Xiang Sun

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Xiang Sun is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiang Sun has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 42 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 39 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiang Sun's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (59 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (39 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (36 papers). Xiang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (59 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (39 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (36 papers). Xiang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xiang Sun's co-authors include Yanghui Li, Peng Wu, Weiguo Liu, Yongchen Song, Lei Wang, Yongchen Song, Shi Shen, Tingting Luo, Hao Luo and Jiafei Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Xiang Sun

90 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Hydrate-bearing sediment of the South China Sea: Microstructure and mechanical characteristics

2022 121 citations Peng Wu, Yanghui Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiang Sun China	33	2.4k	1.7k	1.3k	500	469	98	3.3k
Lanlan Jiang China	37	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	194 0.4×	1.0k 2.1×	158	3.7k
Yongchen Song China	45	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	743 1.5×	1.4k 3.0×	164	5.5k
Jiaqi Wang China	25	1.3k 0.5×	939 0.5×	638 0.5×	300 0.6×	381 0.8×	91	2.4k
Katriona Edlmann United Kingdom	26	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.9×	245 0.5×	1.6k 3.4×	72	4.4k
Chuanxiao Cheng China	24	1.1k 0.4×	665 0.4×	470 0.4×	270 0.5×	436 0.9×	84	1.8k
Lei Yang China	43	4.4k 1.8×	2.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	185 0.4×	1.2k 2.6×	215	5.8k
Junjie Zheng China	25	1.4k 0.6×	536 0.3×	835 0.6×	284 0.6×	691 1.5×	44	2.3k
Lunxiang Zhang China	35	3.2k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	101 0.2×	664 1.4×	191	4.1k
Litao Chen China	28	1.4k 0.6×	761 0.4×	555 0.4×	113 0.2×	336 0.7×	110	2.2k
Yongchen Song China	31	725 0.3×	895 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	292 0.6×	816 1.7×	148	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiang Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiang Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiang Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiang Sun 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 Xiang Sun. Xiang Sun 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

Wang, Jiguang, Lunxiang Zhang, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, et al.. (2025). Thermal Marangoni natural convection enables directional transport across immiscible liquids. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5727–5727. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiao, et al.. (2025). Review of CO2 ocean sequestration technology using hydrate method: Feasibility and influencing factors. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 216. 115710–115710. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Weiguo, et al.. (2025). Modeling fracture propagation in hydrate bearing sediments using phase field method. Computers and Geotechnics. 188. 107532–107532.

Liu, Yunfeng, Zhenzhou Wang, Xiang Sun, Xueli He, & Yuxing Zhang. (2025). Specific soil factors drive the differed stochastic assembly of rhizosphere and root endosphere fungal communities in pear trees across different habitats. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1549173–1549173.

Zhang, Chenyi, Tingting Luo, Yi Zhao, et al.. (2024). Mechanical properties of consolidated water-saturated natural gas hydrate-bearing silty-clayey sediments under undrained shearing conditions. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 99. 996–1009. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Ying, et al.. (2024). Interfacial Electronic Interaction in Amorphous–Crystalline CeO_x‐Sn Heterostructures for Optimizing CO₂ to Formate Conversion. Small. 20(32). e2400191–e2400191. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Zhixiang, et al.. (2024). Temperature‐humidity‐density dependent evaporation behaviour of clay and sandy clay. European Journal of Soil Science. 75(2). 5 indexed citations

Sun, Xiang, et al.. (2023). A Review of CO2 Marine Geological Sequestration. Processes. 11(7). 2206–2206. 33 indexed citations

Sun, Xiang, et al.. (2023). Numerical analysis of coupled thermal-hydro-chemo-mechanical (THCM) behavior to joint production of marine gas hydrate and shallow gas. Energy. 281. 128224–128224. 26 indexed citations

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You, Zeshao, Yanghui Li, Haijun Wang, et al.. (2023). A particle-scale study of the triaxial compression behavior of methane hydrate-bearing sands. Acta Geotechnica. 19(6). 3901–3923. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Peng, et al.. (2021). Influence of grain size distribution on the physical characteristics of cementing hydrate-bearing sediment. Energy Reports. 7. 8187–8197. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Bingbing, Zheyuan Liu, Huiru Sun, et al.. (2021). The synthetic effect of traditional-thermodynamic-factors (temperature, salinity, pressure) and fluid flow on natural gas hydrate recovery behaviors. Energy. 233. 121147–121147. 27 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxin, Xiang Sun, Li‐Yong Gan, et al.. (2020). A CoO_x/FeO_x heterojunction on carbon nanotubes prepared by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition for the highly efficient electrocatalysis of oxygen evolution reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(30). 15140–15147. 33 indexed citations

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Zheng, Gang, et al.. (2020). Seismic Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings on Ground Reinforced by Stone Columns Using Upper-Bound Solutions. International Journal of Geomechanics. 20(9). 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxin, Xiang Sun, Muhammad Rauf, et al.. (2019). N-Doped porous tremella-like Fe₃C/C electrocatalysts derived from metal–organic frameworks for oxygen reduction reaction. Dalton Transactions. 49(3). 797–807. 29 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang, et al.. (2019). Numerical simulation of wind environment and outdoor comfort surrounding a typical super highrise building cluster in Zhuhai. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni. 58(4). 42. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang. (2015). A return-mapping algorithm and implementation of thermodynamics-based critical state model. Rock and Soil Mechanics. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Qiang, et al.. (2015). Effects of Pb. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 54(4). 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang. (2013). Study on the environmental risk assessment for food waste composting utilization based on life cycle analysis. Environmental Pollution & Control. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang. (2008). Stress analysis and structure optimization of pressure vessel on ANSYS. Machinery Design and Manufacture.

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