Liguan Li

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Liguan Li is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Medicine and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liguan Li has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Pollution, 12 papers in Molecular Medicine and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Liguan Li's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (15 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (12 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Liguan Li is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (15 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (12 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Liguan Li collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Denmark. Liguan Li's co-authors include Tong Zhang, Xiaole Yin, Xiaotao Jiang, Ying Yang, James M. Tiedje, James R. Cole, Benli Chai, Søren J. Sørensen, Joseph Nesme and Barth F. Smets and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Liguan Li

26 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

ARGs-OAP v2.0 with an expanded SARG database and Hidden Markov Models for enhancement characterization and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental metagenomes

2018 517 citations Xiaole Yin, Xiaotao Jiang et al. Bioinformatics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liguan Li Hong Kong	13	813	472	407	351	144	27	1.3k
Jéssica Subirats Spain	17	832 1.0×	470 1.0×	408 1.0×	364 1.0×	180 1.3×	27	1.4k
Romain Marti Canada	17	883 1.1×	442 0.9×	297 0.7×	257 0.7×	85 0.6×	26	1.4k
Andrew Scott Canada	23	1.1k 1.4×	549 1.2×	307 0.8×	278 0.8×	140 1.0×	41	1.8k
Katariina Pärnänen Finland	13	1.2k 1.4×	697 1.5×	523 1.3×	409 1.2×	104 0.7×	20	1.8k
Yongxue Sun China	20	955 1.2×	569 1.2×	350 0.9×	413 1.2×	111 0.8×	39	1.6k
Thibault Stalder United States	17	823 1.0×	748 1.6×	473 1.2×	342 1.0×	108 0.8×	22	1.5k
Nuohan Xu China	18	712 0.9×	232 0.5×	324 0.8×	326 0.9×	110 0.8×	43	1.4k
Zhenchao Zhou China	22	1.3k 1.6×	792 1.7×	382 0.9×	344 1.0×	254 1.8×	44	1.8k
Wenguang Xiong China	21	1.0k 1.2×	624 1.3×	560 1.4×	423 1.2×	115 0.8×	60	1.8k
Li-Guan Li Hong Kong	12	1.4k 1.7×	690 1.5×	492 1.2×	469 1.3×	314 2.2×	13	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liguan Li

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Tian, Guijie Li, Liguan Li, et al.. (2025). Environmentally relevant low metal concentrations drive co-selection of antibiotic and metal resistance genes in activated sludge. Environmental Research. 287. 123042–123042.

Li, Huixin, et al.. (2025). Genomic insights and metabolic pathways of an enriched bacterial community capable of degrading polyethylene. Environment International. 197. 109334–109334. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Chunxiao, Yang Yu, Xiaoqing Xu, et al.. (2025). The quest for environmental analytical microbiology: absolute quantitative microbiome using cellular internal standards. Microbiome. 13(1). 26–26. 7 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuxiang, Liguan Li, Yue Huang, et al.. (2025). Global soil antibiotic resistance genes are associated with increasing risk and connectivity to human resistome. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7141–7141. 5 indexed citations

Mao, Xuemei, Xiaole Yin, Yu Yang, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal metagenomic analysis on antibiotic resistome, mobilome, and microbiome of river ecosystems in a sub-tropical metropolitan city. Water Research. 274. 123102–123102. 5 indexed citations

Mao, Xuemei, Xiaole Yin, Yu Yang, et al.. (2024). Standardization in global environmental antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) surveillance. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 54(22). 1633–1650. 11 indexed citations

Li, Tian, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic approach revealed the mobility and co-occurrence of antibiotic resistomes between non-intensive aquaculture environment and human. Microbiome. 12(1). 16 indexed citations

Moradigaravand, Danesh, Liguan Li, Arnaud Dechesne, et al.. (2023). Plasmid permissiveness of wastewater microbiomes can be predicted from 16S rRNA sequences by machine learning. Bioinformatics. 39(7). 2 indexed citations

Li, Liguan & Tong Zhang. (2023). Roadmap to tackle antibiotic resistance in the environment under the One Health framework. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 224–228. 8 indexed citations

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Yin, Xiaole, Liguan Li, Xi Chen, et al.. (2023). Global environmental resistome: Distinction and connectivity across diverse habitats benchmarked by metagenomic analyses. Water Research. 235. 119875–119875. 36 indexed citations

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Huang, Yue, Liguan Li, Xiaole Yin, & Tong Zhang. (2023). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) biodegradation capacity revealed by a genome-function relationship approach. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 39–39. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunxiao, Yu Yang, Yulin Wang, et al.. (2022). Absolute quantification and genome-centric analyses elucidate the dynamics of microbial populations in anaerobic digesters. Water Research. 224. 119049–119049. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Yubo, Liguan Li, Yu Xia, & Tong Zhang. (2022). Reliable and Scalable Identification and Prioritization of Putative Cellulolytic Anaerobes With Large Genome Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 813771–813771. 2 indexed citations

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Manaia, Célia M., Diana S. Aga, Eddie Cytryn, et al.. (2022). The Complex Interplay Between Antibiotic Resistance and Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in the Environment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43(3). 637–652. 24 indexed citations

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Yin, Xiaole, Yu Yang, Yu Deng, et al.. (2021). An assessment of resistome and mobilome in wastewater treatment plants through temporal and spatial metagenomic analysis. Water Research. 209. 117885–117885. 74 indexed citations

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Li, Liguan, Joseph Nesme, Marcos Quintela‐Baluja, et al.. (2021). Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase and Carbapenemase Genes are Substantially and Sequentially Reduced during Conveyance and Treatment of Urban Sewage. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(9). 5939–5949. 28 indexed citations

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Li, Liguan, Arnaud Dechesne, Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, et al.. (2020). Plasmids persist in a microbial community by providing fitness benefit to multiple phylotypes. The ISME Journal. 14(5). 1170–1181. 64 indexed citations

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Zhai, Weiwei, Liguan Li, Ting Guo, et al.. (2020). Abundance and diversity of microbial arsenic biotransformation genes in the sludge of full-scale anaerobic digesters from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Environment International. 138. 105535–105535. 33 indexed citations

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Guo, Ting, Liguan Li, Weiwei Zhai, et al.. (2019). Distribution of arsenic and its biotransformation genes in sediments from the East China Sea. Environmental Pollution. 253. 949–958. 47 indexed citations

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Mao, Yanping, Zhiping Wang, Liguan Li, et al.. (2016). Exploring the Shift in Structure and Function of Microbial Communities Performing Biological Phosphorus Removal. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161506–e0161506. 9 indexed citations

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