Standout 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Microplastic pollution of lakeshore sediments from remote lakes in Tibet plateau, China
    2016 483 citations Kai Zhang, Jing Su et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Immediate Impact

15 from Science/Nature 68 hit
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Citing Papers

The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean
2025 HitNature
Leaf absorption contributes to accumulation of microplastics in plants
2025 HitNature
6 intermediate papers

Works of Jiantong Liu being referenced

Occurrence and Characteristics of Microplastic Pollution in Xiangxi Bay of Three Gorges Reservoir, China
2017
Microplastic pollution of lakeshore sediments from remote lakes in Tibet plateau, China
2016 Hit

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Jiantong Liu 1.7k 1.2k 688 527 327 77 2.9k
Nélson Abrantes 1.7k 1.0× 931 0.8× 462 0.7× 883 1.7× 284 0.9× 91 3.6k
Sally Gaw 2.2k 1.3× 878 0.7× 343 0.5× 1.1k 2.2× 293 0.9× 101 3.4k
Hua Zhang 2.2k 1.3× 1.5k 1.2× 238 0.3× 271 0.5× 449 1.4× 63 3.4k
Lin Xiao 1.3k 0.8× 610 0.5× 446 0.6× 377 0.7× 309 0.9× 88 2.6k
Jeff Shimeta 1.4k 0.9× 662 0.6× 457 0.7× 810 1.5× 290 0.9× 66 2.9k
Hua Zou 2.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 585 0.9× 652 1.2× 396 1.2× 104 4.0k
Martin Pivokonský 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.4× 652 0.9× 781 1.5× 228 0.7× 62 3.3k
Kang Song 1.6k 0.9× 861 0.7× 232 0.3× 258 0.5× 255 0.8× 88 2.4k
Mechthild Schmitt‐Jansen 3.0k 1.8× 1.4k 1.1× 529 0.8× 1.3k 2.5× 763 2.3× 58 4.3k
Lisbet Sørensen 1.8k 1.1× 985 0.8× 334 0.5× 913 1.7× 527 1.6× 85 3.5k

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