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Taiwan
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
10152
World Ranking
2080
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Kon-Kee Liu is affiliated with National Central University in Taiwan and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on health-related toxicology, mutagenesis, and pollution, with particular attention to toxic organic pollutants and heavy metals in the environment.

The recent scholarly output of Kon-Kee Liu includes a paper titled Environmental assessment of persistent organic pollutants in surface sediments of the Danshui River basin, Taipei, Taiwan published in 2020 in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research. This paper has received citations highlighting its contribution to the study of contaminated sediments in an urban river basin.

The scientist collaborates with other researchers, including frequent co-authors:

  • Jing-O Cheng
  • Fung-Chi Ko

Kon-Kee Liu's publication record is associated primarily with the journal:

  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Their main and subfields of study, reflecting their research interests and expertise, are categorized as follows:

  • Environmental Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution

The core topics explored in their work involve:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Best Publications

  • New evidence for enhanced ocean primary production triggered by tropical cyclone

    I. Lin;W. Timothy Liu;Chun-Chieh Wu;George T. F. Wong

  • The eastern tropical Pacific as a source of 15N-enriched nitrate in seawater off southern California

    Kon‐Kee Liu;Isaac R. Kaplan

  • Chemical hydrography and chlorophyll a distribution in the East China Sea in summer: implications in nutrient dynamics

    Gwo-Ching Gong;Yuh-Ling Lee Chen;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Particulate organic carbon export from a subtropical mountainous river (Lanyang Hsi) in Taiwan

    Shuh-Ji Kao;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Spatial and temporal variability of chlorophyll and primary productivity in surface waters of southern Chile (41.5–43° S)

    J.L. Iriarte;H.E. González;H.E. González;K.K. Liu;C. Rivas

  • Determination of dissolved oxygen in seawater by direct spectrophotometry of total iodine

    Su-Cheng Pai;Gwo-Ching Gong;Gwo-Ching Gong;Kon-Kee Liu;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Spatial and temporal variation of chlorophyll a, primary productivity and chemical hydrography in the southern East China Sea.

    Gwo-Ching Gong;Fuh-Kwo Shiah;Kon-Kee Liu;Yun-Ho Wen

  • Organic carbon and nitrogen contents and their isotopic compositions in surficial sediments from the East China Sea shelf and the southern Okinawa Trough

    S.J Kao;F.J Lin;K.K Liu

  • Winter upwelling off Luzon in the northeastern South China Sea

    Ping-Tung Shaw;Shenn-Yu Chao;Kon-Kee Liu;Su-Cheng Pai

  • Carbon-sulfur-iron relationships in sedimentary rocks from southwestern Taiwan: influence of geochemical environment on greigite and pyrrhotite formation

    Shuh-Ji Kao;Chorng-Shern Horng;Andrew P Roberts;Kon-Kee Liu

  • Cross-shelf and along-shelf nutrient fluxes derived from flow fields and chemical hydrography observed in the southern East China Sea off northern Taiwan

    Kon-Kee Liu;Tswen Yung Tang;Gwo-Ching Gong;Liang-Yu Chen

  • The nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate in the Kuroshio Water northeast of Taiwan: evidence for nitrogen fixation as a source of isotopically light nitrate

    Kon-Kee Liu;Mei-Jwen Su;Chen-Ru Hsueh;Gwo-Ching Gong

  • A unique seasonal pattern in phytoplankton biomass in low‐latitude waters in the South China Sea

    Chun Mao Tseng;George T.F. Wong;I. I. Lin;C. R. Wu

  • Carbon and nutrient fluxes in continental margins : a global synthesis

    Kon-Kee Liu;Larry P. Atkinson;Renato Quiñones;Liana Talaue-McManus

  • The Chemical Hydrography of the South China Sea West of Luzon and a Comparison with the West Philippine Sea

    Gwo-Ching Gong;Kon Kee Liu;Cho-Teng Liu;Su-Cheng Pai

  • Response of Kuroshio upwelling to the onset of the northeast monsoon in the sea north of Taiwan: Observations and a numerical simulation

    Kone-Kee Liu;Gwo-Ching Gong;Chung-Zen Shyu;Su-Cheng Pai

  • Continental Margin Exchanges

    Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Kon-Kee Liu;Robie Macdonald

  • ‘ Excess Nitrate ’ in the East China Sea

    G. T. F. Wong;Gwo-Ching Gong;K. K. Liu;S. C. Pai

  • Exploring continental margin carbon fluxes on a global scale

    K.-K. Liu;L. Atkinson;C. T. A. Chen;S. Gao

  • Winter phytoplankton blooms in the shallow mixed layer of the South China Sea enhanced by upwelling

    Chung Chi Chen;Fuh Kwo Shiah;Fuh Kwo Shiah;Shi Wei Chung;Kon Kee Liu

  • Circulation and biogeochemical processes in the East China Sea and the vicinity of Taiwan: an overview and a brief synthesis

    Kon-Kee Liu;Tsung-Hung Peng;Ping-Tung Shaw;Fuh-Kwo Shiah

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuh-Ji Kao
Shuh-Ji Kao Hainan University
Gwo-Ching Gong
Gwo-Ching Gong National Taiwan Ocean University
Fuh-Kwo Shiah
Fuh-Kwo Shiah Academia Sinica
Chun-Mao Tseng
Chun-Mao Tseng National Taiwan University
Shenn-Yu Chao
Shenn-Yu Chao University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
George T.F. Wong
George T.F. Wong Old Dominion University
I-I Lin
I-I Lin National Taiwan University
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Chen-Tung Arthur Chen
Chen-Tung Arthur Chen National Sun Yat-sen University
Chung-Ho Wang
Chung-Ho Wang National Chung Hsing University

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