Keyuan Xu

995 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Keyuan Xu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Water Science and Technology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Keyuan Xu has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 4 papers in Water Science and Technology and 3 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Keyuan Xu's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (7 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (6 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (4 papers). Keyuan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (7 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (6 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (4 papers). Keyuan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Ukraine and Poland. Keyuan Xu's co-authors include Chengbing Wang, Zhengtong Li, Jiulong Wang, Dan Wei, Weike Wang, Yong Wang, Fan Wang, Feng Li, Xiaoyu Cao and Kai Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, The Science of The Total Environment and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Keyuan Xu

11 papers receiving 868 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.

  1. Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination
    2023 162 citations Chengbing Wang, Keyuan Xu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Keyuan Xu China 9 801 466 160 103 59 11 875
Mahmoud M. Elewa Egypt 12 112 0.1× 319 0.7× 14 0.1× 134 1.3× 73 1.2× 34 467
Nohyeong Jeong United States 7 73 0.1× 241 0.5× 31 0.2× 53 0.5× 79 1.3× 8 341
Mohammad Ramezanianpour Australia 5 225 0.3× 201 0.4× 5 0.0× 59 0.6× 40 0.7× 16 331
Francesco Ricceri Italy 11 161 0.2× 337 0.7× 13 0.1× 47 0.5× 104 1.8× 16 441
Mengfei Liu China 7 111 0.1× 223 0.5× 44 0.3× 74 0.7× 20 0.3× 11 383
A. Mohammed Farooque Saudi Arabia 10 143 0.2× 470 1.0× 11 0.1× 60 0.6× 96 1.6× 21 578
Hasan Al Abdulgader Saudi Arabia 11 64 0.1× 207 0.4× 67 0.4× 54 0.5× 61 1.0× 14 337
Elliot Reid United States 8 76 0.1× 340 0.7× 8 0.1× 137 1.3× 108 1.8× 12 560
Graeme W. Heyes Australia 11 65 0.1× 465 1.0× 16 0.1× 344 3.3× 28 0.5× 15 572
H. Li Australia 7 41 0.1× 376 0.8× 33 0.2× 53 0.5× 164 2.8× 8 439

Countries citing papers authored by Keyuan Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keyuan Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Keyuan Xu. 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 Keyuan Xu. The network helps show where Keyuan Xu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keyuan Xu

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Qiu, Liang, et al.. (2024). Effects of Selenium and Cadmium on Human Liver and Kidney Functions in Exposed Black Shale Areas. GeoHealth. 8(4). e2024GH001040–e2024GH001040. 8 indexed citations
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Qiu, Liang, Keyuan Xu, Minghua Wang, et al.. (2023). Do high soil geochemical backgrounds of selenium and associated heavy metals affect human hepatic and renal health? Evidence from Enshi County, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 883. 163717–163717. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Chengbing, et al.. (2023). Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(21). 162 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cao, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2022). Engineering a superhydrophilic TiC/C absorber with multiscale pore network for stable and efficient solar evaporation of high-salinity brine. Materials Today Energy. 26. 101009–101009. 16 indexed citations
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Xu, Keyuan, et al.. (2021). Architecting a Janus biomass carbon/sponge evaporator with salt-rejection and ease of floatation for sustainable solar-driven desalination. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 7(5). 879–885. 36 indexed citations
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Xu, Keyuan, et al.. (2020). Distribution of Se in the rocks, soil, water and crops in Enshi County, China. Applied Geochemistry. 122. 104707–104707. 31 indexed citations
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Xu, Keyuan, et al.. (2020). Salt Mitigation Strategies of Solar‐Driven Interfacial Desalination. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(8). 329 indexed citations
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Wang, Chengbing, et al.. (2020). Superhydrophilic porous carbon foam as a self-desalting monolithic solar steam generation device with high energy efficiency. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(19). 9528–9535. 221 indexed citations

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