Bo Sun

10.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
156 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Bo Sun is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Sun has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Soil Science, 65 papers in Ecology and 59 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bo Sun's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (21 papers). Bo Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (21 papers). Bo Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Bo Sun's co-authors include Yuji Jiang, Yuting Liang, Jizhong Zhou, Xiaoyue Wang, Yan Chen, Hu Zhou, Xinhua Peng, Yueyu Sui, Lijun Chen and Xian Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Bo Sun

152 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

Temperature- and duration-dependent rice straw-derived bi... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2019 2017 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Temperature- and duration-dependent rice straw-derived biochar: Characteristics and its effects on soil properties of an Ultisol in southern China
    2011 538 citations Bo Sun et al. profile →
  2. Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures
    2012 477 citations Bo Sun et al. profile →
  3. Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments
    2019 268 citations Lijun Chen, Yuji Jiang et al. Microbiome profile →
  4. Nematode grazing promotes bacterial community dynamics in soil at the aggregate level
    2017 250 citations Yuji Jiang, Manqiang Liu et al. profile →
  5. Differentiation strategies of soil rare and abundant microbial taxa in response to changing climatic regimes
    2020 247 citations Yuting Liang, Jizhong Zhou et al. profile →
  6. Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode community assembly at a continental and global scale
    2020 196 citations Lu Luan, Yuji Jiang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Drivers of microbially and plant‐derived carbon in topsoil and subsoil
    2023 88 citations Weigen Huang, Yakov Kuzyakov et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  8. Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification
    2024 72 citations Ruibo Sun, Zixuan Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates
    2024 68 citations Han Hu, Ji Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  10. Community assembly of organisms regulates soil microbial functional potential through dual mechanisms
    2024 65 citations Lu Luan, Yan Chen et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bo Sun China 50 3.5k 2.9k 2.8k 1.6k 1.3k 156 8.3k
Giancarlo Renella Italy 45 3.1k 0.9× 2.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 2.1k 1.3× 760 0.6× 115 7.2k
Heribert Insam Austria 60 5.0k 1.4× 2.7k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 2.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.1× 209 11.8k
Feng Hu China 50 2.8k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 750 0.6× 294 7.7k
Jiabao Zhang China 52 4.6k 1.3× 2.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 750 0.6× 247 8.6k
Linchuan Fang China 61 2.9k 0.9× 3.0k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 3.0k 1.8× 1.3k 1.0× 188 9.7k
Huaiying Yao China 52 3.7k 1.1× 2.3k 0.8× 3.0k 1.1× 3.3k 2.0× 1.1k 0.9× 222 9.6k
Steven A. Wakelin New Zealand 43 2.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 735 0.6× 148 5.7k
Felipe Bastida Spain 45 3.3k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 858 0.7× 123 6.2k
Yu Luo China 52 4.7k 1.4× 2.1k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 765 0.6× 157 8.3k
Luc Dendooven Mexico 51 4.6k 1.3× 2.8k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 294 10.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bo Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bo Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bo Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bo Sun. Bo Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Yingjie, Lei Zhang, Meng Wang, et al.. (2025). Different film-mulching strategies alter soil biological characteristics and fungal and archaeal community structures under a drip fertigation system. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 38. 104110–104110.
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Chen, Su, et al.. (2025). Function of R2R3-Type Myeloblastosis Transcription Factors in Plants. Rice Science. 32(3). 307–321. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Han, Ji Chen, Feng Zhou, et al.. (2024). Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates. Nature Geoscience. 17(1). 26–31. 68 indexed citations breakdown →
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Luan, Lu, Yan Chen, Xiaoyue Wang, et al.. (2024). Community assembly of organisms regulates soil microbial functional potential through dual mechanisms. Global Change Biology. 30(2). e17160–e17160. 65 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Ruibo, Zixuan Wang, Kenneth Dumack, et al.. (2024). Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2924–2924. 72 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jiao, Shuo, Kaikai Zheng, Haowei Ni, et al.. (2023). Multiple spatial scales of bacterial and fungal structural and functional traits affect carbon mineralization. Molecular Ecology. 33(3). e17235–e17235. 15 indexed citations
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Feng, Kai, Yan Chen, Ruibo Sun, et al.. (2023). Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 181. 109026–109026. 16 indexed citations
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Huang, Weigen, Yakov Kuzyakov, Shuli Niu, et al.. (2023). Drivers of microbially and plant‐derived carbon in topsoil and subsoil. Global Change Biology. 29(22). 6188–6200. 88 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bao, Lijun, Bo Sun, Nan Xu, et al.. (2022). Grape Cultivar Features Differentiate the Grape Rhizosphere Microbiota. Plants. 11(9). 1111–1111. 17 indexed citations
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Bian, Qing, Xiaoyue Wang, Xingguo Bao, et al.. (2022). Exogenous substrate quality determines the dominant keystone taxa linked to carbon mineralization: Evidence from a 30-year experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 169. 108683–108683. 47 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoyue, Lixia Zhao, Louis‐Pierre Comeau, et al.. (2022). Divergent carbon stabilization pathways in aggregates in Ultisols with and without organic amendments: Implications from 13C natural abundance and NMR analysis. Geoderma. 426. 116088–116088. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Bo, Zhihui Bai, Yongshuang Li, et al.. (2022). Emission mitigation of CH4 and N2O during semi-permeable membrane covered hyperthermophilic aerobic composting of livestock manure. Journal of Cleaner Production. 379. 134850–134850. 38 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Olaf, Lu Luan, Jianbo Fan, et al.. (2022). Bacterial Keystone Taxa Regulate Carbon Metabolism in the Earthworm Gut. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(5). e0108122–e0108122. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Bo, et al.. (2021). Efficiency and mechanism of reducing ammonia volatilization in alkaline farmland soil using Bacillus amyloliquefaciens biofertilizer. Environmental Research. 202. 111672–111672. 35 indexed citations
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Chen, Yan, Michael Bonkowski, Yi Shen, et al.. (2020). Root ethylene mediates rhizosphere microbial community reconstruction when chemically detecting cyanide produced by neighbouring plants. Microbiome. 8(1). 4–4. 156 indexed citations
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Bao, Lijun, Likun Gu, Bo Sun, et al.. (2020). Seasonal variation of epiphytic bacteria in the phyllosphere of Gingko biloba, Pinus bungeana and Sabina chinensis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(3). 42 indexed citations
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Luan, Lu, Yuji Jiang, Francisco Dini‐Andreote, et al.. (2020). Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode community assembly at a continental and global scale. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6406–6406. 196 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Bo, et al.. (2019). Understanding Effects of Collaborations in Developing Mobile Computing Systems: Popularity, Efficiency, and Quality. IEEE Access. 7. 33380–33392. 3 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yuji, Xiaoyue Wang, Lijun Chen, et al.. (2018). Nematodes and microbial community affect the sizes and turnover rates of organic carbon pools in soil aggregates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 119. 22–31. 131 indexed citations
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Sun, Bo, Fang‐Jie Zhao, Scott D. Young, & A.M. Tye. (2000). Availability and fixation of Zn and Cd in soils amended with metal sulphate. Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository). 1 indexed citations

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