Dan Tong

20.3k total citations · 14 hit papers
130 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Dan Tong is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Tong has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 55 papers in Atmospheric Science and 30 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dan Tong's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (61 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (54 papers) and Vehicle emissions and performance (18 papers). Dan Tong is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (61 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (54 papers) and Vehicle emissions and performance (18 papers). Dan Tong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Dan Tong's co-authors include Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Yixuan Zheng, Bo Zheng, Guannan Geng, Chaopeng Hong, Fei Liu, Meng Li, Steven J. Davis and Liu Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dan Tong

121 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actions

2018 2.0k citations Bo Zheng, Dan Tong et al. profile →
Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review

2017 792 citations Meng Li, Guannan Geng et al. profile →
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target

2019 550 citations Dan Tong, Qiang Zhang et al. Nature profile →
High-resolution inventory of technologies, activities, and emissions of coal-fired power plants in China from 1990 to 2010

2015 373 citations Fei Liu, Dan Tong et al. profile →
Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM _2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion

2021 349 citations Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Persistent growth of anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emissions in China during 1990–2017: drivers, speciation and ozone formation potential

2019 330 citations Meng Li, Qiang Zhang et al. profile →
Dominant role of emission reduction in PM _2.5 air quality improvement in Beijing during 2013–2017: a model-based decomposition analysis

2019 314 citations Jing Cheng, Dan Tong et al. profile →
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017

2021 306 citations Guannan Geng, Yixuan Zheng et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

2020 275 citations Yue Qin, Chaopeng Hong et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Pathways of China's PM2.5 air quality 2015–2060 in the context of carbon neutrality

2021 268 citations Jing Cheng, Dan Tong et al. profile →
Air quality benefits of achieving carbon neutrality in China

2021 259 citations Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong et al. profile →
Co-benefits of CO2 emission reduction from China’s clean air actions between 2013-2020

2022 177 citations Qinren Shi, Bo Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020

2024 108 citations Guannan Geng, Shigan Liu et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Drivers of Increasing Ozone during the Two Phases of Clean Air Actions in China 2013–2020

2023 94 citations Guannan Geng, Jing Cheng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Tong

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Strategies for climate-resilient global wind and solar power systems 2025 ·Nature ·Dongsheng Zheng, (unknown), Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira, Yuanyuan Lin, (unknown), Jingyun Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jing Cheng, Deliang Chen, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang	7
2	Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios 2025 ·Nature Climate Change ·Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Hongyan Zhao, Ruochong Xu, Yue Qin, Qiang Zhang, (unknown), Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis	6
3	Amplified positive effects on air quality, health, and renewable energy under China’s carbon neutral target 2024 ·Nature Geoscience ·Yue Qin, Mi Zhou, (unknown), Xin Huang, Dan Tong, (unknown), Chuan Zhang, Jing Cheng, Weiyi Gu, Licheng Wang, Xiaojia He, Derong Zhou, Qi Chen, Aijun Ding, Tong Zhu	44
4	Evaluation of Kidney Injury Using Arterial Spin Labeling and Blood Oxygen Level‐Dependent MRI: An Experimental Study in Rats With Carbon Tetrachloride‐Induced Liver Cirrhosis 2024 ·Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging ·(unknown), Shuangshuang Xie, Yongquan Yu, Jiaqi Yang, Yumeng Zhao, (unknown), Xiaotian Li, Cheng Zhang, (unknown), Dan Tong, Jinxia Zhu, Bernd Kuehn, Wen Shen	2
5	Historical air pollutant emissions and future sustainable pathways of global cement plants 2024 ·Resources Conservation and Recycling ·(unknown), Dan Tong, Zhi Cao, Cuihong Chen, (unknown), Ruochong Xu, Xinying Qin, (unknown), Yang Liu, Dongsheng Zheng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang	9
6	Optimizing air quality and health Co-benefits of mitigation technologies in China: An integrated assessment 2024 ·Environmental Science and Ecotechnology ·Mengdan Zhao, Yang Xie, Meng Xu, Zhixiong Weng, Tatsuya Hanaoka, Yuqiang Zhang, Dan Tong	3
7	Structure–function crosstalk in liver cancer research: Protein structuromics 2023 ·International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·Nan Xiao, Hongming Ma, Hong Gao, Jing Yang, Dan Tong, (unknown), (unknown), Chi Kong Li, Kang Liu, Yingxin Li, Zhibo Chen, (unknown), Xingqi Li, Hongwu Wang	2
8	Genetic variants in HFE are associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in lean individuals 2023 ·JHEP Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ida Surakka, Tao Wang, Jiao Xu, Shanshan He, (unknown), Xin Tian, Dan Tong, (unknown), Yonggang Zhang, Wanqing Liu, Peng Chen	12
9	Modeling the Air Pollution and Aerosol‐PBL Interactions Over China Using a Variable‐Resolution Global Model 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Xinyi Dong, Minghuai Wang, L. K. Emmons, Yuan Liang, Dan Tong, Yawen Liu, (unknown)	8
10	Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry 2023 ·Nature Climate Change ·Ruochong Xu, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Xinying Qin, Jing Cheng, Qinren Shi, Yang Liu, Cuihong Chen, Liu Yan, (unknown), (unknown), Dongsheng Zheng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang	58
11	Possible underestimation of the coal-fired power plants to air pollution in China 2023 ·Resources Conservation and Recycling ·Zhixiong Weng, Yuqi Song, (unknown), Dan Tong, (unknown), Minghao Wang, Yang Xie	14
12	Co-benefits of CO2 emission reduction from China’s clean air actions between 2013-2020 breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Qinren Shi, Bo Zheng, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Yang Liu, (unknown), Chaopeng Hong, Guannan Geng, Dabo Guan, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang	177
13	Contrasting suitability and ambition in regional carbon mitigation 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Yu Liu, Mingxi Du, Qi Cui, Jintai Lin, Yawen Liu, Qiuyu Liu, Dan Tong, Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek	27
14	Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM _2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion breakdown → 2021 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, Shigan Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Jing Cheng, Yixuan Zheng, Tao Xue, Dan Tong, Bo Zheng, Yiran Peng, Xiaomeng Huang, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang	349
15	Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power worldwide 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Dan Tong, David Farnham, Lei Duan, Qiang Zhang, Nathan S. Lewis, Ken Caldeira, Steven J. Davis	196
16	Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017 breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Geoscience ·Guannan Geng, Yixuan Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Tao Xue, Hongyan Zhao, Dan Tong, Bo Zheng, Meng Li, Fei Liu, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, Steven J. Davis	306
17	Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Dan Tong, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Jing Cheng, Xinying Qin, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, Steven J. Davis	84
18	Climate effects of China’s efforts to improve its air quality 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Yixuan Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Dan Tong, Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira	26
19	Weakening aerosol direct radiative effects mitigate climate penalty on Chinese air quality 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Chaopeng Hong, Qiang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Steven J. Davis, Xin Zhang, Dan Tong, Dabo Guan, Zhu Liu, Kebin He	42
20	Enhancement of PM_2.5 Concentrations by Aerosol‐Meteorology Interactions Over China 2017 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Xin Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Chaopeng Hong, Yixuan Zheng, Guannan Geng, Dan Tong, Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaoye Zhang	60

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