Yanwen Shen

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yanwen Shen is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Water Science and Technology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanwen Shen has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Building and Construction, 18 papers in Water Science and Technology and 14 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Yanwen Shen's work include Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (18 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (13 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (11 papers). Yanwen Shen is often cited by papers focused on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (18 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (13 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (11 papers). Yanwen Shen collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Yanwen Shen's co-authors include Meltem Urgun‐Demirtas, Nanwen Zhu, Jessica L. Linville, Haiping Yuan, Seth W. Snyder, Zhiyou Wen, Marianne Mintz, Robert C. Brown, Chao Li and Jiajia Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yanwen Shen

47 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

  1. An overview of biogas production and utilization at full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the United States: Challenges and opportunities towards energy-neutral WWTPs
    2015 412 citations Yanwen Shen et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yanwen Shen 1.3k 854 763 735 682 50 2.9k
Li Xie 1.5k 1.1× 764 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 993 1.4× 447 0.7× 123 3.6k
Konrad Koch 2.0k 1.5× 943 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 753 1.1× 103 3.5k
Chunxing Li 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.6× 1.1k 1.5× 764 1.1× 79 3.8k
Kaijun Wang 849 0.6× 854 1.0× 633 0.8× 827 1.1× 568 0.8× 90 2.6k
Meltem Urgun‐Demirtas 959 0.7× 575 0.7× 521 0.7× 554 0.8× 547 0.8× 58 2.3k
Qian Li 1.2k 0.9× 1.7k 2.0× 1.1k 1.4× 757 1.0× 494 0.7× 112 3.5k
Pavel Jeníček 2.1k 1.6× 864 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 1.2k 1.7× 865 1.3× 57 3.5k
Yuyang Long 835 0.6× 583 0.7× 980 1.3× 845 1.1× 1.0k 1.5× 212 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanwen Shen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanwen Shen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanwen Shen

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

All Works

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Shen, Yanwen, et al.. (2025). Large depth-of-field structured light system for 3D microscale measurement with integrated speckle denoising. Optics & Laser Technology. 192. 113688–113688.
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Zhang, Xin, Yanwen Shen, Nanwen Zhu, et al.. (2024). Efficient nitrogen removal of decentralized rural sewage: Pilot-scale study of a novel push-flow coupled bio-ecological system. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 66. 105954–105954.
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Deng, Ling, Xiaohong Guan, & Yanwen Shen. (2024). Arginine enhances activity of anammox consortia and process stability with increased nitrogen loading. The Science of The Total Environment. 956. 177395–177395.
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Dong, Yanting, Yanwen Shen, Haiping Yuan, Dongdong Ge, & Nanwen Zhu. (2023). Roles of catalytic ozonation by bimetallic Fe/Ce loading sludge-derived biochar in amelioration of sludge dewaterability: Performance and implementation mechanisms. Journal of Environmental Management. 344. 118430–118430. 7 indexed citations
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Hu, Jinwen, Yanwen Shen, & Nanwen Zhu. (2023). Optimizing adsorption performance of sludge-derived biochar via inherent moisture-regulated physicochemical properties. Waste Management. 169. 70–81. 12 indexed citations
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Shen, Yanwen, Changkai Yin, Chao Li, & Nanwen Zhu. (2022). Biomethane production from waste activated sludge promoted by sludge incineration bottom ash: The distinctive role of metal cations and inert fractions. The Science of The Total Environment. 819. 153147–153147. 12 indexed citations
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Shen, Yanwen. (2022). The roads taken and not taken: Trends of anammox-based wastewater treatment in China. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 13. 100221–100221. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Jiajia, Chao Li, Yanwen Shen, & Nanwen Zhu. (2021). Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) promoted by pyrogenic biochar: Deciphering the interaction with extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). The Science of The Total Environment. 802. 149884–149884. 86 indexed citations
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Xu, Jiajia, Chao Li, Nanwen Zhu, Yanwen Shen, & Haiping Yuan. (2021). Alleviating the nitrite stress on anaerobic ammonium oxidation by pyrolytic biochar. The Science of The Total Environment. 774. 145800–145800. 23 indexed citations
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Xu, Jiajia, et al.. (2020). Anammox process dosed with biochars for enhanced nitrogen removal: Role of surface functional groups. The Science of The Total Environment. 748. 141367–141367. 68 indexed citations
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Yin, Changkai, Yanwen Shen, Yamei Yu, et al.. (2019). In-situ biogas upgrading by a stepwise addition of ash additives: Methanogen adaption and CO2 sequestration. Bioresource Technology. 282. 1–8. 22 indexed citations
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Ge, Dongdong, Haiping Yuan, Yanwen Shen, Wenrui Zhang, & Nanwen Zhu. (2019). Improved sludge dewaterability by tannic acid conditioning: Temperature, thermodynamics and mechanism studies. Chemosphere. 230. 14–23. 39 indexed citations
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Shen, Yanwen, et al.. (2019). Pretreatment-promoted sludge fermentation liquor improves biological nitrogen removal: Molecular insight into the role of dissolved organic matter. Bioresource Technology. 293. 122082–122082. 30 indexed citations
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Yin, Changkai, et al.. (2019). Sludge-based biochar-assisted thermophilic anaerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge in microbial electrolysis cell for methane production. Bioresource Technology. 284. 315–324. 118 indexed citations
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Shen, Yanwen, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen loss reduction by adding KH2PO4-K2HPO4 buffer solution during composting of sewage sludge. Bioresource Technology. 264. 116–122. 20 indexed citations
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Yuan, Haiping, et al.. (2017). Mitigating inhibition of undissociated volatile fatty acids (VFAs) for enhanced sludge-rice bran composting with ferric nitrate amendment. Bioresource Technology. 244(Pt 1). 672–678. 31 indexed citations
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Shen, Yanwen, Laura R. Jarboe, Robert C. Brown, & Zhiyou Wen. (2015). A thermochemical–biochemical hybrid processing of lignocellulosic biomass for producing fuels and chemicals. Biotechnology Advances. 33(8). 1799–1813. 75 indexed citations

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