Chengjun Ji

7.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
95 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Chengjun Ji is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengjun Ji has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 39 papers in Soil Science and 31 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Chengjun Ji's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (39 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers). Chengjun Ji is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (39 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers). Chengjun Ji collaborates with scholars based in China, Romania and United States. Chengjun Ji's co-authors include Yuanhe Yang, Jingyun Fang, Jingyun Fang, Biao Zhu, Chengyang Zheng, Wenxuan Han, Jin He, Zhiyao Tang, Yanhong Tang and Pete Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Chengjun Ji

90 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Storage, patterns and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands

2008 534 citations Yuanhe Yang, Jingyun Fang et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

2022 252 citations Yuhao Feng, Bernhard Schmid et al. Science profile →
Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales

2021 166 citations Leiyi Chen, Kai Fang et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengjun Ji China	38	2.6k	2.0k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	95	5.5k
Carlos A. Sierra Germany	31	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	690 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	119	4.9k
Osbert Jianxin Sun China	40	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	103	5.7k
Edith Bai China	41	3.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	798 0.7×	125	6.1k
Luc Abbadie France	39	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.2×	975 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	904 0.8×	81	6.3k
Chuankuan Wang China	35	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	2.8k 2.2×	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	177	6.0k
Dashuan Tian China	33	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	772 0.7×	108	4.8k
Kanehiro Kitayama Japan	45	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	3.0k 2.6×	167	6.9k
Mai‐He Li China	47	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.9×	2.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	300	6.4k
Gao‐Lin Wu China	47	4.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	220	7.5k
Jianyang Xia China	51	3.2k 1.3×	3.3k 1.7×	4.0k 3.2×	1.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	167	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Chengjun Ji

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chengjun Ji

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengjun Ji

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Suhui, Yangang Li, Xinyu Xiong, et al.. (2025). Soil nematode diversity depends on understory plant species richness in a subalpine forest. Applied Soil Ecology. 207. 105957–105957.

Hagedorn, Frank, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, et al.. (2025). Field Experiments and a Meta‐Analysis Reveal a Minor Influence of Nitrogen Addition on Phosphorus Fractions in Forests. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70156–e70156. 5 indexed citations

Ma, Suhui, Xuemei Yang, Yang Chen, et al.. (2025). Mycorrhizal association shapes responses of plant biomass but not soil carbon to nitrogen addition in global forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 586. 122685–122685. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Jiangling, Chengjun Ji, Qinwei Ran, et al.. (2025). Possible refugia for Fagaceae species in China under climate change. Journal of Plant Ecology. 18(3). 3 indexed citations

Ye, Huiying, Zhengbing Yan, Suhui Ma, et al.. (2025). Stem photosynthesis is an important factor in the regulation of biomass accumulation and allocation in Rosa chinensis. Journal of Plant Ecology.

Peñuelas, Josep, Jordi Sardans, Xiangping Tan, et al.. (2024). Differential Responses of Soil Phosphorus Fractions to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilization: A Global Meta‐Analysis. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38(7). 10 indexed citations

Zhu, Jiangling, Lijuan Sun, C. Y. He, et al.. (2024). Large and thin leaves are compromised more by chewers. Ecosphere. 15(1). 1 indexed citations

He, C. Y., Mark Anthony, Bernhard Schmid, et al.. (2024). Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10369–10369. 11 indexed citations

Yan, Zhengbing, Di Tian, Wenxuan Han, et al.. (2023). Weak transgenerational effects of ancestral nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities on offspring phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Plant Research. 136(4). 515–525. 3 indexed citations

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Cai, Qiong, Suhui Ma, Lijuan Sun, et al.. (2023). Elevational Patterns of Tree Species Richness and Forest Biomass on Two Subtropical Mountains in China. Forests. 14(7). 1337–1337. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Suhui, Zhiming Guo, Xiangping Tan, et al.. (2022). Long-term phosphorus addition inhibits phosphorus transformations involved in soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and acid phosphatase in two tropical rainforests. Geoderma. 425. 116076–116076. 19 indexed citations

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Feng, Yuhao, Bernhard Schmid, Michel Loreau, et al.. (2022). Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions. Science. 376(6595). 865–868. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Leiyi, Kai Fang, Bin Wei, et al.. (2021). Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 1018–1028. 166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Guoping, Qiong Cai, Yuhao Feng, et al.. (2021). The structural characteristics and climatic and human impacts of deciduous oak forests in China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15(2). 265–276. 6 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiangling, et al.. (2021). Patterns of grassland community composition and structure along an elevational gradient on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15(4). 808–817. 16 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xinyu, Jiangling Zhu, Sheng Li, et al.. (2021). Aboveground biomass and its biotic and abiotic modulators of a main food bamboo of the giant panda in a subalpine spruce–fir forest in southwestern China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15(1). 1–12. 4 indexed citations

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Kou, Dan, Guibiao Yang, Fei Li, et al.. (2020). Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3331–3331. 89 indexed citations

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Ma, Suhui, Anwar Eziz, Di Tian, et al.. (2020). Size- and age-dependent increases in tree stem carbon concentration: implications for forest carbon stock estimations. Journal of Plant Ecology. 13(2). 233–240. 18 indexed citations

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Cai, Qiong, Chengjun Ji, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2019). Changes in carbon storages of Fagus forest ecosystems along an elevational gradient on Mt. Fanjingshan in Southwest China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 13(2). 139–149. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Xiaokang, Lingli Liu, Biao Zhu, et al.. (2015). Asynchronous responses of soil carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide emissions and net nitrogen mineralization to enhanced fine root input. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 92. 67–78. 25 indexed citations

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