Earth system science data. 17(12). 6871–6888.

Yuan, Yuan, et al.. (2025). A new roughness parameterization scheme based on vegetation dynamics and its applicability on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 654. 132822–132822. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Yaoming, et al.. (2025). Coupling Soil Gravel Parameterization Into WRF: A Case Study of the Tibetan Plateau Vortex. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(7).

Xu, Xin, et al.. (2025). The Key Role of Mixed‐Phase and Ice‐Phase Processes on the Seasonal Shifts in Drop Size Distribution on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(9).

Jiang, Dabang, et al.. (2024). Influence of winter northern Eurasian snow depth on the early summer Tibetan Plateau heat source during 1950–2019. Climate Dynamics. 62(5). 4253–4266. 2 indexed citations

Li, Maoshan, et al.. (2024). Variation in the surface heat flux on the north and south slopes of Mount Qomolangma. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 17(5). 100513–100513.

Chen, Xuelong, Yajing Liu, Yaoming Ma, et al.. (2024). Research progress on the water vapor channel within the Yarlung Zsangbo Grand Canyon, China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 17(5). 100462–100462. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Yaoming, et al.. (2024). Extreme precipitation detection ability of four high-resolution precipitation product datasets in hilly area: a case study in Nepal. Advances in Climate Change Research. 15(3). 390–405. 6 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).

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Wang, Binbin, Yaoming Ma, Yan Wang, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Lake Stratification and Mixing and Its Influencing Factors over High Elevation Large and Small Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. Water. 15(11). 2094–2094. 6 indexed citations

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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

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Xu, Chao, Jiehua Ma, Jianqi Sun, et al.. (2022). Links between winter dust over the Tibetan Plateau and preceding autumn sea ice variability in the Barents and Kara Seas. Advances in Climate Change Research. 13(6). 896–908. 4 indexed citations

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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

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Chen, Xuelong, Zhongbo Su, Yaoming Ma, Isabel F. Trigo, & Pierre Gentine. (2021). Remote Sensing of Global Daily Evapotranspiration based on a Surface Energy Balance Method and Reanalysis Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(16). 53 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ling, Yaoming Ma, Xuelong Chen, Yuyang Wang, & Zhaoguo Li. (2021). An Enhanced MOD16 Evapotranspiration Model for the Tibetan Plateau During the Unfrozen Season. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(7). 30 indexed citations

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Guggenberger, Georg, et al.. (2021). Sensitivity of soil respiration rate with respect to temperature, moisture and oxygen under freezing and thawing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 165. 108488–108488. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Lian, et al.. (2021). Improved parameterization of snow albedo in Noah coupled with Weather Research and Forecasting: applicability to snow estimates for the Tibetan Plateau. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 4967–4981. 24 indexed citations

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Ma, Yaoming, et al.. (2019). Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Precipitation Extremities of Eastern Nepal in the Last Two Decades (1997–2016). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(14). 7523–7539. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Lian, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of WRF Modeling in Relation to Different Land Surface Schemes and Initial and Boundary Conditions: A Snow Event Simulation Over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(1). 209–226. 49 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Jing Zhou, Jia Qi, et al.. (2017). Development of a land surface model with coupled snow and frozen soil physics. Water Resources Research. 53(6). 5085–5103. 90 indexed citations

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