De’an Sun

7.0k total citations
231 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

De’an Sun is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, De’an Sun has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 45 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 37 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in De’an Sun's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (129 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (94 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (65 papers). De’an Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (129 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (94 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (65 papers). De’an Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Japan. De’an Sun's co-authors include Daichao Sheng, Lin Li, You Gao, Yongfu Xu, Wenjing Sun, Hajime Matsuoka, Aifang Qin, Scott W. Sloan, Hiroshige MATSUOKA and Zhaotian Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hydrology and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

De’an Sun

225 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
De’an Sun 5.1k 1.4k 825 752 616 231 5.7k
J. Graham 4.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 713 0.9× 403 0.5× 604 1.0× 97 4.9k
A. Lloret 4.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 452 0.5× 1.4k 1.8× 427 0.7× 104 4.9k
Bin Shi 4.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 453 0.5× 858 1.1× 309 0.5× 110 5.6k
Guoxiong Mei 4.5k 0.9× 716 0.5× 1.2k 1.5× 583 0.8× 894 1.5× 322 5.9k
Jayantha Kodikara 4.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 689 0.8× 617 0.8× 1.4k 2.3× 295 6.2k
Charles W.W. Ng 3.6k 0.7× 1.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.8× 342 0.5× 254 0.4× 99 4.4k
Tom Schanz 3.6k 0.7× 617 0.4× 947 1.1× 747 1.0× 595 1.0× 183 4.5k
William J. Likos 3.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 304 0.4× 1.0k 1.4× 181 0.3× 127 4.3k
Yu‐Jun Cui 7.5k 1.5× 1.8k 1.3× 983 1.2× 2.0k 2.6× 806 1.3× 209 8.4k
Anh Minh Tang 6.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.0× 638 0.8× 1.7k 2.2× 1.2k 1.9× 201 7.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by De’an Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of De’an Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Xun, et al.. (2025). Analytical solution for three-dimensional heat conduction in a nuclear waste repository with adiabatic boundaries. Nuclear Engineering and Technology. 57(11). 103781–103781.
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2025). Uneven Distribution of Microplastic Pollution in Paddy Fields Driven by Irrigation Hydrodynamics. Land Degradation and Development.
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Tan, Yunzhi, et al.. (2024). Utilization of waste phosphogypsum and absorbent polymer in preparing hollow particles and its application in lightweight blocks. Materials Today Sustainability. 27. 100871–100871. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2024). Semi-analytical solution for two-dimensional contaminant transport through composite liner with strip defects. Construction and Building Materials. 440. 137404–137404. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2024). Thermal conductivity of MX80 powders-granules mixture and its prediction for high-level radioactive waste repository. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 155. 107543–107543. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuo, et al.. (2024). A practical equation for predicting saturated hydraulic conductivity of fine-grained soils. Journal of Hydrology. 638. 131431–131431. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional migration characteristics of contaminant through composite liner with arbitrarily distributed defects. Computers and Geotechnics. 174. 106652–106652. 2 indexed citations
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Peng, Fan, De’an Sun, Yangping Yao, & Yunzhi Tan. (2024). Effect of granular structure and initial suction on shear strength of GMZ bentonite for deep geological disposal. Applied Clay Science. 249. 107249–107249. 16 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2024). Effect of alkaline solution on hydraulic and mechanical properties of MX80 granular bentonite. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 209. 110822–110822. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Junran, et al.. (2024). Experimental study on the direct shear strength characteristics of silt treated with Xanthan gum under different drying and wetting paths. Construction and Building Materials. 418. 135457–135457. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Xun, et al.. (2024). Analytical solution for transient temperature of multi-barrier system with thermal resistance in nuclear waste repository by Green's function method. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 158. 107894–107894. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xiangyun, et al.. (2024). An analytical thermal model for vertical ground heat exchangers in layered soil with thermal resistance. Computers and Geotechnics. 179. 106963–106963. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, Jun, et al.. (2024). Performance evaluation of waste phosphogypsum-based solidified sludge: From laboratory test to field application. Materials Today Sustainability. 28. 101013–101013. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, et al.. (2023). Temperature field of multi-barrier with gap layer in nuclear waste repository. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 414. 112588–112588. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yu, et al.. (2023). Utilisation of silica-rich waste in eco phosphogypsum-based cementitious materials: Strength, microstructure, thermodynamics and CO2 sequestration. Construction and Building Materials. 411. 134469–134469. 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Wenjing, et al.. (2021). Air permeability of biochar-amended clay cover. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14(8). 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Yajun, Haibo Jiang, Yitian Lu, & De’an Sun. (2019). Experimental study on treatment of waste slurry by vacuum preloading with different conditioning agents. Geomechanics and Engineering. 17(6). 543–551. 8 indexed citations
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Wu, Yajun, Gangqiang Kong, Yitian Lu, & De’an Sun. (2017). Experimental study on vacuum preloading with flocculation for solid-liquid separation in waste slurry. Geomechanics and Engineering. 13(2). 319–331. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, De’an, Wenjing Sun, Wei Yan, & Jie Li. (2010). Hydro-mechanical behaviours of highly compacted sand-bentonite mixture. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 11 indexed citations

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