Yongkui Yang

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Yongkui Yang is a scholar working on Pollution, Water Science and Technology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongkui Yang has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Pollution, 34 papers in Water Science and Technology and 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yongkui Yang's work include Advanced oxidation water treatment (18 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (14 papers). Yongkui Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced oxidation water treatment (18 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers) and Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (14 papers). Yongkui Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Yongkui Yang's co-authors include Lin Zhao, Peizhe Sun, Zhi Qiao, Ruochun Zhang, Ching‐Hua Huang, Hang Liu, Dingyong Wang, Yi Ji, Jianye Hao and Tianjiao Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yongkui Yang

75 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Application of artificial intelligence to wastewater treatment: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review of technology, economy, management, and wastewater reuse

2019 299 citations Lin Zhao, Zhi Qiao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yongkui Yang China	31	1.3k	1.3k	675	576	552	79	3.2k
Haizhen Wu China	34	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	455 0.7×	613 1.1×	406 0.7×	89	2.8k
Beihai Zhou China	37	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	688 1.0×	863 1.5×	882 1.6×	147	4.2k
Mohamed Gamal El‐Din Canada	31	1.8k 1.3×	897 0.7×	665 1.0×	365 0.6×	667 1.2×	148	4.1k
Mohammad Mehdi Amin Iran	36	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	571 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	419 0.8×	228	3.9k
Xiang Liu China	38	1.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	718 1.1×	939 1.6×	380 0.7×	149	3.8k
Amin Mojiri Japan	31	995 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	868 1.3×	579 1.0×	363 0.7×	117	3.6k
Jalil Jaafari Iran	37	1.4k 1.1×	906 0.7×	481 0.7×	737 1.3×	541 1.0×	77	3.4k
Feng Jiang China	39	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	655 1.0×	843 1.5×	430 0.8×	113	4.1k
Carmen Teodosiu Romania	34	1.7k 1.3×	690 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	512 0.9×	476 0.9×	146	4.0k
Kamyar Yaghmaeian Iran	32	1.3k 1.0×	786 0.6×	526 0.8×	605 1.1×	608 1.1×	92	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yongkui Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongkui Yang

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

Yuan, Jing, et al.. (2025). Glucose as a Metabolic Enhancer: Promoting Nonylphenol Detoxification by Chlorella pyrenoidosa. Water. 17(2). 244–244. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Xiaoke, et al.. (2025). Temperature-responsive lauric acid-coated ferrate-SiO2 composite for sustained release and norfloxacin degradation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 525. 170383–170383.

Xu, Dongsheng, Yongkui Yang, & Li‐Hua Gan. (2025). Utilization of Natural Mineral Materials in Environmental Remediation: Processes and Applications. Minerals. 15(3). 318–318. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yihan, Lin Zhao, Daying Chen, et al.. (2024). Specific adsorption of antiviral drugs on ionic liquid-modified metal–organic framework: Adsorption behavior, mechanism, and DFT analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 155070–155070. 14 indexed citations

Huang, Menglu, Lin Zhao, Daying Chen, et al.. (2024). Bibliometric analysis and systematic review of electrogenic bacteria in constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell: Key factors and pollutant removal. Journal of Cleaner Production. 451. 142018–142018. 21 indexed citations

Huang, Menglu, Lin Zhao, Zhen Wang, et al.. (2024). Effect of plant species on wastewater treatment performance of a subsurface vertical-flow constructed wetland with step-feeding at low temperature. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122546–122546. 3 indexed citations

Aborisade, Moses Akintayo, Belay Tafa Oba, Akash Kumar, et al.. (2023). Remediation of soil polluted with Pb and Cd and alleviation of oxidative stress in Brassica rapa plant using nanoscale zerovalent iron supported with coconut-husk biochar. Journal of Plant Physiology. 287. 154023–154023. 50 indexed citations

Liu, Jiashu, et al.. (2023). Fe-MOF-derived carbon compounds as catalysts for trichloroethylene degradation via persulfate oxidation: Role of precursor template and pyrolysis temperature. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(5). 110649–110649. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Jiashu, Lin Zhao, Menglu Huang, et al.. (2023). Important role of cosolvent addition and soil permeability on electrokinetic-persulfate remediation of benzo(a)pyrene. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 33. 103480–103480. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Yang, Lin Zhao, Yi An, et al.. (2023). Bibliometric analysis and systematic review of the adherence, uptake, translocation, and reduction of micro/nanoplastics in terrestrial plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167786–167786. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Daying, Zhimin Wang, Yongkui Yang, et al.. (2022). Long-term exposure to nanoplastics reshapes the microbial interaction network of activated sludge. Environmental Pollution. 314. 120205–120205. 31 indexed citations

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Sun, Meng, et al.. (2021). Adsorption behaviors and mechanisms of antibiotic norfloxacin on degradable and nondegradable microplastics. The Science of The Total Environment. 807(Pt 3). 151042–151042. 171 indexed citations

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Liu, Shejiang, Jing Gao, Li Zhang, Yongkui Yang, & Xiuli Liu. (2021). Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid–thiourea-modified magnetic chitosan for adsorption of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions. Carbohydrate Polymers. 274. 118555–118555. 47 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongkui, Feng Xiang, Shaoyi Zhang, et al.. (2021). Toxicity and combined effects of antibiotics and nano ZnO on a phosphorus-removing Shewanella strain in wastewater treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 416. 125532–125532. 27 indexed citations

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Long, Sha, Yongkui Yang, Spyros G. Pavlostathis, et al.. (2019). Toxicity of tetracycline and its transformation products to a phosphorus removing Shewanella strain. Chemosphere. 246. 125681–125681. 30 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Peizhe Sun, Jiashu Liu, et al.. (2018). Nanomaterials for treating emerging contaminants in water by adsorption and photocatalysis: Systematic review and bibliometric analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 627. 1253–1263. 261 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruochun, Yongkui Yang, Ching‐Hua Huang, Lin Zhao, & Peizhe Sun. (2016). Kinetics and modeling of sulfonamide antibiotic degradation in wastewater and human urine by UV/H 2 O 2 and UV/PDS. Water Research. 103. 283–292. 191 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yutao, et al.. (2011). Effect of dissolved organic matter on mercury release from water body. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 23(6). 912–917. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Guanghui, Xinbin Feng, Zhonggen Li, et al.. (2010). Mercury emission to atmosphere from primary Zn production in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 408(20). 4607–4612. 43 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongkui, Cheng Zhang, Xiaojun Shi, Tao Lin, & Dingyong Wang. (2007). Effect of organic matter and pH on mercury release from soils. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 19(11). 1349–1354. 81 indexed citations

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