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66
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14873
World Ranking
2105
National Ranking
206

Overview

Xinghui Xia is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and has an extensive publication record in the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily covers pollution, environmental chemistry, health toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, and ecology.

Their work spans several key topics including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal

Xia has published consistently in several leading venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Hydrology

Their collaborations include repeated work with researchers such as Shaoda Liu, Sibo Zhang, Zhenrui Zhang, Gongqin Wang, and Zhifeng Yang.

Selected recent publications illustrate Xia's diverse research interests:

  • "Biochar's stability and effect on the content, composition and turnover of soil organic carbon" (2020), published in Geoderma
  • "The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Application of Hydrochar Altered Soil Microbial Community Composition and the Molecular Structure of Native Soil Organic Carbon in a Paddy Soil" (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "UV-induced aggregation of polystyrene nanoplastics: effects of radicals, surface functional groups and electrolyte" (2020), published in Environmental Science Nano

Best Publications

  • Heavy metal concentrations in roadside soils and correlation with urban traffic in Beijing, China

    Xi Chen;Xinghui Xia;Ye Zhao;Ping Zhang

  • Major element chemistry of the Changjiang (Yangtze River)

    Jingsheng Chen;Feiyue Wang;Xinghui Xia;Litian Zhang

  • Heavy metals in urban soils with various types of land use in Beijing, China.

    Xinghui Xia;Xi Chen;Ruimin Liu;Hong Liu

  • Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, China

    Gongchen Li;Xinghui Xia;Zhifeng Yang;Ran Wang

  • Interactions between nano/micro plastics and suspended sediment in water: Implications on aggregation and settling.

    Yang Li;Yang Li;Xinjie Wang;Wanyi Fu;Xinghui Xia

  • Short- and long-chain perfluoroalkyl substances in the water, suspended particulate matter, and surface sediment of a turbid river

    Pujun Zhao;Xinghui Xia;Jianwei Dong;Na Xia

  • Biochar’s stability and effect on the content, composition and turnover of soil organic carbon

    Lanfang Han;Lanfang Han;Ke Sun;Yan Yang;Xinghui Xia

  • The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers

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  • Levels, Distribution, and Health Risk of Phthalate Esters in Urban Soils of Beijing, China

    Xinghui Xia;Lingyan Yang;Qingwei Bu;Ruimin Liu

  • The cycle of nitrogen in river systems: sources, transformation, and flux.

    Xinghui Xia;Sibo Zhang;Siling Li;Liwei Zhang

  • Detection, occurrence and fate of 22 psychiatric pharmaceuticals in psychiatric hospital and municipal wastewater treatment plants in Beijing, China

    Shengliu Yuan;Shengliu Yuan;Xiaoman Jiang;Xinghui Xia;Haixia Zhang

  • A comparative study on sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) by chars, ash and carbon nanotubes.

    Xi Chen;Xinghui Xia;Xilong Wang;Jinping Qiao

  • Distribution of Phthalic Acid Esters in Wuhan section of the Yangtze River, China

    Fan Wang;Xinghui Xia;Yujuan Sha

  • Assessment of water quality in Baiyangdian Lake using multivariate statistical techniques

    Y. Zhao;X.H. Xia;Z.F. Yang;F. Wang

  • Spatial and temporal analysis of water chemistry records (1958–2000) in the Huanghe (Yellow River) basin

    Jingsheng Chen;Feiyue Wang;Michel Meybeck;Dawei He;Dawei He

  • Distribution of PAEs in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, China.

    Yujuan Sha;Xinghui Xia;Zhifeng Yang;Gordon H. Huang

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils of different land uses in Beijing, China: distribution, sources and their correlation with the city's urbanization history.

    Shaoda Liu;Xinghui Xia;Lingyan Yang;Mohai Shen

  • Application of Hydrochar Altered Soil Microbial Community Composition and the Molecular Structure of Native Soil Organic Carbon in a Paddy Soil

    Ke Sun;Lanfang Han;Yan Yang;Xinghui Xia

  • Acceleration of denitrification in turbid rivers due to denitrification occurring on suspended sediment in oxic waters.

    Ting Liu;Xinghui Xia;Shaoda Liu;Xinli Mou

  • Distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Wuhan section of the Yangtze River, China.

    Chenglian Feng;Xinghui Xia;Zhenyao Shen;Zhui Zhou

  • Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

    Liwei Zhang;Xinghui Xia;Shaoda Liu;Shaoda Liu;Sibo Zhang

  • Effect of Suspended-Sediment Concentration on Nitrification in River Water: Importance of Suspended Sediment―Water Interface

    Xinghui Xia;Zhifeng Yang;Xueqing Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhifeng Yang
Zhifeng Yang Guangdong University of Technology
Lanfang Han
Lanfang Han Guangdong University of Technology
Xixi Lu
Xixi Lu National University of Singapore
Fengchang Wu
Fengchang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ke Sun
Ke Sun Beijing Normal University
Ruimin Liu
Ruimin Liu Beijing Normal University
Baoshan Xing
Baoshan Xing University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shamsuddin Shahid
Shamsuddin Shahid University of Technology Malaysia
Xiaojun Wang
Xiaojun Wang Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada

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