Qining Sun

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Qining Sun is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Qining Sun has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 9 papers in Biomaterials and 4 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Qining Sun's work include Lignin and Wood Chemistry (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (9 papers). Qining Sun is often cited by papers focused on Lignin and Wood Chemistry (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (9 papers). Qining Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Malawi. Qining Sun's co-authors include Arthur J. Ragauskas, Xianzhi Meng, Yunqiao Pu, Anthony Dufour, Nicolas Brosse, Fang Huang, Tyrone Wells, Garima Bali, Jacob I. Deneff and Marcus Foston and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioresource Technology, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Carbon.

In The Last Decade

Qining Sun

24 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Miscanthus: a fast‐growing crop for biofuels and chemicals production

2012 353 citations Nicolas Brosse, Anthony Dufour et al. Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qining Sun United States	19	1.4k	501	316	297	194	25	1.7k
Fan Hu China	17	2.0k 1.4×	584 1.2×	452 1.4×	656 2.2×	133 0.7×	37	2.4k
Thomas E. Amidon United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	506 1.0×	156 0.5×	198 0.7×	79 0.4×	39	1.4k
Roland Gleisner United States	19	1.4k 1.0×	531 1.1×	182 0.6×	468 1.6×	55 0.3×	42	1.6k
Patanjali Varanasi United States	17	1.5k 1.0×	506 1.0×	447 1.4×	391 1.3×	42 0.2×	18	1.9k
Maria Teresa Borges Pimenta Brazil	19	796 0.5×	420 0.8×	246 0.8×	218 0.7×	34 0.2×	20	1.2k
Kevin M. Holtman United States	16	1.0k 0.7×	357 0.7×	281 0.9×	189 0.6×	31 0.2×	28	1.4k
Giovanna M. Aita United States	19	886 0.6×	311 0.6×	133 0.4×	349 1.2×	48 0.2×	35	1.2k
Laurent Chrusciel France	15	812 0.6×	242 0.5×	232 0.7×	101 0.3×	44 0.2×	25	1.1k
Anatoly A. Shatalov Portugal	18	612 0.4×	254 0.5×	254 0.8×	108 0.4×	118 0.6×	31	827
Raquel Martín‐Sampedro Spain	28	1.8k 1.2×	690 1.4×	714 2.3×	448 1.5×	39 0.2×	81	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Qining Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qining Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qining Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hao, Naijia, Qiong Wu, Haoxi Ben, et al.. (2017). Effect of autohydrolysis pretreatment on biomass structure and the resulting bio-oil from a pyrolysis process. Fuel. 206. 494–503. 32 indexed citations

Xie, Shangxian, Qining Sun, Yunqiao Pu, et al.. (2016). Advanced Chemical Design for Efficient Lignin Bioconversion. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(3). 2215–2223. 80 indexed citations

Sun, Qining, Jingming Tao, Tyrone Wells, et al.. (2016). Comparison of autohydrolysis and ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate pretreatment to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse. Bioresource Technology. 224. 714–720. 51 indexed citations

Sun, Qining, Kokouvi Akato, Jingming Tao, et al.. (2016). A study of poplar organosolv lignin after melt rheology treatment as carbon fiber precursors. Green Chemistry. 18(18). 5015–5024. 84 indexed citations

Meng, Xianzhi, Qining Sun, Matyas Kosa, et al.. (2016). Physicochemical Structural Changes of Poplar and Switchgrass during Biomass Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 4(9). 4563–4572. 79 indexed citations

Sun, Qining, Yunqiao Pu, Xianzhi Meng, Tyrone Wells, & Arthur J. Ragauskas. (2015). Structural Transformation of Isolated Poplar and Switchgrass Lignins during Dilute Acid Treatment. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 3(9). 2203–2210. 42 indexed citations

Wei, Zhen, Guangming Zeng, Fang Huang, et al.. (2015). Microbial lipid production by oleaginous Rhodococci cultured in lignocellulosic autohydrolysates. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 99(17). 7369–7377. 42 indexed citations

Meng, Xianzhi, Tyrone Wells, Qining Sun, Fang Huang, & Arthur J. Ragauskas. (2015). Insights into the effect of dilute acid, hot water or alkaline pretreatment on the cellulose accessible surface area and the overall porosity of Populus. Green Chemistry. 17(8). 4239–4246. 158 indexed citations

Nair, Sandeep S., Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Yunqiao Pu, et al.. (2014). High Shear Homogenization of Lignin to Nanolignin and Thermal Stability of Nanolignin‐Polyvinyl Alcohol Blends. ChemSusChem. 7(12). 3513–3520. 212 indexed citations

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Bali, Garima, Xianzhi Meng, Jacob I. Deneff, Qining Sun, & Arthur J. Ragauskas. (2014). The Effect of Alkaline Pretreatment Methods on Cellulose Structure and Accessibility. ChemSusChem. 8(2). 275–279. 161 indexed citations

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Sun, Qining, Marcus Foston, Xianzhi Meng, et al.. (2014). Effect of lignin content on changes occurring in poplar cellulose ultrastructure during dilute acid pretreatment. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 150–150. 135 indexed citations

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Sun, Qining, Chung‐Yun Hse, & Todd F. Shupe. (2014). Effect of different catalysts on urea–formaldehyde resin synthesis. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 131(16). 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Qining, Marcus Foston, Daisuke Sawada, et al.. (2014). Comparison of changes in cellulose ultrastructure during different pretreatments of poplar. Cellulose. 21(4). 2419–2431. 48 indexed citations

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Evans, Barbara R., Garima Bali, Hugh O’Neill, et al.. (2014). Effect of D₂O on Growth Properties and Chemical Structure of Annual Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 62(12). 2595–2604. 20 indexed citations

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Jiang, Zehui, et al.. (2014). Changes in Chemical Composition and Microstructure of Bamboo after Gamma Ray Irradiation. BioResources. 9(4). 7 indexed citations

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Wells, Tyrone, et al.. (2014). Lignin Structure and Aggregation Behavior in a Two-Component Ionic Liquid Solvent System. BioResources. 9(4). 18 indexed citations

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Tolbert, Allison K., Hannah Akinosho, Fan Hu, et al.. (2013). A ‘Twitter’ Generation Perspective on Biorefining. Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining. 7(6). 629–633. 1 indexed citations

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Brosse, Nicolas, Anthony Dufour, Xianzhi Meng, Qining Sun, & Arthur J. Ragauskas. (2012). Miscanthus: a fast‐growing crop for biofuels and chemicals production. Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining. 6(5). 580–598. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Qining, Chung‐Yun Hse, & Todd F. Shupe. (2010). Characterization and performance of melamine enhanced urea formaldehyde resin for bonding southern pine particleboard. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 119(6). 3538–3543. 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Qining, Tefu Qin, & Gaiyun Li. (2009). Chemical Groups and Structural Characterization of Brown-Rotted Pinus massoniana Lignin. International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization. 14(1). 19–33. 19 indexed citations

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