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China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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Citations
49153
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173
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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Guang-Guo Ying is affiliated with South China Normal University in China and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on pollution and related environmental impacts, with significant contributions to the study of pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, toxic organic pollutants, and microplastics and plastic pollution.

Their scientific output is concentrated in main and subfields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

The main topics covered in their publications are:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Guang-Guo Ying's collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as You-Sheng Liu, Jian-Liang Zhao, Li-Xin Hu, Liang-Ying He, and Fang-Zhou Gao, with co-authoring counts ranging from 45 to 81 joint works.

Their publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environment International
  • Water Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Guang-Guo Ying include:

  • "Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective" (2024) published in The Innovation
  • "Comparisons of pollution characteristics, emission situations, and mass loads for heavy metals in the manures of different livestock and poultry in China" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Microalgae-based technology for antibiotics removal: From mechanisms to application of innovational hybrid systems" (2021) published in Environment International
  • "Agricultural Plastic Pollution in China: Generation of Plastic Debris and Emission of Phthalic Acid Esters from Agricultural Films" (2021) published in Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive evaluation of antibiotics emission and fate in the river basins of China: source analysis, multimedia modeling, and linkage to bacterial resistance.

    Qian-Qian Zhang;Guang-Guo Ying;Chang-Gui Pan;You-Sheng Liu

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Review of antibiotic resistance in China and its environment

    Min Qiao;Guang-Guo Ying;Andrew C. Singer;Yong-Guan Zhu

  • Environmental fate of alkylphenols and alkylphenol ethoxylates--a review

    Guang-Guo Ying;Brian Williams;Rai Kookana

  • Fate, behavior and effects of surfactants and their degradation products in the environment

    Guang-Guo Ying

  • Occurrence and fate of hormone steroids in the environment.

    Guang-Guo Ying;Rai S Kookana;Ying-Jun Ru

  • Effects of six selected antibiotics on plant growth and soil microbial and enzymatic activities

    Feng Liu;Guang-Guo Ying;Ran Tao;Jian-Liang Zhao

  • Trends in the occurrence of human and veterinary antibiotics in the sediments of the Yellow River, Hai River and Liao River in northern China

    Li-Jun Zhou;Guang-Guo Ying;Jian-Liang Zhao;Ji-Feng Yang;Ji-Feng Yang

  • Growth‐inhibiting effects of 12 antibacterial agents and their mixtures on the freshwater microalga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata

    Li-Hua Yang;Guang-Guo Ying;Hao-Chang Su;Jennifer L. Stauber

  • Reduced plant uptake of pesticides with biochar additions to soil

    Xiang-Yang Yu;Guang-Guo Ying;Guang-Guo Ying;Rai S. Kookana

  • Excretion masses and environmental occurrence of antibiotics in typical swine and dairy cattle farms in China.

    Li-Jun Zhou;Guang-Guo Ying;Shan Liu;Rui-Quan Zhang

  • Occurrence and fate of eleven classes of antibiotics in two typical wastewater treatment plants in South China.

    Li-Jun Zhou;Guang-Guo Ying;Shan Liu;Jian-Liang Zhao

  • Antibiotic Residues in Food: Extraction, Analysis, and Human Health Concerns.

    Jun Chen;Jun Chen;Guang-Guo Ying;Wen-Jing Deng

  • Sorption and degradation of selected five endocrine disrupting chemicals in aquifer material.

    Guang-Guo Ying;Rai S Kookana;Peter Dillon

  • Biological degradation of triclocarban and triclosan in a soil under aerobic and anaerobic conditions and comparison with environmental fate modelling.

    Guang-Guo Ying;Xiang-Yang Yu;Rai S. Kookana

  • Triclosan in wastewaters and biosolids from Australian wastewater treatment plants

    Guang-Guo Ying;Rai S. Kookana

  • Discharge of swine wastes risks water quality and food safety: Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes from swine sources to the receiving environments.

    Liang-Ying He;Guang-Guo Ying;You-Sheng Liu;Hao-Chang Su

  • Simultaneous determination of human and veterinary antibiotics in various environmental matrices by rapid resolution liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

    L. J. Zhou;G. G. Ying;S. Liu;J. L. Zhao

  • Trace analysis of 28 steroids in surface water, wastewater and sludge samples by rapid resolution liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

    Shan Liu;Guang-Guo Ying;Jian-Liang Zhao;Feng Chen

  • Occurrence and risks of triclosan and triclocarban in the Pearl River system, South China: from source to the receiving environment

    Jian-Liang Zhao;Guang-Guo Ying;You-Sheng Liu;Feng Chen

  • Sorption and desorption behaviors of diuron in soils amended with charcoal.

    Xiang-Yang Yu;Guang-Guo Ying;Rai S Kookana

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian-Liang Zhao
Jian-Liang Zhao South China Normal University
You-Sheng Liu
You-Sheng Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rai S. Kookana
Rai S. Kookana Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Paul J. Van den Brink
Paul J. Van den Brink Wageningen University & Research
Xiang-Rong Xu
Xiang-Rong Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael St. J. Warne
Michael St. J. Warne University of Queensland
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Lancaster University
Ping'an Peng
Ping'an Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine

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