Renren Wu

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Renren Wu is a scholar working on Pollution, Water Science and Technology and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Renren Wu has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Pollution, 18 papers in Water Science and Technology and 13 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Renren Wu's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (10 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (7 papers). Renren Wu is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (10 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (7 papers). Renren Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Botswana. Renren Wu's co-authors include Xuetao Guo, Mengfan Lang, Xiaoqin Yu, Xiaomei Yang, Rongbo Xiao, Fei Huang, Mingzhi Huang, Xiaohui Yi, Zhuozhi Ouyang and Guang‐Guo Ying and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Renren Wu

43 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Aging mechanism of microplastics with UV irradiation and its effects on the adsorption of heavy metals

2020 715 citations Mengfan Lang, Xiaoqin Yu et al. Journal of Hazardous Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renren Wu China	21	1.8k	1.2k	500	425	350	46	2.7k
Yaying Li China	34	1.8k 1.0×	820 0.7×	260 0.5×	567 1.3×	314 0.9×	133	4.0k
Jianming Xue New Zealand	33	1.2k 0.7×	486 0.4×	755 1.5×	166 0.4×	361 1.0×	126	3.6k
Weiguang Lv China	32	631 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	306 0.6×	206 0.5×	206 0.6×	106	3.9k
Xinyu Zhao China	41	1.7k 1.0×	920 0.8×	424 0.8×	174 0.4×	302 0.9×	162	5.3k
Walter Mulbry United States	36	1.6k 0.9×	723 0.6×	258 0.5×	159 0.4×	437 1.2×	75	4.0k
Nur ‘Izzati Ismail Malaysia	27	959 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	736 1.5×	200 0.5×	258 0.7×	93	2.6k
Anita Jemec Slovenia	24	1.4k 0.8×	549 0.5×	112 0.2×	396 0.9×	876 2.5×	36	2.8k
Xiang Liu China	28	1.3k 0.7×	447 0.4×	698 1.4×	95 0.2×	308 0.9×	135	2.6k
Yuxue Liu China	30	936 0.5×	603 0.5×	866 1.7×	476 1.1×	251 0.7×	76	3.3k
Jun Zhu United States	28	795 0.4×	878 0.8×	488 1.0×	79 0.2×	241 0.7×	215	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Renren Wu

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Liu, Tiancai, Zhiyi Deng, Jincai Li, et al.. (2025). A loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the rapid and quantitative tracking of fecal contamination sources in water. Environmental Research. 272. 121162–121162. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Na, Kai Jiang, Yongjie Wu, et al.. (2025). Differential decay mechanisms of human-associated Bacteroidales and bacteriophage genetic markers in aquatic environments: Impacts of indigenous microorganisms on DNA stability and fecal pollution assessment. Water Research. 285. 124157–124157.

Wu, Renren, et al.. (2025). Profiling of mangrove forest dynamics in the Fly River delta, Papua New Guinea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 217. 118119–118119. 5 indexed citations

Pan, Xunzhang, et al.. (2025). Carbon stocks in coastal wetlands of the Yellow River Delta and their environmental influencing factors. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 205. 106172–106172.

Zhang, Yafeng, et al.. (2024). Coupling of anthropogenic activities and natural factors on dissolved organic matter: Insights from coastal urban rivers in southern China. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(6). 114701–114701. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Daofen, Ling Ding, Shuhua Wang, et al.. (2024). Metabolomics reveals how spinach plants reprogram metabolites to cope with intense stress responses induced by photoaged polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs). Journal of Hazardous Materials. 466. 133605–133605. 20 indexed citations

Xiao, Chuanqi, Mengfan Lang, Renren Wu, Zhenming Zhang, & Xuetao Guo. (2023). A Review of the Distribution, Characteristics and Environmental Fate of Microplastics in Different Environments of China. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 261(1). 17 indexed citations

Deng, Yanping, Siyu Zhang, Meihui Ren, et al.. (2023). Sulfate availability drives the reductive transformation of schwertmannite by co-cultured iron- and sulfate-reducing bacteria. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167690–167690. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Hao, Yanhua Chen, Yibo Xu, et al.. (2022). Different functional areas and human activities significantly affect the occurrence and characteristics of microplastics in soils of the Xi'an metropolitan area. The Science of The Total Environment. 852. 158581–158581. 28 indexed citations

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Li, Jianlong, Zhuozhi Ouyang, Peng Liu, et al.. (2021). Distribution and characteristics of microplastics in the basin of Chishui River in Renhuai, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 773. 145591–145591. 120 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yang, Renren Wu, Wenjing Li, Zhongying Chen, & Kaiming Li. (2021). Occurrence and distributions of human-associated markers in an impacted urban watershed. Environmental Pollution. 275. 116654–116654. 14 indexed citations

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Lang, Mengfan, et al.. (2020). Aging mechanism of microplastics with UV irradiation and its effects on the adsorption of heavy metals. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 393. 122515–122515. 715 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Daofen, Xinyi Li, Zhuozhi Ouyang, et al.. (2020). The occurrence and abundance of microplastics in surface water and sediment of the West River downstream, in the south of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 756. 143857–143857. 157 indexed citations

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Hu, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2020). Microplastics in the surface water of Wuliangsuhai Lake, northern China. The Science of The Total Environment. 723. 137820–137820. 194 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Zhuozhi, et al.. (2020). Horizontal and vertical distribution of microplastics in the Wuliangsuhai Lake sediment, northern China. The Science of The Total Environment. 754. 142426–142426. 106 indexed citations

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Wu, Renren, Xiaohui Yi, Hongbin Liu, et al.. (2019). A Novel Model with GA Evolving FWNN for Effluent Quality and Biogas Production Forecast in a Full‐Scale Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Process. Complexity. 2019(1). 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Qi, Renren Wu, Guangzhou Qu, et al.. (2019). Non-thermal plasma oxidation of Cu(II)-EDTA and simultaneous Cu(II) elimination by chemical precipitation. Journal of Environmental Management. 248. 109237–109237. 71 indexed citations

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Yi, Xiaohui, Chao Zhang, Hongbin Liu, et al.. (2019). Occurrence and distribution of neonicotinoid insecticides in surface water and sediment of the Guangzhou section of the Pearl River, South China. Environmental Pollution. 251. 892–900. 180 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yang, Renren Wu, Yimin Zhang, Guang Wang, & Kaiming Li. (2018). Impact of nutrient addition on diversity and fate of fecal bacteria. The Science of The Total Environment. 636. 717–726. 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chao, Di Tian, Xiaohui Yi, et al.. (2018). Occurrence, distribution and seasonal variation of five neonicotinoid insecticides in surface water and sediment of the Pearl Rivers, South China. Chemosphere. 217. 437–446. 185 indexed citations

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