Yu Li

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yu Li is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Li has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Atmospheric Science, 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 42 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yu Li's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (69 papers), Geological formations and processes (28 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Yu Li is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (69 papers), Geological formations and processes (28 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Yu Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yu Li's co-authors include Nai’ang Wang, Carrie Morrill, Hao Long, Zhuolun Li, Chengqi Zhang, Gang Wang, Zhongping Lai, Yibing Su, Yanbin Wang and Zhiguo Rao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yu Li

152 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Holocene East Asian summer monsoon records in northern China and their inconsistency with Chinese stalagmite δ18O records

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Li China	30	1.6k	673	621	564	370	163	3.1k
Markus Egli Switzerland	41	2.0k 1.3×	948 1.4×	494 0.8×	448 0.8×	631 1.7×	180	4.9k
Guido L. B. Wiesenberg Switzerland	34	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 2.0×	272 0.4×	603 1.1×	600 1.6×	96	4.1k
Fatima Laggoun‐Défarge France	30	939 0.6×	1.2k 1.8×	214 0.3×	341 0.6×	408 1.1×	91	3.0k
Eva Lehndorff Germany	32	928 0.6×	752 1.1×	156 0.3×	268 0.5×	554 1.5×	82	3.5k
Juzhi Hou China	35	3.0k 2.0×	1.6k 2.3×	804 1.3×	622 1.1×	175 0.5×	113	4.4k
Huan Yang China	32	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	395 0.6×	344 0.6×	98 0.3×	140	3.2k
Éric P. Verrecchia Switzerland	35	1.1k 0.7×	785 1.2×	887 1.4×	231 0.4×	709 1.9×	124	4.4k
Christopher H. Vane United Kingdom	41	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	768 1.2×	575 1.0×	267 0.7×	164	4.7k
Ninglian Wang China	36	3.3k 2.1×	759 1.1×	295 0.5×	1.7k 3.1×	115 0.3×	253	4.9k
Pim F. van Bergen Netherlands	39	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	174 0.3×	366 0.6×	484 1.3×	81	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yu Li. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yu Li. The network helps show where Yu Li may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Li

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Yanling, et al.. (2025). Effects of different long-term crop rotation patterns on soil microbial biomass carbon and its turnover characteristics in yellow paddy soil. Applied Soil Ecology. 214. 106367–106367.

Shen, Pengyuan, Yuchen Ji, Yu Li, et al.. (2025). Combined impact of climate change and urban heat island on building energy use in three megacities in China. Energy and Buildings. 331. 115386–115386. 5 indexed citations

Li, Yu, et al.. (2025). Monsoon marginal zone’s dry/wet status and their links with tropical ocean–atmosphere interactions during the Holocene. Science Bulletin. 70(14). 2246–2249.

Zhang, Xiaoguang, et al.. (2025). Selection of Landsat 8 OLI Levels, Monthly Phases, and Spectral Variables on Identifying Soil Salinity: A Study in the Yellow River Delta. Applied Sciences. 15(5). 2747–2747. 1 indexed citations

Zhong, Linhao, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Evolution Features of the 2022 Compound Hot and Drought Event over the Yangtze River Basin. Remote Sensing. 16(8). 1367–1367. 9 indexed citations

Li, Dengke, Jiejie Guo, Y. Liu, et al.. (2024). Screening signal peptidase based on split-GFP assembly technology to promote the secretion of alkaline protease AprE in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 269(Pt 2). 132166–132166. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jun, et al.. (2024). Historical footprints and future projections of global dust burden from bias-corrected CMIP6 models. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuxin, et al.. (2024). A study on the AMS 14C chronology of late pleistocene lacustrine sediments and related proxies of organic carbon in northwest China. Quaternary International. 688. 29–43.

Li, Yu, Yaopeng Chang, Jiaxi Zhou, & Kai Wang. (2023). Dual quasi-zero-stiffness dynamic vibration absorbers for double-low-frequency vibration suppression. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 264. 108852–108852. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, et al.. (2023). Middle to Late Holocene lake evolution and its links with westerlies and Asian monsoon in the middle part of the Hexi Corridor, NW China. Quaternary Research. 116. 30–45. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, et al.. (2023). Paleo-environmental changes and human activities in Shiyang River Basin since the Late Glacial. Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). 2 indexed citations

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Cartus, Abigail R., William C. Goedel, Victoria Jent, et al.. (2023). Neighborhood-level association between release from incarceration and fatal overdose, Rhode Island, 2016–2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 247. 109867–109867. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Dengke, Jiejie Guo, Yihan Liu, et al.. (2023). Sequence composition and location of CRE motifs affect the binding ability of CcpA protein. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 253(Pt 1). 126407–126407. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, et al.. (2023). Time-scale effects in human-nature interactions, regionally and globally. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 33(8). 1569–1586.

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Zhang, Yuanzhi, et al.. (2019). Analyzing the variation of the precipitation of coastal areas of eastern China and its association with sea surface temperature (SST) of other seas. Atmospheric Research. 219. 114–122. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Yuhua Fu, Yang Yang, et al.. (2019). Genomic Analyses Reveal Evidence of Independent Evolution, Demographic History, and Extreme Environment Adaptation of Tibetan Plateau Agaricus bisporus. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1786–1786. 19 indexed citations

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Lu, Mingyang, Ziqi Chen, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2018). Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Mixing Models for Dual-Phase Steel Microstructures. Applied Sciences. 8(4). 529–529. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuanzhi, et al.. (2018). On the relationship between the early spring Indian Ocean's sea surface temperature (SST) and the Tibetan Plateau atmospheric heat source in summer. Global and Planetary Change. 164. 1–10. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, et al.. (2017). [Effect of long-term application of NPK fertilizer on maize yield and yellow soil nutrients sustainability in Guizhou, China].. PubMed. 28(11). 3581–3588. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, et al.. (2008). QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE VULNERABILITY OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS OF CHINA TO CLIMATE CHANGE BASED ON POTENTIAL VEGETATION. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 32(3). 521. 7 indexed citations

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