Chang-An Yan

408 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 317 citations indexed

About

Chang-An Yan is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Pollution and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Chang-An Yan has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 317 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Water Science and Technology, 3 papers in Pollution and 2 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Chang-An Yan's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (4 papers), Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (3 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (2 papers). Chang-An Yan is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (4 papers), Water Quality and Pollution Assessment (3 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (2 papers). Chang-An Yan collaborates with scholars based in China. Chang-An Yan's co-authors include Wanchang Zhang, Zhijie Zhang, Ning Nie, Chengchen Wang, Q. Lena, Meng-Yan Zhang, Ping Xiang, Guoyong Tang, Wei Gao and Zhihua Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

In The Last Decade

Chang-An Yan

8 papers receiving 306 citations

Hit Papers

Heavy metal(loid)s in agriculture soils, rice, and wheat ... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. Heavy metal(loid)s in agriculture soils, rice, and wheat across China: Status assessment and spatiotemporal analysis
    2023 131 citations Chengchen Wang, Chang-An Yan et al. The Science of The Total 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
Chang-An Yan China 7 141 136 55 52 44 9 317
Yintao Lu China 9 152 1.1× 78 0.6× 101 1.8× 63 1.2× 55 1.3× 19 350
Iheoma M. Adekunle Nigeria 12 159 1.1× 142 1.0× 102 1.9× 84 1.6× 29 0.7× 22 478
Zhenzhen Di China 9 197 1.4× 92 0.7× 57 1.0× 48 0.9× 53 1.2× 10 417
Désirée El Azzi Lebanon 7 87 0.6× 196 1.4× 56 1.0× 92 1.8× 40 0.9× 12 371
Vesna Mrvić Serbia 10 151 1.1× 61 0.4× 48 0.9× 59 1.1× 21 0.5× 33 366
Abdelhak Bouabdli Morocco 9 146 1.0× 55 0.4× 27 0.5× 45 0.9× 51 1.2× 25 369
Adel M. Rabee Iraq 10 121 0.9× 155 1.1× 96 1.7× 35 0.7× 31 0.7× 30 375
Anne M. Hansen Mexico 11 139 1.0× 80 0.6× 96 1.7× 23 0.4× 72 1.6× 40 357
Zahed Sharifi Iran 11 105 0.7× 112 0.8× 35 0.6× 73 1.4× 24 0.5× 21 333
Olatunde S. Durowoju South Africa 10 87 0.6× 64 0.5× 58 1.1× 41 0.8× 26 0.6× 18 266

Countries citing papers authored by Chang-An Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chang-An Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chang-An Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Chang-An Yan. The network helps show where Chang-An Yan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chang-An Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chang-An Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chang-An Yan 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 Chang-An Yan. Chang-An Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wang, Chengchen, Chang-An Yan, Guoyong Tang, et al.. (2023). Heavy metal(loid)s in agriculture soils, rice, and wheat across China: Status assessment and spatiotemporal analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 882. 163361–163361. 131 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Chengchen, Mengying Li, Chang-An Yan, et al.. (2022). Refining health risk assessment of heavy metals in vegetables from high geochemical background areas: Role of bioaccessibility and cytotoxicity. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 159. 345–353. 24 indexed citations
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Gao, Wei, et al.. (2021). Identifying spatiotemporal alteration of nitrogen to phosphorus ratio of Lake Dianchi and its driving forces during 1988-2018. Journal of Lake Sciences. 33(1). 64–73. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Wei, et al.. (2020). Influence of nutrient mitigation measures on the fractional export of watershed inputs in an urban watershed. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(15). 18521–18529. 10 indexed citations
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Lü, Yi, Wanchang Zhang, & Chang-An Yan. (2016). A modified topographic index that incorporates the hydraulic and physical properties of soil. Hydrology research. 48(2). 370–383. 6 indexed citations
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Yan, Chang-An & Wanchang Zhang. (2014). Effects of model segmentation approach on the performance and parameters of the Hydrological Simulation Program – Fortran (HSPF) models. Hydrology research. 45(6). 893–907. 11 indexed citations
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Yan, Chang-An, Wanchang Zhang, & Zhijie Zhang. (2014). Hydrological Modeling of the Jiaoyi Watershed (China) Using HSPF Model. The Scientific World JOURNAL. 2014. 1–9. 13 indexed citations

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