Ligen Xu

25 papers and 779 indexed citations
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About

Ligen Xu is a scholar working on Pollution, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ligen Xu has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Pollution, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ligen Xu’s work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (6 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (5 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers). Ligen Xu is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (6 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (5 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers). Ligen Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Switzerland. Ligen Xu's co-authors include Yuhua Zhao, Shufeng Wang, Jianyi Ma, Rongquan Zheng, Hui Cai, Hui Jiang, Linna Du, Justin O. Schmidt, Weiyi Wang and Qilu Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ligen Xu

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Ligen Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ligen Xu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ligen Xu. The network helps show where Ligen Xu may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ligen Xu

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