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56
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8859
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Baolan Hu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Baolan Hu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 142 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Baolan Hu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Baolan Hu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Baolan Hu is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has a substantial body of research in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Pollution, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Medicine, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research topics cover a range of environmental concerns, such as:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Hu has published extensively in several prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Environmental Research
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Pollution

Some of the recent papers highlighting Hu's contributions are:

  • "Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly and Its Impact on Plant Growth" (2020), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • "Dominance of comammox Nitrospira in soil nitrification" (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Inter-bacterial mutualism promoted by public goods in a system characterized by deterministic temperature variation" (2023), Nature Communications
  • "Deterministic Effect of pH on Shaping Soil Resistome Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis" (2023), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Pollutant toxicology with respect to microalgae and cyanobacteria" (2020), Journal of Environmental Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hu include:

  • Zishu Liu
  • Yuxiang Zhao
  • Lizhong Zhu
  • Xiangwu Yao
  • Ping Zheng

Best Publications

  • Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly and Its Impact on Plant Growth

    Qian Qu;Zhenyan Zhang;W J G M Peijnenburg;Wanyue Liu

  • Evidence for nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation as a previously overlooked microbial methane sink in wetlands.

    Baolan Hu;Lidong Shen;Xu Lian;Qun Zhu

  • Hydrazine Synthase, a Unique Phylomarker with Which To Study the Presence and Biodiversity of Anammox Bacteria

    Harry R. Harhangi;Mathilde Le Roy;Theo van Alen;Bao-lan Hu;Bao-lan Hu

  • Effect of air pollution on the total bacteria and pathogenic bacteria in different sizes of particulate matter.

    Huan Liu;Xu Zhang;Hao Zhang;Xiangwu Yao

  • Identification and quantification of anammox bacteria in eight nitrogen removal reactors.

    Bao-lan Hu;Ping Zheng;Chong-jian Tang;Jian-wei Chen

  • Anoxic Sulfide Biooxidation Using Nitrite as Electron Acceptor

    Qaisar Mahmood;Ping Zheng;Jing Cai;Donglei Wu

  • Microbial and Physicochemical Characteristics of Compact Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing Granules in an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor

    Bing-Jie Ni;Bao-Lan Hu;Fang Fang;Wen-Ming Xie

  • Sorption and ecotoxicity of pentachlorophenol polluted sediment amended with rice-straw derived biochar

    Liping Lou;Binbin Wu;Lina Wang;Ling Luo

  • Adsorption and degradation in the removal of nonylphenol from water by cells immobilized on biochar

    Liping Lou;Qian Huang;Yiling Lou;Jingrang Lu

  • Evidence for the Cooccurrence of Nitrite-Dependent Anaerobic Ammonium and Methane Oxidation Processes in a Flooded Paddy Field

    Li-dong Shen;Shuai Liu;Qian Huang;Xu Lian

  • pH levels drive bacterial community structure in sediments of the Qiantang River as determined by 454 pyrosequencing

    Shuai Liu;Hongxing Ren;Lidong Shen;Liping Lou

  • Denitrifying Anaerobic Methane Oxidation: A Previously Overlooked Methane Sink in Intertidal Zone

    Jiaqi Wang;Chaoyang Cai;Yufen Li;Miaolian Hua

  • New Anaerobic, Ammonium-Oxidizing Community Enriched from Peat Soil

    Bao-lan Hu;Bao-lan Hu;Darci Rush;Erwin van der Biezen;Ping Zheng

  • Dominance of comammox Nitrospira in soil nitrification.

    Jiajie Hu;Yuxiang Zhao;Xiangwu Yao;Jiaqi Wang

  • Performance comparison of two anammox reactors: SBR and UBF

    Ren-Cun Jin;Ren-Cun Jin;Ping Zheng;An-Hui Hu;Qaisar Mahmood

  • The short- and long-term effects of environmental conditions on anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to nitrite reduction

    Zhanfei He;Sha Geng;Lidong Shen;Liping Lou

  • Distribution and diversity of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane-oxidising bacteria in the sediments of the Qiantang River.

    Li-dong Shen;Shuai Liu;Qun Zhu;Xiao-yu Li

  • Nutrient conservation during spent mushroom compost application using spent mushroom substrate derived biochar.

    Zimo Lou;Yue Sun;Shuping Bian;Shams Ali Baig

  • A novel denitrifying methanotroph of the NC10 phylum and its microcolony.

    Zhanfei He;Chaoyang Cai;Jiaqi Wang;Xinhua Xu

  • Pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial communities in biofilms from different pipe materials in a city drinking water distribution system of East China

    Hongxing Ren;Wei Wang;Yan Liu;Shuai Liu

  • Enrichment of anammox bacteria from three sludge sources for the startup of monosodium glutamate industrial wastewater treatment system.

    Li-dong Shen;An-hui Hu;Ren-cun Jin;Dong-qing Cheng

  • Broad Distribution of Diverse Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria in Chinese Agricultural Soils

    Li-dong Shen;Shuai Liu;Li-ping Lou;Wei-ping Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ping Zheng
Ping Zheng Zhejiang University
Liping Lou
Liping Lou Zhejiang University
Xinhua Xu
Xinhua Xu Zhejiang University
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Qaisar Mahmood
Qaisar Mahmood University of Bahrain
Yingxu Chen
Yingxu Chen Zhejiang University
Boran Kartal
Boran Kartal Max Planck Society
Han-Qing Yu
Han-Qing Yu University of Science and Technology of China
Tang Chongjian
Tang Chongjian Central South University
Bing-Jie Ni
Bing-Jie Ni University of New South Wales

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