Wenlong Zhang

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
192 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Wenlong Zhang is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenlong Zhang has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Ecology, 76 papers in Pollution and 35 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Wenlong Zhang's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (83 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (46 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (21 papers). Wenlong Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (83 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (46 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (21 papers). Wenlong Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Wenlong Zhang's co-authors include Yi Li, Lihua Niu, Longfei Wang, Huanjun Zhang, Peifang Wang, Yi Li, Yu Gao, Chi Zhang, Hainan Wu and Chao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Astrophysical Journal and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wenlong Zhang

188 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

The role of freshwater eutrophication in greenhouse gas emissions: A review

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Peers

Wenlong Zhang

ECOLO

POLLU

WST

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Guanghui Yu China

Junhong Bai China

Liping Lou China

Zhenbin Wu China

Kaiqin Xu China

Yang Yang China

Bongkeun Song United States

Gavin Collins Ireland

Yan He China

Jinsong Guo China

Guanghui Yu China

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ECOLO

2.4k ×1.3

POLLU

1.7k ×1.5

WST

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IME

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Citations per year, relative to Wenlong Zhang Wenlong Zhang (= 1×) peers Guanghui Yu

Countries citing papers authored by Wenlong Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenlong Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenlong Zhang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xiong, S. L., R. Moradi, Chao Zheng, et al.. (2025). Evolution of the Three Spectral Components in the Prompt Emission of GRB 240825A. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 985(2). L30–L30. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Meirong, Wenlong Zhang, Yanan Ding, et al.. (2025). How hydrodynamic conditions drive the regime shift towards a bacterial state with lower carbon emissions in river bends. Environmental Research. 268. 120832–120832.

Chen, Yamei, Lihua Niu, Yi Li, et al.. (2024). Distribution characteristics and microbial synergistic degradation potential of polyethylene and polypropylene in freshwater estuarine sediments. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 471. 134328–134328. 8 indexed citations

Li, Yi, et al.. (2024). Integrating experiments with modeling to understand key bacterial taxa dynamics after episodic mixing of a stratified water column. Journal of Environmental Management. 365. 121651–121651. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Shouhong, et al.. (2024). Impacts of compatibility between rainwater availability and water demand on water saving performance of rainwater harvesting systems. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122722–122722. 2 indexed citations

Shang, Jiahui, et al.. (2024). Supervised machine learning for understanding and predicting the status of bistable eukaryotic plankton community in urbanized rivers. Water Research. 266. 122419–122419. 8 indexed citations

Niu, Lihua, Rui Chen, Yi Li, et al.. (2024). Colloidal Filterable Bacteria Enhance Ammonia Nitrogen Enrichment in River Colloids under Different Turbidity Conditions: Bacterial Diversity, Assembly Mechanism, and Nitrogen Transformation. Water. 16(7). 1024–1024.

Zhang, Wenlong, et al.. (2024). New insight into identifying sediment phosphorus sources in multi-source polluted urban river: Effect of environmental-induced microbial community succession on stability of microbial source tracking results. Environmental Research. 247. 118215–118215. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xinzi, Wenlong Zhang, Yi Li, et al.. (2023). Impacts of water constraints on economic outputs and trade: A multi-regional input-output analysis in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 434. 140345–140345. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Huanjun, Mengzhu Zhang, Yi Li, et al.. (2023). Responses of bacterial community and N-cycling functions stability to different wetting-drying alternation frequencies in a riparian zone. Environmental Research. 228. 115778–115778. 14 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jie, et al.. (2023). Changes in stoichiometric ratio of carbon and sulfate affect methanogenesis pathways in sulfate-rich sewers. Journal of Cleaner Production. 426. 139112–139112. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhiyan, et al.. (2023). Efficacy and mechanism of lipoic acid in the treatment of reproductive injury caused by perfluorooctanoic acid. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 25(3). 116–116. 3 indexed citations

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Hui, Cizhang, et al.. (2023). A modelling method for simulating nitrogen dynamics under the hydrodynamic context of river network. Journal of Hydrology. 625. 130164–130164. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenlong, et al.. (2023). Unveiling novel perspectives on niche differentiation and plasticity in rhizosphere phosphorus forms of submerged macrophytes with different stoichiometric homeostasis. Water Research. 246. 120679–120679. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Haolan, Wenlong Zhang, Jiaxin Tong, et al.. (2023). Alternative states in microbial communities during artificial aeration: Proof of incubation experiment and development of recurrent neural network models. Water Research. 247. 120828–120828. 8 indexed citations

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Shang, Jiahui, et al.. (2023). How nutrient loading leads to alternative stable states in microbially mediated N-cycle pathways: A new insight into bioavailable nitrogen removal in urban rivers. Water Research. 236. 119938–119938. 30 indexed citations

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Xiong, Wei, Wenlong Zhang, Zhigang Liu, et al.. (2022). New insights into identifying sediment phosphorus sources in river-lake coupled system: A framework for optimizing microbial community fingerprints. Environmental Research. 209. 112854–112854. 11 indexed citations

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Hui, Cizhang, Yi Li, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Coupling Genomics and Hydraulic Information to Predict the Nitrogen Dynamics in a Channel Confluence. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(8). 4616–4628. 15 indexed citations

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Hui, Cizhang, Wenlong Zhang, Chao Wang, et al.. (2020). Integrating Microbial Community Assembly and Fluid Kinetics to Decouple Nitrogen Dynamics in an Urban Channel Confluence. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(18). 11237–11248. 27 indexed citations

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Wang, Linqiong, Yi Li, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2015). Isolation and characterization of two novel psychrotrophic decabromodiphenyl ether-degrading bacteria from river sediments. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(11). 10371–10381. 15 indexed citations

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