Alin Song

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alin Song is a scholar working on Plant Science, Geochemistry and Petrology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alin Song has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 19 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Alin Song's work include Silicon Effects in Agriculture (24 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers). Alin Song is often cited by papers focused on Silicon Effects in Agriculture (24 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers). Alin Song collaborates with scholars based in China, Belgium and United States. Alin Song's co-authors include Yongchao Liang, Fenliang Fan, Zhaojun Li, Miroslav Nikolić, Chang Yin, Richard R. Bélanger, Haijun Gong, Zhaojun Li, Peiyuan Cui and Duanyang Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alin Song

62 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Silicon in Agriculture

2015 285 citations Yongchao Liang, Alin Song et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alin Song China	30	1.9k	871	787	556	544	63	3.1k
Fenliang Fan China	30	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	469 0.6×	736 1.3×	952 1.8×	66	3.8k
Hanhua Zhu China	28	844 0.4×	932 1.1×	277 0.4×	1.2k 2.2×	372 0.7×	65	2.6k
Xu Zhao China	31	959 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	199 0.3×	481 0.9×	417 0.8×	76	2.9k
Suduan Gao United States	31	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	222 0.3×	642 1.2×	368 0.7×	115	3.2k
Thierry Becquer France	33	741 0.4×	904 1.0×	534 0.7×	1.2k 2.1×	293 0.5×	88	3.0k
David Houben France	27	814 0.4×	691 0.8×	551 0.7×	1.4k 2.5×	175 0.3×	62	2.9k
G. H. Snyder United States	28	2.6k 1.3×	557 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	236 0.4×	270 0.5×	101	3.4k
Jiasen Wu China	28	951 0.5×	986 1.1×	172 0.2×	515 0.9×	368 0.7×	77	2.4k
Hanping Xia China	24	896 0.5×	777 0.9×	180 0.2×	1.4k 2.5×	425 0.8×	46	3.0k
Craig Anderson New Zealand	19	365 0.2×	895 1.0×	307 0.4×	339 0.6×	458 0.8×	37	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alin Song

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Bi, Jingjing, Chang Peng, Miaomiao Sun, et al.. (2025). Organic Manure Amendment Fortifies Soil Health by Enriching Beneficial Metabolites and Microorganisms and Suppressing Plant Pathogens. Agronomy. 15(2). 429–429. 1 indexed citations

Bi, Jingjing, Enzhao Wang, Xian Zeng, et al.. (2025). Calcium-containing inorganic immunity booster drives the enrichment of specific root endophytic microbiota against Ralstonia solanacearum. Microbiome. 14(1). 26–26.

Yuan, Min, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the differences of bacterial communities between high- and low-productive wheat fields using high-throughput sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1391428–1391428. 2 indexed citations

Guan, Dong‐Xing, et al.. (2024). A novel layered culture device reveals spatial dynamics of root element uptake and optimal silicon application site for mitigating chromium uptake by rice. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 123488–123488. 5 indexed citations

Song, Alin, et al.. (2024). Lanthanum and cerium added to soil influence microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling genes. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 123509–123509. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Peiyuan, Zhixuan Chen, Fenliang Fan, et al.. (2022). Soil texture is an easily overlooked factor affecting the temperature sensitivity of N2O emissions. The Science of The Total Environment. 862. 160648–160648. 22 indexed citations

Dong, Weiling, Yang Qin, Timothy George, et al.. (2022). Investigating bacterial coupled assimilation of fertilizer‑nitrogen and crop residue‑carbon in upland soils by DNA-qSIP. The Science of The Total Environment. 845. 157279–157279. 10 indexed citations

Song, Alin, Jingjing Peng, Duanyang Xu, et al.. (2022). Metagenomics reveals the increased antibiotics resistome through prokaryote rather than virome after overuse of rare earth element compounds. The Science of The Total Environment. 863. 160704–160704. 3 indexed citations

Dong, Weiling, Alin Song, Huaqun Yin, et al.. (2021). Decomposition of Microbial Necromass Is Divergent at the Individual Taxonomic Level in Soil. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 679793–679793. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaodong, Zhaoliang Song, Qian Hao, et al.. (2019). Phytolith-Occluded Carbon Storages in Forest Litter Layers in Southern China: Implications for Evaluation of Long-Term Forest Carbon Budget. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 581–581. 15 indexed citations

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Dong, Weiling, Alin Song, Xueduan Liu, et al.. (2018). Warming deferentially altered multidimensional soil legacy induced by past land use history. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1546–1546. 9 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaomin, Zhaoliang Song, Hongyan Liu, et al.. (2017). Phytolith accumulation in broadleaf and conifer forests of northern China: Implications for phytolith carbon sequestration. Geoderma. 312. 36–44. 43 indexed citations

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Li, Lihua, Fenliang Fan, Alin Song, et al.. (2017). Microbial composition and diversity are associated with plant performance: a case study on long-term fertilization effect on wheat growth in an Ultisol. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 101(11). 4669–4681. 6 indexed citations

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Song, Alin, Xue GaoFeng, Peiyuan Cui, et al.. (2016). The role of silicon in enhancing resistance to bacterial blight of hydroponic- and soil-cultured rice. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24640–24640. 95 indexed citations

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Ning, Dongfeng, Yongchao Liang, Alin Song, Aiwang Duan, & Zhandong Liu. (2016). In situ stabilization of heavy metals in multiple-metal contaminated paddy soil using different steel slag-based silicon fertilizer. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(23). 23638–23647. 62 indexed citations

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Song, Alin, et al.. (2015). The potential for carbon bio-sequestration in China’s paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) as impacted by slag-based silicate fertilizer. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17354–17354. 50 indexed citations

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Yin, Chang, Fenliang Fan, Alin Song, et al.. (2015). Denitrification potential under different fertilization regimes is closely coupled with changes in the denitrifying community in a black soil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 99(13). 5719–5729. 136 indexed citations

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Song, Alin, Ping Li, Fenliang Fan, Zhaojun Li, & Yongchao Liang. (2014). The Effect of Silicon on Photosynthesis and Expression of Its Relevant Genes in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) under High-Zinc Stress. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e113782–e113782. 176 indexed citations

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Yin, Chang, Fenliang Fan, Zhaojun Li, et al.. (2012). [Influences of long-term application of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the composition and abundance of nirS-type denitrifiers in black soil].. PubMed. 33(11). 3967–75. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Zhaojun, Alin Song, Fenliang Fan, & Yongchao Liang. (2012). Comparative studies on soil nitrification inhibition by pyridine compounds. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ECO-AGRICULTURE. 20(5). 561–565. 2 indexed citations

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