Yongxiang Hu

21.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
324 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Yongxiang Hu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongxiang Hu has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 246 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 209 papers in Atmospheric Science and 53 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Yongxiang Hu's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (212 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (136 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (88 papers). Yongxiang Hu is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (212 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (136 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (88 papers). Yongxiang Hu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Yongxiang Hu's co-authors include David M. Winker, Zhaoyan Liu, Mark Vaughan, Ali Omar, Ping Yang, Bryan A. Baum, Charles R. Trepte, Kathleen A. Powell, Stuart A. Young and Knut Stamnes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yongxiang Hu

306 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processin... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2009 2012 2018 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. Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms
    2009 1.8k citations David M. Winker, Mark Vaughan et al. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology profile →
  2. The CALIPSO Automated Aerosol Classification and Lidar Ratio Selection Algorithm
    2009 798 citations Ali Omar, David M. Winker et al. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology profile →
  3. State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    2012 413 citations Yongxiang Hu et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. The CALIPSO version 4 automated aerosol classification and lidar ratio selection algorithm
    2018 367 citations Man‐Hae Kim, Ali Omar et al. Atmospheric measurement techniques profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yongxiang Hu United States 57 11.8k 10.4k 1.5k 958 785 324 13.8k
Gerrit de Leeuw Netherlands 51 7.1k 0.6× 8.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 928 1.2× 330 10.3k
Qiang Fu United States 58 14.8k 1.3× 13.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 544 0.6× 478 0.6× 267 17.0k
David M. Winker United States 60 16.4k 1.4× 15.8k 1.5× 458 0.3× 948 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 203 18.3k
Erik van Meijgaard Netherlands 58 6.4k 0.5× 10.0k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 674 0.7× 224 0.3× 153 12.3k
Knut Stamnes United States 47 6.7k 0.6× 7.2k 0.7× 964 0.6× 719 0.8× 250 0.3× 243 10.1k
I. Slutsker United States 42 19.5k 1.7× 18.6k 1.8× 878 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 881 1.1× 76 20.7k
W. Paul Menzel United States 49 11.0k 0.9× 10.6k 1.0× 988 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 435 0.6× 200 13.6k
Teruyuki Nakajima Japan 56 18.3k 1.6× 17.5k 1.7× 610 0.4× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 271 20.1k
Roy Rasmussen United States 56 11.7k 1.0× 12.8k 1.2× 543 0.4× 1.6k 1.6× 615 0.8× 201 15.3k
Michael Schulz Germany 53 8.8k 0.8× 9.6k 0.9× 855 0.6× 741 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 221 12.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yongxiang Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongxiang Hu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yongxiang Hu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yongxiang Hu 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 Yongxiang Hu. Yongxiang Hu 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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Hu, Yongxiang, Letian Dai, Tianyu Sun, et al.. (2025). Moisture-resistant perovskite solar cells: the role of 1,1′-methylenebispyridinium dichloride in enhancing stability and performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(6). 4167–4175. 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaomei, Yongxiang Hu, Ali Omar, & Charles R. Trepte. (2025). Bathymetry and Agricultural Crop Studies From ICESat‐2: The Density‐Dimension Algorithm. Earth and Space Science. 12(6).
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Zhou, Jianzhong, et al.. (2025). Forming Ability and Stress Distribution of Integral Stiffened Structure by Laser Peening Based on Process Strategy. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.
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Lebsock, Matthew, et al.. (2024). A random forest algorithm for the prediction of cloud liquid water content from combined CloudSat–CALIPSO observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(11). 3583–3596. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhenhua, Peng Chen, Cédric Jamet, et al.. (2023). Retrieving bbp and POC from CALIOP: A deep neural network approach. Remote Sensing of Environment. 287. 113482–113482. 15 indexed citations
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Lin, Bing, Gerald M. Heymsfield, Yongxiang Hu, et al.. (2023). Simulations of sea surface reflection for V-band O2 differential absorption radar barometry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 2 indexed citations
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Gong, Cailan, et al.. (2023). Polar Cloud Detection of FengYun-3D Medium Resolution Spectral Imager II Imagery Based on the Radiative Transfer Model. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5221–5221. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaomei, Yongxiang Hu, Ali Omar, et al.. (2023). Lidar attenuation coefficient in the global oceans: insights from ICESat-2 mission. Optics Express. 31(18). 29107–29107. 12 indexed citations
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Gao, Meng, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Bryan A. Franz, et al.. (2022). Effective uncertainty quantification for multi-angle polarimetric aerosol remote sensing over ocean. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(16). 4859–4879. 14 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaomei, Yongxiang Hu, Ali Omar, et al.. (2022). Nearshore bathymetry and seafloor property studies from Space lidars: CALIPSO and ICESat-2. Optics Express. 30(20). 36509–36509. 12 indexed citations
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Avery, M. A., Brian Getzewich, Mark Vaughan, et al.. (2020). CALIOP V4 cloud thermodynamic phase assignment and the impact of near-nadir viewing angles. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(8). 4539–4563. 31 indexed citations
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Gao, Meng, Peng‐Wang Zhai, Bryan A. Franz, et al.. (2020). Inversion of multiangular polarimetric measurements from the ACEPOL campaign: an application of improving aerosol property and hyperspectral ocean color retrievals. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(7). 3939–3956. 16 indexed citations
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Gao, Meng, Peng‐Wang Zhai, Bryan A. Franz, et al.. (2019). Inversion of multiangular polarimetric measurements over open and coastal ocean waters: a joint retrieval algorithm for aerosol and water-leaving radiance properties. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(7). 3921–3941. 25 indexed citations
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Kim, Man‐Hae, Ali Omar, Jason L. Tackett, et al.. (2018). The CALIPSO version 4 automated aerosol classification and lidar ratio selection algorithm. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(11). 6107–6135. 367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hair, J. W., Brian Cairns, Mikhail D. Alexandrov, et al.. (2018). Lidar and Polarimeter Measurements of Water Clouds during the North Atlantic Marine Aerosols and Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) Campaigns. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Mark, Zhaoyan Liu, Yongxiang Hu, et al.. (2016). Cloud-Aerosol Interactions: Retrieving Aerosol Ångström Exponents from Calipso Measurements of Opaque Water Clouds. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenbo, Rosemary R. Baize, Constantine Lukashin, & Yongxiang Hu. (2015). Deriving polarization properties of desert-reflected solar spectra with PARASOL data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(13). 7725–7734. 9 indexed citations
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Winker, David M., Mark Vaughan, Ali Omar, et al.. (2009). Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 26(11). 2310–2323. 1795 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nasiri, Shaima L., Bryan A. Baum, Andrew J. Heymsfield, et al.. (2002). The Development of Midlatitude Cirrus Models for MODIS Using FIRE-I, FIRE-II, and ARM In Situ Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 41(3). 197–217. 34 indexed citations

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