Yongzhen Peng

30.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
507 papers, 25.7k citations indexed

About

Yongzhen Peng is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongzhen Peng has authored 507 papers receiving a total of 25.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 465 papers in Pollution, 213 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 122 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Yongzhen Peng's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (464 papers), Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (179 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (117 papers). Yongzhen Peng is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (464 papers), Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (179 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (117 papers). Yongzhen Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yongzhen Peng's co-authors include Shuying Wang, Rui Du, Xiyao Li, Liang Zhang, Baikun Li, Shenbin Cao, Guibing Zhu, Qiong Zhang, Bo Wang and Jianhua Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Yongzhen Peng

496 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Biological nitrogen removal from sewage via anammox: Recent advances

2015 603 citations Yongzhen Peng et al. Bioresource Technology profile →
Detection of nitrifiers and evaluation of partial nitrification for wastewater treatment: A review

2015 386 citations Baikun Li, Yongzhen Peng et al. profile →
Dissecting microbial community structure and methane-producing pathways of a full-scale anaerobic reactor digesting activated sludge from wastewater treatment by metagenomic sequencing

2015 349 citations Yongzhen Peng et al. profile →
Partial denitrification providing nitrite: Opportunities of extending application for anammox

2019 348 citations Yongzhen Peng, Ruitao Gao et al. profile →
Quantify the contribution of anammox for enhanced nitrogen removal through metagenomic analysis and mass balance in an anoxic moving bed biofilm reactor

2019 334 citations Jianwei Li, Yongzhen Peng et al. Water Research profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongzhen Peng

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Multi-omics reveals mechanism of hydroxylamine-enhanced ultimate nitrogen removal in pilot-scale anaerobic/aerobic/anoxic system 2025 ·Water Research ·You Wu, Hanbin Wang, Liang Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yongzhen Peng	6
2	Deciphering iron interactions with anaerobic ammonia oxidation: Nitrogen removal performance, iron transformation, and microbial community characterization analysis 2025 ·Journal of environmental chemical engineering ·Qi Wang, Wentao Pan, Zhiqiang Tang, (unknown), Li Zhang, Liu Hong, (unknown), Yongzhen Peng	5
3	LLM4Game: Multi-agent reinforcement learning with knowledge injection for dynamic defense resource allocation in cloud storage 2025 ·Computer Networks ·Yongzhen Peng, (unknown), Feiyang Li, Yi Jiang, Jing Tang, Yuling Liu	0
4	Full-scale performance and microbial community evolution using dopamine modified ceramic membrane submerged membrane biological reactor in treating young landfill leachate 2024 ·Journal of environmental chemical engineering ·Cong Wang, (unknown), Runlin Han, Shujun Zhang, Shou‐Qing Ni, (unknown), Wei-Kang Qi, Yongzhen Peng	1
5	Rapid start-up of mainstream partial denitrification /anammox and enhanced nitrogen removal through inoculation of precultured biofilm for treating low-strength municipal sewage 2024 ·Bioresource Technology ·(unknown), (unknown), Hongjie Wang, Zilong Zhao, Yanchen Li, (unknown), Kai Shi, (unknown), Yongzhen Peng	6
6	Enhancing anaerobic ammonium oxidation via polymeric ferric sulfate (PFS)-Mediated dual-electron Acceptor: A solution to nitrite deficiency 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Yifei Wang, Wei Zeng, Qingteng Gong, (unknown), Xiaojing Hao, Yongzhen Peng	2
7	Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals the nitrifiers enrichment and species succession in activated sludge under extremely low dissolved oxygen 2024 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Da Kang, (unknown), Bolin Chen, (unknown), Yu Chen, Yongzhen Peng	4
8	Pathways of inhibition of filamentous sludge bulking by slowly biodegradable organic compounds 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Sciences ·(unknown), Fan Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yongzhen Peng	13
9	Response of anammox consortia to inhibition from high ferroferric oxide nanoparticles concentration and potential recovery mechanism 2024 ·Bioresource Technology ·Li Zhang, Lixia Yang, (unknown), Jiachun Yang, Quanhao Dou, Shou‐Qing Ni, Yongzhen Peng	6
10	Integrated process of Tetrasphaera-dominated in-situ waste activated sludge fermentation, biological phosphorus removal and endogenous denitrification in single reactor for treatment of wastewater with limited carbon sources 2024 ·Bioresource Technology ·Hongjun Liu, Wei Zeng, Wu Lei, Qingan Meng, Jiayu Zhang, Yongzhen Peng	6
11	Establishing and maintaining stable anammox pathway for nitrogen removal in a pure floc sludge A2/O reactor treating low COD/N municipal wastewater 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Yang Zhao, Liang Zhang, Qiyu Liu, Xiaoguang Liu, Qi Zhao, Xiyao Li, Yongzhen Peng	3
12	Efficient photocatalytic reduction of nitrate byproducts during anammox process by novel extracellular polymeric substances-embedded NH2-MIL-101(Fe) photocatalysts 2024 ·Bioresource Technology ·Li Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Quanhao Dou, Yongzhen Peng, Shou‐Qing Ni, Jiachun Yang	15
13	Robust nitrogen removal via nitrification-partial denitrification / anammox to co-treat acrylic fiber wastewater and sewage without external carbon 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·(unknown), Yongzhen Peng, Qi Zhao, Liang Zhang, Jinjin Liu	4
14	A novel approach for the fractionation of organic components and microbial degraders in ADM1 and model validation based on the methanogenic potential 2023 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Dunjie Li, Zhipeng Zhang, (unknown), Yongzhen Peng, Yongmei Li	11
15	DOM and DON transformation in full-scale wastewater treatment plants: Comparison of autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrogen removal units 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Tong Zhou, Jin Guo, (unknown), Yuru Liu, Wenjun Wu, Yufei Wang, Shujun Zhang, Yongzhen Peng	16
16	Improved nitrogen removal performance by enhanced denitratation/anammox as decreasing temperature for municipal wastewater treatment 2023 ·Resources Conservation and Recycling ·Wenyu Li, Xiyao Li, Jianwei Li, Ruitao Gao, Chengkun Kao, Qiong Zhang, (unknown), Yongzhen Peng	17
17	Enhancing anammox bacteria enrichment in integrated fixed-film activated sludge partial nitritation/anammox process via floc retention control 2023 ·Bioresource Technology ·Mengqi Yang, Jialin Li, Zhaoyang Li, Yongzhen Peng, Liang Zhang	11
18	A novel partial-denitrification strategy for post-anammox to effectively remove nitrogen from landfill leachate 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Lina Wu, Zhi Li, Chen Zhao, Dawei Liang, Yongzhen Peng	61
19	Rapid nitrite production via partial denitrification: pilot-scale operation and microbial community analysis 2017 ·Environmental Science Water Research & Technology ·(unknown), Yongzhen Peng, (unknown), Shujun Zhang, Baikun Li, Bo Wang, Shuying Wang	44
20	Effect of salinity on N2O production during shortcut biological nitrogen removal from landfill leachate 2013 ·Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering ·Mu Liu, (unknown), Yongzhen Peng, Shuying Wang, (unknown)	23

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