Cong Liu

14.0k citations

231 papers · 8.1k · 4 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.05%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Environmental Engineering top 0.5%
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Papers in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 170
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 133
- Climate Change and Health Impacts 66
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure 19
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact 12
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals 10
Environmental Engineering 54
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting 45

Co-authors: Haidong Kan (103 shared papers)Renjie Chen (88 shared papers)Xia Meng (35 shared papers)Yue Niu (35 shared papers)Maigeng Zhou (11 shared papers)Peng Yin (10 shared papers)Yinping Zhang (14 shared papers)Zhijing Lin (17 shared papers)
Journals: Environment International (25 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (18 papers)Atmospheric Environment (11 papers)Chemosphere (11 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (11 papers)
Partner nations: China United States South Korea

In The Last Decade

Cong Liu

220 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Cong Liu's Hit Papers

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Akkermansia muciniphila supplementation in patients with overweight/obese type 2 diabetes: Efficacy depends on its baseline levels in the gut 2025 · 54 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Cell Metabolism
2022 The Lancet Planetary Health
2018 BMJ
2017 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

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1	Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality. A Nationwide Analysis in 272 Chinese Cities American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Xia Meng, Cong Liu, Lijun Wang, Xiaohui Xu, Jennifer A. Ross, Lap Ah Tse, Zhuohui Zhao, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou Hit paper breakdown →	2017	556
2	Association between ambient temperature and mortality risk and burden: time series study in 272 main Chinese cities BMJ ·Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Weidong Wang, Yixuan Jiang, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou Hit paper breakdown →	2018	430
3	Ambient Ozone Pollution and Daily Mortality: A Nationwide Study in 272 Chinese Cities Environmental Health Perspectives ·Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Lijun Wang, Xia Meng, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Zhijing Lin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Maigeng Zhou, Haidong Kan	2017	306
4	Associations between long-term exposure to ambient particulate air pollution and type 2 diabetes prevalence, blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels in China Environment International ·Cong Liu, Changyuan Yang, Yaohui Zhao, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Yang Liu, Xia Meng, Yafeng Wang, Jing Cai, Haidong Kan, Renjie Chen	2016	166
5	Associations between Coarse Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Nationwide Analysis in 272 Chinese Cities Environmental Health Perspectives ·Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Xia Meng, Lijun Wang, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou	2019	162
6	The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China Science ·Dongjing Fu, Guanghui Tong, Tao Dai, Wei Liu, Yuning Yang, Yuan Zhang, Linhao Cui, Luoyang Li, Hao Yun, Yu Wu, Ao Sun, Cong Liu, Wenrui Pei, Robert R. Gaines, Xingliang Zhang	2019	161
7	Long-term exposure to ozone and cardiovascular mortality in China: a nationwide cohort study The Lancet Planetary Health ·Yue Niu, Yuchang Zhou, Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Xia Meng, Weidong Wang, Cong Liu, John S. Ji, Yang Qiu, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou Hit paper breakdown →	2022	159
8	Ambient carbon monoxide and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide time-series analysis in 272 cities in China The Lancet Planetary Health ·Cong Liu, Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Xia Meng, Lijun Wang, Yue Niu, Zhijing Lin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou	2018	157
9	Fine Particulate Air Pollution and the Expression of microRNAs and Circulating Cytokines Relevant to Inflammation, Coagulation, and Vasoconstriction Environmental Health Perspectives ·Renjie Chen, Huichu Li, Jing Cai, Cuicui Wang, Zhijing Lin, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Zhuohui Zhao, Weihua Li, Haidong Kan	2018	152
10	Estimating PM2.5 concentrations in Northeastern China with full spatiotemporal coverage, 2005–2016 Remote Sensing of Environment ·Xia Meng, Cong Liu, Lina Zhang, Weidong Wang, Jennifer Stowell, Haidong Kan, Yang Liu	2020	127
11	Associations Between Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide and Daily Cause-specific Mortality Epidemiology ·Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Xia Meng, Lijun Wang, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Zhijing Lin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou	2018	125
12	Associations between short-term exposure to ambient sulfur dioxide and increased cause-specific mortality in 272 Chinese cities Environment International ·Lijun Wang, Cong Liu, Xia Meng, Yue Niu, Zhijing Lin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Lap Ah Tse, Jianmin Chen, Maigeng Zhou, Renjie Chen, Peng Yin, Haidong Kan	2018	125
13	Ambient air pollution and daily hospital admissions for mental disorders in Shanghai, China The Science of The Total Environment ·Chen Chen, Cong Liu, Renjie Chen, Weibing Wang, Weihua Li, Haidong Kan, Chaowei Fu	2017	122
14	Analysis of the Dynamic Interaction Between SVOCs and Airborne Particles Aerosol Science and Technology ·Cong Liu, Shanshan Shi, Charles J. Weschler, Bin Zhao, Yinping Zhang	2012	117
15	The Acute Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Constituents on Blood Inflammation and Coagulation Environmental Science & Technology ·Cong Liu, Jing Cai, Liping Qiao, Hongli Wang, Wenxi Xu, Huichu Li, Zhuohui Zhao, Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan	2017	111
16	The added effects of heatwaves on cause-specific mortality: A nationwide analysis in 272 Chinese cities Environment International ·Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Lijun Wang, Cong Liu, Yue Niu, Weidong Wang, Yixuan Jiang, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Jinling You, Maigeng Zhou, Haidong Kan	2018	109
17	Fine particulate matter constituents and stress hormones in the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis Environment International ·Yue Niu, Renjie Chen, Yongjie Xia, Jing Cai, Zhekang Ying, Zhijing Lin, Cong Liu, Chen Chen, Li Peng, Zhuohui Zhao, Wenhao Zhou, Jianmin Chen, Dongfang Wang, Juntao Huo, Xinning Wang, Qingyan Fu, Haidong Kan	2018	108
18	Associations between ambient fine particulate air pollution and hypertension: A nationwide cross-sectional study in China The Science of The Total Environment ·Cong Liu, Renjie Chen, Yaohui Zhao, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Yang Liu, Xia Meng, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Weihua Li, Haidong Kan	2017	107
19	Cardiovascular Benefits of Fish-Oil Supplementation Against Fine Particulate Air Pollution in China Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Zhijing Lin, Renjie Chen, Yixuan Jiang, Yongjie Xia, Yue Niu, Cuiping Wang, Cong Liu, Chen Chen, Yihui Ge, Weidong Wang, Guanjin Yin, Jing Cai, Viviane Clément, Xiaohui Xu, Bo Chen, Honglei Chen, Haidong Kan	2019	97
20	Role of aerosols in enhancing SVOC flux between air and indoor surfaces and its influence on exposure Atmospheric Environment ·Cong Liu, Glenn Morrison, Yinping Zhang	2012	85

About Cong Liu

Cong Liu is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Atmospheric Science and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, having authored 231 papers that have together received 8.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (133 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (66 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (45 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (26 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (19 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (18 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (12 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (5.9k citations), Environmental Engineering (1.7k citations), Pollution (1.1k citations), Speech and Hearing (371 citations) and Atmospheric Science (814 citations). Cong Liu has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Haidong Kan, Renjie Chen, Xia Meng, Yue Niu, Maigeng Zhou, Peng Yin, Yinping Zhang, Zhijing Lin, Zhuohui Zhao and Jing Cai. Their work appears in journals such as Environment International, The Science of The Total Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Chemosphere and Environmental Science & Technology.

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