Yan Wu

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
196 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Yan Wu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Wu has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 46 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 41 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Yan Wu's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (49 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (44 papers) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (22 papers). Yan Wu is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (49 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (44 papers) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (22 papers). Yan Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Yan Wu's co-authors include Da Chen, Hongli Tan, Zhengui Zheng, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Yong-Lai Feng, Marta Venier, N.F.Y. Tam, Kefeng Shang, Nan Jiang and Ming Hung Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yan Wu

189 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Bisphenol Analogues Other Than BPA: Environmental Occurrence, Human Exposure, and Toxicity—A Review

2016 1.3k citations Da Chen, Hongli Tan et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Fluorinated Compounds in North American Cosmetics

2021 204 citations Heather D. Whitehead, Marta Venier et al. Environmental Science & Technology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Wu China	42	3.0k	1.9k	790	786	774	196	6.4k
Yi Chen China	61	885 0.3×	3.5k 1.8×	680 0.9×	442 0.6×	2.2k 2.8×	421	11.8k
Ying Zhang China	55	2.2k 0.7×	4.7k 2.4×	1.2k 1.5×	156 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	463	11.3k
Qianru Zhang China	37	917 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	188 0.2×	110 0.1×	909 1.2×	240	5.3k
Lu Lü China	50	737 0.2×	1.5k 0.8×	304 0.4×	147 0.2×	665 0.9×	220	8.4k
Yongmei Li China	45	773 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	351 0.4×	110 0.1×	696 0.9×	216	5.6k
Young Mo Kim South Korea	47	890 0.3×	2.3k 1.2×	283 0.4×	90 0.1×	806 1.0×	260	7.8k
Yanan Liu China	38	510 0.2×	534 0.3×	307 0.4×	915 1.2×	784 1.0×	193	4.5k
Liang Zhu China	44	863 0.3×	3.1k 1.6×	360 0.5×	75 0.1×	632 0.8×	231	6.7k
Lan Wang China	51	1.8k 0.6×	2.6k 1.3×	233 0.3×	63 0.1×	1.1k 1.5×	343	9.2k
Zhifeng Chen China	54	2.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.6×	559 0.7×	37 0.0×	1.2k 1.5×	253	9.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Wu

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Wu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yan Wu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yan Wu. The network helps show where Yan Wu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Wu 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 Yan Wu. Yan Wu 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

Wu, Yan, Yuxin Zhang, Heng Zhao, et al.. (2025). Widespread Distribution of Aniline Accelerators and Antioxidants across Urbanized Coasts. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(50). 27682–27693.

Peng, Bangfa, Nan Jiang, Yifei Zhu, Jie Li, & Yan Wu. (2024). Three-electrode surface dielectric barrier discharge driven by repetitive pulses: streamer dynamic evolution and discharge mode transition. Plasma Sources Science and Technology. 33(4). 45018–45018. 4 indexed citations

Du, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). Unveiling Chlorinated Paraffin Emissions via Tire Wear and Airborne Release from Various Types of Tires. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(1). 92–97. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Jun, Jing Yang, Ge Yin, et al.. (2024). Efficient analysis of metabolites of industrial additives in cerebrospinal fluids. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 22(3). 997–1003. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Ye, Ying Li, Yunshan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Unintentional emissions of polychlorinated naphthalenes in China: Sources, composition, and historical trends. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 148. 221–229. 3 indexed citations

Schwartz‐Narbonne, Heather, Chunjie Xia, Anna Shalin, et al.. (2023). Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Canadian Fast Food Packaging. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(4). 343–349. 76 indexed citations

Wu, Yan, Qun He, Qiqing Chen, et al.. (2023). Ubiquity of Amino Accelerators and Antioxidants in Road Dust from Multiple Land Types: Targeted and Nontargeted Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(28). 10361–10372. 49 indexed citations

Saito, Yoshiki, Zhanghua Wang, Thi Kim Oanh Ta, et al.. (2023). Amino accelerators and antioxidants in sediments from the Dong Nai River System, Vietnam: Distribution and influential factors. Environmental Research. 227. 115712–115712. 15 indexed citations

Whitehead, Heather D., Marta Venier, Yan Wu, et al.. (2021). Fluorinated Compounds in North American Cosmetics. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 8(7). 538–544. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Yan, Marta Venier, & Ronald A. Hites. (2020). Broad Exposure of the North American Environment to Phenolic and Amino Antioxidants and to Ultraviolet Filters. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(15). 9345–9355. 106 indexed citations

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Lu, Na, et al.. (2019). Dielectric barrier discharge plasma assisted CO ₂ conversion: understanding the effects of reactor design and operating parameters. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(22). 224003–224003. 26 indexed citations

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Peng, Bangfa, Nan Jiang, Douyan Wang, et al.. (2019). Experimental and numerical studies of primary and secondary streamers in a pulsed surface dielectric barrier discharge. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(32). 325202–325202. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaotu, Yan Wu, Xianming Zhang, et al.. (2019). Novel Dechlorane Analogues and Possible Sources in Peregrine Falcon Eggs and Shark Livers from the Western North Atlantic Regions. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(7). 3419–3428. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Yan, et al.. (2018). Children’s Car Seats Contain Legacy and Novel Flame Retardants. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 6(1). 14–20. 49 indexed citations

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Tan, Hongli, Da Chen, Changfeng Peng, et al.. (2018). Novel and Traditional Organophosphate Esters in House Dust from South China: Association with Hand Wipes and Exposure Estimation. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(19). 11017–11026. 126 indexed citations

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Xue, Xiaowei, et al.. (2018). Vegetation Greening for Winter Oblique Photography Using Cycle-Consistence Adversarial Networks. Symmetry. 10(7). 294–294. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Yan, Hongli Tan, Rebecca Sutton, & Da Chen. (2017). From Sediment to Top Predators: Broad Exposure of Polyhalogenated Carbazoles in San Francisco Bay (U.S.A.). Environmental Science & Technology. 51(4). 2038–2046. 98 indexed citations

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Wu, Yan, Jeremy N. Moore, Jiehong Guo, et al.. (2016). Multi-residue determination of polyhalogenated carbazoles in aquatic sediments. Journal of Chromatography A. 1434. 111–118. 64 indexed citations

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Wu, Yan, Qihe Chen, Hui Ruan, & Guoqing He. (2013). Optimization of Liquid Fermentation Process for Improved Exo-Polysaccharides Production by Kombucha ZJU1. Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology. 5(2). 217–224. 5 indexed citations

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Xue, Yuan, Piotr Religa, Renhai Cao, et al.. (2008). Anti-VEGF agents confer survival advantages to tumor-bearing mice by improving cancer-associated systemic syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(47). 18513–18518. 57 indexed citations

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