Kuan Cheng

594 total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 416 citations indexed

About

Kuan Cheng is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuan Cheng has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 416 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology, 11 papers in Pollution and 9 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kuan Cheng's work include Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (11 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (9 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (7 papers). Kuan Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (11 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (9 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (7 papers). Kuan Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and United States. Kuan Cheng's co-authors include Tongxu Liu, Fangbai Li, Xiaomin Li, Nanthi Bolan, Yang Yang, Xuxin Song, Lukas Van Zwieten, Pei Wang, Hailong Wang and Guojun Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Kuan Cheng

25 papers receiving 410 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.

Towards a better understanding of the role of Fe cycling in soil for carbon stabilization and degradation

2022 142 citations Xuxin Song, Pei Wang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuan Cheng China	11	135	104	99	96	90	28	416
Jacqueline Mejia United States	5	123 0.9×	150 1.4×	100 1.0×	103 1.1×	137 1.5×	5	451
Brian R. Ginn United States	9	126 0.9×	103 1.0×	99 1.0×	88 0.9×	106 1.2×	12	517
Zaoquan Huang China	7	94 0.7×	78 0.8×	65 0.7×	82 0.9×	46 0.5×	9	399
Fangbai Li China	8	144 1.1×	108 1.0×	98 1.0×	46 0.5×	126 1.4×	11	350
Maximilian Halama Germany	7	141 1.0×	111 1.1×	141 1.4×	105 1.1×	149 1.7×	7	611
Andreas Fritzsche Germany	14	148 1.1×	210 2.0×	75 0.8×	88 0.9×	69 0.8×	21	478
Jinglong Hu China	10	63 0.5×	65 0.6×	74 0.7×	72 0.8×	66 0.7×	16	337
L. Hayes United States	3	85 0.6×	102 1.0×	87 0.9×	53 0.6×	197 2.2×	4	426
Aaron J. Coby United States	5	175 1.3×	136 1.3×	135 1.4×	49 0.5×	158 1.8×	8	439

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuan Cheng

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Kuan, Ying Zhang, Xiaomin Li, et al.. (2025). Biogenic iron minerals as a potential survival mechanism for nitrate-reducing iron-oxidizing bacteria. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 397. 53–62.

Cheng, Pengfei, Kuan Cheng, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). In Situ Quantification of Surface pH of Dry Soils and Minerals: An Innovative Approach Combining Indicators and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy. Langmuir. 41(25). 16356–16367. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Shiwen, Hanyue Zhang, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). Organic Carbon Sequestration by Secondary Fe–Mn Complex Minerals via the Anoxic Redox Reaction of Fe(II) and Birnessite. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(29). 15128–15141. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Pei Wang, Zebin Hong, et al.. (2025). Seawater intrusion causes substantial release of dissolved organic carbon in coastal paddy soils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 403. 112–129. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Pengfei, Junliang Chen, Ran Xu, et al.. (2025). Biochar and iron minerals facilitate the reduction of pollution and sequestration of carbon in chloramphenicol-contaminated soil under dry conditions. Applied Soil Ecology. 215. 106458–106458. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Juntao, Kuan Cheng, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). Hematite enhances microbial autotrophic nitrate removal in carbonate and phosphate-rich environments by increasing Fe(II) activity. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 175002–175002. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Kuan, Guojun Chen, Chao Guo, et al.. (2024). A comparative study on the stability of Fe(III) minerals formed by the nitrate/nitrite-reducing Fe(II) oxidation processes. Chemical Geology. 670. 122446–122446.

Cheng, Kuan, et al.. (2024). Rapid Determination of 12 Classes of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water Samples from Environmental Forensic Cases. Molecules. 29(16). 3881–3881.

Cheng, Kuan, Ying Wang, Guoyong Huang, et al.. (2024). Reduction of c-type cytochromes by Fe(II)-ligand under oxic conditions: Roles of Fe(II)-heme complexation and reactive oxygen species. Chemical Geology. 663. 122276–122276. 1 indexed citations

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Zheng, Lirong, Hanyue Zhang, Yang Yang, et al.. (2024). Sequestration of Labile Organic Matter by Secondary Fe Minerals from Chemodenitrification: Insight into Mineral Protection Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(25). 11003–11015. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, Xiaomin Li, Kuan Cheng, et al.. (2024). Efficient Nitrogen Removal from Low-C/N Ratio Wastewater by a New Gel Microsphere with Nitrate-Reducing Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacteria. ACS ES&T Water. 4(11). 5131–5141. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Yang, Thomas Borch, Liping Fang, et al.. (2024). Iron biogeochemical redox cycling dominantly controls cadmium availability in acidic paddy soils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 378. 186–202. 18 indexed citations

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Hu, Shiwen, Yufan Zhang, Hanbing Meng, et al.. (2024). Transformation and migration of Hg in a polluted alkaline paddy soil during flooding and drainage processes. Environmental Pollution. 345. 123471–123471. 3 indexed citations

14.

Hu, Shiwen, Pengfei Cheng, Kuan Cheng, et al.. (2024). Speciation and biogeochemical behavior of perfluoroalkyl acids in soils and their environmental implications: A review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 505–515. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhao, Bingqing Xia, Yang Yang, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the influence of alternating flooding and drainage on antimony speciation and translocation in a soil-rice system. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177721–177721. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Guoyong, Xiaonan Wang, Dandan Pan, et al.. (2023). Cadmium immobilization during nitrate-reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. BoFeN1: Contribution of bacterial cells and secondary minerals. Chemical Geology. 639. 121729–121729. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Dandan, Kuan Cheng, Tongxu Liu, et al.. (2023). Novel Insight into Microbially Mediated Nitrate-Reducing Fe(II) Oxidation by Acidovorax sp. Strain BoFeN1 Using Dual N–O Isotope Fractionation. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(33). 12546–12555. 22 indexed citations

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He, Yizhou, Yang Yang, Shiwen Hu, et al.. (2023). Biogeochemical cycling in paddy soils controls antimony transformation: Roles of iron (oxyhydr)oxides, organic matter and sulfate. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 464. 132979–132979. 15 indexed citations

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Meng, Hanbing, Shiwen Hu, Zebin Hong, et al.. (2023). Effects of zero-valent iron added in the flooding or drainage process on cadmium immobilization in an acid paddy soil. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 138. 19–31. 5 indexed citations

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Cheng, Pengfei, et al.. (2017). The Acid-Base Buffer Capacity of Red Soil Variable Charge Minerals and Its Surface Complexation Model. Acta Chimica Sinica. 75(6). 637–637. 14 indexed citations

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