Shan Liu

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
118 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Shan Liu is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shan Liu has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Pollution, 53 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 20 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Shan Liu's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (49 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (26 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (24 papers). Shan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (49 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (26 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (24 papers). Shan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Shan Liu's co-authors include Guang‐Guo Ying, Li‐Jun Zhou, Jian‐Liang Zhao, Bin Yang, Xiang‐Rong Xu, Hua‐Jie Lai, Zhifeng Chen, Lang Lin, Ruiquan Zhang and Hengxiang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Shan Liu

107 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

  1. Occurrence and fate of eleven classes of antibiotics in two typical wastewater treatment plants in South China
    2013 410 citations Guang‐Guo Ying, Shan Liu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  2. First Evidence of the Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Tire Additives and Their Transformation Products in an Estuarine Food Web
    2024 58 citations Shan Liu, Hengxiang Li et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Shan Liu 4.6k 2.0k 1.0k 770 638 118 6.4k
Li‐Jun Zhou 3.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 368 0.4× 748 1.0× 345 0.5× 52 4.7k
Marc J.‐F. Suter 2.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 331 0.3× 520 0.7× 474 0.7× 117 5.9k
John P. Sumpter 4.3k 0.9× 3.3k 1.7× 354 0.3× 725 0.9× 1.5k 2.3× 51 6.4k
Guanghua Lu 3.5k 0.8× 2.8k 1.4× 527 0.5× 696 0.9× 139 0.2× 219 6.7k
Frédéric D.L. Leusch 5.8k 1.3× 2.8k 1.4× 2.8k 2.7× 945 1.2× 426 0.7× 177 8.2k
C. Blaise 3.2k 0.7× 4.4k 2.2× 278 0.3× 466 0.6× 494 0.8× 187 7.3k
Oksana Golovko 2.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 378 0.4× 542 0.7× 105 0.2× 98 3.7k
Jay Gan 6.8k 1.5× 3.9k 1.9× 1.8k 1.7× 1.1k 1.4× 76 0.1× 258 11.4k
Anupama Kumar 2.3k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 793 0.8× 437 0.6× 292 0.5× 143 4.2k
Xianzhi Peng 3.1k 0.7× 2.5k 1.2× 602 0.6× 372 0.5× 71 0.1× 89 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Shan Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shan Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shan Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shan Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shan Liu 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 Shan Liu. Shan Liu 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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Xu, Gong, Shan Liu, Bozhang Xia, et al.. (2025). Oral delivery of therapeutic proteins by engineered bacterial type zero secretion system. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1862–1862. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, et al.. (2025). Contamination, multimedia partitioning, and priority list of steroids and their metabolites in coastal regions of the Greater Bay Area, China. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 197. 106973–106973.
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Liu, Mengya, Xiahong Zhou, Shan Liu, et al.. (2025). Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of High‐Quality Single‐Crystal AB‐Stacked Bilayer Graphene. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(9). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, Xiao-Liang Liao, Lin Zhu, et al.. (2025). Targeted and non-targeted analyses reveal trophic biomagnification of rubber-derived chemicals in an estuarine food web near China's largest rubber production region. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 495. 138958–138958. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Phthalates released from microplastics can't be ignored: Sources, fate, ecological risks, and human exposure risks. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 179. 117870–117870. 18 indexed citations
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Lu, Qin, Siqi Feng, Shan Liu, et al.. (2024). Establishment of a UPLC-MS method for quantitative analysis of tryptophan-kynurenine metabolism in IBS-D model rats. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 251. 116426–116426. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xiahong, et al.. (2024). Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Vertical Graphene/WSe2 Heterostructures with Interlayer Twists. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(1).
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Liu, Shan, Hengxiang Li, Lang Lin, et al.. (2024). First Evidence of the Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Tire Additives and Their Transformation Products in an Estuarine Food Web. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(14). 6370–6380. 58 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Zhen, Chenglei Pei, Lang Lin, et al.. (2023). Vertical distribution and transport of microplastics in the urban atmosphere: New insights from field observations. The Science of The Total Environment. 895. 165190–165190. 20 indexed citations
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Yuan, Zhen, Chenglei Pei, Hengxiang Li, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric microplastics at a southern China metropolis: Occurrence, deposition flux, exposure risk and washout effect of rainfall. The Science of The Total Environment. 869. 161839–161839. 66 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, Yun-Feng Pan, Hengxiang Li, et al.. (2023). Steroid metabolites as overlooked emerging contaminants: Insights from multimedia partitioning and source–sink simulation in an estuarine environment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 461. 132673–132673. 10 indexed citations
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Hou, Rui, Qianyi Huang, Lang Lin, et al.. (2023). Role of Gastrointestinal Microbiota from Crucian Carp in Microbial Transformation and Estrogenicity Modification of Novel Plastic Additives. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(31). 11476–11488. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, Yun-Feng Pan, Hengxiang Li, et al.. (2023). New insight into the bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of free and conjugated antibiotics in an estuarine food web based on multimedia fate and model simulation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133088–133088. 19 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, Qin-Wei Hao, Yongxia Hu, et al.. (2023). An effective tool for tracking steroids and their metabolites at the watershed level: Combining fugacity modeling and a chemical indicator. Environmental Pollution. 326. 121499–121499. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Shan, Haochang Su, Hengxiang Li, et al.. (2019). Uptake, Elimination, and Biotransformation Potential of a Progestagen (Cyproterone Acetate) in Tilapia Exposed at an Environmental Concentration. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(12). 6804–6813. 18 indexed citations

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