Muting Yan

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Muting Yan is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Muting Yan has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pollution, 16 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 10 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Muting Yan's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (23 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (13 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (10 papers). Muting Yan is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (23 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (13 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (10 papers). Muting Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Muting Yan's co-authors include Jun Wang, Han Gong, Kaihang Xu, Huayue Nie, Yumei Huang, Yingtong Hu, Yuhui He, Zeming Cai, Yumei Huang and Lijie Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Muting Yan

49 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Microplastic abundance, distribution and composition in the Pearl River along Guangzhou city and Pearl River estuary, China

2018 435 citations Muting Yan, Huayue Nie et al. Chemosphere profile →
Biological Degradation of Plastics and Microplastics: A Recent Perspective on Associated Mechanisms and Influencing Factors

2023 181 citations Zeming Cai, Minqian Li et al. Microorganisms profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muting Yan China	24	1.8k	1.1k	413	315	285	52	2.5k
Kaihang Xu China	12	1.0k 0.6×	699 0.6×	245 0.6×	129 0.4×	115 0.4×	14	1.3k
Jiannan Ding China	22	2.2k 1.2×	973 0.9×	356 0.9×	95 0.3×	551 1.9×	35	2.5k
Aiguo Zhou China	16	980 0.5×	519 0.5×	176 0.4×	185 0.6×	116 0.4×	42	1.5k
Sławomir Ciesielski Poland	25	1.1k 0.6×	298 0.3×	493 1.2×	92 0.3×	175 0.6×	95	2.0k
Qingfei Li China	19	644 0.4×	260 0.2×	303 0.7×	247 0.8×	52 0.2×	74	1.5k
Guillaume Duflos France	29	2.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.8×	659 1.6×	72 0.2×	652 2.3×	64	3.8k
Yingang Xue China	22	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	378 0.9×	28 0.1×	550 1.9×	55	2.6k
Xuemei Sun China	21	1.6k 0.9×	935 0.9×	439 1.1×	43 0.1×	315 1.1×	57	2.3k
Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar India	21	847 0.5×	512 0.5×	293 0.7×	39 0.1×	203 0.7×	76	1.8k
Wing Yin Mo Hong Kong	20	530 0.3×	301 0.3×	100 0.2×	390 1.2×	201 0.7×	44	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Muting Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Muting Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muting Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Muting Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Muting Yan 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 Muting Yan. Muting Yan 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

Li, Ruixue, Muting Yan, Wei Xiong, et al.. (2025). Comparative study on degradation of PVC microplastics under four processes: mechanism, pathway and toxicological assessment. Gondwana Research. 148. 331–347.

Liu, Jing, Jingyu Xu, Muting Yan, et al.. (2024). Microplastics in tea from planting to the final tea product: Traceability, characteristics and dietary exposure risk analysis. Food Chemistry. 455. 139636–139636. 12 indexed citations

Zhu, Ziying, et al.. (2024). Pseudomonas Stutzeri may alter the environmental fate of polystyrene nanoplastics by trapping them with increasing extracellular polymers. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176392–176392. 2 indexed citations

Cai, Zeming, et al.. (2024). Isolation and Identification of Four Strains of Bacteria with Potential to Biodegrade Polyethylene and Polypropylene from Mangrove. Microorganisms. 12(10). 2005–2005. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Ziying, T. J. Li, Minqian Li, et al.. (2024). Mangrove plants are promising bioindicator of coastal atmospheric microplastics pollution. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133473–133473. 11 indexed citations

Zhu, Ziying, et al.. (2023). Microplastics in marine-derived traditional Chinese medicine, potential threat to patients. The Science of The Total Environment. 895. 165075–165075. 7 indexed citations

Feng, Li, Ruixue Li, Lijie Xu, et al.. (2023). Adverse effects of silver nanoparticles on aquatic plants and zooplankton: A review. Chemosphere. 338. 139459–139459. 25 indexed citations

Gong, Han, Ruixue Li, Yanqiong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Occurrence and removal of antibiotics from aquaculture wastewater by solar-driven Fe(VI)/oxone process. Chemosphere. 340. 139809–139809. 7 indexed citations

Li, Ruixue, Yanqiong Zhang, Feng Li, et al.. (2023). Sulfadiazine Elimination from Wastewater Effluents under Ozone-Based Catalysis Processes. Catalysts. 13(7). 1076–1076. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Ruixue, Lijie Xu, Lu Gan, et al.. (2023). Removal of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes by Solar-activated Ferrate/ Peroxymonosulfate: Efficiency in aquaculture wastewater and mechanism. Chemical Engineering Journal. 474. 145547–145547. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Yizheng, Yindan Zhang, Guanglong Chen, et al.. (2021). Microplastics in Surface Waters and Sediments from Guangdong Coastal Areas, South China. Sustainability. 13(5). 2691–2691. 68 indexed citations

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Gong, Han, Wei Chu, Yumei Huang, et al.. (2021). Solar photocatalytic degradation of ibuprofen with a magnetic catalyst: Effects of parameters, efficiency in effluent, mechanism and toxicity evolution. Environmental Pollution. 276. 116691–116691. 60 indexed citations

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Li, Weixin, et al.. (2021). Microplastics as an aquatic pollutant affect gut microbiota within aquatic animals. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 423(Pt B). 127094–127094. 92 indexed citations

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Yan, Muting, Weixin Li, Xiaofeng Chen, et al.. (2020). A preliminary study of the association between colonization of microorganism on microplastics and intestinal microbiota in shrimp under natural conditions. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 408. 124882–124882. 87 indexed citations

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Xu, Kaihang, Jun Wang, Han Gong, et al.. (2019). Occurrence of antibiotics and their associations with antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial communities in Guangdong coastal areas. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 186. 109796–109796. 51 indexed citations

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Tang, Huijuan, Zhixin Ke, Muting Yan, et al.. (2018). Concentrations, Distribution, and Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Daya Bay, China. Water. 10(6). 780–780. 40 indexed citations

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Yan, Muting, Xu Chen, Yumei Huang, Huayue Nie, & Jun Wang. (2018). Tetracyclines, sulfonamides and quinolones and their corresponding resistance genes in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 631-632. 840–848. 94 indexed citations

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Yan, Muting, Hongliang Zuo, Shengwen Niu, et al.. (2017). High reduced/oxidized glutathione ratio in infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus-infected cells contributes to degradation of VP08R multimers. Veterinary Microbiology. 207. 19–24. 6 indexed citations

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Zuo, Hongliang, Chaozheng Li, Shengwen Niu, et al.. (2017). Identification and characterization of an interleukin-16-like gene from pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 74. 49–59. 32 indexed citations

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Yan, Muting, Jing Zhang, Qiong Xia, et al.. (2016). A microRNA from infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus modulates expression of the virus-mock basement membrane component VP08R. Virology. 492. 32–37. 4 indexed citations

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