Ping Han

9.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
136 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Ping Han is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Han has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, 54 papers in Pollution and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ping Han's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers). Ping Han is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers). Ping Han collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ping Han's co-authors include Michael Wagner, Holger Daims, Petra Pjevac, Mads Albertsen, А. Г. Булаев, Е. В. Лебедева, Craig W. Herbold, Nico Jehmlich, Márton Palatinszky and Martin von Bergen� and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ping Han

128 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

2015 1.9k citations Holger Daims, Е. В. Лебедева et al. Nature profile →
Kinetic analysis of a complete nitrifier reveals an oligotrophic lifestyle

2017 629 citations Е. В. Лебедева, Ping Han et al. Nature profile →
Multivariate and geostatistical analyses of the spatial distribution and origin of heavy metals in the agricultural soils in Shunyi, Beijing, China

2012 411 citations Ping Han 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
Ping Han China	38	4.1k	2.8k	1.2k	1.0k	938	136	7.1k
Lesley A. Robertson Netherlands	31	5.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	848 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	74	7.3k
Wenlong Zhang China	41	1.8k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	549 0.4×	715 0.7×	891 0.9×	192	5.4k
Kadiyala Venkateswarlu India	48	4.0k 1.0×	838 0.3×	1.8k 1.5×	798 0.8×	609 0.6×	184	8.2k
Wenli Chen China	49	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	983 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	475 0.5×	305	8.4k
Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen United States	56	5.1k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	3.5k 2.9×	2.1k 2.0×	542 0.6×	135	9.8k
Guanghui Yu China	51	2.4k 0.6×	838 0.3×	731 0.6×	490 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	169	7.9k
L. Y. Young United States	52	5.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	500 0.5×	140	9.0k
Dimitry Y. Sorokin Russia	54	1.9k 0.5×	4.7k 1.7×	616 0.5×	3.3k 3.3×	401 0.4×	240	9.1k
Chunling Luo China	51	5.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.4×	2.9k 2.4×	933 0.9×	953 1.0×	183	8.3k
J. Gijs Kuenen Netherlands	45	7.0k 1.7×	3.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.9×	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 1.7×	99	10.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ping Han

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Lingyu, et al.. (2025). Interrogation of Structure–Activity Relationships in Charge Variants of Therapeutic IgG2s Enabled by Free-Flow Isoelectric Focusing Fractionation. BioDrugs. 39(4). 621–633.

Han, Ping, Yuqing Chen, Xiumei Liu, et al.. (2025). Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection induces time-dependent ferroptosis in the liver of silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus). Aquaculture. 612. 743173–743173.

Han, Ping, Xiumei Liu, Yajun Wang, et al.. (2025). Systematic analysis of the cystatin gene family: From whole-genome identification to immunological role validation in silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus). Aquaculture. 609. 742787–742787.

Li, Yuanfu, et al.. (2024). Biodegradation properties and mechanism of triketone herbicide mesotrione via newly isolated bacterium Klebsiella pasteurii CM-1. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 187. 105727–105727. 12 indexed citations

Han, Ping, Qiaojuan Wang, Hui Lin, et al.. (2024). Disinfectant-induced ammonia oxidation disruption in microbial N-cycling process in aquatic ecosystem after the COVID-19 outbreak. Water Research. 258. 121761–121761.

Han, Ping, et al.. (2023). Identification of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) toll-like receptor genes: Involvement in immune response to temperature stress and Edwardsiella tarda infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 138. 108841–108841. 9 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

Han, Ping, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide identification of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) SOCS genes: Involvement in immune response regulation to temperature stress and Edwardsiella tarda infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 133. 108515–108515. 7 indexed citations

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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Han, Ping, Weijie Yan, Xiumei Liu, & Xubo Wang. (2023). Differential environmental-induced heat stresses cause the structural and molecular changes in the spleen of Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Aquaculture. 581. 740490–740490. 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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He, Jiayi, et al.. (2023). Transcriptomic Networks Reveal the Tissue-Specific Cold Shock Responses in Japanese Flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Biology. 12(6). 784–784. 1 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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Dong, Hongpo, Simon Jon McIlroy, Sean A. Crowe, et al.. (2022). Expanding the phylogenetic distribution of cytochrome b-containing methanogenic archaea sheds light on the evolution of methanogenesis. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2373–2387. 29 indexed citations

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Dong, Hongpo, Lijun Hou, Yang Liu, et al.. (2021). Newly discovered Asgard archaea Hermodarchaeota potentially degrade alkanes and aromatics via alkyl/benzyl-succinate synthase and benzoyl-CoA pathway. The ISME Journal. 15(6). 1826–1843. 42 indexed citations

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Ruan, Chengjiang, et al.. (2020). SNP discovery of Camellia oleifera based on RNA-seq and its application for identification of genetic relationships and locus for oil content among different cultivars. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 95(6). 687–702.

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Wu, Bo, et al.. (2019). Comparative transcriptomic analysis of high- and low-oil Camellia oleifera reveals a coordinated mechanism for the regulation of upstream and downstream multigenes for high oleic acid accumulation. 3 Biotech. 9(7). 257–257. 28 indexed citations

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Platzer, Alexander, et al.. (2018). BioSankey : Visualization of Microbial Communities Over Time. Berichte aus der medizinischen Informatik und Bioinformatik/Journal of integrative bioinformatics. 15(4). 12 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhichao, Jing Chen, Huiluo Cao, Ping Han, & Ji‐Dong Gu. (2015). Comparison of communities of both methane-producing and metabolizing archaea and bacteria in sediments between the northern South China Sea and coastal Mai Po Nature Reserve revealed by PCR amplification of mcrA and pmoA genes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 6 indexed citations

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Daims, Holger, Е. В. Лебедева, Petra Pjevac, et al.. (2015). Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria. Nature. 528(7583). 504–509. 1911 indexed citations breakdown →

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