Leif Söderlund

747 total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 624 citations indexed

About

Leif Söderlund is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Leif Söderlund has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 624 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations, 1 paper in Urban Studies and 1 paper in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Leif Söderlund's work include Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (1 paper), Migration and Labor Dynamics (1 paper) and Urbanization and City Planning (1 paper). Leif Söderlund is often cited by papers focused on Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (1 paper), Migration and Labor Dynamics (1 paper) and Urbanization and City Planning (1 paper). Leif Söderlund collaborates with scholars based in Finland and China. Leif Söderlund's co-authors include Zhiyun Ouyang, Jingzhu Zhao, Guohua Liu, Wenhua Liu, Qi Lu, Juan Li, Peilin Wu and Lu Qi and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment International and Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)).

In The Last Decade

Leif Söderlund

3 papers receiving 585 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.

Impacts of sewage irrigation on heavy metal distribution and contamination in Beijing, China

2005 617 citations Wenhua Liu, Jingzhu Zhao et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leif Söderlund Finland	2	508	161	133	130	129	3	624
Mingjiang He China	12	441 0.9×	203 1.3×	90 0.7×	183 1.4×	77 0.6×	18	787
Keivan Nemati Malaysia	10	617 1.2×	201 1.2×	77 0.6×	166 1.3×	135 1.0×	13	863
Elham Sobhanzadeh Malaysia	8	563 1.1×	188 1.2×	69 0.5×	149 1.1×	131 1.0×	11	794
Afshin Qishlaqi Iran	8	379 0.7×	121 0.8×	66 0.5×	85 0.7×	71 0.6×	15	499
Xinling Ruan China	17	543 1.1×	232 1.4×	75 0.6×	135 1.0×	92 0.7×	38	860
Gade N. Rao United States	5	666 1.3×	156 1.0×	64 0.5×	113 0.9×	84 0.7×	5	770
Nwachukwu Romanus Ekere Nigeria	16	431 0.8×	293 1.8×	74 0.6×	192 1.5×	102 0.8×	44	773
G. Nabulo United Kingdom	5	552 1.1×	248 1.5×	76 0.6×	68 0.5×	179 1.4×	5	749
Samira Ibrahim Korfali Lebanon	18	326 0.6×	168 1.0×	62 0.5×	181 1.4×	107 0.8×	23	715
Sumanta Nayek India	13	440 0.9×	180 1.1×	142 1.1×	201 1.5×	88 0.7×	33	778

Countries citing papers authored by Leif Söderlund

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leif Söderlund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leif Söderlund

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

All Works

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Lu, Qi, Leif Söderlund, Peilin Wu, & Juan Li. (2005). Cultivated land loss arising from the rapid urbanization in China. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 6 indexed citations

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Qi, Lu, et al.. (2005). Population migration pattern in China: present and future. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 1 indexed citations

3.

Liu, Wenhua, Jingzhu Zhao, Zhiyun Ouyang, Leif Söderlund, & Guohua Liu. (2005). Impacts of sewage irrigation on heavy metal distribution and contamination in Beijing, China. Environment International. 31(6). 805–812. 617 indexed citations breakdown →

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