2026 Huijie Xue: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	43	7133	6856	2543	2367	141	6726

Overview

Huijie Xue is affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Oceanography, with significant contributions also in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered by Xue include:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Climate variability and models
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Marine and fisheries research
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Xue has published frequently in various scientific journals. The most common publication venues for their work are:

Journal of Physical Oceanography
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Frontiers in Marine Science
Ocean Dynamics
Biogeosciences

Among recent papers, Xue's contributions include:

Coupling and Decoupling of High Biomass Phytoplankton Production and Hypoxia in a Highly Dynamic Coastal System: The Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
A limited effect of sub-tropical typhoons on phytoplankton dynamics, 2021, Biogeosciences
Australian fire nourishes ocean phytoplankton bloom, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
Deep-Current Intraseasonal Variability Interpreted as Topographic Rossby Waves and Deep Eddies in the Xisha Islands of the South China Sea, 2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography
Record-Breaking Sea Surface Temperatures in the Yellow and East China Seas, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent coauthors working with Xue include:

Fei Chai
Zhengui Wang
Mark L. Wells
Dongxiao Wang
Linlin Liang

Best Publications

Kuroshio intrusion into the South China Sea: A review

Feng Nan;Huijie Xue;Huijie Xue;Fei Yu

436
Citations
Physical-Biological Oceanographic Coupling Influencing Phytoplankton and Primary Production in the South China Sea

X. Ning;Fei Chai;Huijie Xue;Y. Cai

388
Citations
Kuroshio intrusion and the circulation in the South China Sea

Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Neal Pettigrew;Danya Xu

372
Citations
A Census of Eddy Activities in the South China Sea During 1993-2007

Peng Xiu;Fei Chai;Lei Shi;Huijie Xue

364
Citations
The kinematic and hydrographic structure of the Gulf of Maine Coastal Current

Neal R. Pettigrew;James H. Churchill;Carol D. Janzen;Linda J. Mangum

250
Citations
A model study of the circulation in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and its adjacent coastal waters: 1. Simulations and comparison with observations

L. A. Wong;J. Chen;Huijie Xue;L. X. Dong

192
Citations
Identification of different types of Kuroshio intrusion into the South China Sea

Feng Nan;Feng Nan;Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Lei Shi

183
Citations
Connectivity of lobster populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: Part I: Circulation and larval transport potential

Huijie Xue;Lewis Incze;Danya Xu;Nicholas Wolff

162
Citations
A Model Study of the Seasonal Circulation in the Gulf of Maine

Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Neal R. Pettigrew

155
Citations
Oceanic eddy formation and propagation southwest of Taiwan

Feng Nan;Feng Nan;Huijie Xue;Peng Xiu;Fei Chai

151
Citations
Cross‐shelf exchange in the shelf of the East China Sea

Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Huijie Xue;Daji Huang;Daji Huang;Jiliang Xuan

140
Citations
Observations of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current and its offshore extensions in 1994

Neal R. Pettigrew;David W. Townsend;Huijie Xue;John P. Wallinga

133
Citations
Meridional overturning circulation in the South China Sea envisioned from the high‐resolution global reanalysis data GLBa0.08

Yeqiang Shu;Huijie Xue;Dongxiao Wang;Fei Chai

130
Citations
Observed near-inertial kinetic energy in the northwestern South China Sea

Gengxin Chen;Huijie Xue;Dongxiao Wang;Qiang Xie

130
Citations
An exceptional anticyclonic eddy in the South China Sea in 2010

Xiaoqing Chu;Huijie Xue;Yiquan Qi;Gengxin Chen

127
Citations
Connectivity of lobster (Homarus americanus) populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: part II. Coupled biophysical dynamics

Lewis Incze;Huijie Xue;Nicholas Wolff;Danya Xu

117
Citations
Investigation of hypoxia off the Changjiang Estuary using a coupled model of ROMS-CoSiNE

Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Daji Huang;Daji Huang;Huijie Xue;Huijie Xue

111
Citations
Relative contributions of local wind and topography to the coastal upwelling intensity in the northern South China Sea

Dongxiao Wang;Yeqiang Shu;Huijie Xue;Jianyu Hu

110
Citations
Weakening of the Kuroshio Intrusion into the South China Sea over the Past Two Decades

Feng Nan;Huijie Xue;Fei Chai;Dongxiao Wang

110
Citations
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Carbon Cycle in South China Sea : A Three-Dimensional Physical-Biogeochemical Modeling Study

Fei Chai;Guimei Liu;Guimei Liu;Huijie Xue;Lei Shi

99
Citations
A Model Study of the Circulation in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and Its Adjacent Coastal Waters: 2. Sensitivity Experiments

L. A. Wong;J. C. Chen;Huijie Xue;L. X. Dong

93
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei Chai Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China

Feng Zhou Peking University

Yi Chao University of California, Los Angeles

Daji Huang Ministry of Natural Resources

Lie-Yauw Oey Princeton University

Andrew C. Thomas University of Maine

Dongxiao Wang Sun Yat-sen University

David W. Townsend University of Maine

Tal Ezer Old Dominion University

Nicholas H. Wolff The Nature Conservancy

External Links

Personal website of Huijie Xue

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