Lihui An

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Lihui An is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lihui An has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Pollution, 39 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 32 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Lihui An's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (50 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (37 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (17 papers). Lihui An is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (50 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (37 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (17 papers). Lihui An collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lihui An's co-authors include Song Cui, Kun Lei, Libiao Yang, Yu Kang, Qiujin Xu, Fei Qiao, Kuixiao Li, Jianying Hu, Haiwen Wu and Gerald A. LeBlanc and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Lihui An

98 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Tissue accumulation of microplastics and potential health risks in human

2024 141 citations Long Zhu, Yulin Kang et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lihui An China	31	2.3k	1.5k	817	451	322	103	3.3k
Mahua Saha India	28	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	509 1.1×	165 0.5×	45	3.5k
Amir Hossein Hamidian Iran	25	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	477 0.6×	455 1.0×	286 0.9×	75	2.6k
Carmine Massarelli Italy	20	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	496 0.6×	462 1.0×	384 1.2×	45	3.1k
Claudia Campanale Italy	22	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	534 0.7×	461 1.0×	466 1.4×	41	3.2k
Shanshan Zhang China	22	1.7k 0.7×	666 0.4×	620 0.8×	266 0.6×	321 1.0×	80	2.6k
Hasintha Wijesekara Sri Lanka	25	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	504 0.6×	419 0.9×	377 1.2×	46	3.3k
Lisbet Sørensen Norway	31	1.9k 0.8×	989 0.7×	913 1.1×	533 1.2×	392 1.2×	86	3.5k
Yini Ma China	23	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	492 0.6×	634 1.4×	613 1.9×	57	3.1k
Rebecca Sutton United States	17	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	758 0.9×	315 0.7×	245 0.8×	34	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Lihui An

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Lihui An's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Lihui An with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Lihui An more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Lihui An

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lihui An

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Long, et al.. (2025). Growing concerns over ingested microplastics in humans. Carbon Research. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

Wu, Zhixin, Jiao Dong, Huan Li, et al.. (2025). Quantitatively tracing microplastics in sewage sludge using thermodesorption gas chromatography/mass spectrometry combined with pyrolysis. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 494. 138652–138652. 1 indexed citations

Tremblay, Louis A., et al.. (2025). Implications of plastic pollution on global carbon cycle. Carbon Research. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Xu, Zhao, Ge Dang, Kun Ma, et al.. (2025). Molecular-level insights into the secondary per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) in durable water repellent fabric: Generation, properties, and adsorption mechanism. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 725. 137524–137524.

Hough, Rupert, Qiang Fu, Lihui An, et al.. (2024). Recent advances and prospects of neonicotinoid insecticides removal from aquatic environments using biochar: Adsorption and degradation mechanisms. The Science of The Total Environment. 939. 173509–173509. 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Yongyong, Ming Dou, Ximing Cai, et al.. (2024). Modeling multi-source plastic pollution yield and transport driven by catchment hydrometeorological processes. Water Research. 259. 121863–121863. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Zhixin, Jiao Dong, Yaxian Zhao, et al.. (2024). Mass-based fates of microplastics throughout wastewater treatment processes. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150497–150497. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Yueyue, Siyi Lin, Chen Wang, et al.. (2024). Sex-Specific Effects of Environmental Exposure to the Antimicrobial Agents Benzalkonium Chloride and Triclosan on the Gut Microbiota and Health of Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Environmental Science & Technology. 58(35). 15450–15462. 6 indexed citations

Zhu, Long, Zhixin Wu, Jiao Dong, et al.. (2024). Unveiling Small-Sized Plastic Particles Hidden behind Large-Sized Ones in Human Excretion and Their Potential Sources. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(27). 11901–11911. 16 indexed citations

10.

Zhang, Chen, Ning J. Yue, Xiaohui Li, et al.. (2023). Potential translocation process and effects of polystyrene microplastics on strawberry seedlings. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 449. 131019–131019. 44 indexed citations

11.

Wu, Zhixin, Lihui An, Qiujin Xu, et al.. (2023). Microplastics transferring from abiotic to biotic in aquatic ecosystem: A mini review. The Science of The Total Environment. 893. 164686–164686. 9 indexed citations

12.

Xia, Xinyue, et al.. (2022). Ignored microplastic sources from plastic bottle recycling. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 2). 156038–156038. 45 indexed citations

13.

Lin, Xiaoying, Yanfei Zhang, Tian Xue, et al.. (2022). The toxicity of nano polyethylene terephthalate to mice: Intestinal obstruction, growth retardant, gut microbiota dysbiosis and lipid metabolism disorders. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 172. 113585–113585. 20 indexed citations

14.

Xu, Qiujin, et al.. (2020). Microplastics in sediments from an interconnected river-estuary region. The Science of The Total Environment. 729. 139025–139025. 114 indexed citations

15.

Yang, Libiao, Kuixiao Li, Song Cui, et al.. (2019). Removal of microplastics in municipal sewage from China's largest water reclamation plant. Water Research. 155. 175–181. 322 indexed citations

16.

Deng, Yixiang, et al.. (2018). Countermeasurces on Control of Plastic Litter and Microplastic Pollution. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 33(10). 1042–1051. 1 indexed citations

17.

Qiao, Fei, Kun Lei, Xuemei Han, et al.. (2018). No impacts of microcystins on wild freshwater snail Bellamya Aeruginosa fecundity from a eutrophic lake. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 60. 165–168. 5 indexed citations

18.

Lei, Kun, Fei Qiao, Qing Liu, et al.. (2017). Preliminary evidence for snail deformation from a Eutrophic lake. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 53. 219–226. 10 indexed citations

19.

Zeng, Rui, et al.. (2016). Study on Heavy Metals Pollution in Sediments from North of Taihu Lake and Its Biological Toxicity. 11(3). 210. 1 indexed citations

20.

An, Lihui, et al.. (2010). Occurrence of heavy metals in surface sediments from estuaries in Bohai bay and their ecological risk assessment.. China Environmental Science. 30(5). 666–670. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact