Nan Xu

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
211 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Nan Xu is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Xu has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Pollution, 42 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nan Xu's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (24 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (20 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (16 papers). Nan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (24 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (20 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (16 papers). Nan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Malaysia. Nan Xu's co-authors include Guangcai Tan, Muhammad Junaid, Weiling Sun, Hongyuan Wang, Xiapu Gai, Riffat Naseem Malik, Jinren Ni, Hu‐Chun Tao, Yaru Xu and Wen Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Nan Xu

195 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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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.

Effect of biochar additions to soil on nitrogen leaching, microbial biomass and bacterial community structure

2016 941 citations Nan Xu et al. profile →
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in groundwater: A global review on dissemination, sources, interactions, environmental and human health risks

2020 756 citations Muhammad Junaid, Nan Xu et al. Water Research profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Xu

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Facile preparation of antifouling Ti3C2Tx MXene membrane intercalated with ultrathin α-Co(OH)2 LDH nanosheets for selective dye/salt separation 2025 ·Desalination ·Nan Xu, Jintao Xue, Wei Xu, Pei Sean Goh, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Fengxia Wang, (unknown), Yifei Liu, Yibin Wei	8
2	Regulation of helium atom higher harmonic emission and attosecond pulse angle in inhomogeneous fields 2025 ·Results in Physics ·Nan Xu, (unknown), Yuan Wang	1
3	Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions 2025 ·Nature ·Ting Mao, Xufeng Xu, Pamina M. Winkler, (unknown), (unknown), Paulo Jacob Silva, Nan Xu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhi Luo, Quy K. Ong, Alfredo Alexander‐Katz, Francesco Stellacci	4
4	Enhancing High-Order Harmonic Generation Efficiency Through Molecular Size and Orientation Effects: A Pathway to Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics Studies 2025 ·Molecules ·(unknown), Hao Wang, (unknown), Nan Xu, (unknown)	0
5	Bacterial mercury methylation modulated by vitamin B9: An overlooked pathway leads to increased environmental risks 2024 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Fang Fang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qian Lu, (unknown), (unknown), Haodong Ji, (unknown), Ming Hung Wong, Hu‐Chun Tao, Nan Xu, Lijuan Zhang	1
6	Investigation of spectral responsivity of imaging sensor and systems with a differential approach 2024 ·Wende Liu, Haiyong Gan, Haifeng Meng, Nan Xu, (unknown), Yingwei He	1
7	Highly permeable and stable hyperbranched polyethyleneimine crosslinked AgNP@Ti3C2Tx MXene membranes for nanofiltration 2023 ·Journal of Membrane Science ·Yanan Li, Zhihai Liu, Shuming Li, Pei Nian, Nan Xu, Haiyu Luo, Yibin Wei	44
8	Energy-efficient carbon dioxide capture using piperazine (PZ) activated EMEA+DEEA water lean solvent: Performance and mechanism 2023 ·Separation and Purification Technology ·(unknown), Yongchun Zhang, Qi Liu, Xinwen Guo, Yang Cao, Nan Xu, Tianqinji Qi, Yongbo Chen, Shaoyun Chen	27
9	Sintering of silicomanganese slag-reinforced porous SiC ceramic membrane supports with high alkali corrosion resistance 2023 ·Ceramics International ·(unknown), (unknown), Yongda Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Wenlan Ji, Pei Nian, Nan Xu, Zheng Wang, Yibin Wei	17
10	Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in water, suspended particulate matter, and sediment of reservoirs and their tributaries in Shenzhen, a mega city in South China 2023 ·Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Tingting Zhu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jinling Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Yihong Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Nan Xu	5
11	Assessing water quality in the Pearl River for the last decade based on clustering: Characteristic, evolution and policy implications 2023 ·Water Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Ling‐Yan He, Yichu Wang, Yue Yao, Hui Zeng, Nan Xu	36
12	Grape Cultivar Features Differentiate the Grape Rhizosphere Microbiota 2022 ·Plants ·Lijun Bao, Bo Sun, (unknown), Nan Xu, Shiwei Zhang, Likun Gu, Zhihui Bai	17
13	Pollutants affect algae-bacteria interactions: A critical review 2021 ·Environmental Pollution ·Xiuqi You, Nan Xu, Xi Yang, Weiling Sun	118
14	Antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in groundwater: A global review on dissemination, sources, interactions, environmental and human health risks breakdown → 2020 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Muhammad Junaid, Nan Xu, Riffat Naseem Malik	756
15	Degradation of sulphachloropyridazine sodium in column reactor packed with CoFe2O4−loaded quartz sand via peroxymonosulfate activation: Insights into the amorphous phase, efficiency, and mechanism 2020 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Dingxue Gao, Muhammad Junaid, Lin Fang, (unknown), Nan Xu	44
16	Insights into interactions between vanadium (V) bio-reduction and pentachlorophenol dechlorination in synthetic groundwater 2019 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Baogang Zhang, Yutong Cheng, Jiaxin Shi, Xing Xuan, Yuling Zhu, Nan Xu, Jianxin Xia, Alistair G.L. Borthwick	117
17	Spatiotemporal distribution, sources and ecological risks of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in the Guanlan River from the rapidly urbanizing areas of Shenzhen, China 2019 ·Chemosphere ·(unknown), Muhammad Junaid, Zhifen Wang, Weiling Sun, Nan Xu	52
18	Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water, sediments, aquatic organisms, and fish feeds in the Pearl River Delta: Occurrence, distribution, potential sources, and health risk assessment 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Nan Xu, (unknown), Dingxue Gao, Yaru Xu, Yue Gao, Hu‐Chun Tao, Ming Hung Wong	217
19	[Effects of Festuca arundinacea on the microbial community in crude oil-contaminated saline-alkaline soil]. 2012 ·PubMed ·Xin Li, Huihui Zhang, (unknown), Nan Xu, Wenxu Zhu, (unknown), Guangyu Sun	2
20	[Effects of mulberry-soybean intercropping on carbon-metabolic microbial diversity in saline-alkaline soil]. 2012 ·PubMed ·Xin Li, Huihui Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Nan Xu, Wenxu Zhu, Guangyu Sun	9

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