Shigan Liu

1.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
8 papers, 978 citations indexed

About

Shigan Liu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigan Liu has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 978 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 6 papers in Environmental Engineering and 5 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Shigan Liu's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). Shigan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). Shigan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Montenegro. Shigan Liu's co-authors include Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang, Qingyang Xiao, Kebin He, Tao Xue, Jing Cheng, Yixuan Zheng, Cilan Cai, Bo Zheng and Dan Tong and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Nature Geoscience and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

In The Last Decade

Shigan Liu

7 papers receiving 965 citations

Hit Papers

Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM 2.5 Re... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2021 2022 2024 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. Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM 2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion
    2021 349 citations Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  2. Tracking PM2.5 and O3 Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020
    2021 243 citations Qingyang Xiao, Guannan Geng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  3. Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000
    2022 189 citations Shigan Liu, Guannan Geng et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  4. Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020
    2024 108 citations Guannan Geng, Yuxi Liu et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shigan Liu China 7 796 407 375 154 98 8 978
Liam Bindle United States 8 639 0.8× 266 0.7× 242 0.6× 202 1.3× 72 0.7× 12 885
Mike Z. He United States 17 828 1.0× 218 0.5× 329 0.9× 149 1.0× 69 0.7× 40 1.1k
Zongshuang Wang China 12 744 0.9× 274 0.7× 267 0.7× 64 0.4× 87 0.9× 19 900
J. R. Brook Canada 9 472 0.6× 218 0.5× 205 0.5× 158 1.0× 58 0.6× 15 668
Shovan Kumar Sahu China 17 808 1.0× 471 1.2× 462 1.2× 355 2.3× 122 1.2× 30 1.0k
Rachel Silvern United States 10 1.1k 1.3× 612 1.5× 542 1.4× 372 2.4× 90 0.9× 12 1.4k
Karen Wesson United States 5 554 0.7× 200 0.5× 170 0.5× 84 0.5× 85 0.9× 9 636
Matteo Renzi Italy 16 947 1.2× 245 0.6× 455 1.2× 178 1.2× 112 1.1× 38 1.1k
Jianzhao Bi United States 20 865 1.1× 432 1.1× 729 1.9× 233 1.5× 101 1.0× 40 1.0k
Susann Henschel France 7 473 0.6× 163 0.4× 200 0.5× 81 0.5× 96 1.0× 9 574

Countries citing papers authored by Shigan Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shigan Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigan Liu

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Zheng, Yixuan, Wenxin Cao, Yuxi Liu, et al.. (2025). Weakening synergies in carbon and air pollution co-control necessitate robust structural transitions in China’s transportation sector. National Science Review. 12(11). nwaf422–nwaf422.
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Geng, Guannan, Yuxi Liu, Yang Liu, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020. Nature Geoscience. 17(10). 987–994. 108 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Wu, Nana, Guannan Geng, Ruochong Xu, et al.. (2024). Development of a high-resolution integrated emission inventory of air pollutants for China. Earth system science data. 16(6). 2893–2915. 17 indexed citations
4.
Xiao, Qingyang, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal continuous estimates of daily 1 km PM 2.5 from 2000 to present under the Tracking Air Pollution in China (TAP) framework. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(19). 13229–13242. 57 indexed citations
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Liu, Shigan, Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, et al.. (2022). Tracking Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Chemical Composition in China since 2000. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(22). 16517–16527. 189 indexed citations breakdown →
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Geng, Guannan, Qingyang Xiao, Shigan Liu, et al.. (2021). Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM 2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(17). 12106–12115. 349 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xiao, Qingyang, Guannan Geng, Tao Xue, et al.. (2021). Tracking PM2.5 and O3 Pollution and the Related Health Burden in China 2013–2020. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(11). 6922–6932. 243 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Wu, Ruili, Christopher W. Tessum, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Reduced-complexity air quality intervention modeling over China: the development of InMAPv1.6.1-China and a comparison with CMAQv5.2. Geoscientific model development. 14(12). 7621–7638. 15 indexed citations

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