Yi Yang

14.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Yi Yang is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Yang has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Pollution, 72 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 26 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yi Yang's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (34 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (29 papers). Yi Yang is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (34 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (31 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (29 papers). Yi Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Austria. Yi Yang's co-authors include Min Liu, Yiu Fai Tsang, Yong Sik Ok, Ki‐Hyun Kim, Lijun Hou, Eilhann E. Kwon, Caixia Yan, Minghua Nie, Junliang Zhou and Jiang Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yi Yang

154 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Occurrences and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in drinking water and water/sewage treatment plants: A review

2017 1.2k citations Yi Yang et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Natural, incidental, and engineered nanomaterials and their impacts on the Earth system

2019 568 citations Michael F. Hochella, Yi Yang et al. profile →
Antibiotics in the surface water of the Yangtze Estuary: Occurrence, distribution and risk assessment

2013 556 citations Caixia Yan, Yi Yang et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
Degradation of chloramphenicol by thermally activated persulfate in aqueous solution

2014 413 citations Minghua Nie, Yi Yang et al. Chemical Engineering Journal profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Yang

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Are “Clean” Days Really Clean? Single Particle Elemental Signatures of PM _2.5 Unveil Their Pulmonary Health Risks 2025 ·Environment & Health ·(unknown), Zuoshun Niu, (unknown), Miao Xu, Bo Peng, (unknown), (unknown), Songda Li, (unknown), Hui Zhao, Xinran Ma, Yi Yang	0
2	Optimized phosphorus partitioning enhances phosphorus use efficiency in strip-intercropped soybean 2025 ·European Journal of Agronomy ·Li Wang, Yang Gao, (unknown), Yi Yang, Huan Yang, Mei Xu, Yushan Wu, Weiguo Liu, Xiaochun Wang, Feng Yang, Taiwen Yong, Jiang Liu, Yanhong Yan, Tao Zhou, Wenyu Yang	0
3	Widespread Distribution of Aniline Accelerators and Antioxidants across Urbanized Coasts 2025 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Yan Wu, (unknown), Yuxin Zhang, (unknown), Heng Zhao, Min Liu, (unknown), Chunjie Xia, Yi Yang, Da Chen	0
4	Geographical variation, accumulation risk, and risk management of rice heavy metal(loid) contamination in China 2025 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Yan Guo, Yi Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaoyong Liao, (unknown), (unknown)	2
5	Source-specific fingerprints and machine learning-driven apportionment of lead-containing fine particles from typical industrial emissions in China 2025 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Xuanhe Zhao, Zuoshun Niu, Miao Xu, Lingyan Wu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jing Chen, Yi Yang	0
6	Salt-driven mechanisms of selenium behavior in coastal saline-alkali soils: A multi-model intelligent analysis from soil speciation to plant response 2025 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·(unknown), Yi Yang, Yan Guo, (unknown), Ziqiao Li, Yonghua Li	0
7	ZnO nanorod coatings attenuate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) on their surface biofilms in estuarine environment 2024 ·Journal of environmental chemical engineering ·Xing-pan Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Yan Jia, Bo Peng, Zuoshun Niu, Wenliang Liu, Xin Li, Yi Yang	1
8	Cut-and-Paste: Subject-driven video editing with attention control 2024 ·Neural Networks ·Zhichao Zuo, Zhao Zhang, (unknown), Yang Zhao, Haijun Zhang, Yi Yang, Meng Wang	0
9	Centennial Records of Microplastics in Lake Cores in Huguangyan Maar Lake, China 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Yanxia Zhang, (unknown), Xinkai Wang, Maoyong He, Yi Yang, Clive E. Sabel, Bin Huang, Feng Zhu, Min Shao, Enze Xie, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Huan He, Limin Zhang, Zhangdong Jin	8
10	Accumulation characteristics, driving factors, and model prediction of cadmium in soil-highland barley system on the Tibetan Plateau 2023 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Ruxia Li, Ru Zhang, Yi Yang, Yonghua Li	24
11	Cadmium accumulation in tropical island paddy soils: From environment and health risk assessment to model prediction 2023 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Yan Guo, Yi Yang, Ruxia Li, Xiaoyong Liao, Yonghua Li	31
12	Effects of acidification on nitrification and associated nitrous oxide emission in estuarine and coastal waters 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Jie Zhou, Yanling Zheng, Lijun Hou, (unknown), Feiyang Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hongpo Dong, Ping Han, Guoyu Yin, Xia Liang, Yi Yang, Xiaofei Li, Dengzhou Gao, (unknown), Zhanfei Liu, R. Bellerby, Min Liu	45
13	Characteristics of microplastic-derived dissolved organic matter and its binding with pharmaceuticals unveiled by fluorescence spectroscopy and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Caixia Yan, Wang Xiao, Minghua Nie, (unknown), Mingjun Ding, Jie Chen, Yi Yang	22
14	Combustion conditions and feed coals regulating the Fe- and Ti-containing nanoparticles in various coal fly ash 2022 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·(unknown), Yi Yang, Fei-yun Tou, Xiaoyun Yan, Shifeng Dai, James C. Hower, Binoy K. Saikia, Michael Kersten, Michael F. Hochella	14
15	Distributing sulfidized nanoscale zerovalent iron onto phosphorus-functionalized biochar for enhanced removal of antibiotic florfenicol 2018 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Jiang Xu, Zhen Cao, Yan Wang, Yilin Zhang, Xiaoyu Gao, Mohammad Boshir Ahmed, Jing Zhang, Yi Yang, John L. Zhou, Gregory V. Lowry	138
16	Removal of Antibiotic Florfenicol by Sulfide-Modified Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron 2017 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Zhen Cao, Xue Liu, Jiang Xu, Jing Zhang, Yi Yang, (unknown), Xinhua Xu, Gregory V. Lowry	277
17	Nutrients and contaminants in tissues of five fish species obtained from Shanghai markets: Risk–benefit evaluation from human health perspectives 2015 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Huan Li, (unknown), Yi Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Mei‐Ling Zhang, Liqiao Chen, Zhen‐Yu Du	35
18	Characterization and source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in river bank soils 2008 ·Chemosphere ·Carmen Pies, (unknown), (unknown), Yi Yang, Thomas A. Ternes, Thilo Hofmann	325
19	Occurrence of coal and coal-derived particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a river floodplain soil 2007 ·Environmental Pollution ·Yi Yang, Bertrand Ligouis, Carmen Pies, Peter Grathwohl, Thilo Hofmann	83
20	Adsorption of phosphate on tidal flat surface sediments from the Yangtze Estuary 2002 ·Environmental Geology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yi Yang, Bo Zhang, Qing Liu	33

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