Lifei Sun

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Lifei Sun is a scholar working on Soil Science, Materials Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifei Sun has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Soil Science, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lifei Sun's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (20 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (12 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers). Lifei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (20 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (12 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers). Lifei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Lifei Sun's co-authors include Liying Jiao, Jingying Zheng, Chao Wang, Lina Liu, Lin Gu, Edith Bai, Xiaozhi Liu, Lei Xing, Guanchen Xu and Xu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lifei Sun

50 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Phase-selective synthesis of 1T′ MoS2 monolayers and heterophase bilayers

2018 422 citations Lina Liu, Juanxia Wu et al. Nature Materials profile →
Integrating microbial community properties, biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon

2023 81 citations Chao Wang, Xu Wang et al. ISME Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifei Sun China	20	912	498	371	326	275	52	1.8k
Hang Zhao China	21	473 0.5×	617 1.2×	178 0.5×	289 0.9×	88 0.3×	67	1.6k
H. Zhang United Kingdom	14	460 0.5×	326 0.7×	269 0.7×	99 0.3×	143 0.5×	32	1.2k
Yingyi Fu China	23	928 1.0×	279 0.6×	318 0.9×	247 0.8×	211 0.8×	44	1.8k
Qing Zheng China	22	257 0.3×	403 0.8×	694 1.9×	149 0.5×	462 1.7×	78	2.2k
Barnaby D.A. Levin United States	18	353 0.4×	690 1.4×	141 0.4×	394 1.2×	82 0.3×	46	1.7k
Thomas Reitz Germany	30	730 0.8×	323 0.6×	813 2.2×	185 0.6×	543 2.0×	98	2.8k
Guanxiong Chen China	23	561 0.6×	668 1.3×	554 1.5×	195 0.6×	294 1.1×	62	2.4k
Shilong Chen China	27	1.6k 1.8×	322 0.6×	112 0.3×	584 1.8×	170 0.6×	84	2.5k
Xiaodong Zheng China	20	502 0.6×	247 0.5×	159 0.4×	122 0.4×	85 0.3×	42	1.1k
Shujuan Cui China	17	506 0.6×	245 0.5×	246 0.7×	203 0.6×	287 1.0×	30	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lifei Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sun, Lifei, Wolfgang Wanek, Daryl Moorhead, et al.. (2025). Interpreting differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by isotope methods and the ecoenzyme stoichiometry model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 209. 109914–109914.

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Wang, Xu, Chao Wang, Xianlei Fan, et al.. (2024). Mineral composition controls the stabilization of microbially derived carbon and nitrogen in soils: Insights from an isotope tracing model. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17156–e17156. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Shuailin, Yongxing Cui, Daryl Moorhead, et al.. (2024). Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 200. 109614–109614. 12 indexed citations

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Sun, Lifei, Wolfgang Wanek, Daryl Moorhead, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen input decreases microbial nitrogen use efficiency in surface soils of a temperate forest in northeast China. Geoderma. 453. 117159–117159. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Lifei, Daryl Moorhead, Yongxing Cui, et al.. (2023). Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry. Ecological Processes. 12(1). 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao, Xu Wang, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Integrating microbial community properties, biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon. ISME Communications. 3(1). 86–86. 81 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Lifei, Chao Wang, Dongwei Liu, et al.. (2021). Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Sediments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(12). 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Lifei, Chao Wang, Yangjian Cai, et al.. (2021). Diode-Pumped Fluorescence in Visible Range From Femtosecond Laser Inscribed Pr:LuAG Waveguides. Frontiers in Physics. 9. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Dake, Tianqi Zhao, Xiaofan Ping, et al.. (2019). Unveiling the Layer‐Dependent Catalytic Activity of PtSe₂ Atomic Crystals for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 131(21). 7051–7055. 40 indexed citations

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Hu, Dake, Tianqi Zhao, Xiaofan Ping, et al.. (2019). Unveiling the Layer‐Dependent Catalytic Activity of PtSe₂ Atomic Crystals for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(21). 6977–6981. 94 indexed citations

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Liu, Lina, Juanxia Wu, Liyuan Wu, et al.. (2018). Phase-selective synthesis of 1T′ MoS2 monolayers and heterophase bilayers. Nature Materials. 17(12). 1108–1114. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ofori-Opoku, Nana, et al.. (2018). Electrical Stressing Induced Monolayer Vacancy Island Growth on TiSe₂. Nano Letters. 18(3). 2179–2185. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Lifei, Xingxu Yan, Jingying Zheng, et al.. (2018). Layer-Dependent Chemically Induced Phase Transition of Two-Dimensional MoS₂. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3435–3440. 85 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingyi, Guanchen Xu, Lifei Sun, et al.. (2016). Controlled Synthesis of Two-Dimensional 1T-TiSe₂ with Charge Density Wave Transition by Chemical Vapor Transport. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(50). 16216–16219. 84 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qi, Xu Xiao, Ruiqi Zhao, et al.. (2015). Two‐Dimensional Layered Heterostructures Synthesized from Core–Shell Nanowires. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(31). 8957–8960. 84 indexed citations

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Sun, Lifei & Dongsheng Guan. (2014). CARBON STOCK OF THE ECOSYSTEM OF LOWER SUBTROPICAL BROADLEAVED EVERGREEN FORESTS OF DIFFERENT AGES IN PEARL RIVER DELTA, CHINA. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 26(2). 249–258. 22 indexed citations

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Luo, Yi, Lifei Sun, Zhen Zhu, Wei Ran, & Qirong Shen. (2013). Identification and characterization of an anti-fungi Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerium protease from the Bacillus subtilis strain N7. The Journal of Microbiology. 51(3). 359–366. 11 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhen, Chao Gao, Lifei Sun, et al.. (2013). Removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution by lipopeptides and lipopeptides modified Na-montmorillonite. Bioresource Technology. 147. 378–386. 53 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhen, Lifei Sun, Xiaolei Huang, Wei Ran, & Qirong Shen. (2013). Comparison of the kinetics of lipopeptide production by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens XZ-173 in solid-state fermentation under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 30(5). 1615–1623. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Hailong, et al.. (2013). Post stimulus effects of high frequency biphasic electrical current on a fibre's conductibility in isolated frog nerves. Journal of Neural Engineering. 10(3). 36024–36024. 14 indexed citations

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