Yuanlong Li

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yuanlong Li is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanlong Li has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Oceanography, 91 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 34 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yuanlong Li's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (100 papers), Climate variability and models (88 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (41 papers). Yuanlong Li is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (100 papers), Climate variability and models (88 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (41 papers). Yuanlong Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and India. Yuanlong Li's co-authors include Fan Wang, Weiqing Han, Gengxin Chen, Dongxiao Wang, Pengfei Lin, Guang Yang, Lixi Jiang, Toshiaki Shinoda, Tong Lee and Lei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yuanlong Li

113 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

The seas around China in a warming climate 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75
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. The seas around China in a warming climate
    2023 86 citations Fan Wang, Xuegang Li et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuanlong Li China 29 2.0k 1.5k 792 267 147 117 2.5k
Zhiyu Liu China 28 1.6k 0.8× 533 0.3× 581 0.7× 46 0.2× 94 0.6× 96 2.1k
Teruhisa Shimada Japan 18 432 0.2× 401 0.3× 322 0.4× 101 0.4× 24 0.2× 55 1.0k
Masao Ohno Japan 25 1.5k 0.7× 390 0.3× 283 0.4× 142 0.5× 17 0.1× 112 2.3k
Peter Blokker Netherlands 23 441 0.2× 180 0.1× 552 0.7× 235 0.9× 82 0.6× 37 1.9k
Michelle M. Gierach United States 24 882 0.4× 970 0.6× 704 0.9× 23 0.1× 13 0.1× 57 1.7k
S. Piedracoba Spain 19 636 0.3× 448 0.3× 249 0.3× 29 0.1× 14 0.1× 37 1.1k
Laurence Méjanelle France 19 519 0.3× 223 0.1× 314 0.4× 72 0.3× 14 0.1× 32 1.4k
Eike Rachor Germany 23 1.1k 0.6× 781 0.5× 220 0.3× 13 0.0× 43 0.3× 62 1.5k
Yuping Guan China 12 532 0.3× 555 0.4× 438 0.6× 20 0.1× 18 0.1× 38 989

Countries citing papers authored by Yuanlong Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuanlong Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanlong Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuanlong Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuanlong 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 Yuanlong Li. Yuanlong Li 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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Ren, Qiuping, Shang‐Ping Xie, Qihua Peng, Yuanlong Li, & Fan Wang. (2025). Equatorial Atlantic mid-depth warming indicates Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Zhu, Yuchao, Rong‐Hua Zhang, Fan Wang, et al.. (2025). Projection of ENSO using observation-informed deep learning. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7736–7736. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2025). Emergence of the North Pacific heat storage pattern delayed by decadal wind-driven redistribution. Nature Communications. 16(1). 668–668. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Pengfei, Hailong Liu, Bo Wu, et al.. (2024). Emergence of decadal linkage between Western Australian coast and Western–central tropical Pacific. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4458–4458. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2023). Water sources of the Lombok, Ombai and Timor outflows of the Indonesian throughflow. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Yao, et al.. (2023). Loss of autumn Kara-East Siberian Sea ice intensifies winter Ural blocking and cold anomalies in high latitudes of Eurasia. Atmospheric Research. 295. 107038–107038. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2023). Special Sea‐Level and Circulation Anomalies in the Philippine Sea During the 2006/2007 and 2009/2010 El Niño Events. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(6). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2023). Balanced biogeographic and local environmental effects determine the patterns of microbial diversity in biocrusts at multi-scales. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1284864–1284864. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, Xuegang Li, Xiaohui Tang, et al.. (2023). The seas around China in a warming climate. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(8). 535–551. 86 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Gengxin, et al.. (2023). Role of Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole in Regulating Three‐Dimensional Freshwater Content in the Southeast Indian Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(4). 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Fan, et al.. (2022). Intraseasonal Variability of Surface Circulation in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool Induced by Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Ke, Dongxiao Wang, Gengxin Chen, et al.. (2022). Intensification and Dynamics of the Westward Equatorial Undercurrent During the Summers of 1998 and 2016 in the Indian Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(20). 4 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhaojie, Christophe Colin, David J. Wilson, et al.. (2022). Millennial Variability in Intermediate Ocean Circulation and Indian Monsoonal Weathering Inputs During the Last Deglaciation and Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21). 17 indexed citations
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Ren, Qiang, Fei Yu, Feng Nan, et al.. (2022). Effects of mesoscale eddies on intraseasonal variability of intermediate water east of Taiwan. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 9182–9182. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanlong, et al.. (2021). Ocean Salinity Aspects of the Ningaloo Niño. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6141–6161. 7 indexed citations
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Han, Weiqing, et al.. (2020). The Role of Oceanic Processes in the Initiation of Boreal Winter Intraseasonal Oscillations Over the Indian Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(2). 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lei, Weiqing Han, Yuanlong Li, & Nicole S. Lovenduski. (2019). Variability of Sea Level and Upper-Ocean Heat Content in the Indian Ocean: Effects of Subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO. Journal of Climate. 32(21). 7227–7245. 22 indexed citations
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Ren, Qiuping, et al.. (2018). Seasonality of the Mindanao Current/Undercurrent System. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(2). 1105–1122. 34 indexed citations
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Zhou, Longhua, Yuanlong Li, Nazim Hussain, et al.. (2016). Allelic Variation of BnaC.TT2.a and Its Association with Seed Coat Color and Fatty Acids in Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146661–e0146661. 21 indexed citations

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