Lei Mai

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Lei Mai is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Mai has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Pollution, 23 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Lei Mai's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (26 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (19 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (6 papers). Lei Mai is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (26 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (19 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (6 papers). Lei Mai collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Lei Mai's co-authors include Eddy Y. Zeng, Lian‐Jun Bao, Liang‐Ying Liu, Robert C. Hale, Meredith Evans Seeley, Mark J. La Guardia, Lei Shi, Xiangfei Sun, Charles S. Wong and Chen-Hua Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lei Mai

40 papers receiving 3.0k 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 Global Perspective on Microplastics

2020 880 citations Lei Mai, Eddy Y. Zeng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Mai China	20	2.6k	1.7k	708	399	346	41	3.0k
Zhilin Zhu China	10	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	588 0.8×	370 0.9×	378 1.1×	18	2.4k
Lingshi Yin China	26	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	677 1.0×	430 1.1×	218 0.6×	45	3.2k
Hanyu Wang China	14	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	766 1.1×	291 0.7×	288 0.8×	16	2.5k
Jingxi Li China	23	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	716 1.0×	224 0.6×	230 0.7×	60	2.7k
Xiaowei Wu China	26	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	829 1.2×	586 1.5×	355 1.0×	70	3.7k
Licheng Peng China	26	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	746 1.1×	370 0.9×	190 0.5×	59	2.6k
Yini Ma China	23	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	634 0.9×	679 1.7×	492 1.4×	57	3.1k
Amir Hossein Hamidian Iran	25	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	455 0.6×	229 0.6×	477 1.4×	75	2.6k
Hengxiang Li China	36	3.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	990 1.4×	421 1.1×	661 1.9×	107	4.8k
Hannah De Frond Canada	15	2.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	748 1.1×	207 0.5×	323 0.9×	18	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Mai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Mai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Mai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Mai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Mai 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 Lei Mai. Lei Mai 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

Xiao, Yizhi, et al.. (2024). Novel prognostic alternative splicing events in colorectal Cancer: Impact on immune infiltration and therapy response. International Immunopharmacology. 139. 112603–112603.

Tang, Rui, et al.. (2024). Effects of aging and temperature on the desorption of polychlorinated biphenyls from microplastics in simulated digestive fluids. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 43(2). 624–632. 2 indexed citations

Fei, Jiangchi, Tao Zou, Jianwei Peng, et al.. (2024). Wet-dry or freeze-thaw alternation can regulate the impacts of farmland plastic pollution on soil bacterial communities and functions. Water Research. 267. 122506–122506. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Po, et al.. (2024). Distribution, sorption patterns, and outflows of riverine microplastics-affiliated linear alkylbenzenes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a dynamic coastal zone. Environmental Pollution. 364(Pt 1). 125295–125295. 2 indexed citations

Li, Ting, Kai Liu, Rui Tang, et al.. (2023). Environmental fate of microplastics in an urban river: Spatial distribution and seasonal variation. Environmental Pollution. 322. 121227–121227. 43 indexed citations

Wu, Chen-Chou, et al.. (2023). Hydrophobic organic contaminants affiliated with polymer-specific microplastics in urban river tributaries and estuaries. The Science of The Total Environment. 899. 166415–166415. 10 indexed citations

Mai, Lei, Xiangfei Sun, & Eddy Y. Zeng. (2023). Country-specific riverine contributions to marine plastic pollution. The Science of The Total Environment. 874. 162552–162552. 32 indexed citations

Cui, Jian, Jinxin Shi, Lei He, et al.. (2023). Associations of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances mixture with the numbers of lymph nodes in colorectal cancer patients. Environmental Research. 240(Pt 1). 117529–117529. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanxu, Peipei Wu, Ruochong Xu, et al.. (2023). Plastic waste discharge to the global ocean constrained by seawater observations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1372–1372. 77 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiangfei, et al.. (2022). Biobased plastic: A plausible solution toward carbon neutrality in plastic industry?. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 435. 129037–129037. 31 indexed citations

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Mai, Lei, et al.. (2021). Dog poop bags: A non-negligible source of plastic pollution. Environmental Pollution. 292(Pt A). 118355–118355. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Guiqin, et al.. (2021). Diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on microplastics in riverine waters of the Pearl River Delta, China. Chemosphere. 272. 129870–129870. 50 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yao, Lei Mai, Xingwen Lu, et al.. (2021). Occurrence and abundance of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on microplastics (MPs) in Pearl River Estuary (PRE) region: Spatial and temporal variations. Environmental Pollution. 281. 117025–117025. 79 indexed citations

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Jia, Miaomiao, Lei Mai, Zhanjun Li, & Wanbin Li. (2020). Air-thermal processing of hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks. Nanoscale. 12(26). 14171–14179. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chaoqun, Chen-Hua Lu, Lei Mai, et al.. (2020). Response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots to nanoplastic treatment at seedling stage. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 401. 123412–123412. 318 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuyu, et al.. (2020). Selected antibiotics and current-use pesticides in riverine runoff of an urbanized river system in association with anthropogenic stresses. The Science of The Total Environment. 739. 140004–140004. 28 indexed citations

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Mai, Lei, et al.. (2019). Nitrification performance of high rate nitrifying trickling filters at low ammonia concentrations: does the aspect ratio matter?. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(20). 20520–20529. 3 indexed citations

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Mai, Lei, Lian‐Jun Bao, Lei Shi, Liang‐Ying Liu, & Eddy Y. Zeng. (2018). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons affiliated with microplastics in surface waters of Bohai and Huanghai Seas, China. Environmental Pollution. 241. 834–840. 159 indexed citations

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Lai, Renxu, et al.. (2014). Relative risk factors associated with the development of fundic gland polyps. European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 26(11). 1217–1221. 17 indexed citations

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Lü, Pei, Caiting Li, Zheng Zeng, et al.. (2012). Experimental study on a room temperature urea-SCR of NO over activated carbon fibre-supported CeO₂-CuO. Environmental Technology. 34(5). 591–598. 18 indexed citations

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