Guang Gao

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Guang Gao is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Guang Gao has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Ecology, 86 papers in Oceanography and 76 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Guang Gao's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (82 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (69 papers). Guang Gao is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (87 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (82 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (69 papers). Guang Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Guang Gao's co-authors include Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu, Yunlin Zhang, Xiangming Tang, Keqiang Shao, Hans W. Paerl, Wei Li, Wayne W. Carmichael, Yang Hu and Xin Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Guang Gao

162 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit 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 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.

A Drinking Water Crisis in Lake Taihu, China: Linkage to Climatic Variability and Lake Management

2009 833 citations Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu et al. profile →
Eutrophication control of large shallow lakes in China

2023 113 citations Boqiang Qin, Yunlin Zhang 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						Papers	Cites
Guang Gao China	38	3.1k	2.8k	2.6k	1.1k	911	171	6.0k
Gregory L. Boyer United States	43	4.9k 1.6×	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	666 0.6×	290 0.3×	112	6.7k
Christiane Lancelot Belgium	39	2.7k 0.9×	4.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	562 0.6×	102	7.7k
Perran L. M. Cook Australia	45	1.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	902 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	146	5.5k
Fanxiang Kong China	35	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	631 0.6×	365 0.4×	118	4.4k
Cynthia A. Heil United States	30	2.4k 0.8×	4.0k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	501 0.4×	398 0.4×	66	5.7k
Frances R. Pick Canada	39	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	657 0.6×	411 0.5×	134	5.3k
Alfons J. P. Smolders Netherlands	50	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	5.1k 1.9×	478 0.4×	945 1.0×	176	8.3k
Yongqiang Zhou China	47	2.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	528 0.6×	168	6.2k
Jing Zhang China	48	1.5k 0.5×	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	630 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	245	7.2k
Quay Dortch United States	38	3.5k 1.1×	5.4k 2.0×	2.7k 1.0×	776 0.7×	617 0.7×	67	7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Guang Gao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guang Gao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guang Gao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shen, Zhen, Xinyu Chen, Chen Wang, et al.. (2025). Warming reduces bacterial diversity and stability in Lake Bosten. Journal of Environmental Management. 375. 124352–124352. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jiyuan, Xin Jiang, Teng Guo, et al.. (2025). Effects of Feeding Frequency on Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) Performance, Water Quality and Microbial Community in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems. Fishes. 10(3). 125–125. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Guang, et al.. (2025). Embryonic behavior and skeletogenesis in developing skate Okamejei kenojei. Zoology. 170. 126270–126270.

Lin, Xingwen, Brian Alan Johnson, Jingchao Shi, et al.. (2024). Remote sensing estimation of water storage in the channel-type reservoirs under unknown underwater topographic data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 130. 103933–103933.

Riaz, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of Lanthanum‐mediated mitigation of salt stress in soybean (Glycine max L.). Physiologia Plantarum. 176(4). e14452–e14452. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Tianhe, et al.. (2024). Estimation of Surface Water Level in Coal Mining Subsidence Area with GNSS RTK and GNSS-IR. Remote Sensing. 16(20). 3803–3803.

Qin, Boqiang, Yunlin Zhang, Guangwei Zhu, & Guang Gao. (2023). Eutrophication control of large shallow lakes in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 881. 163494–163494. 113 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Hao, Jiangyu Dai, Bei Yang, et al.. (2023). Bacterial community assembly driven by temporal succession rather than spatial heterogeneity in Lake Bosten: a large lake suffering from eutrophication and salinization. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1261079–1261079. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Warming reduces microeukaryotic diversity, network complexity and stability. Environmental Research. 238(Pt 2). 117235–117235. 23 indexed citations

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Gao, Guang, et al.. (2023). The potential and prospects of modified biochar for comprehensive management of salt-affected soils and plants: A critical review. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169618–169618. 54 indexed citations

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Xie, Guijuan, Xiangming Tang, Keqiang Shao, Guangwei Zhu, & Guang Gao. (2021). Bacterial diversity, community composition and metabolic function in Lake Tianmuhu and its dammed river: Effects of domestic wastewater and damming. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 213. 112069–112069. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2019). Composition of bacterial communities in municipal wastewater treatment plant. The Science of The Total Environment. 689. 1181–1191. 140 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Guang Gao, Xiangming Tang, & Keqiang Shao. (2014). Can the freshwater bacterial communities shift to the “marine‐like” taxa?. Journal of Basic Microbiology. 54(11). 1264–1272. 13 indexed citations

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Gao, Guang. (2011). Effect of Different Ratios and Frequencies of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Addition on Algal Bloom Formation. Nongye huanjing kexue xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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Gao, Guang. (2007). Response of bacterial communities to eutrophic water in Lake Taihu. Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae. 2 indexed citations

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Feng, Sheng, Guang Gao, QIN Boqiang, & Mo Chen. (2006). Variability of bacterioplankton in the north zone of Lake Taihu. Journal of Lake Sciences. 18(6). 636–642. 3 indexed citations

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Qin, Boqiang, Guangwei Zhu, Lu Zhang, et al.. (2006). Estimation of internal nutrient release in large shallow Lake Taihu, China. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 49(S1). 38–50. 116 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2006). Wind-wave affected phosphate loading variations and their relationship to redox condition in Lake Taihu. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 49(S1). 154–161. 5 indexed citations

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Gao, Guang. (2004). Vertical distribution of the concentrations of phosphorus and suspended solid in Taihu lake affected by wind-induced wave. Advances in Water Science. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Weimin, et al.. (2004). The adaptation of alga in Taihu Lake to limiting temperature, light and water. WIT transactions on ecology and the environment. 13(4). 500–502. 2 indexed citations

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