George L. Sun

581 total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 382 citations indexed

About

George L. Sun is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, George L. Sun has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 382 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 2 papers in Environmental Engineering and 1 paper in Pollution. Recurrent topics in George L. Sun's work include Chromium effects and bioremediation (2 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (2 papers) and Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (1 paper). George L. Sun is often cited by papers focused on Chromium effects and bioremediation (2 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (2 papers) and Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (1 paper). George L. Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. George L. Sun's co-authors include Angela M. Belcher, Tom Ellis, Charlie Gilbert, Timothy K. Lu, W. M. Shaw, Tzu‐Chieh Tang and Wolfgang Ott and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Nature Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

George L. Sun

3 papers receiving 377 citations

Hit Papers

Living materials with programmable functionalities grown ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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. Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures
    2021 222 citations Charlie Gilbert, Tzu‐Chieh Tang et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers

George L. Sun
Ruijie Wu China
Dong-June Seo Japan
Felipe Robledo‐Padilla Mexico
Felix Krujatz Germany
Tatyana Anokhina Russia
Pongsathorn Dechatiwongse United Kingdom
Zhong-Fang Sun China
Monika Sharma China
Virendra Kumar India
Baotong Zhu United States
Ruijie Wu China
George L. Sun
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Countries citing papers authored by George L. Sun

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by George L. Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George L. Sun

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

All Works

3 of 3 papers shown
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Gilbert, Charlie, Tzu‐Chieh Tang, Wolfgang Ott, et al.. (2021). Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures. Nature Materials. 20(5). 691–700. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, George L., et al.. (2020). Using yeast to sustainably remediate and extract heavy metals from waste waters. Nature Sustainability. 3(4). 303–311. 98 indexed citations
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Sun, George L., et al.. (2019). Designing yeast as plant-like hyperaccumulators for heavy metals. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5080–5080. 62 indexed citations

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