Xuejun Liu

27.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
418 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Xuejun Liu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Xuejun Liu has authored 418 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Atmospheric Science, 124 papers in Soil Science and 86 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Xuejun Liu's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (117 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (106 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (61 papers). Xuejun Liu is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (117 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (106 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (61 papers). Xuejun Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Xuejun Liu's co-authors include Fusuo Zhang, Peter Christie, Xiaotang Ju, Zhenling Cui, K. W. T. Goulding, Ying Zhang, Jianlin Shen, Aohan Tang, Andreas Fangmeier and Wenxuan Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xuejun Liu

403 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems

2009 2.2k citations Xiaotang Ju, Guangxi Xing et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China

2013 2.1k citations Xuejun Liu, Aohan Tang et al. profile →
Stabilization of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China over the past decade

2019 672 citations Xuejun Liu, Zhang Wen et al. profile →
Nitrogen deposition and its ecological impact in China: An overview

2010 657 citations Xuejun Liu, Jianlin Shen et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
Nitrogen fertilization directly affects soil bacterial diversity and indirectly affects bacterial community composition

2015 565 citations Xuejun Liu et al. profile →
Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem

2019 324 citations Ping Yue, Kaihui Li et al. profile →
Effects of long-term application of organic fertilizer on improving organic matter content and retarding acidity in red soil from China

2019 240 citations Xuejun Liu et al. Soil and Tillage Research profile →
Exploring global changes in agricultural ammonia emissions and their contribution to nitrogen deposition since 1980

2022 201 citations Wen Xu, Yixin Guo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Effects of plastic residues and microplastics on soil ecosystems: A global meta-analysis

2022 200 citations Wen Xu, Xuejun Liu et al. profile →
Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development

2025 17 citations Fusuo Zhang, Xuejun Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xuejun Liu China	66	7.8k	5.4k	4.8k	4.0k	3.9k	418	20.9k
Mark A. Sutton United Kingdom	67	5.9k 0.8×	5.2k 1.0×	6.5k 1.4×	4.9k 1.2×	5.9k 1.5×	289	25.5k
Jan Willem Erisman Netherlands	63	6.7k 0.9×	5.8k 1.1×	6.3k 1.3×	5.7k 1.4×	6.6k 1.7×	296	27.8k
Lex Bouwman Netherlands	82	6.6k 0.9×	2.9k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	10.0k 2.5×	6.6k 1.7×	230	28.1k
Wulf Amelung Germany	77	10.1k 1.3×	3.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	4.1k 1.0×	5.4k 1.4×	352	22.8k
Bruno Glaser Germany	67	9.1k 1.2×	3.2k 0.6×	3.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	3.4k 0.9×	247	20.0k
K. W. T. Goulding United Kingdom	60	9.8k 1.3×	5.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.4×	5.7k 1.4×	4.4k 1.1×	250	18.8k
Luiz Antônio Martinelli Brazil	65	5.6k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	3.6k 0.9×	6.8k 1.7×	293	19.8k
Dale W. Johnson United States	66	7.0k 0.9×	4.1k 0.8×	2.6k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	4.9k 1.2×	295	17.0k
Georg Guggenberger Germany	78	17.6k 2.3×	3.7k 0.7×	4.3k 0.9×	7.1k 1.8×	10.0k 2.6×	335	29.7k
Sybil P. Seitzinger United States	74	5.9k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	5.7k 1.2×	12.9k 3.3×	9.5k 2.4×	127	34.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xuejun Liu

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

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Nunes, João Pedro, Jantiene Baartman, C.J. Ritsema, et al.. (2025). Decoupling the effects of climate, topography, land use, revegetation, and dam construction on streamflow, sediment, total nitrogen and phosphorus in the Yangtze River Basin. The Science of The Total Environment. 968. 178800–178800.

Tang, Lei, Shuqi Xiao, Ruoya Ma, et al.. (2025). Historical Changes in Fertilizer-Induced Soil Nitrogen Losses from Upland Grain Crops and Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(50). 27291–27304. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Ying, Baozhu Ge, Guanghua Chen, et al.. (2024). Consecutive wet deposition of nitrogen along half of China's coastal cities induced by Super Typhoon Muifa (2022) with multiple landfalls. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 156. 126–138.

Ding, Jian, Ke Xu, Yan-Ling Niu, et al.. (2024). Plonmarlimab, a novel anti‐GM‐CSF blocking antibody, ameliorates disease progression in the pre‐clinical model of macrophage activation syndrome. Immunology. 173(3). 552–561.

Sha, Zhipeng, et al.. (2023). Mitigation of reactive nitrogen loss from arable soils through microbial inoculant application: A meta-analysis. Soil and Tillage Research. 235. 105883–105883. 16 indexed citations

Chen, Si, Ping Yue, Tianxiang Hao, et al.. (2023). Responses of net ecosystem carbon budget and net global warming potential to long-term nitrogen deposition in a temperate grassland. CATENA. 225. 107015–107015. 3 indexed citations

Sha, Zhipeng, et al.. (2023). Ammonia loss potential and mitigation options in a wheat-maize rotation system in the North China Plain: A data synthesis and field evaluation. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 352. 108512–108512. 16 indexed citations

Luo, Fan, Chen‐Long Li, Peng Ji, et al.. (2023). Direct insertion into the C–C bond of unactivated ketones with NaH-mediated aryne chemistry. Chem. 9(9). 2620–2636. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Yangyang, Xin Ma, Aohan Tang, et al.. (2023). Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Ammonia at 16 Sites in China Using a Bayesian Isotope Mixing Model Based on δ¹⁵N–NH_x Signatures. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(16). 6599–6608. 17 indexed citations

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Guo, Yixin, Lin Zhang, Gang Liu, et al.. (2023). Global food loss and waste embodies unrecognized harms to air quality and biodiversity hotspots. Nature Food. 4(8). 686–698. 34 indexed citations

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Ronda, R.J., Maryna Strokal, Carolien Kroeze, et al.. (2023). Setting goals for agricultural nitrogen emission reduction to ensure safe air and groundwater quality: A case study of Quzhou, the North China Plain. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119737–119737. 4 indexed citations

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Luo, Fan, Hui Zhou, Xiaobei Chen, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of α-Aryl Primary Amides from α-Silyl Nitriles and Aryl Sulfoxides through [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement. Organic Letters. 24(8). 1700–1705. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Wen, Miaomiao Cheng, Libin Wu, et al.. (2022). Overlooked Nonagricultural and Wintertime Agricultural NH₃ Emissions in Quzhou County, North China Plain: Evidence from ¹⁵N-Stable Isotopes. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 9(2). 127–133. 48 indexed citations

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Shen, Jianlin, Yong Li, Xuejun Liu, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen emission and deposition budget in an agricultural catchment in subtropical central China. Environmental Pollution. 289. 117870–117870. 17 indexed citations

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Fowler, D., Peter Brimblecombe, John P. Burrows, et al.. (2020). A chronology of global air quality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 378(2183). 20190314–20190314. 154 indexed citations

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Xu, Wen, Wei Song, Yangyang Zhang, et al.. (2017). Air quality improvement in a megacity: implications from 2015 Beijing Parade Blue pollution control actions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(1). 31–46. 89 indexed citations

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Shi, Zhihao, Jingyi Li, Lin Huang, et al.. (2017). Source apportionment of fine particulate matter in China in 2013 using a source-oriented chemical transport model. The Science of The Total Environment. 601-602. 1476–1487. 99 indexed citations

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Kuang, Fuhong, et al.. (2016). Wet and dry nitrogen deposition in the central Sichuan Basin of China. Atmospheric Environment. 143. 39–50. 59 indexed citations

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Ju, Xiaotang, Guangxi Xing, Xinping Chen, et al.. (2009). Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(9). 3041–3046. 2196 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Xuejun, et al.. (2003). Nitrogen dynamics and budgets in a winter wheat–maize cropping system in the North China Plain. Field Crops Research. 83(2). 111–124. 307 indexed citations

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