Qiang Sun

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
222 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Qiang Sun is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qiang Sun has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 84 papers in Ocean Engineering and 66 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qiang Sun's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (86 papers), Landslides and related hazards (53 papers) and Coal Properties and Utilization (35 papers). Qiang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (86 papers), Landslides and related hazards (53 papers) and Coal Properties and Utilization (35 papers). Qiang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Qiang Sun's co-authors include Weiqiang Zhang, Jishi Geng, Hailiang Jia, Yuliang Zhang, Lei Xue, Zhenlong Ge, Shuqing Hao, Jianjun Hu, Liwen Cao and Chao Lv and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Qiang Sun

210 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Experimental study on the variation of physical and mecha... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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.

  1. Experimental study on the variation of physical and mechanical properties of rock after high temperature treatment
    2016 354 citations Weiqiang Zhang, Qiang Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qiang Sun China 36 3.2k 1.5k 1.5k 1.4k 588 222 4.7k
Tae Sup Yun South Korea 36 2.2k 0.7× 753 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 303 0.2× 755 1.3× 141 5.2k
S. Olivella Spain 33 1.2k 0.4× 519 0.3× 3.0k 2.0× 1.1k 0.8× 835 1.4× 140 4.9k
Pierre Delage France 43 1.4k 0.4× 653 0.4× 6.0k 3.9× 1.8k 1.3× 485 0.8× 160 7.0k
Florian Amann Switzerland 32 1.7k 0.5× 772 0.5× 722 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 684 1.2× 129 3.2k
Marte Gutierrez United States 37 1.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 964 0.7× 1.2k 2.1× 185 4.1k
Weizhong Chen China 32 1.7k 0.5× 592 0.4× 1.8k 1.2× 705 0.5× 320 0.5× 191 3.7k
Reşat Ulusay Türkiye 39 3.3k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 2.8k 1.8× 1.8k 1.3× 577 1.0× 124 5.5k
Tomasz Hueckel United States 35 1.4k 0.4× 356 0.2× 3.1k 2.0× 1.2k 0.8× 405 0.7× 107 4.2k
Anh Minh Tang France 50 1.2k 0.4× 550 0.4× 6.1k 4.0× 1.5k 1.0× 995 1.7× 201 7.5k
David C. Sego Canada 32 1.2k 0.4× 497 0.3× 2.2k 1.4× 866 0.6× 318 0.5× 129 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Qiang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qiang Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qiang Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Effect of temperature on the radon release characteristics of red clay. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 280. 107565–107565. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongsheng, et al.. (2024). Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Sealing Performance in the Radial Hydraulic Drilling Technique. Processes. 12(4). 807–807. 1 indexed citations
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Geng, Jishi, et al.. (2024). Study on the influence of different water and black shale content on the resistivity of loess. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104413–104413. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Study on the effect of soil type and pore structure on radon release from soils in coal mine areas. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 83(11). 1 indexed citations
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Hua, Weisan, et al.. (2024). Research on the characterization of crystalline growth of calcium chloride hexahydrate heat storage material. Journal of Energy Storage. 104. 114483–114483. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Study on the Effect of Filling on the Properties and Fracture Behavior of Gabbro with En-echelon Joints. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 57(9). 7703–7714. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Polyethylene microplastic pollution changes the electrical resistance and thermal conductivity of loess soil. Journal of Environmental Management. 371. 123127–123127. 1 indexed citations
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Ao, Hong, Diederik Liebrand, Mark J. Dekkers, et al.. (2024). Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3364–3364. 7 indexed citations
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Jia, Hailiang, et al.. (2023). Pressure melting of pore ice in frozen rock under compression. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 210. 103856–103856. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Delu, et al.. (2023). Constraints of palaeoenvironment on organic matter of Benxi Formation shale and discussion on enrichment mechanism under different facies. Frontiers of Earth Science. 18(1). 148–171. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Delu, et al.. (2023). Organic matter enrichment and palaeoenvironmental comparison of Alinian fine-grained sedimentary rocks in lake facies. Gas Science and Engineering. 116. 205055–205055. 3 indexed citations
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Ao, Hong, Diederik Liebrand, Mark J. Dekkers, et al.. (2021). Eccentricity-paced monsoon variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the Late Oligocene high CO 2 world. Science Advances. 7(51). eabk2318–eabk2318. 28 indexed citations
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Hu, Jianjun, Heping Xie, Cunbao Li, & Qiang Sun. (2021). Effect of Cyclic Thermal Shock on Granite Pore Permeability. Lithosphere. 2021(Special 5). 13 indexed citations
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Gong, Xülong, et al.. (2020). Experimental study on pumping-induced land subsidence and earth fissures: a case study in the Su-Xi-Chang region, China. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 79(9). 4515–4525. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Weiqing, Chaowei Dong, Peng Huang, et al.. (2020). Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Activated Coal Gangue and Coal Gangue-Based Geopolymer. Energies. 13(10). 2504–2504. 70 indexed citations
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Hao, Shuqing, et al.. (2019). Experiment study on the correlation between the CO2 adsorption capacity and electrical resistivity of coal with temperature effect. Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology. 9(5). 924–933. 6 indexed citations
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Geng, Jishi, Qiang Sun, Yuchun Zhang, Changgen Yan, & Weiqiang Zhang. (2017). Electric-field response based experimental investigation of unsaturated soil slope seepage. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 138. 154–160. 8 indexed citations

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