Yunchao Dai

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yunchao Dai is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunchao Dai has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Pollution, 14 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 13 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yunchao Dai's work include Heavy metals in environment (16 papers), Arsenic contamination and mitigation (12 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (5 papers). Yunchao Dai is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (16 papers), Arsenic contamination and mitigation (12 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (5 papers). Yunchao Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, Botswana and Australia. Yunchao Dai's co-authors include Hanzhong Jia, Kecheng Zhu, Xuetao Guo, Tiecheng Wang, Chi Zhang, Lingyan Zhu, Mubasher Nasir, Jialong Lv, Jiakai Gao and Honghong Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yunchao Dai

42 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Long-term phototransformation of microplastics under simulated sunlight irradiation in aquatic environments: Roles of reactive oxygen species

2020 481 citations Kecheng Zhu, Hanzhong Jia et al. Water Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunchao Dai China	21	1.2k	499	411	302	287	44	2.0k
Jianqiang Sun China	23	1.3k 1.1×	689 1.4×	854 2.1×	308 1.0×	253 0.9×	79	2.6k
Tariq Mehmood China	25	729 0.6×	417 0.8×	442 1.1×	211 0.7×	194 0.7×	90	2.2k
Li Lin China	24	1.1k 0.9×	647 1.3×	443 1.1×	203 0.7×	190 0.7×	67	2.5k
Liwen Xiao Ireland	24	1.0k 0.8×	711 1.4×	252 0.6×	203 0.7×	168 0.6×	83	2.2k
Eun Hea Jho South Korea	24	876 0.7×	354 0.7×	309 0.8×	237 0.8×	118 0.4×	92	1.7k
Liping Weng China	24	809 0.7×	354 0.7×	244 0.6×	175 0.6×	146 0.5×	55	1.8k
Wei‐Qin Zhuang New Zealand	30	1.3k 1.1×	524 1.1×	365 0.9×	195 0.6×	211 0.7×	83	2.7k
Kecheng Zhu China	23	1.4k 1.1×	824 1.7×	445 1.1×	448 1.5×	373 1.3×	60	2.4k
Gabriel Sigmund Austria	22	843 0.7×	448 0.9×	436 1.1×	179 0.6×	216 0.8×	48	1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunchao Dai

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

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Bei, Qi, Jiahao Zhang, Qiuhua Huang, et al.. (2025). Rhizosphere Microbiome-Root Exudate Synergy in Pteris vittata: Coordinated Arsenic Speciation and Multielement Metabolic Coupling Drive Hyperaccumulation Efficiency. Microbial Ecology. 88(1). 79–79.

Ma, Xing, Wenxiang He, Mallavarapu Megharaj, et al.. (2024). Extracellular enzymes as reliable indicators of long-term antimony contamination. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178070–178070. 1 indexed citations

Zhen, Liang, Fang Yang, Yang Liu, et al.. (2024). Molecular-level insights of microplastic-derived soluble organic matter and heavy metal interactions in different environmental occurrences through EEM-PARAFAC and FT-ICR MS. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 487. 137050–137050. 16 indexed citations

Tian, Haixia, Ziqi Wang, Jing Shi, et al.. (2023). Effects of atrazine on microbial metabolic limitations in black soils: Evidence from enzyme stoichiometry. Chemosphere. 334. 139045–139045. 9 indexed citations

Zhou, Jian, et al.. (2023). Accumulation, root-shoot translocation and phytotoxicity of substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in wheat. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 21(5). 2509–2517. 6 indexed citations

Zhu, Kecheng, Sirui Ma, Na Chen, et al.. (2023). Robust reactive oxygen species production in interfacial reaction between organic acids and biochar: The combined effect of electron acceptance and electron conduction. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 464. 132960–132960. 16 indexed citations

Zhu, Kecheng, Wenjun Jiang, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Inorganic anions influenced the photoaging kinetics and mechanism of polystyrene microplastic under the simulated sunlight: Role of reactive radical species. Water Research. 216. 118294–118294. 96 indexed citations

Bei, Qi, Tiantian Yang, Yunchao Dai, et al.. (2022). Soil pH determines arsenic-related functional gene and bacterial diversity in natural forests on the Taibai Mountain. Environmental Research. 220. 115181–115181. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Chi, et al.. (2021). Understanding the sorption behaviors of heavy metal ions in the interlayer and nanopore of montmorillonite: A molecular dynamics study. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 416. 125976–125976. 79 indexed citations

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Zhao, Song, Ze Liu, Ru Zhang, et al.. (2021). Interfacial reaction between organic acids and iron-containing clay minerals: Hydroxyl radical generation and phenolic compounds degradation. The Science of The Total Environment. 783. 147025–147025. 38 indexed citations

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Xu, Jun, Yunchao Dai, Yafang Shi, et al.. (2020). Mechanism of Cr(VI) reduction by humin: Role of environmentally persistent free radicals and reactive oxygen species. The Science of The Total Environment. 725. 138413–138413. 65 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kecheng, Hanzhong Jia, Yunchao Dai, et al.. (2020). Long-term phototransformation of microplastics under simulated sunlight irradiation in aquatic environments: Roles of reactive oxygen species. Water Research. 173. 115564–115564. 481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Kecheng, Hanzhong Jia, Yunchao Dai, et al.. (2020). Enhanced cytotoxicity of photoaged phenol-formaldehyde resins microplastics: Combined effects of environmentally persistent free radicals, reactive oxygen species, and conjugated carbonyls. Environment International. 145. 106137–106137. 109 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kecheng, Song Zhao, Yunchao Dai, et al.. (2019). Interaction of Ag+ with soil organic matter: Elucidating the formation of silver nanoparticles. Chemosphere. 243. 125413–125413. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Yan, et al.. (2018). Determination and prediction of lead uptaked by Brassica chinensis.. Nongye huanjing kexue xuebao. 37(8). 1584–1591. 1 indexed citations

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Gao, Jiakai, Jialong Lv, Haiming Wu, Yunchao Dai, & Mubasher Nasir. (2017). Impacts of wheat straw addition on dissolved organic matter characteristics in cadmium-contaminated soils: Insights from fluorescence spectroscopy and environmental implications. Chemosphere. 193. 1027–1035. 62 indexed citations

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Dai, Yunchao, Mubasher Nasir, Yulin Zhang, et al.. (2017). Comparison of DGT with traditional methods for assessing cadmium bioavailability to Brassica chinensis in different soils. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14206–14206. 43 indexed citations

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Guo, Honghong, Mubasher Nasir, Jialong Lv, Yunchao Dai, & Jiakai Gao. (2017). Understanding the variation of microbial community in heavy metals contaminated soil using high throughput sequencing. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 144. 300–306. 248 indexed citations

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Dai, Yunchao, et al.. (2016). Major controlling factors and prediction models for arsenic uptake from soil to wheat plants. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 130. 256–262. 32 indexed citations

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Liu, Ke, et al.. (2016). Cross-Species Extrapolation of Models for Predicting Lead Transfer from Soil to Wheat Grain. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160552–e0160552. 14 indexed citations

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