2026 Lixin Wu: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	64	1455	1294	92	87	359	22132

Lixin Wu publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lixin Wu sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 603+

This scientist: 359 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Lixin Wu D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lixin Wu sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lixin Wu is a researcher affiliated with the Ocean University of China. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, Wu's research spans subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics related to climate and environmental processes. The main topics of Wu's research include Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Wu has authored and coauthored numerous papers, some of the recent publications include:

"Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
"Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
"Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios," 2022, Nature Climate Change

The frequent collaborators in Wu's work include Wenju Cai, Zhao Jing, Bolan Gan, Zhaohui Chen, and Haiyuan Yang.

Wu's research has appeared extensively in several publication venues. These include:

Geophysical Research Letters
Nature Communications
Journal of Climate
Nature Climate Change
Journal of Physical Oceanography

Wu's contributions have been recognized through awards such as being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Simon Borlace;Matthieu Lengaigne;Peter van Rensch

2481
Citations
Impact of the Indian Ocean SST basin mode on the Asian summer monsoon

Jianling Yang;Qinyu Liu;Shang Ping Xie;Shang Ping Xie;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu

988
Citations
ENSO and greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Sang Wook Yeh

875
Citations
Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

827
Citations
Pantropical Climate Interactions

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

736
Citations
Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Agus Santoso;Michael J. Mcphaden

725
Citations
Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

Dunxin Hu;Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Alex Sen Gupta

707
Citations
Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

705
Citations
A global perspective on CMIP5 climate model biases

Chunzai Wang;Liping Zhang;Liping Zhang;Sang-Ki Lee;Sang-Ki Lee;Lixin Wu

691
Citations
Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

591
Citations
Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Evan Weller

423
Citations
Modeling climate shift of El Nino variability in the Holocene

Zhengyu Liu;J. Kutzbach;Lixin Wu

360
Citations
Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere

Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Zhao Jing;Zhao Jing;Ping Chang;Ping Chang;Xue Liu;Xue Liu

325
Citations
An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change

Ping Chang;Shaoqing Zhang;Shaoqing Zhang;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Stephen G. Yeager;Stephen G. Yeager

322
Citations
Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble.

Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

259
Citations
Atmospheric circulation patterns which promote winter Arctic sea ice decline

Binhe Luo;Binhe Luo;Dehai Luo;Lixin Wu;Linhao Zhong

231
Citations
Pacific Decadal Variability: The Tropical Pacific Mode and the North Pacific Mode*

L. Wu;Z. Liu;R. Gallimore;R. Jacob

208
Citations
Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming

Jiamin Wang;Jiamin Wang;Yuping Guan;Lixin Wu;Xiaodan Guan

205
Citations
Importance of Resolving Kuroshio Front and Eddy Influence in Simulating the North Pacific Storm Track

Xiaohui Ma;Ping Chang;R. Saravanan;Raffaele Montuoro

161
Citations
Atmospheric Response to North Pacific SST: The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling*

Zhengyu Liu;Lixin Wu

150
Citations
Impact of the Indian Ocean SST Basin Mode on the Asian Summer Monsoon

Q. Liu;J. Yang;S. Xie;Z. Liu

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenju Cai Ocean University of China

Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University

Ping Chang Texas A&M University

Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa

Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego

Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research

Stephen G. Yeager National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research

External Links

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