Sun Nan

658 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 519 citations indexed

About

Sun Nan is a scholar working on Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sun Nan has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 519 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Soil Science, 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 4 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Sun Nan's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers), Clay minerals and soil interactions (4 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (4 papers). Sun Nan is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (8 papers), Clay minerals and soil interactions (4 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (4 papers). Sun Nan collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and Spain. Sun Nan's co-authors include Adnan Mustafa, Muhammad Naveed, Syed Atizaz Ali Shah, Muhammad Abrar, Qudsia Saeed, Avelino Núñez‐Delgado, Zejiang Cai, Minggang Xu, Baoren Wang and Khalid Mehmood and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Sun Nan

16 papers receiving 517 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.

Soil aggregation and soil aggregate stability regulate organic carbon and nitrogen storage in a red soil of southern China

2020 265 citations Adnan Mustafa, Minggang Xu et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sun Nan China	8	407	103	96	89	79	16	519
Lanfang Wu China	9	368 0.9×	102 1.0×	164 1.7×	93 1.0×	124 1.6×	24	487
Chunyan Wu China	9	365 0.9×	133 1.3×	142 1.5×	60 0.7×	107 1.4×	16	477
Xianjun Jiang China	12	341 0.8×	112 1.1×	156 1.6×	61 0.7×	122 1.5×	18	470
Hefa Yang China	8	407 1.0×	147 1.4×	189 2.0×	49 0.6×	134 1.7×	11	563
Hongzhu Fan China	7	315 0.8×	91 0.9×	155 1.6×	45 0.5×	91 1.2×	12	471
Cleiton H. Sequeira United States	7	345 0.8×	117 1.1×	170 1.8×	64 0.7×	55 0.7×	8	496
Yongmei Xu China	13	453 1.1×	141 1.4×	226 2.4×	48 0.5×	85 1.1×	16	633
Heai Xiao China	10	391 1.0×	156 1.5×	180 1.9×	56 0.6×	136 1.7×	31	553
Cornelius Talade Atere Nigeria	10	320 0.8×	106 1.0×	153 1.6×	33 0.4×	136 1.7×	14	421
Isabelle Royer Canada	10	264 0.6×	138 1.3×	67 0.7×	41 0.5×	101 1.3×	21	368

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sun Nan

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16 of 16 papers shown

Lin, Xixun, Yanan Cao, Sun Nan, et al.. (2025). Conformal Graph-level Out-of-distribution Detection with Adaptive Data Augmentation. 4755–4765. 3 indexed citations

Abrar, Muhammad, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Khalid Mehmood, et al.. (2025). Organic carbon and nitrogen accrual evidenced by the underpinning protection mechanisms in soil profile following contrasting 35-year fertilization regimes. Journal of Environmental Management. 376. 124482–124482. 2 indexed citations

Nan, Sun, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the phytoextraction capacity of chromium-contaminated soil by co-addition of garbage enzymes and microelectrolytic iron-carbon fillers. Environmental Pollution. 363(Pt 2). 125224–125224. 2 indexed citations

Mustafa, Adnan, Qudsia Saeed, Mohammad Tahsin Karimi Nezhad, et al.. (2022). Physically separated soil organic matter pools as indicators of carbon and nitrogen change under long-term fertilization in a Chinese Mollisol. Environmental Research. 216(Pt 2). 114626–114626. 18 indexed citations

Mustafa, Adnan, Jan Frouz, Muhammad Naveed, et al.. (2021). Stability of soil organic carbon under long-term fertilization: Results from 13C NMR analysis and laboratory incubation. Environmental Research. 205. 112476–112476. 50 indexed citations

Mustafa, Adnan, Hu Xu, Muhammad Abrar, et al.. (2021). Long-term fertilization enhanced carbon mineralization and maize biomass through physical protection of organic carbon in fractions under continuous maize cropping. Applied Soil Ecology. 165. 103971–103971. 64 indexed citations

Mustafa, Adnan, Hu Xu, Syed Atizaz Ali Shah, et al.. (2021). Long-term fertilization alters chemical composition and stability of aggregate-associated organic carbon in a Chinese red soil: evidence from aggregate fractionation, C mineralization, and 13C NMR analyses. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21(7). 2483–2496. 37 indexed citations

Mustafa, Adnan, Minggang Xu, Syed Atizaz Ali Shah, et al.. (2020). Soil aggregation and soil aggregate stability regulate organic carbon and nitrogen storage in a red soil of southern China. Journal of Environmental Management. 270. 110894–110894. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

Shah, Syed Atizaz Ali, Minggang Xu, Muhammad Abrar, et al.. (2020). Long-term fertilization affects functional soil organic carbon protection mechanisms in a profile of Chinese loess plateau soil. Chemosphere. 267. 128897–128897. 30 indexed citations

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Gao, Meiling, et al.. (2018). Wheat yield and growing period in response to field warming in different climatic zones in China.. Zhongguo nongye Kexue. 51(2). 386–400. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Fan, et al.. (2012). A physiologically based pharmacokinetics model for florfenicol in crucian carp and oral‐to‐intramuscular extrapolation. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 36(2). 192–200. 24 indexed citations

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Cai, Zejiang, et al.. (2011). Effects of long-term fertilization on pH of red soil,crop yields and uptakes of nitrogen,phosphorous and potassium. Plant Nutrition and Fertilizing Science. 71–78. 10 indexed citations

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Bai, Lingyu, et al.. (2010). Effect of different land use on farmland soil nutrients.. Nongye xiandaihua yanjiu. 31(4). 492–495. 3 indexed citations

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Nan, Sun & Yichun Zhang. (2010). The Effect of Afforestation Way on Growth and Wood Properties of Hybrid Larch Fiber Wood. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qing, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of the remediation effects of amendments in heavy metal polluted red soil.. Plant Nutrition and Fertilizing Science. 15(1). 121–126. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Fengqin, et al.. (2008). Expression and purification of active recombinant human bikunin in Pichia pastoris. Protein Expression and Purification. 60(2). 127–131. 4 indexed citations

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