Yanfei Zhou

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yanfei Zhou is a scholar working on Pollution, Materials Chemistry and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfei Zhou has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pollution, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanfei Zhou's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (6 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (5 papers). Yanfei Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (6 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (5 papers). Yanfei Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yanfei Zhou's co-authors include Jun Wang, Xiaoning Liu, Wenzhi Liu, Gang He, Yuyi Yang, Guihua Liu, Wenke Yuan, Lidong Chen, Xiaoya Li and Yuling Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, ACS Nano and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yanfei Zhou

35 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Characterization of microplastics and the association of heavy metals with microplastics in suburban soil of central China

2019 457 citations Yanfei Zhou, Xiaoning Liu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanfei Zhou China	20	1.5k	964	583	448	180	37	2.1k
Manuel A. Martins Portugal	25	1.0k 0.7×	446 0.5×	846 1.5×	488 1.1×	192 1.1×	53	2.2k
Daheui Choi South Korea	25	1.2k 0.8×	693 0.7×	499 0.9×	668 1.5×	197 1.1×	52	2.5k
Annegret Potthoff Germany	25	920 0.6×	614 0.6×	772 1.3×	330 0.7×	249 1.4×	49	2.1k
Jieun Lee South Korea	24	413 0.3×	348 0.4×	328 0.6×	215 0.5×	170 0.9×	142	2.2k
George Sarau Germany	21	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	592 1.0×	190 0.4×	185 1.0×	69	2.3k
Brian Nguyen Canada	17	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	341 0.6×	324 0.7×	121 0.7×	24	2.2k
Zewen Zhu China	22	398 0.3×	708 0.7×	171 0.3×	108 0.2×	107 0.6×	88	2.2k
Maria P. Herrling Germany	11	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	263 0.5×	406 0.9×	224 1.2×	12	2.1k
Brenda A. Jensen United States	14	907 0.6×	719 0.7×	108 0.2×	228 0.5×	276 1.5×	20	1.7k
Denise Rinaldo Italy	3	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	304 0.5×	387 0.9×	397 2.2×	7	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanfei Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanfei Zhou

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Jin, Yanfei Zhou, Hongzhi Wang, Lizhuang Yang, & Hai Li. (2025). Rank labels scaffold social cognitive maps in the hippocampal-entorhinal system. NeuroImage. 317. 121366–121366.

Jia, Jianbo, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic Insights into Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles-Induced Digestive Gland Damage in Corbicula fluminea: Comparison with Cadmium Ions. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(17). 8451–8460.

Zhou, Yanfei, et al.. (2024). Test–retest reliability of the attention network test from the perspective of intrinsic network organization. European Journal of Neuroscience. 60(4). 4453–4468. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jialiang, Xiang Huang, Yanfei Zhou, et al.. (2024). CT radiomics-based model for predicting TMB and immunotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer. BMC Medical Imaging. 24(1). 45–45. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Yanfei, Xiaoxia Zhou, Hao Jiang, et al.. (2024). In Vitro Toxicity and Modeling Reveal Nanoplastic Effects on Marine Bivalves. ACS Nano. 18(26). 17228–17239. 13 indexed citations

Zhou, Yanfei, Wenzhi Liu, Hao Jiang, et al.. (2024). Surface-Charge-Driven Ferroptosis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is Involved in Toxicity Diversity in the Marine Bivalve Exposed to Nanoplastics. ACS Nano. 18(3). 2370–2383. 24 indexed citations

Chen, Fengyuan, Zhen Zhang, Yanping Li, et al.. (2023). Impact of facemask debris on marine diatoms: Physiology, surface properties, sinking rate, and copepod ingestion. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167222–167222. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Yanfei, Gang He, Hao Jiang, Ke Pan, & Wenzhi Liu. (2023). Nanoplastics induces oxidative stress and triggers lysosome-associated immune-defensive cell death in the earthworm Eisenia fetida. Environment International. 174. 107899–107899. 53 indexed citations

Zhou, Yanfei, Chao Wu, Yanping Li, et al.. (2023). Effects of nanoplastics on clam Ruditapes philippinarum at environmentally realistic concentrations: Toxicokinetics, toxicity, and gut microbiota. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 456. 131647–131647. 26 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanfei, Yanping Li, Wenlu Lan, Hao Jiang, & Ke Pan. (2022). Short-Term Exposure to MPs and DEHP Disrupted Gill Functions in Marine Bivalves. Nanomaterials. 12(22). 4077–4077. 24 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanfei, Gang He, Xiaoliang Jiang, et al.. (2021). Microplastic contamination is ubiquitous in riparian soils and strongly related to elevation, precipitation and population density. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 411. 125178–125178. 182 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanfei, Yuyi Yang, Guihua Liu, Gang He, & Wenzhi Liu. (2020). Adsorption mechanism of cadmium on microplastics and their desorption behavior in sediment and gut environments: The roles of water pH, lead ions, natural organic matter and phenanthrene. Water Research. 184. 116209–116209. 289 indexed citations

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Wan, Shengfeng, Shengbo Cao, Xugang Wang, et al.. (2020). Generation and preliminary characterization of vertebrate-specific replication-defective Zika virus. Virology. 552. 73–82. 6 indexed citations

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Yuan, Wenke, Yanfei Zhou, Yuling Chen, Xiaoning Liu, & Jun Wang. (2020). Toxicological effects of microplastics and heavy metals on the Daphnia magna. The Science of The Total Environment. 746. 141254–141254. 149 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yanfei, Xiaoning Liu, & Jun Wang. (2019). Characterization of microplastics and the association of heavy metals with microplastics in suburban soil of central China. The Science of The Total Environment. 694. 133798–133798. 457 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Yanfei, Stefan Fernandez, In‐Kyu Yoon, et al.. (2016). Metagenomics Study of Viral Pathogens in Undiagnosed Respiratory Specimens and Identification of Human Enteroviruses at a Thailand Hospital. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 95(3). 663–669. 19 indexed citations

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Ye, Liang, Ling Ji, Yanfei Zhou, et al.. (2014). IL-37 inhibits the production of inflammatory cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: its correlation with disease activity. Journal of Translational Medicine. 12(1). 69–69. 141 indexed citations

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Pang, Xiaowu, et al.. (2014). Highly efficient production of a dengue pseudoinfectious virus. Vaccine. 32(30). 3854–3860. 9 indexed citations

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Houng, Huo‐Shu H., Yanfei Zhou, Arthur Lyons, et al.. (2011). Emergent 2009 influenza A(H1N1) viruses containing HA D222N mutation associated with severe clinical outcomes in the Americas. Journal of Clinical Virology. 53(1). 12–15. 25 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shanhui, et al.. (2006). Effect of ambient oxygen pressure on structural, optical and electrical properties of SnO2 thin films. Rare Metals. 25(6). 693–696. 9 indexed citations

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