Zezhen Cheng

719 total citations
37 papers, 396 citations indexed

About

Zezhen Cheng is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Zezhen Cheng has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 396 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 20 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Zezhen Cheng's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (31 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (18 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (18 papers). Zezhen Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (31 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (18 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (18 papers). Zezhen Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Germany. Zezhen Cheng's co-authors include Rawad Saleh, Khairallah Atwi, Swarup China, Libor Kovařík, K.-P. Tseng, Nurun Nahar Lata, Zhenhong Yu, Noopur Sharma, G. Smith and Jordan Krechmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zezhen Cheng

32 papers receiving 389 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zezhen Cheng United States	11	315	195	157	41	33	37	396
Wenao Wang China	8	268 0.9×	205 1.1×	131 0.8×	20 0.5×	63 1.9×	16	357
Seyedehsan Hosseini United States	7	341 1.1×	220 1.1×	248 1.6×	97 2.4×	41 1.2×	9	464
Noémi Utry Hungary	13	291 0.9×	225 1.2×	155 1.0×	74 1.8×	46 1.4×	20	416
Yu-Chieh Ting Taiwan	9	458 1.5×	367 1.9×	203 1.3×	71 1.7×	93 2.8×	20	549
Aristeidis Voliotis United Kingdom	13	261 0.8×	275 1.4×	81 0.5×	50 1.2×	90 2.7×	30	394
Ben Liu China	11	148 0.5×	138 0.7×	63 0.4×	32 0.8×	104 3.2×	12	311
Spyros Bezantakos Cyprus	9	119 0.4×	151 0.8×	86 0.5×	32 0.8×	86 2.6×	25	259
Eric D. Stevenson United States	7	285 0.9×	268 1.4×	101 0.6×	172 4.2×	78 2.4×	15	443
Apoorva Pandey United States	10	536 1.7×	411 2.1×	307 2.0×	93 2.3×	107 3.2×	20	691
Yiming Qin China	15	591 1.9×	426 2.2×	275 1.8×	54 1.3×	119 3.6×	48	670

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Zezhen, Guodong Ren, Joseph V. Puthussery, et al.. (2025). Laboratory synthesis and characterization of wildfire-like dark brown carbon aerosols. Aerosol Science and Technology. 59(12). 1553–1565.

Mei, Fan, Qi Zhang, Damao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Measurement report: Vertically resolved atmospheric properties observed over the Southern Great Plains with the ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(6). 3425–3444. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Zezhen, Nurun Nahar Lata, Matthew A. Marcus, et al.. (2025). Chemical Composition and Mixing State of Wintertime Aerosol from the European Arctic Site of Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 9(11). 2607–2620.

Olin, Miska, Zezhen Cheng, Andrew T. Lambe, et al.. (2025). Characterizing Atmospheric Oxidation and Cloud Condensation Nuclei Activity of Polystyrene Nanoplastic Particles. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(21). 10380–10389. 2 indexed citations

Vandergrift, Gregory W., Nurun Nahar Lata, Zezhen Cheng, et al.. (2024). Chemical Insights into the Molecular Composition of Organic Aerosols in the Urban Region of Houston, Texas. ACS ES&T Air. 1(10). 1304–1316. 3 indexed citations

Marr, Linsey C., Zezhen Cheng, Weinan Leng, Swarup China, & Aaron J. Prussin. (2024). Response to Comment on “Size-Resolved Elemental Composition of Respiratory Particles in Three Healthy Subjects”. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 11(7). 767–769.

Vandergrift, Gregory W., Darielle Dexheimer, Damao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Tethered balloon system and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Reveal Increased Organonitrates Aloft Compared to the Ground Level. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(23). 10060–10071. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Zezhen, Swarup China, Gregory W. Vandergrift, et al.. (2024). Chemical Differences in Environmental Films Collected on Surfaces with Different Hydrophilicity. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 8(12). 2411–2419. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Zezhen, Manish Shrivastava, Amna Ijaz, et al.. (2024). Enhanced light absorption for solid-state brown carbon from wildfires due to organic and water coatings. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10326–10326. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qian, Qi Ying, Xingmao Ma, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Chemical Composition and Real-Time Mass Loading of Nanoplastic Particles in the Atmosphere Using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology. 21 indexed citations

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Cheng, Zezhen, Silvia Henning, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cloud condensation nuclei activity of internally mixed particle populations at a remote marine free troposphere site in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 166865–166865. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Zezhen, Jörg Wieder, Jan Henneberger, et al.. (2023). Physicochemical characterization and source apportionment of Arctic ice-nucleating particles observed in Ny-Ålesund in autumn 2019. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(18). 10489–10516. 8 indexed citations

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Lata, Nurun Nahar, Zezhen Cheng, Darielle Dexheimer, et al.. (2023). Vertical Gradient of Size-Resolved Aerosol Compositions over the Arctic Reveals Cloud Processed Aerosol in-Cloud and above Cloud. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(14). 5821–5830. 8 indexed citations

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Prussin, Aaron J., Zezhen Cheng, Weinan Leng, Swarup China, & Linsey C. Marr. (2023). Size-Resolved Elemental Composition of Respiratory Particles in Three Healthy Subjects. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(4). 356–362. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuzhi, R. A. Zaveri, Gregory W. Vandergrift, et al.. (2023). Nonequilibrium Behavior in Isoprene Secondary Organic Aerosol. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(38). 14182–14193. 4 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Manh‐Thuong, Difan Zhang, Lirong Zhong, et al.. (2023). Electric-Field-Induced Assembly of an Ionic Liquid–Water Interphase Enables Efficient Heavy Metal Electrosorption. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(37). 44469–44481. 5 indexed citations

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Veghte, Daniel P., Libor Kovařík, Cláudio Mazzoleni, et al.. (2023). Optical Properties of Individual Tar Balls in the Free Troposphere. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(44). 16834–16842. 9 indexed citations

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Cheng, Zezhen, Bo Zhang, Matthew Fraund, et al.. (2022). Particle phase-state variability in the North Atlantic free troposphere during summertime is determined by atmospheric transport patterns and sources. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(13). 9033–9057. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Zezhen, Andrey Liyu, Darielle Dexheimer, et al.. (2022). An automated size and time-resolved aerosol collector platform integrated with environmental sensors to study the vertical profile of aerosols. Environmental Science Atmospheres. 2(6). 1263–1276. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Zezhen, Khairallah Atwi, Zhenhong Yu, et al.. (2020). Evolution of the light-absorption properties of combustion brown carbon aerosols following reaction with nitrate radicals. Aerosol Science and Technology. 54(7). 849–863. 32 indexed citations

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