Lijun Hou

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
206 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Lijun Hou is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lijun Hou has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Ecology, 98 papers in Pollution and 61 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Lijun Hou's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (83 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (68 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (59 papers). Lijun Hou is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (83 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (68 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (59 papers). Lijun Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Lijun Hou's co-authors include Min Liu, Guoyu Yin, Yanling Zheng, Xiaofei Li, Yi Yang, Xianbiao Lin, Juan Gao, Dengzhou Gao, OU Dong-ni and Shiyuan Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lijun Hou

193 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

A systematic review of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in estuarine and coastal environments

2021 245 citations Guoyu Yin, Min Liu 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
Lijun Hou China	50	4.0k	3.4k	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	206	7.4k
Bongkeun Song United States	40	2.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	651 0.5×	651 0.5×	119	5.6k
Shuguang Xie China	46	3.4k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	329 0.2×	1.7k 1.3×	183	6.5k
Hendrikus J. Laanbroek Netherlands	54	3.4k 0.8×	5.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	729 0.6×	164	9.2k
Petra Pjevac Austria	27	2.8k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	842 0.5×	515 0.4×	778 0.6×	74	5.2k
Guoyu Yin China	35	2.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	722 0.5×	438 0.3×	93	4.1k
Anna M. Romaní Spain	41	1.8k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	728 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	137	6.0k
Ben Abbas Netherlands	40	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	970 0.7×	371 0.3×	74	5.3k
Yanling Zheng China	35	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	999 0.6×	710 0.5×	409 0.3×	98	4.1k
Sebastian Lücker Netherlands	37	5.0k 1.2×	4.6k 1.4×	913 0.6×	633 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	90	8.6k
Christopher Francis United States	49	4.7k 1.2×	7.2k 2.1×	1.9k 1.2×	2.2k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	100	9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Lijun Hou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lijun Hou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lijun Hou

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xiao, Wensheng, Xia Liang, Pete Smith, et al.. (2025). Enhanced plant diversity reduces nitrous oxide emissions in forest soils worldwide. National Science Review. 12(7). nwaf186–nwaf186.

Liu, Wenxiao, et al.. (2025). Ammonia oxidation by aerobic methanotrophs as a source of marine nitrous oxide. The ISME Journal. 19(1).

Chen, Feiyang, et al.. (2024). Microplastics promote methane emission in estuarine and coastal wetlands. Water Research. 259. 121853–121853. 13 indexed citations

Zhou, Jie, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen input modulates the effects of coastal acidification on nitrification and associated N2O emission. Water Research. 261. 122041–122041. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Kai, Yan Liu, Biao Ma, et al.. (2024). CADLAB: A contamination-free, argonaute-enhanced, dual detection of plant viruses via lateral flow assay biosensors system. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 426. 137045–137045. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yong, Xiaofei Li, Yanling Zheng, et al.. (2024). Temperature differentially regulates estuarine microbial N2O production along a salinity gradient. Water Research. 267. 122454–122454. 5 indexed citations

Li, Xiaofei, Xia Liang, Guoyu Yin, et al.. (2024). Acidification Offset Warming-Induced Increase in N₂O Production in Estuarine and Coastal Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(11). 4989–5002. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Xiufeng, Jun Li, Dongyao Sun, et al.. (2023). Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and comammox Nitrospira clade B as freeze–thaw resistant nitrifiers in wetland soils. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 178. 105570–105570. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Dengzhou, Hongpo Dong, Xia Liang, et al.. (2023). Nitrous oxide production from biological and chemodenitrification by Fe(II) in estuarine and coastal sediments. Applied Geochemistry. 161. 105884–105884. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jie, Yanling Zheng, Lijun Hou, et al.. (2023). Effects of acidification on nitrification and associated nitrous oxide emission in estuarine and coastal waters. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1380–1380. 45 indexed citations

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Qian, Wei, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2023). Spatial and Seasonal Variability of Hydroxylamine Concentrations in a Human‐Impacted Estuary Off Southeast China. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(3). 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fenfen, Jing Zhang, Yanling Zheng, et al.. (2023). Microbial necromass carbon in estuarine tidal wetlands of China: Influencing factors and environmental implication. The Science of The Total Environment. 876. 162566–162566. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Cheng, Guoyu Yin, Dongyao Sun, et al.. (2023). Effects of microplastics on denitrification and associated N2O emission in estuarine and coastal sediments: insights from interactions between sulfate reducers and denitrifiers. Water Research. 245. 120590–120590. 23 indexed citations

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Chen, Cheng, Guoyu Yin, Lijun Hou, et al.. (2023). Reclamation of tidal flats to paddy soils reshuffles the soil microbiomes along a 53-year reclamation chronosequence: Evidence from assembly processes, co-occurrence patterns and multifunctionality. Environment International. 179. 108151–108151. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Xianbiao, Lijun Hou, Min Liu, et al.. (2016). Nitrogen mineralization and immobilization in sediments of the East China Sea: Spatiotemporal variations and environmental implications. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 121(11). 2842–2855. 57 indexed citations

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Gao, Juan, Lijun Hou, Yanling Zheng, et al.. (2016). nirS-Encoding denitrifier community composition, distribution, and abundance along the coastal wetlands of China. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 100(19). 8573–8582. 60 indexed citations

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Deng, Fengyu, Lijun Hou, Min Liu, et al.. (2015). Dissimilatory nitrate reduction processes and associated contribution to nitrogen removal in sediments of the Yangtze Estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 120(8). 1521–1531. 163 indexed citations

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Hou, Lijun & Harry Geerlings. (2014). Port related transport management and the governance of air pollution: A comparative study on emission standards between china and Europe and the position of ports. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).

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Dong-ni, OU, Min Liu, Shiyuan Xu, et al.. (2009). [Distribution and ecological risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in overlying waters and surface sediments from the Yangtze estuarine and coastal areas].. PubMed. 30(10). 3043–9. 15 indexed citations

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Dong-ni, OU, Min Liu, Shiyuan Xu, et al.. (2008). [Distribution and origin of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in suspended particulate matters from the Yangtze estuarine and nearby coastal areas].. PubMed. 29(9). 2392–8. 1 indexed citations

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