Shunyan Cheung

995 total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 622 citations indexed

About

Shunyan Cheung is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shunyan Cheung has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 622 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Oceanography and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Shunyan Cheung's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (27 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Shunyan Cheung is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (27 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Shunyan Cheung collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Japan. Shunyan Cheung's co-authors include Hongbin Liu, Xiaomin Xia, Koji Suzuki, Hongmei Jing, Jonathan P. Zehr, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, Kailin Liu, Hisashi Endo, Yanhong Lu and Yingdong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Shunyan Cheung

39 papers receiving 614 citations

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Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga

2024 88 citations Tyler H. Coale, Valentina Loconte et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shunyan Cheung

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Global biogeography of N ₂ -fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow 2025 ·Earth system science data ·(unknown), (unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Matthew M. Mills, Jonathan P. Zehr, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo	1
2	Nanoplastics impair growth and nitrogen fixation of marine nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria 2024 ·Environmental Pollution ·(unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Jiaxing Liu, Jiawei Chen, Fengyuan Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, Hongbin Liu	6
3	Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga breakdown → 2024 ·Science ·Tyler H. Coale, Valentina Loconte, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, (unknown), (unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Axel Ekman, Jian-Hua Chen, (unknown), Yoshihito Takano, Tomohiro Nishimura, Masao Adachi, Mark Le Gros, Carolyn A. Larabell, Jonathan P. Zehr	88
4	Noctiluca scintillans bloom alters the composition and carbohydrate utilization of associated bacterial community and enriches potential pathogenic bacterium Vibrio anguillarum 2023 ·Water Research ·Xiaomin Xia, Shunyan Cheung, (unknown), Yanhong Lu, (unknown), (unknown), Huo Xu, (unknown), Yehui Tan, (unknown), Yang Li, Hongbin Liu	7
5	Distribution and Oxidation Rates of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Influenced by the Coastal Upwelling off Eastern Hainan Island 2022 ·Microorganisms ·Hao Liu, Peng Zhou, Shunyan Cheung, Yanhong Lu, Hongbin Liu, Hongmei Jing	3
6	Elevated temperature relieves phosphorus limitation of marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacteria 2021 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·(unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Chang‐Keun Kang, Kailin Liu, Xiaomin Xia, Hongbin Liu	11
7	Protistal Grazers Increase Grazing on Unicellular Cyanobacteria Diazotroph at Night 2020 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·(unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Hongbin Liu	13
8	Discovery of Euryhaline Phycoerythrobilin-Containing Synechococcus and Its Mechanisms for Adaptation to Estuarine Environments 2020 ·mSystems ·Xiaomin Xia, (unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Yanhong Lu, Hongbin Liu	8
9	New insight to niche partitioning and ecological function of ammonia oxidizing archaea in subtropical estuarine ecosystem 2020 ·Biogeosciences ·Yanhong Lu, Shunyan Cheung, Ling Chen, Shuh‐Ji Kao, Xiaomin Xia, Jianping Gan, Minhan Dai, Hongbin Liu	6
10	Population dynamics and interactions of Noctiluca scintillans and Mesodinium rubrum during their successive blooms in a subtropical coastal water 2020 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Xiaomin Xia, (unknown), Shuqun Song, Zhuo Shen, Shunyan Cheung, Hongbin Liu	15
11	Physical Forcing Controls the Basin‐Scale Occurrence of Nitrogen‐Fixing Organisms in the North Pacific Ocean 2020 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Shunyan Cheung, (unknown), (unknown), Hisashi Endo, Shin‐Ichiro Nakaoka, Wee Cheah, (unknown), Xiaomin Xia, Hongbin Liu, Koji Suzuki	21
12	Overlooked Genetic Diversity of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea Lineages in the Global Oceans 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Shunyan Cheung, (unknown), Xiaomin Xia, Yanhong Lu, (unknown), Hongbin Liu	18
13	Rare bacteria in seawater are dominant in the bacterial assemblage associated with the Bloom-forming dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans 2019 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Xiaomin Xia, (unknown), Shunyan Cheung, Shuwen Zhang, Hongbin Liu	16
14	Transportation of Diazotroph Community From the Upstream to Downstream of the Kuroshio 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Shunyan Cheung, Koji Suzuki, Xiaomin Xia, Hongbin Liu	12
15	Metatranscriptomics of the bacterial community in response to atmospheric deposition in the Western North Pacific Ocean 2019 ·Marine Genomics ·Shangjin Tan, Shunyan Cheung, Tung‐Yuan Ho, Hongbin Liu	6
16	Latitudinal and Vertical Variation of Synechococcus Assemblage Composition Along 170° W Transect From the South Pacific to the Arctic Ocean 2019 ·Microbial Ecology ·Xiaomin Xia, Shunyan Cheung, Hisashi Endo, Koji Suzuki, Hongbin Liu	20
17	Metagenomic Insights Into the Microbial Community and Nutrient Cycling in the Western Subarctic Pacific Ocean 2018 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Yingdong Li, Hongmei Jing, Xiaomin Xia, Shunyan Cheung, Koji Suzuki, Hongbin Liu	50
18	A Cryptic Marine Ciliate Feeds on Progametes of Noctiluca scintillans 2016 ·Protist ·(unknown), Kit Yu Karen Chan, Zhuo Shen, Shunyan Cheung, Michael R. Landry, Hongbin Liu	5
19	Spatial Variations of the Methanogenic Communities in the Sediments of Tropical Mangroves 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·Hongmei Jing, Shunyan Cheung, Zhi Zhou, Chen Wu, Sanjay Nagarajan, Hongbin Liu	20
20	Diazotroph community structure in the deep oxygen minimum zone of the Costa Rica Dome 2016 ·Journal of Plankton Research ·Shunyan Cheung, Xiaomin Xia, (unknown), Hongbin Liu	17

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