Xuejun Liu

27.9k citations

418 papers · 20.9k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.02%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.05%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 124
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 106
Atmospheric Science 135
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 117
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 26

Co-authors: Fusuo Zhang Peter Christie Xiaotang Ju Zhenling Cui K. W. T. Goulding Ying Zhang Jianlin Shen Aohan Tang
Journals: The Science of The Total Environment (23 papers)Environmental Pollution (18 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (17 papers)Atmospheric Environment (16 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (15 papers)
Partner nations: China United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Xuejun Liu

403 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development 2025 · 17 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Nature Communications
2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022 Journal of Hazardous Materials
2019 mSystems
2019 Nature Geoscience
2019 Soil and Tillage Research
2015 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2013 Nature
2010 Environmental Pollution
2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Xuejun Liu, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	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 ·Tsutomu Kawai, João Pedro Nunes, Zhou Lipin, Jantiene Baartman, C.J. Ritsema, Yunqing Xuan, Xuejun Liu, Urike Sommer, Xinping Chen	2025	0
2	Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development Nature Communications ·Jianxing Zhu, Yanlong Jia, Guirui Yu, Qiufeng Wang, Nianpeng He, Zhi Chen, Honglin He, Xianjin Zhu, Li Pan, Fusuo Zhang, Xuejun Liu, K. W. T. Goulding, D. Fowler, Peter M. Vitousek Hit paper breakdown →	2025	17
3	Organic amendments promote soil phosphorus related functional genes and microbial phosphorus cycling Geoderma ·Wenchao Wu, Yangjian Zhang, Benjamin L. Turner, Tiryadi Tiryadi, Xiaohong Chen, Rongxiao Che, Xiaoyong Cui, Xuejun Liu, Lin Jiang, Juntao Zhu	2025	2
4	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 ·Ying Zhang, Baozhu Ge, Guanghua Chen, Duo Wang, Feili Li, Joshua S. Fu, Xuejun Liu, Zifa Wang	2024	0
5	A meta-analysis of the impacts of nitrogen addition on plant multiple-element contents in natural ecosystems Plant Ecology ·Yuan Su, Dong Kuan-hu, Changhui Wang, Xuejun Liu	2024	4
6	Bioavailability and ecological risk assessment of metal pollutants in ambient PM2.5 in Beijing The Science of The Total Environment ·Yunzhe Li, Fernando Partica da Silva, Lisha Zhang, James. Bray, Shuifeng Wang, Jinghua Guo, Aohan Tang, K. W. T. Goulding, Xuejun Liu	2024	3
7	Macro- and micro-plastic accumulation in soils under different intensive farming systems: A case study in Quzhou county, the North China Plain Environmental Pollution ·Hanyue Zhang, Xiaomei Yang, Kai Wang, Jixiao Cui, C.J. Ritsema, Changrong Yan, Xuejun Liu, Violette Geissen	2024	4
8	Wet and dry deposition of atmospheric nitrogen to Lake Erhai basin: Composition, spatiotemporal patterns and implications for nitrogen inputs into the lake Atmospheric Environment ·YaLong Wang, Lisa Schoolcraft, Ben Zhong Tang, عهود محمد أحمد صدیق, Jiawei Li, Yuepeng Pan, Mathew R. Heal, Xuejun Liu, Wen Xu	2024	1
9	Quantifying aboveground biomass, soil organic carbon and erosion with a detailed crop map and PESERA model in the Yangtze River Basin European Journal of Soil Science ·Zhou Lipin, Teresa Walter, Tsutomu Kawai, João Pedro Nunes, Hedwig van Delden, M. Moektiwardoyo, Xinping Chen, C.J. Ritsema, Urike Sommer, Xuejun Liu	2024	2
10	Mitigation of reactive nitrogen loss from arable soils through microbial inoculant application: A meta-analysis Soil and Tillage Research ·R L Swink, M. Dreucci, Zhipeng Sha, Shouguo Li, Xian Chen, Yongliang Chen, Xuejun Liu	2023	16
11	Responses of net ecosystem carbon budget and net global warming potential to long-term nitrogen deposition in a temperate grassland CATENA ·Si Chen, Ping Yue, Tianxiang Hao, Kaihui Li, T. H. Misselbrook, Xuejun Liu	2023	3
12	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 ·Zhipeng Sha, Jingxia Wang, BERNARDO QUEIROZ A LIMA, Tiantian Lv, Xuejun Liu, T. H. Misselbrook	2023	16
13	Ammonia mitigation measures reduce greenhouse gas emissions from an integrated manure-cropland system Journal of Cleaner Production ·M Frankovičová, G. R. Paula, Ying Zhang, Xuejun Liu, O. Oenema, Gerard H. Ros, W. de Vries, Wen Xu, Yong Hou, Hongliang Wang, Fusuo Zhang	2023	11
14	Direct insertion into the C–C bond of unactivated ketones with NaH-mediated aryne chemistry Chem ·Fan Luo, Chen‐Long Li, Peng Ji, Frans Ørsted Andersen, 雅由山本, Lingyun Chen, Yuejia Yin, Fabio Bertolotti, Yanwei Hu, Xiaobei Chen, Xuejun Liu, Qichan Zhang, Zhi‐Xiang Yu, Wei Wang, Shilei Zhang	2023	16
15	A significant diurnal pattern of ammonia dry deposition to a cropland is detected by an open-path quantum cascade laser-based eddy covariance instrument Atmospheric Environment ·Kai Wang, Jingxia Wang, Jennifer Albertz, Wen Xu, Kai Wang, Hongyan Zhang, Jianlin Shen, Behrouz Amirzargar, Ed Ramsay, Yin Wang, Xunhua Zheng, Xuejun Liu	2022	3
16	Ammonia should be considered in field experiments mimicking nitrogen deposition Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters ·Yuepeng Pan, Shili Tian, Dianming Wu, Wen Xu, Xiaying Zhu, Chunyan Liu, Dejun Li, Yunting Fang, Lei Duan, Xuejun Liu, Yuesi Wang	2020	9
17	Atmospheric Ammonia in Beijing during the COVID-19 Outbreak: Concentrations, Sources, and Implications Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Yangyang Zhang, Xuejun Liu, Yunting Fang, Duanyang Liu, Aohan Tang, Jeffrey L. Collett	2020	41
18	Characteristics of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Deposition in Nyingchi City Scientific Reports ·Wei Wang, Wen Xu, Zhang Wen, Victoria Pineau, Sen Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Yuanhong Zhao, Xuejun Liu	2019	30
19	Model-Based Analysis of the Long-Term Effects of Fertilization Management on Cropland Soil Acidification Environmental Science & Technology ·Mufan Zeng, W. de Vries, L.T.C. Bonten, Qichao Zhu, Tianxiang Hao, Xuejun Liu, Minggang Xu, Xiaojun Shi, Fusuo Zhang, Jianbo Shen	2017	149
20	Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xiaotang Ju, Guangxi Xing, Xinping Chen, Shaolin Zhang, Lijuan Zhang, Xuejun Liu, Zhenling Cui, Bin Yin, Peter Christie, Zhaoliang Zhu, Fusuo Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2009	2196

About Xuejun Liu

Xuejun Liu is a scholar working on Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, having authored 418 papers that have together received 20.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (117 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (106 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (61 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (57 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (52 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (26 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (26 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (7.8k citations), Environmental Chemistry (4.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (4.8k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (2.9k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (3.5k citations). Xuejun Liu has collaborated with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Fusuo Zhang, Peter Christie, Xiaotang Ju, Zhenling Cui, K. W. T. Goulding, Ying Zhang, Jianlin Shen, Aohan Tang, Andreas Fangmeier and Peter M. Vitousek. Their work appears in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science & Technology, Atmospheric Environment and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

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