Charles C.Y. Xu

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Charles C.Y. Xu is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles C.Y. Xu has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Charles C.Y. Xu's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (10 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Charles C.Y. Xu is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (10 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Charles C.Y. Xu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Charles C.Y. Xu's co-authors include Cameron R. Turner, Christopher L. Jerde, David M. Lodge, Matthew A. Barnes, Stuart E. Jones, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Douglas W. Yu, Panu Somervuo, Ricardo Mallarino and Matthieu Foll and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Charles C.Y. Xu

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA

2014 396 citations Cameron R. Turner, Matthew A. Barnes et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles C.Y. Xu Canada	14	778	559	189	162	141	26	1.1k
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues Brazil	19	207 0.3×	91 0.2×	128 0.7×	281 1.7×	167 1.2×	77	930
Marisa Lim United States	12	268 0.3×	130 0.2×	186 1.0×	99 0.6×	141 1.0×	18	502
Massimiliano Virgilio Belgium	25	788 1.0×	382 0.7×	46 0.2×	532 3.3×	214 1.5×	78	1.9k
Ricardo J. Pereira Germany	20	363 0.5×	411 0.7×	144 0.8×	287 1.8×	635 4.5×	41	1.2k
Christine E. Edwards United States	18	188 0.2×	356 0.6×	87 0.5×	308 1.9×	276 2.0×	61	1.1k
Mark Brown South Africa	24	826 1.1×	88 0.2×	183 1.0×	927 5.7×	87 0.6×	97	1.6k
Natalia V. Ivanova Canada	5	341 0.4×	379 0.7×	83 0.4×	210 1.3×	213 1.5×	9	741
Artemis Papert United Kingdom	7	455 0.6×	242 0.4×	34 0.2×	133 0.8×	107 0.8×	10	853
Jianghong Ran China	17	410 0.5×	112 0.2×	246 1.3×	131 0.8×	155 1.1×	90	704

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Charles C.Y., Vincent Fugère, Beatrix E. Beisner, et al.. (2025). Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community and genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance. Current Biology. 35(5). 1061–1073.e4.

Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2023). Community assembly of the human piercing microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2011). 20231174–20231174. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2023). A new multiplex qPCR assay to detect and differentiate big cat species in the illegal wildlife trade. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9796–9796. 3 indexed citations

Lim, Marisa, Anton Seimon, Charles C.Y. Xu, et al.. (2022). Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest’s southern flank with environmental DNA. iScience. 25(9). 104848–104848. 6 indexed citations

Ji, Yinqiu, Christopher C. M. Baker, Viorel D. Popescu, et al.. (2022). Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1555–1555. 25 indexed citations

Fugère, Vincent, Marie‐Pier Hébert, Charles C.Y. Xu, et al.. (2021). Resistance, resilience, and functional redundancy of freshwater bacterioplankton communities facing a gradient of agricultural stressors in a mesocosm experiment. Molecular Ecology. 30(19). 4771–4788. 14 indexed citations

Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2021). Influence of breeding time, nest size, and egg size on the breeding success of the Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus. Acta Oecologica. 113. 103779–103779. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2021). Transgenes of genetically modified animals detected non-invasively via environmental DNA. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0249439–e0249439. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2021). Promoting equity and inclusion with student-driven initiatives. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(12). 1063–1066. 2 indexed citations

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Fugère, Vincent, Marie‐Pier Hébert, Charles C.Y. Xu, et al.. (2020). Community rescue in experimental phytoplankton communities facing severe herbicide pollution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(4). 578–588. 45 indexed citations

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Corse, Emmanuel, Christelle Tougard, Gaït Archambaud‐Suard, et al.. (2019). One‐locus‐several‐primers: A strategy to improve the taxonomic and haplotypic coverage in diet metabarcoding studies. Ecology and Evolution. 9(8). 4603–4620. 58 indexed citations

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Barrett, Rowan D. H., Stefan Laurent, Ricardo Mallarino, et al.. (2019). Linking a mutation to survival in wild mice. Science. 363(6426). 499–504. 115 indexed citations

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Axtner, Jan, Alex Crampton‐Platt, Azlan Mohamed, et al.. (2019). An efficient and robust laboratory workflow and tetrapod database for larger scale environmental DNA studies. GigaScience. 8(4). 36 indexed citations

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Douglass, D.A., I. S. Grant, José Antônio Jardini, et al.. (2019). A Review of Dynamic Thermal Line Rating Methods With Forecasting. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 34(6). 2100–2109. 89 indexed citations

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Pringle, Robert M., Tyler R. Kartzinel, Todd M. Palmer, et al.. (2019). Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence. Nature. 570(7759). 58–64. 116 indexed citations

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Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2018). Keystone Genes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 33(9). 689–700. 23 indexed citations

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Somervuo, Panu, Douglas W. Yu, Charles C.Y. Xu, et al.. (2017). Quantifying uncertainty of taxonomic placement in DNA barcoding and metabarcoding. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8(4). 398–407. 61 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Torrey W., Charles C.Y. Xu, Karen M. Kapheim, et al.. (2017). Carrion fly‐derived DNA metabarcoding is an effective tool for mammal surveys: Evidence from a known tropical mammal community. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(6). e133–e145. 55 indexed citations

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Xu, Charles C.Y., et al.. (2015). Spider Web DNA: A New Spin on Noninvasive Genetics of Predator and Prey. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142503–e0142503. 38 indexed citations

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Turner, Cameron R., Matthew A. Barnes, Charles C.Y. Xu, et al.. (2014). Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(7). 676–684. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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