Ran Sun

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 779 citations indexed

About

Ran Sun is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Sun has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pollution, 12 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ran Sun's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (4 papers). Ran Sun is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (4 papers). Ran Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Russia. Ran Sun's co-authors include Yaoguo Wu, Sihai Hu, Zixia Qiao, Xiaoyan Liu, Xiaohui Mi, Zizhuang He, Panbo Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Sichang Wang and Yangquanwei Zhong and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ran Sun

32 papers receiving 764 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.

Low-Temperature Oxidation Induced Phase Evolution with Gradient Magnetic Heterointerfaces for Superior Electromagnetic Wave Absorption

2024 68 citations Zizhuang He, Lingzi Shi et al. Nano-Micro Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Sun China	15	333	205	152	140	104	35	779
Qian Xiao China	16	251 0.8×	128 0.6×	110 0.7×	55 0.4×	69 0.7×	51	1.3k
Pingping Li China	13	150 0.5×	89 0.4×	106 0.7×	51 0.4×	64 0.6×	39	558
Rui Bai China	14	115 0.3×	45 0.2×	119 0.8×	37 0.3×	47 0.5×	30	813
Wenjing Qiao China	19	203 0.6×	142 0.7×	56 0.4×	234 1.7×	25 0.2×	47	1.2k
Xuan Jia China	19	204 0.6×	32 0.2×	139 0.9×	33 0.2×	112 1.1×	43	712
Yongfeng Wang China	20	422 1.3×	79 0.4×	21 0.1×	19 0.1×	89 0.9×	51	999
Yanxiao Si China	15	150 0.5×	91 0.4×	42 0.3×	52 0.4×	82 0.8×	23	624
Mengyang Zhang China	19	107 0.3×	89 0.4×	15 0.1×	300 2.1×	66 0.6×	52	1.3k
Shashikanth Gajaraj United States	10	246 0.7×	229 1.1×	134 0.9×	43 0.3×	144 1.4×	12	637
Yiyi Zhao China	16	354 1.1×	138 0.7×	85 0.6×	10 0.1×	104 1.0×	39	838

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Sun

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

Xiao, Weidong, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of wood vinegar as a green carbon source for heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification process from performance, mechanism and potential. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116322–116322.

Fu, Li, Zhengyu Shi, Zhen Zhang, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamics and Single-Site Interactions between Human Serum Albumin and Green Low-Melting Mixture Solvents. Biomacromolecules. 26(8). 5483–5490.

He, Zizhuang, et al.. (2025). Hollow engineering of HCNs@CoFe ₂Se ₄-QDs with quantum dots toward ultra-broadband electromagnetic wave absorption. Journal of Advanced Ceramics. 14(4). 9221058–9221058. 23 indexed citations

Sun, Ran, Xue Bai, Lv Chen, et al.. (2025). Response of nitrogen transformation and microbial community to aromatic compounds stress along heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification process. Environmental Research. 285(Pt 2). 122413–122413. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaoyan, Tinglin Huang, Yaoguo Wu, et al.. (2024). Suspended sediment (SPS) triggers nitrogen retention by altering microbial network stability and electron transport behavior during the aerobic-anoxic transition. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 123787–123787. 5 indexed citations

Xiao, Sun, et al.. (2024). Efficient Extraction and Analysis of Wheat Straw Lignin by Response Surface Methodology. Polymers. 16(20). 2935–2935. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Zhaohui, Sihai Hu, Ran Sun, et al.. (2024). Co-Transport of Aniline and TNT with Loess Colloid Particles in Saturated Loess Columns: Mechanism and Processes. Water. 16(1). 180–180.

Meng, Chengzhen, et al.. (2024). Insights into role of microstructure in TNT adsorption performances onto zeolite, diatomite and kaolinite particles. Discover Applied Sciences. 6(8). 1 indexed citations

He, Zizhuang, Lingzi Shi, Ran Sun, et al.. (2024). Low-Temperature Oxidation Induced Phase Evolution with Gradient Magnetic Heterointerfaces for Superior Electromagnetic Wave Absorption. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 7–7. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Yangyang, et al.. (2022). Fabrication of Electrospun Xylan-g-PMMA/TiO2 Nanofibers and Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue. Polymers. 14(12). 2489–2489. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoyan, Sihai Hu, Ran Sun, et al.. (2021). Dissolved oxygen disturbs nitrate transformation by modifying microbial community, co-occurrence networks, and functional genes during aerobic-anoxic transition. The Science of The Total Environment. 790. 148245–148245. 83 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoyan, Ran Sun, Sihai Hu, Yangquanwei Zhong, & Yaoguo Wu. (2021). Aromatic compounds releases aroused by sediment resuspension alter nitrate transformation rates and pathways during aerobic-anoxic transition. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 424(Pt A). 127365–127365. 51 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoyan, Yaoguo Wu, Ran Sun, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen species control the interaction between NO3--N reduction and aniline degradation and microbial community structure in the oxic-anoxic transition zone. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(23). 29650–29664. 5 indexed citations

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Fan, Lin, Bo Zhou, Sheng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Adsorptive Removal of Low-Concentration Cr(VI) in Aqueous Solution by Mg–Al Layered Double Oxides. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 106(1). 134–145. 13 indexed citations

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Qian, Jin, Linqin Bai, Mingkuan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Achieving rapid thiosulfate-driven denitrification (TDD) in a granular sludge system. Water Research. 190. 116716–116716. 52 indexed citations

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Qiao, Zixia, Ran Sun, Yaoguo Wu, et al.. (2020). Characteristics and metabolic pathway of the bacteria for heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification in aquatic ecosystems. Environmental Research. 191. 110069–110069. 90 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoyan, Yaoguo Wu, Ran Sun, et al.. (2020). NH4+-N/NO3−-N ratio controlling nitrogen transformation accompanied with NO2−-N accumulation in the oxic-anoxic transition zone. Environmental Research. 189. 109962–109962. 52 indexed citations

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Sun, Ran, Lin Fan, Zixia Qiao, et al.. (2020). The correlation analyses of bacterial community composition and spatial factors between freshwater and sediment in Poyang Lake wetland by using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. 51(3). 1191–1207. 16 indexed citations

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Sun, Ran, David E. Crowley, & Gehong Wei. (2015). Study of phenanthrene utilizing bacterial consortia associated with cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) root nodules. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 31(2). 415–433. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Ran, et al.. (2015). Effects of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) root mucilage on microbial community response and capacity for phenanthrene remediation. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 33. 45–59. 13 indexed citations

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