Yi Li

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yi Li is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Li has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Pollution and 38 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yi Li's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (28 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers). Yi Li is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (28 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers). Yi Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. Yi Li's co-authors include Wenlong Zhang, Lihua Niu, Longfei Wang, Huanjun Zhang, Chi Zhang, Saraschandra Naraginti, Jiahui Shang, Peifang Wang, Nan Yang and Jun Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yi Li

141 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

The role of freshwater eu... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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.

  1. The role of freshwater eutrophication in greenhouse gas emissions: A review
    2021 173 citations Yi Li, Jiahui Shang et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yi Li 1.0k 948 593 458 431 150 3.1k
Haihan Zhang 1.3k 1.2× 1.6k 1.6× 628 1.1× 552 1.2× 214 0.5× 150 3.6k
V.P. Venugopalan 646 0.6× 938 1.0× 378 0.6× 590 1.3× 248 0.6× 122 3.2k
Riccardo Spaccini 832 0.8× 878 0.9× 619 1.0× 320 0.7× 178 0.4× 135 5.8k
Guihua Liu 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 864 1.5× 258 0.6× 480 1.1× 274 5.3k
Tony Gutiérrez 1.1k 1.1× 2.1k 2.2× 578 1.0× 850 1.9× 187 0.4× 88 4.1k
Anyi Hu 1.5k 1.5× 1.9k 2.0× 467 0.8× 933 2.0× 147 0.3× 154 4.4k
Ana P. Mucha 810 0.8× 2.0k 2.1× 325 0.5× 236 0.5× 175 0.4× 108 3.2k
Hans‐Uwe Dahms 1.6k 1.6× 812 0.9× 556 0.9× 834 1.8× 434 1.0× 261 6.2k
Qi Li 347 0.3× 430 0.5× 685 1.2× 250 0.5× 378 0.9× 133 2.8k
Lunhui Lu 485 0.5× 798 0.8× 352 0.6× 204 0.4× 174 0.4× 64 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Li

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

All Works

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Wu, Meirong, Wenlong Zhang, Yanan Ding, et al.. (2025). How hydrodynamic conditions drive the regime shift towards a bacterial state with lower carbon emissions in river bends. Environmental Research. 268. 120832–120832.
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Li, Yi, Jiaying Chen, Longfei Wang, et al.. (2024). Hydrodynamic disturbance and nutrient accumulation co-shape the depth-dependent prokaryotic community assembly in intertidal sediments of a mountainous river estuary. Journal of Hydrology. 651. 132580–132580. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Donghao, et al.. (2024). Impacts of hydrodynamic disturbance on black blooms: An in-situ study in Lake Taihu. Journal of Hydrology. 641. 131794–131794. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yi, et al.. (2024). Flow velocity determines detritus availability and microbial food web patterns in a river confluence. Journal of Hydrology. 643. 131987–131987. 1 indexed citations
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Hui, Cizhang, et al.. (2023). A modelling method for simulating nitrogen dynamics under the hydrodynamic context of river network. Journal of Hydrology. 625. 130164–130164. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huanjun, Mengzhu Zhang, Yi Li, et al.. (2023). Responses of bacterial community and N-cycling functions stability to different wetting-drying alternation frequencies in a riparian zone. Environmental Research. 228. 115778–115778. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Yi, et al.. (2023). Mesocosm experimental study on sustainable riparian restoration using sediment-modified planting eco-concrete. The Science of The Total Environment. 898. 165452–165452. 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Xin, Yi Li, Lihua Niu, Jiahui Shang, & Nan Yang. (2023). Microbial community structure and denitrification responses to cascade low-head dams and their contribution to eutrophication in urban rivers. Environmental Research. 221. 115242–115242. 18 indexed citations
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Gao, Yu, et al.. (2023). miaSim: an R/Bioconductor package to easily simulate microbial community dynamics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). 1967–1980. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liyan, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Scott Hotaling, et al.. (2023). Bacterial diversity and co‐occurrence patterns differ across a world‐wide spatial distribution of habitats in glacier ecosystems. Functional Ecology. 37(6). 1520–1535. 6 indexed citations
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Tong, Jiaxin, Wenlong Zhang, Yi Li, et al.. (2022). Changes in Stoichiometry of Carbon and Nitrogen Trigger Transition in the States of Aquatic Microbiota in Full-Scale Constructed Wetlands. ACS ES&T Water. 2(12). 2333–2344. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Shang, Simeng Chen, Zeyu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Short-term exposure to silver nano-particles alters the physiology and induces stress-related gene expression in Nelumbo nucifera. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 177. 38–45. 7 indexed citations
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Niu, Lihua, Yi Li, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Depth induced assembly discrepancy of multitrophic microbial communities affect microbial nitrogen transformation processes in river cross-sections. Environmental Research. 214(Pt 2). 113913–113913. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Longfei, Yutao Wang, Yi Li, et al.. (2022). Effect of water chemistry on nitrogen transformation, dissolved organic matter composition and microbial community structure in hyporheic zone sediment columns. Environmental Research. 215(Pt 1). 114246–114246. 33 indexed citations
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Hui, Cizhang, Yi Li, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Coupling Genomics and Hydraulic Information to Predict the Nitrogen Dynamics in a Channel Confluence. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(8). 4616–4628. 15 indexed citations
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Shi, Xuewen, Chao Luo, Gaohui Cao, et al.. (2021). Differences of Main Enrichment Factors of S1l11-1 Sublayer Shale Gas in Southern Sichuan Basin. Energies. 14(17). 5472–5472. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Yi & Mingan Shao. (2008). [Infiltration characteristics of soil water on loess slope land under intermittent and repetitive rainfall conditions].. PubMed. 19(7). 1511–6. 3 indexed citations

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