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Environmental Sciences

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68
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1881
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175

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Zhimin Qiang 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 Zhimin Qiang sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 265 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhimin Qiang 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 Zhimin Qiang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zhimin Qiang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research mainly focuses on environmental science, with extensive contributions to subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including water treatment and disinfection, advanced oxidation water treatment, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, water quality monitoring and analysis, environmental remediation with nanomaterials, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Notable recent publications by Zhimin Qiang include:

  • Facilely tuning the intrinsic catalytic sites of the spinel oxide for peroxymonosulfate activation: From fundamental investigation to pilot-scale demonstration, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Accelerated oxidation of iopamidol by ozone/peroxymonosulfate (O3/PMS) process: Kinetics, mechanism, and simultaneous reduction of iodinated disinfection by-product formation potential, 2020, Water Research
  • Occurrences of 29 pesticides in the Huangpu River, China: Highest ecological risk identified in Shanghai metropolitan area, 2020, Chemosphere
  • The profile of antibiotic resistance genes in pig manure composting shaped by composting stage: Mesophilic-thermophilic and cooling-maturation stages, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Removal of micron-scale microplastic particles from different waters with efficient tool of surface-functionalized microbubbles, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Zhimin Qiang has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Huiyu Dong, Mengkai Li, Zhe Sun, Wentao Li, and Weiwei Ben.

The scientist has published extensively in various journals, with frequent appearances in Chemosphere, Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, The Science of The Total Environment, and Journal of Environmental Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Potentiometric determination of acid dissociation constants (pKa) for human and veterinary antibiotics.

    Zhimin Qiang;Craig D. Adams

  • Electrochemical generation of hydrogen peroxide from dissolved oxygen in acidic solutions.

    Zhimin Qiang;Jih-Hsing Chang;Chin-Pao Huang

  • Occurrence, removal and risk of organic micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants across China: Comparison of wastewater treatment processes.

    Weiwei Ben;Bing Zhu;Xiangjuan Yuan;Yu Zhang

  • Surface hydroxyl groups of synthetic α-FeOOH in promoting OH generation from aqueous ozone: Property and activity relationship

    Tao Zhang;Chunjuan Li;Jun Ma;Hai Tian

  • Electrochemical regeneration of Fe2+ in Fenton oxidation processes.

    Zhimin Qiang;Jih-Hsing Chang;Chin-Pao Huang

  • Simultaneous determination of sulfonamides, tetracyclines and tiamulin in swine wastewater by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry

    Weiwei Ben;Zhimin Qiang;Craig Adams;Heqing Zhang

  • Residual veterinary antibiotics in swine manure from concentrated animal feeding operations in Shandong Province, China

    Xun Pan;Zhimin Qiang;Weiwei Ben;Meixue Chen

  • Facilely tuning the intrinsic catalytic sites of the spinel oxide for peroxymonosulfate activation: From fundamental investigation to pilot-scale demonstration

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  • Disinfection of swine wastewater using chlorine, ultraviolet light and ozone.

    John J Macauley;Zhimin Qiang;Zhimin Qiang;Craig D. Adams;Rao Surampalli

  • Distribution of antibiotic resistance in the effluents of ten municipal wastewater treatment plants in China and the effect of treatment processes.

    Weiwei Ben;Jian Wang;Rukun Cao;Min Yang

  • Formation of Iodinated Disinfection Byproducts (I-DBPs) in Drinking Water: Emerging Concerns and Current Issues

    Huiyu Dong;Huiyu Dong;Zhimin Qiang;Susan D. Richardson

  • Degradation of chloramphenicol by UV/chlorine treatment: Kinetics, mechanism and enhanced formation of halonitromethanes

    Huiyu Dong;Zhimin Qiang;Jun Hu;Jiuhui Qu

  • Effect of TiO2 nanowire addition on PVDF ultrafiltration membrane performance

    Yong Wei;Hua-Qiang Chu;Bing-Zhi Dong;Xuan Li

  • Determination of Monochloramine Formation Rate Constants with Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometry

    Zhimin Qiang;Craig D. Adams

  • Occurrence and removal of antibiotics in ecological and conventional wastewater treatment processes: A field study

    Huiyu Dong;Xiangjuan Yuan;Weidong Wang;Zhimin Qiang

  • Effect of artificial aeration on the performance of vertical-flow constructed wetland treating heavily polluted river water

    Huiyu Dong;Zhimin Qiang;Tinggang Li;Hui Jin

  • Characterization and activity of visible-light-driven TiO2 photocatalyst codoped with nitrogen and cerium

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  • Removal of veterinary antibiotics from sequencing batch reactor (SBR) pretreated swine wastewater by Fenton's reagent

    Weiwei Ben;Zhimin Qiang;Xun Pan;Meixue Chen

  • Enhanced degradation of iopamidol by peroxymonosulfate catalyzed by two pipe corrosion products (CuO and δ-MnO2).

    Jun Hu;Huiyu Dong;Jiuhui Qu;Zhimin Qiang

  • Fluorescence spectroscopic characterization of DOM fractions isolated from a filtered river water after ozonation and catalytic ozonation

    Tao Zhang;Jinfeng Lu;Jun Ma;Zhimin Qiang

  • Effects of thermophilic composting on oxytetracycline, sulfamethazine, and their corresponding resistance genes in swine manure.

    Jian Wang;Weiwei Ben;Yu Zhang;Min Yang

  • Fate and seasonal variation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in a sewage treatment plant with A/A/O process

    Yafeng Nie;Zhimin Qiang;Heqing Zhang;Weiwei Ben

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiuhui Qu
Jiuhui Qu University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Craig D. Adams
Craig D. Adams Saint Louis University
Huijuan Liu
Huijuan Liu Tsinghua University
Min Yang
Min Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ruiping Liu
Ruiping Liu Tsinghua University
Chin-Pao Huang
Chin-Pao Huang University of Delaware
Jun Hu
Jun Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lu Wang
Lu Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Yalei Zhang
Yalei Zhang Tongji University
Rao Y. Surampalli
Rao Y. Surampalli University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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