Xiaohong Guan

18.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
283 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Xiaohong Guan is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaohong Guan has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Water Science and Technology, 122 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 75 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Xiaohong Guan's work include Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (113 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (107 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (57 papers). Xiaohong Guan is often cited by papers focused on Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (113 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (107 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (57 papers). Xiaohong Guan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaohong Guan's co-authors include Yuankui Sun, Bo Sun, Jinxiang Li, Hongyu Dong, Jinli Qiao, Hejie Qin, Irene M.C. Lo, Haoran Dong, Guanghao Chen and Binbin Shao and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Xiaohong Guan

268 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

The limitations of applying zero-valent iron technology i... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2020 2016 2021 2020 250 500 750
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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.

  1. The limitations of applying zero-valent iron technology in contaminants sequestration and the corresponding countermeasures: The development in zero-valent iron technology in the last two decades (1994–2014)
    2015 815 citations Xiaohong Guan, Yuankui Sun et al. Water Research profile →
  2. Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process
    2020 508 citations Yang Zong, Xiaohong Guan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  3. The influences of iron characteristics, operating conditions and solution chemistry on contaminants removal by zero-valent iron: A review
    2016 422 citations Yuankui Sun, Jinxiang Li et al. Water Research profile →
  4. Single-Atom Fe Catalyst Outperforms Its Homogeneous Counterpart for Activating Peroxymonosulfate to Achieve Effective Degradation of Organic Contaminants
    2021 401 citations Zhimin Ao, Xiaohong Guan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  5. Both Fe(IV) and Radicals Are Active Oxidants in the Fe(II)/Peroxydisulfate Process
    2020 370 citations Hongyu Dong, Shuchang Wang et al. profile →
  6. Role of Ferrate(IV) and Ferrate(V) in Activating Ferrate(VI) by Calcium Sulfite for Enhanced Oxidation of Organic Contaminants
    2018 329 citations Binbin Shao, Hongyu Dong et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  7. N-doped biochar-Fe/Mn as a superior peroxymonosulfate activator for enhanced bisphenol a degradation
    2025 37 citations Xiaohong Guan et al. Water Research profile →
  8. Transforming Plastics to Single Atom Catalysts for Peroxymonosulfate Activation: Axial Chloride Coordination Intensified Electron Transfer Pathway
    2025 33 citations Shiying Ren, Shuang Zhong et al. profile →

Peers

Xiaohong Guan
Xinhua Xu China
Liyuan Chai China
Haoran Dong China
Zuliang Chen China
Jin Jiang China
Weiming Zhang China
Yujue Wang China
Chin‐Pao Huang United States
Lu Lv China
Yeomin Yoon South Korea
Xinhua Xu China
Xiaohong Guan
Citations per year, relative to Xiaohong Guan Xiaohong Guan (= 1×) peers Xinhua Xu

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaohong Guan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaohong Guan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaohong Guan

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

All Works

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Wang, Shuning, Cheng Peng, Nan Sheng, et al.. (2025). Occurrence, ecological risk and estrogenic effect of 19 bisphenol analogues in the surface water used for drinking water in Shanghai, China. Water Research. 279. 123408–123408. 6 indexed citations
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Zhou, Hang, Xue Lu Wang, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Design, Synthesis, and Screening of COFs for CO 2 Adsorption by Gaussian Process. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(42). 58628–58638. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Shuchen Wang, Hongyu Dong, et al.. (2025). TP-Transformer: An Interpretable Model for Predicting the Transformation Pathways of Organic Pollutants in Chemical Oxidation Processes. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(30). 15853–15864. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuchang, Chengjin Wang, Chunhua Feng, et al.. (2024). Electrochemically producing high-valent iron–oxo species for phenolics-laden high chloride wastewater pretreatment. Water Research. 261. 122068–122068. 17 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuankui, et al.. (2024). Insights into the contrasting effects of sulfidation on dechlorination of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons by zero-valent iron. Water Research. 255. 121494–121494. 16 indexed citations
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Zhou, Hongyu, Shuang Zhong, Junwen Chen, et al.. (2024). Overlooked Complexation and Competition Effects of Phenolic Contaminants in a Mn(II)/Nitrilotriacetic Acid/Peroxymonosulfate System: Inhibited Generation of Primary and Secondary High-Valent Manganese Species. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(42). 19080–19089. 18 indexed citations
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Wen, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Molecular Insights into the Transformation of Dissolved Organic Matter in a Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant. ACS ES&T Water. 4(9). 4228–4238. 11 indexed citations
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Deng, Yang & Xiaohong Guan. (2023). Unlocking the potential of ferrate(VI) in water treatment: Toward one-step multifunctional solutions. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 464. 132920–132920. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Tiansheng, Yuankui Sun, Hongyu Dong, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Importance of Periodate Species in the pH-Dependent Degradation of Organic Contaminants in the H2O2/Periodate Process. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(14). 10372–10380. 81 indexed citations
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Rao, Dandan, Hongyu Dong, Xiaohan Wang, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic Insights into the Markedly Decreased Oxidation Capacity of the Fe(II)/S2O82– Process with Increasing pH. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(18). 13131–13141. 43 indexed citations
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Rao, Dandan, Guoyang Zhang, Bo Sun, et al.. (2022). Inhibitory Effect of Sulfite on the SO4·–-Induced Transformation of Selected Organic Contaminants in Sulfite-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes. ACS ES&T Water. 2(12). 2538–2547. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuchang, Yang Deng, Binbin Shao, et al.. (2021). Three Kinetic Patterns for the Oxidation of Emerging Organic Contaminants by Fe(VI): The Critical Roles of Fe(V) and Fe(IV). Environmental Science & Technology. 55(16). 11338–11347. 81 indexed citations
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Fan, Peng, Xiaohong Guan, Guangfeng Wei, & Lina Li. (2020). Simply closing the reactor improves the electron efficiency of zerovalent iron toward various metal(loid)s removal. Water Environment Research. 93(10). 1829–1836. 1 indexed citations
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Zong, Yang, Xiaohong Guan, Jun Xu, et al.. (2020). Unraveling the Overlooked Involvement of High-Valent Cobalt-Oxo Species Generated from the Cobalt(II)-Activated Peroxymonosulfate Process. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(24). 16231–16239. 508 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qiao, Jinli, et al.. (2019). Overlooked Role of Sulfur-Centered Radicals During Bromate Reduction by Sulfite. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(17). 10320–10328. 62 indexed citations
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Shao, Binbin, Hongyu Dong, Bo Sun, & Xiaohong Guan. (2018). Role of Ferrate(IV) and Ferrate(V) in Activating Ferrate(VI) by Calcium Sulfite for Enhanced Oxidation of Organic Contaminants. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(2). 894–902. 329 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Jinxiang, Hejie Qin, Xueying Zhang, & Xiaohong Guan. (2017). Improving the Reactivity of Zerovalent Iron toward Various Contaminants by Weak Magnetic Field: Performances and Mechanisms. Acta Chimica Sinica. 75(6). 544–544. 11 indexed citations
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Shan, Chao, et al.. (2017). Efficient Removal of Trace Se(VI) by Millimeter-Sized Nanocomposite of Zerovalent Iron Confined in Polymeric Anion Exchanger. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 56(18). 5309–5317. 24 indexed citations
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H, Xu, et al.. (2016). Liver-targeting Resibufogenin-loaded poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-D-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate nanoparticles for liver cancer therapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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