Xianhua Liu

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
186 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Xianhua Liu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xianhua Liu has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 42 papers in Pollution and 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xianhua Liu's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (32 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (23 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers). Xianhua Liu is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (32 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (23 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers). Xianhua Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xianhua Liu's co-authors include Jiao Wang, Ping Zhang, Guangyi Wang, Xin Wang, Yexin Dai, Chu Peng, Kexun Li, Li Yang, Trevor Powell and Muhammad Irfan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Xianhua Liu

173 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Microplastics as contaminants in the soil environment: A mini-review

2019 530 citations Jiao Wang, Xianhua Liu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xianhua Liu China	36	1.7k	1.1k	1.0k	881	636	186	4.5k
Lishan Zhang China	32	1.1k 0.7×	876 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	751 0.9×	457 0.7×	110	3.9k
Tingting Zhang China	50	2.1k 1.3×	930 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	2.1k 2.4×	1.2k 1.9×	301	8.5k
Lei He China	40	3.1k 1.9×	1.8k 1.7×	558 0.5×	380 0.4×	971 1.5×	161	5.5k
Huiwen Zhang China	35	973 0.6×	496 0.5×	543 0.5×	492 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	176	4.6k
Xiaomin Li China	54	1.8k 1.1×	391 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	258	8.0k
Xinyu Zhao China	41	1.7k 1.0×	920 0.9×	897 0.9×	416 0.5×	379 0.6×	162	5.3k
Shengyan Pu China	45	1.3k 0.8×	894 0.8×	2.2k 2.1×	721 0.8×	1.4k 2.2×	142	6.5k
Xin Xiao China	39	792 0.5×	514 0.5×	602 0.6×	2.3k 2.6×	963 1.5×	105	7.0k
Helong Jiang China	52	2.6k 1.6×	1.2k 1.2×	354 0.3×	1.3k 1.5×	556 0.9×	199	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xianhua Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xianhua Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xianhua Liu

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiaoran, Yuan‐Chung Lin, Changjun Li, et al.. (2025). Plastisphere provides a unique ecological niche for microorganisms in Zostera marina seagrass meadows. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuxuan, et al.. (2025). GIS-Based Suitability Assessment for the Ecological Restoration of Oyster Reefs: A Case Study of the Tianjin Coast in Bohai Bay. Sustainability. 17(11). 4759–4759. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Qiaomei, et al.. (2025). Scientific landscape and visualization analysis of the link between adenomyosis and infertility from 2000 to 2024. Frontiers in Medicine. 12. 1488866–1488866.

Zhou, Yu, Kaibo Zheng, Yihao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Rapid Analysis of Chemical Oxygen Demand by Using a SPE Sensor Based on rGO/Cu/Ni Composite Catalyst Synthesized via One-Step Chemical Reduction. Catalysts. 15(3). 197–197.

Mao, Xiaodan, Lixiang Huang, Xianhua Liu, et al.. (2025). High glucose levels promote glycolysis and cholesterol synthesis via ERRα and suppress the autophagy–lysosomal pathway in endometrial cancer. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 182–182. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yihao, Jiaxuan Li, Shipu Jiao, et al.. (2024). Microfluidic sensors for the detection of emerging contaminants in water: A review. The Science of The Total Environment. 929. 172734–172734. 36 indexed citations

Jiao, Shipu, Yang Li, Jingyu Li, et al.. (2024). Water-enabled electricity generation on film structures: From materials to applications. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 199. 114461–114461. 7 indexed citations

Hou, Xin, Jiayao Li, Sitong Liu, et al.. (2024). Microplastics distribution, ecological risk and outflows of rivers in the Bohai Rim region of China - A flux model considering small and medium-sized rivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176035–176035. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaochen, Jianying Yu, Jianyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Immobilisation remediation of arsenic-contaminated soils with promising CaAl-layered double hydroxide and bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and speciation-based health risk assessment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 469. 134096–134096. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Wanxin, Yi Wang, Jiao Wang, et al.. (2024). Polyethylene microplastics distinctly affect soil microbial community and carbon and nitrogen cycling during plant litter decomposition. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 123616–123616. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Jiaxuan, Yihao Zhang, Wanxin Liu, et al.. (2024). Polystyrene nanoplastics distinctly impact cadmium uptake and toxicity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Environmental Pollution. 356. 124373–124373. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaochen, Ao Wang, Junjie Wang, et al.. (2024). Influences of coexisting aged polystyrene microplastics on the ecological and health risks of cadmium in soils: A leachability and oral bioaccessibility based study. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 469. 133884–133884. 17 indexed citations

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Tian, Ting, et al.. (2024). D3AT-LSTM: An Efficient Model for Spatiotemporal Temperature Prediction Based on Attention Mechanisms. Electronics. 13(20). 4089–4089.

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Wu, Zhengyu, Zhike Li, Bo Shao, et al.. (2023). Differential response of Hg-methylating and MeHg-demethylating microbiomes to dissolved organic matter components in eutrophic lake water. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133298–133298. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Yang, Shipu Jiao, Yexin Dai, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous and sustainable multifunctional transpiration generator for simultaneous harvesting of electricity, freshwater and salt. Applied Energy. 341. 121110–121110. 11 indexed citations

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Song, Jing, Xiuping Liu, Jiaqian Li, et al.. (2023). Diversity and Community Composition of Labyrinthulomycetes Protists in the Coastal Zone of Hainan Island, South China Sea. Water. 15(4). 738–738.

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Li, Jiaxuan, Yunxue Li, Bushra Maryam, et al.. (2023). Microplastic aging alters the adsorption-desorption behaviors of sulfamethoxazole in marine animals: A study in simulated biological liquids. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 195. 115473–115473. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Dong, Yiren Lu, Zhengyu Wu, Xianhua Liu, & Yindong Tong. (2023). Photochromic hierarchical (NH4)xWO3 nanocrystals with bronze tunnel structure for energy-saving windows. Chemical Engineering Journal. 477. 147064–147064. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiao, Yang Li, Peng Liu, et al.. (2021). Sweet Drinks as Fuels for an Alkaline Fuel Cell with Nonprecious Catalysts. Energies. 14(1). 206–206. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Qian, Xin Wang, Xianhua Liu, Nianzhi Jiao, & Guangyi Wang. (2013). Abundance and Novel Lineages of Thraustochytrids in Hawaiian Waters. Microbial Ecology. 66(4). 823–830. 33 indexed citations

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