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Cong-Qiang Liu

Cong-Qiang Liu

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Earth Science

D-Index
76
Citations
21136
World Ranking
665
National Ranking
49

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Cong-Qiang Liu is a researcher affiliated with Tianjin University in China, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly output spans various specialized subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics within these domains. Their main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Liu has contributed to several frequently appearing publication venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, and Chemical Geology. These venues collectively indicate engagement with environmental and chemical aspects of Earth system science.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Deciphering dissolved organic matter by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS): from bulk to fractions and individuals, 2022, Carbon Research
  • Important contributions of non-fossil fuel nitrogen oxides emissions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Karst ecosystem and environment: Characteristics, evolution processes, and sustainable development, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics, 2021, Global Change Biology

Liu's research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Si-Liang Li, Pingqing Fu, Sheng Xu, Yunchao Lang, and Jun Zhong, indicating a network of scientific partnerships primarily within related environmental and geochemical research fields.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Cong-Qiang Liu was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Water geochemistry controlled by carbonate dissolution: a study of the river waters draining karst-dominated terrain, Guizhou Province, China

    Guilin Han;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Geochemistry of the dissolved load of the Changjiang Basin rivers: Anthropogenic impacts and chemical weathering

    B. Chetelat;C.-Q. Liu;Z.Q. Zhao;Q.L. Wang

  • Using δ15N- and δ18O-Values To Identify Nitrate Sources in Karst Ground Water, Guiyang, Southwest China

    Cong-Qiang Liu;Si-Liang Li;Yun-Chao Lang;Hua-Yun Xiao

  • Zircon Ce4+/Ce3+ ratios and ages for Yulong ore-bearing porphyries in eastern Tibet

    Hua-Ying Liang;Ian H. Campbell;Charlotte Allen;Wei-Dong Sun

  • Sulfuric acid as an agent of carbonate weathering constrained by δ13CDIC: Examples from Southwest China

    Si-Liang Li;Damien Calmels;Damien Calmels;Guilin Han;Jérôme Gaillardet

  • Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Around the Dabaoshan Mine, Guangdong Province, China

    Jian-Min Zhou;Zhi Dang;Mei-Fang Cai;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of black shale and kerogen in the early Cambrian Niutitang Formation in Guizhou province, South China: Constraints for redox environments and origin of metal enrichments

    Dao-Hui Pi;Dao-Hui Pi;Dao-Hui Pi;Cong-Qiang Liu;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Shao-Yong Jiang

  • Environmental concerns related to high thallium levels in soils and thallium uptake by plants in southwest Guizhou, China.

    Tangfu Xiao;Jayanta Guha;Dan Boyle;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Assessment of the sources of nitrate in the Changjiang River, China using a nitrogen and oxygen isotopic approach.

    Si Liang Li;Cong Qiang Liu;Jun Li;Xiaolong Liu

  • Mobility of heavy metals associated with the natural weathering of coal mine spoils.

    Zhi Dang;Zhi Dang;Congqiang Liu;Martin J Haigh

  • Microbial release of potassium from K-bearing minerals by thermophilic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    Bin Lian;Bin Wang;Mu Pan;Congqiang Liu

  • Reconstructing marine redox conditions for the Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform: Evidence from biogenic sulphur and organic carbon isotopes

    Tatiana Goldberg;Tatiana Goldberg;Harald Strauss;Qingjun Guo;Congqiang Liu

  • Trace element chemostratigraphy of two Ediacaran-Cambrian successions in South China: Implications for organosedimentary metal enrichment and silicification in the early Cambrian

    Qingjun Guo;Qingjun Guo;Graham A. Shields;Graham A. Shields;Congqiang Liu;Harald Strauss

  • Sources of nitrogen and sulfur in wet deposition at Guiyang, southwest China

    H.-Y. Xiao;C.-Q. Liu

  • Naturally occurring thallium: a hidden geoenvironmental health hazard?

    Tangfu Xiao;Jayanta Guha;Dan Boyle;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Chemical weathering in the upper reaches of Xijiang River draining the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, Southwest China

    Zhifang Xu;Cong-Qiang Liu

  • Characteristics of organic phosphorus fractions in different trophic sediments of lakes from the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River region and Southwestern Plateau, China.

    Runyu Zhang;Fengchang Wu;Congqiang Liu;Pingqing Fu

  • A geochemical study of loess and desert sand in northern China: implications for continental crust weathering and composition

    Cong-Qiang Liu;Akimasa Masuda;Akihiko Okada;Sadayo Yabuki

  • Major- and trace-element compositions of Cenozoic basalts in eastern China: Petrogenesis and mantle source

    Cong-Qiang Liu;Akimasa Masuda;Guang-Hong Xie

  • Isotope geochemistry of Quaternary deposits from the arid lands in northern China

    Cong-Qiang Liu;Akimasa Masuda;Akihiko Okada;Sadayo Yabuki

  • Geochemistry of dissolved inorganic carbon and carbonate weathering in a small typical karstic catchment of Southwest China: Isotopic and chemical constraints

    Si-Liang Li;Cong-Qiang Liu;Jun Li;Yun-Chao Lang

  • A moisture function of soil heterotrophic respiration that incorporates microscale processes.

    Zhifeng Yan;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Katherine E. Todd-Brown;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Deciphering dissolved organic matter by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS): from bulk to fractions and individuals

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Frequent Co-Authors

Si-Liang Li
Si-Liang Li Tianjin University
Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University
Davide Vione
Davide Vione University of Turin
Harald Strauss
Harald Strauss University of Münster
Zhi Dang
Zhi Dang South China University of Technology
Fengchang Wu
Fengchang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keisuke Koba
Keisuke Koba Kyoto University
Hiroshi Sakugawa
Hiroshi Sakugawa Hiroshima University
Xiangliang Pan
Xiangliang Pan Zhejiang University of Technology
Zhaoliang Song
Zhaoliang Song Tianjin University

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