Xiaochuan Ran

453 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 294 citations indexed

About

Xiaochuan Ran is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaochuan Ran has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 294 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Pollution, 4 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Xiaochuan Ran's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (4 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Xiaochuan Ran is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (4 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers). Xiaochuan Ran collaborates with scholars based in China, South Africa and Russia. Xiaochuan Ran's co-authors include Yayi Wang, Mingda Zhou, Han Wang, Tong Wang, Gang Xue, Xiang Li, Weigang Wang, Sheena Kumari, Kaichong Wang and Jia Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Xiaochuan Ran

9 papers receiving 290 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.

Sulfur autotrophic denitrification as an efficient nitrogen removals method for wastewater treatment towards lower organic requirement: A review

2023 113 citations Tong Wang, Xiang Li et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaochuan Ran China	6	227	85	59	59	52	11	294
Mari-K.H. Winkler United States	7	261 1.1×	78 0.9×	62 1.1×	69 1.2×	29 0.6×	7	302
Moomen Soliman Canada	9	272 1.2×	119 1.4×	68 1.2×	88 1.5×	43 0.8×	12	383
Hao Su China	11	236 1.0×	73 0.9×	79 1.3×	52 0.9×	33 0.6×	27	349
Marissa Boleij Netherlands	5	269 1.2×	79 0.9×	56 0.9×	95 1.6×	47 0.9×	6	388
Xiwei Cao China	12	243 1.1×	80 0.9×	101 1.7×	94 1.6×	41 0.8×	16	357
Flor de María Cuervo‐López Mexico	12	232 1.0×	62 0.7×	59 1.0×	54 0.9×	29 0.6×	31	299
C.M. Castro-Barros Belgium	7	332 1.5×	100 1.2×	99 1.7×	79 1.3×	83 1.6×	7	383
Jiapeng Feng China	12	223 1.0×	81 1.0×	86 1.5×	54 0.9×	34 0.7×	15	309
Hui-Ping Chuang Taiwan	7	223 1.0×	67 0.8×	74 1.3×	40 0.7×	29 0.6×	7	286
Shuohui Shi China	12	279 1.2×	130 1.5×	60 1.0×	95 1.6×	50 1.0×	21	384

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaochuan Ran

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Ran, Xiaochuan, et al.. (2025). Exploring the ecological niche of comammox Nitrospira by in-situ enrichment within mainstream nitrification systems. Water Research. 283. 123810–123810.

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Ran, Xiaochuan, et al.. (2025). A powerful but frequently overlooked role of thermodynamics in environmental microbiology: inspirations from anammox. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(2). e0166824–e0166824. 3 indexed citations

3.

Ran, Xiaochuan, Tong Wang, Mingda Zhou, et al.. (2025). A Novel Perspective on the Instability of Mainstream Partial Nitrification: The Niche Differentiation of Nitrifying Guilds. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(18). 8922–8938. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Junjie, Han Wang, Xiaochuan Ran, et al.. (2024). Revealing the comprehensive impact of organic compounds on the partial nitrification-anammox system during incineration leachate treatment: metabolic hierarchy and adaptation. Water Research. 255. 121534–121534. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Tong, Han Wang, Xiaochuan Ran, & Yayi Wang. (2024). Salt stimulates sulfide−driven autotrophic denitrification: Microbial network and metagenomics analyses. Water Research. 257. 121742–121742. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Han, Xiaoqian Ma, Xiaochuan Ran, et al.. (2024). Analyzing performance and microbial mechanisms in an incineration leachate treatment after waste separation: Integrated metagenomic and metaproteomic analyses. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175821–175821.

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Liu, Jiawei, Xiaochuan Ran, Li Jia, et al.. (2023). Novel insights into carbon nanomaterials enhancing anammox for nitrogen removal: Effects and mechanisms. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167146–167146. 15 indexed citations

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Ran, Xiaochuan, Xinyi Zhang, Bin Zhao, & Qiang An. (2023). Unraveling the two-sided effect of nitrate on aerobic granulation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147430–147430. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Tong, Xiang Li, Han Wang, et al.. (2023). Sulfur autotrophic denitrification as an efficient nitrogen removals method for wastewater treatment towards lower organic requirement: A review. Water Research. 245. 120569–120569. 113 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ran, Xiaochuan, Mingda Zhou, Tong Wang, et al.. (2022). Multidisciplinary characterization of nitrogen-removal granular sludge: A review of advances and technologies. Water Research. 214. 118214–118214. 64 indexed citations

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Li, Jia, Xiaochuan Ran, Mingda Zhou, et al.. (2022). Oxidative stress and antioxidant mechanisms of obligate anaerobes involved in biological waste treatment processes: A review. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 3). 156454–156454. 60 indexed citations

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