Lei Yu

7.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
195 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Lei Yu is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Materials Chemistry and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Yu has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Water Science and Technology, 40 papers in Materials Chemistry and 38 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Lei Yu's work include Advanced oxidation water treatment (40 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (26 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (25 papers). Lei Yu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced oxidation water treatment (40 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (26 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (25 papers). Lei Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Lei Yu's co-authors include Xin Yang, Xin Lei, Shuangshuang Cheng, Paul Westerhoff, Min Song, Xinran Zhang, Yanheng Pan, Gangfeng Ouyang, Na Luo and Taicheng An and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lei Yu

171 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

A Review of Communication, Driver Characteristics, and Co... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2023 2019 2022 2022 100 200 300 400
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. A Review of Communication, Driver Characteristics, and Controls Aspects of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC)
    2015 424 citations Lei Yu et al. profile →
  2. Assessing the Use of Probes and Quenchers for Understanding the Reactive Species in Advanced Oxidation Processes
    2023 372 citations Lei Yu, Xin Lei et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  3. Rate Constants and Mechanisms of the Reactions of Cl• and Cl2•– with Trace Organic Contaminants
    2019 370 citations Lei Yu, Shuangshuang Cheng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  4. Multiple Roles of Dissolved Organic Matter in Advanced Oxidation Processes
    2022 308 citations Xin Yang, Fernando L. Rosario‐Ortiz et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  5. Selective Degradation of Electron-Rich Organic Pollutants Induced by CuO@Biochar: The Key Role of Outer-Sphere Interaction and Singlet Oxygen
    2022 225 citations Lei Yu et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lei Yu China 37 2.1k 1.2k 1.2k 1.0k 972 195 5.5k
Yan Wang China 43 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 411 0.4× 304 6.3k
Jiabin Chen China 50 3.3k 1.6× 2.5k 2.1× 1.4k 1.2× 1.6k 1.6× 603 0.6× 319 8.2k
G. Máscolo Italy 45 1.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.7× 1.8k 1.5× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 190 6.7k
Am Jang South Korea 44 3.4k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 893 0.8× 2.5k 2.4× 524 0.5× 243 6.6k
Fengyun Wang China 47 2.5k 1.1× 1.8k 1.5× 3.0k 2.5× 1.3k 1.2× 261 0.3× 284 7.9k
Zhenghua Zhang China 55 3.7k 1.7× 2.2k 1.8× 2.2k 1.9× 2.1k 2.0× 935 1.0× 218 8.2k
Yasuaki Maeda Japan 46 938 0.4× 640 0.5× 2.6k 2.2× 2.9k 2.8× 705 0.7× 198 7.0k
Yanwei Li China 37 2.3k 1.1× 2.2k 1.9× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 264 0.3× 242 6.3k
Huachang Hong China 49 4.9k 2.3× 815 0.7× 706 0.6× 2.9k 2.8× 1.5k 1.5× 132 7.8k
Xuemei Li China 48 1.4k 0.7× 1.6k 1.3× 3.0k 2.6× 3.0k 2.9× 526 0.5× 382 10.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Yu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Lei, Xiaoqin He, Yongyan Dang, et al.. (2025). Temperature Dependence of Halogen Radical Reactivity with Dissolved Organic Matter. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(42). 22973–22981.
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Yu, Lei, et al.. (2024). Rapid pyrolysis mechanism and product distribution of coal model compounds containing typical C–O bonds. Journal of the Energy Institute. 114. 101608–101608. 6 indexed citations
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Pan, Yanheng, Yangjian Zhou, Xin Lei, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic Aspects of Photodegradation of Deoxynucleosides Induced by Triplet State of Effluent Organic Matter. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(10). 4751–4760. 7 indexed citations
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Lei, Xin, et al.. (2024). Aromatic Structures Govern the Formation of Chlorinated Byproducts in Dichlorine Radical Reactions. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(42). 19048–19057. 14 indexed citations
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Yu, Lei, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneous Iron-Catalyzed Oxyalkylation of Vinylarenes via C(sp3)—H Activation of Cyclic Ethers. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 44(6). 1978–1978. 2 indexed citations
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Song, Zilong, Peng Wang, Junlang Qiu, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale Sequential Reactor Design Achieves Effective Removal of Disinfection Byproduct Precursors in Catalytic Ozonation. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(28). 12697–12707. 15 indexed citations
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Yu, Lei, et al.. (2023). A Volterra Adaptive Filtering Method for Polar Motion Prediction Based on Chaotic Time Series. Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics. 47(1). 236–256.
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Yang, Jie, Yukun Zhao, Mengyu Duan, et al.. (2023). HCO3−-mediated highly efficient photoelectrochemical dioxygenation of arylalkenes: triple roles of HCO3−-derived radicals. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(1). 183–189. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qinhua, Lei Yu, Zhixiao Gao, et al.. (2023). Cl2⋅− Mediates Direct and Selective Conversion of Inert C(sp3)−H Bonds into Aldehydes/Ketones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(36). e202304699–e202304699. 22 indexed citations
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Liang, Xi, Lei Yu, & Xin Yang. (2023). Quantitative structure–activity relationships for the reaction kinetics of trace organic contaminants with one-electron oxidants. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(1). 192–208. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Huang, et al.. (2022). Trichloramine and Hydroxyl Radical Contributions to Dichloroacetonitrile Formation Following Breakpoint Chlorination. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(17). 12592–12601. 28 indexed citations
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Lei, Xin, et al.. (2022). Kinetics and Transformations of Diverse Dissolved Organic Matter Fractions with Sulfate Radicals. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(7). 4457–4466. 79 indexed citations
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Yang, Xin, Fernando L. Rosario‐Ortiz, Lei Yu, et al.. (2022). Multiple Roles of Dissolved Organic Matter in Advanced Oxidation Processes. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(16). 11111–11131. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pan, Jeng‐Shyang, et al.. (2022). Mutigroup‐Based Phasmatodea Population Evolution Algorithm with Mutistrategy for IoT Electric Bus Scheduling. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 6 indexed citations
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Kong, Qingqing, Yanheng Pan, Xin Lei, et al.. (2022). Reducing properties of triplet state organic matter (3DOM*) probed via the transformation from chlorine dioxide to chlorite. Water Research. 225. 119120–119120. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xinran, et al.. (2021). UV254 irradiation of N-chloro-α-amino acids: Kinetics, mechanisms, and N-DBP formation potentials. Water Research. 199. 117204–117204. 20 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yangjian, Yang Wu, Lei Yu, et al.. (2021). Redox-Active Moieties in Dissolved Organic Matter Accelerate the Degradation of Nitroimidazoles in SO4•–-Based Oxidation. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(21). 14844–14853. 59 indexed citations
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Yu, Lei, Shuangshuang Cheng, Na Luo, Xin Yang, & Taicheng An. (2019). Rate Constants and Mechanisms of the Reactions of Cl• and Cl2•– with Trace Organic Contaminants. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(19). 11170–11182. 370 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Ming, et al.. (2017). Clinical analysis of the effect of preemptive analgesia with parecoxib sodium on the corresponding index in cesarean section. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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