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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
144
Citations
105870
World Ranking
6
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in China Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2015 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Hai Cheng is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Ecology. Their research spans multiple topics, including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Climate variability and models, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to academic literature, with recent papers published in prominent journals such as Radiocarbon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Science Advances, and The Innovation Geoscience. Key recent publications include:

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (2020), Radiocarbon
  • Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium (2020), Nature
  • Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation (2021), Science Advances
  • Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation (2023), The Innovation Geoscience

Hai Cheng frequently publishes in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature Communications, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research profile. Frequent coauthors include R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiwei Zhang, Hanying Li, Yanjun Cai, and Youfeng Ning.

The scientist has also contributed to book literature, with a publication titled "Emergence and Evolution of Barbados" released by the Geological Society of America in 2021.

Recognition of Hai Cheng's contributions includes the Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) awarded in 2017 and the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2015.

Best Publications

  • IntCal13 and Marine13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0-50,000 years cal BP

    Paula J Reimer;Edouard Bard;Alex Bayliss;J Warren Beck

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP)

    Paula J Reimer;William E N Austin;Edouard Bard;Alex Bayliss

  • A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China

    Y. J. Wang;Y. J. Wang;H Cheng;R. L. Edwards;Z. S. An

  • The holocene Asian monsoon : links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate

    Yongjin Wang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Yaoqi He

  • Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

    Yongjin Wang;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Xinggong Kong

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

    Carolyn A. Dykoski;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng;Daoxian Yuan

  • Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

    Daoxian Yuan;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Carolyn A. Dykoski

  • The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

  • Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Chuan Chou Shen;Victor J. Polyak

  • The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230

    H Cheng;RL Edwards;JA Hoff;CD Gallup

  • A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record.

    Pingzhong Zhang;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Fahu Chen

  • El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium

    Kim M. Cobb;Kim M. Cobb;Christopher D. Charles;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards

  • Ice age terminations.

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Wallace S. Broecker;George H. Denton

  • Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies

    Xianfeng Wang;Augusto S. Auler;Lawrence L. Edwards;Hai Cheng

  • Lead (Pb) isotopic fingerprinting and its applications in lead pollution studies in China: A review

    Hefa Cheng;Yuanan Hu

  • China Needs to Control Mercury Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Incineration

    Hefa Cheng;Yuanan Hu

  • The Challenges and Solutions for Cadmium-contaminated Rice in China: A Critical Review.

    Yuanan Hu;Hefa Cheng;Shu Tao

  • Assessing heavy metal pollution in the surface soils of a region that had undergone three decades of intense industrialization and urbanization

    Yuanan Hu;Xueping Liu;Jinmei Bai;Kaimin Shih

  • Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Ashish Sinha;Francisco W. Cruz;Xianfeng Wang;Xianfeng Wang

  • Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Xinyu Wen;E.C. Brady;B. Otto-Bliesner

  • A High Resolution, Absolute-Dated Holocene and Deglacial Asian Monsoon Record From Dongge Cave, China

    C. A. Dykoski;R. L. Edwards;H. Cheng;D. Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Yongjin Wang
Yongjin Wang Nanjing Normal University
Xianfeng Wang
Xianfeng Wang Nanyang Technological University
Yanjun Cai
Yanjun Cai Xi'an Jiaotong University
Christoph Spötl
Christoph Spötl University of Innsbruck
Francisco W. Cruz
Francisco W. Cruz Universidade de São Paulo
Liangcheng Tan
Liangcheng Tan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Xinggong Kong
Xinggong Kong Nanjing Normal University
Ashish Sinha
Ashish Sinha California State University, Dominguez Hills

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