Yang Liu

106.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
433 papers, 18.9k citations indexed

About

Yang Liu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Liu has authored 433 papers receiving a total of 18.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 137 papers in Atmospheric Science and 111 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yang Liu's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (227 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (129 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (104 papers). Yang Liu is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (227 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (129 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (104 papers). Yang Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yang Liu's co-authors include Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Petros Koutrakis, Xuefei Hu, Howard H. Chang, Qingyang Xiao, Lei Huang, Guannan Geng, Xia Meng and Jeremy A. Sarnat and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yang Liu

408 papers receiving 18.5k 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.

Satellite-Based Spatiotemporal Trends in PM _2.5 Concentrations: China, 2004–2013

2015 605 citations Qiang Zhang, Shilu Tong et al. profile →
Estimating PM_2.5 Concentrations in the Conterminous United States Using the Random Forest Approach

2017 499 citations Xia Meng, Avani Wildani et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Estimating Ground-Level PM_2.5 in China Using Satellite Remote Sensing

2014 490 citations Lei Huang, Yang Liu et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020

2024 108 citations Yang Liu, Bo Zheng et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yang Liu	12.7k	7.6k	7.3k	5.1k	1.5k	433	18.9k
Aaron van Donkelaar	17.3k 1.4×	8.2k 1.1×	6.2k 0.8×	6.0k 1.2×	3.1k 2.1×	248	22.6k
Tong Zhu	15.3k 1.2×	11.6k 1.5×	5.2k 0.7×	5.4k 1.1×	2.6k 1.8×	877	29.1k
Armistead G. Russell	15.4k 1.2×	13.1k 1.7×	6.8k 0.9×	5.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	483	25.5k
Lídia Morawska	16.7k 1.3×	5.7k 0.8×	8.2k 1.1×	3.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.3×	559	28.6k
Guannan Geng	7.9k 0.6×	6.1k 0.8×	4.3k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	791 0.5×	125	11.7k
Jeffrey R. Brook	19.2k 1.5×	5.2k 0.7×	5.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	3.2k 2.1×	310	23.2k
Patrick L. Kinney	14.3k 1.1×	2.7k 0.4×	3.7k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	2.6k 1.7×	349	19.4k
Andrea Pozzer	6.9k 0.5×	7.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.3×	5.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	213	13.5k
Michelle L. Bell	19.4k 1.5×	3.5k 0.5×	5.0k 0.7×	3.4k 0.7×	3.2k 2.1×	376	23.7k
Petros Koutrakis	25.9k 2.0×	7.9k 1.0×	10.1k 1.4×	4.1k 0.8×	4.1k 2.8×	600	31.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Liu

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

Sayeed, Alqamah, et al.. (2025). GOES‐R PM_2.5 Evaluation and Bias Correction: A Deep Learning Approach. Earth and Space Science. 12(2). 3 indexed citations

Jia, Hui, et al.. (2024). Cigarette smoke-induced exosomal miR-221-3p facilitates M1 macrophage polarization via the STAT3 pathway in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Aging. 16(17). 12379–12391. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Wenshi, et al.. (2024). Effects of Latent Heat Release from Single‐Moment and Double‐Moment Microphysical Schemes on the Simulated Intensity of Typhoon Songda. Advances in Meteorology. 2024(1).

Wu, Yangyang, Yiyi Wang, Jie Yang, et al.. (2024). Unequal Health Burden from Air Pollution among Minors in Education. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(31). 13668–13677. 4 indexed citations

Li, Tiantian, Chen Chen, Mengxue Zhang, et al.. (2024). Accountability analysis of health benefits related to National Action Plan on Air Pollution Prevention and Control in China. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae142–pgae142. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Qingyang, Wenhao Wang, Qiao Zhu, et al.. (2024). Impact of Warehouse Expansion on Ambient PM_2.5 and Elemental Carbon Levels in Southern California's Disadvantaged Communities: A Two‐Decade Analysis. GeoHealth. 8(9). e2024GH001091–e2024GH001091. 4 indexed citations

Hang, Yun, Xia Meng, Yuzhi Xi, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric elemental carbon pollution and its regional health disparities in China. Environmental Research Letters. 18(12). 124017–124017. 3 indexed citations

Du, Zhicheng, Weitao Ye, Xiaodan Li, et al.. (2023). Ringlike late gadolinium enhancement provides incremental prognostic value in non-classical arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 25(1). 72–72. 8 indexed citations

Li, Qian, Fang Yuan, Dewei Peng, et al.. (2023). Sacubitril/valsartan reduces susceptibility to atrial fibrillation by improving atrial remodeling in spontaneously hypertensive rats. European Journal of Pharmacology. 952. 175754–175754. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Yi‐Ming, Cong Peng, Fu Yang, et al.. (2023). Application of magnetic resonance image compilation (MAGiC) in the diagnosis of middle-aged and elderly women with osteoporosis. BMC Medical Imaging. 23(1). 63–63. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ai, Qihua Wang, Xueli Yang, et al.. (2023). Impacts of heatwaves and cold spells on glaucoma in rural China: a national cross-sectional study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(16). 47248–47261. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yu, Qiang Zhang, Zhaoxin Dong, et al.. (2022). Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions. Nature Geoscience. 15(3). 190–195. 52 indexed citations

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Li, Aqian, Lin Liu, Wei Wu, et al.. (2021). Molecular evolution and genetic diversity analysis of SFTS virus based on next-generation sequencing. Biosafety and Health. 3(2). 105–115. 17 indexed citations

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Bi, Jianzhao, Avani Wildani, Howard H. Chang, & Yang Liu. (2020). Incorporating Low-Cost Sensor Measurements into High-Resolution PM2.5 Modeling at a Large Spatial Scale. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Lei & Yang Liu. (2020). Balanced news for long-term growth. Nature Energy. 5(7). 500–501. 2 indexed citations

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Cromar, Kevin, B. N. Duncan, Alena Bartoňová, et al.. (2019). Air Pollution Monitoring for Health Research and Patient Care. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 16(10). 1207–1214. 26 indexed citations

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Wu, Sherry Y., Arthi Thirumalai, Ronald S. Swerdloff, et al.. (2018). Preventing secondary exposure to women from men applying a novel nestorone/testosterone contraceptive gel. Andrology. 7(2). 235–243. 14 indexed citations

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Coplan, Jeremy D., Sasha L. Fulton, Tarique D. Perera, et al.. (2017). Reduced left ventricular dimension and function following early life stress: A thrifty phenotype hypothesis engendering risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Neurobiology of Stress. 8. 202–210. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Liangfu, et al.. (2015). Satellite Observation of Atmospheric Compositions for Air Quality and Climate Study. Advances in Meteorology. 2015. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Griggo, Christophe, Wei Dong, Ya‐Mei Hou, et al.. (2015). Preliminary taphonomic analyses on the mammalian remains from Wulanmulun Paleolithic site, Nei Mongol, China. Quaternary International. 400. 158–165. 5 indexed citations

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