Chengrong Chen

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
236 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Chengrong Chen is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengrong Chen has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Soil Science, 91 papers in Ecology and 78 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Chengrong Chen's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (145 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (72 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (42 papers). Chengrong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (145 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (72 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (42 papers). Chengrong Chen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Chengrong Chen's co-authors include Zhihong Xu, Leo M. Condron, M. R. Davis, Robert R. Sherlock, Enqing Hou, Dazhi Wen, Mehran Rezaei Rashti, Hossein Ghadiri, Xiaoqi Zhou and Tom Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Chengrong Chen

225 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Long-term nutrient inputs shift soil microbial functional profiles of phosphorus cycling in diverse agroecosystems

2019 507 citations Chengrong Chen et al. profile →
Global meta-analysis shows pervasive phosphorus limitation of aboveground plant production in natural terrestrial ecosystems

2020 506 citations Enqing Hou, Yiqi Luo et al. profile →
Effects of climate on soil phosphorus cycle and availability in natural terrestrial ecosystems

2018 259 citations Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen et al. profile →

Peers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chengrong Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengrong Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chengrong Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chengrong Chen 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 Chengrong Chen. Chengrong Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Interfacial oxygen nanobubble for mitigating the methane emissions from aquatic ecosystems: A review 2025 ·Resources Environment and Sustainability ·Qingnan Chu, (unknown), Detian Li, Shuai Yin, (unknown), Wenjuan Li, Chengrong Chen, Zhimin Sha	1
2	Microbial Degradation of Herbicide Residues in Australian Soil: An Overview of Mechanistic Insights and Recent Advancements 2025 ·Toxics ·(unknown), Gregory Doran, Benjamin J. Stodart, Chengrong Chen, Hanwen Wu	1
3	Effects of organic nitrogen addition on soil microbial community assembly patterns in the Sanjiang Plain wetlands, northeastern China 2024 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·Mingyu Wang, Beat Frey, Detian Li, Xiangyu Liu, Chengrong Chen, Yingnan Liu, Rongtao Zhang, Xin Sui, Mai‐He Li	9
4	Organic matter stability in forest-tundra soils after wildfire 2024 ·CATENA ·Ekaterina Filimonenko, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), I. N. Kurganova, Valentin Lopes de Gerenyu, Carolina Merino, Francisco Matus, Chengrong Chen, (unknown), Andrey Soromotin, Yakov Kuzyakov	2
5	Pyrolysis temperature affects biochar suitability as an alternative rhizobial carrier 2024 ·Biology and Fertility of Soils ·(unknown), Yantao Li, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Chengrong Chen	12
6	Global hierarchical meta-analysis to identify the factors for controlling effects of antibiotics on soil microbiota 2024 ·Environment International ·Mingyu Wang, Detian Li, (unknown), Chengrong Chen, Beat Frey, Xin Sui, Mai‐He Li	5
7	Bio-based plastics, biodegradable plastics, and compostable plastics: biodegradation mechanism, biodegradability standards and environmental stratagem 2024 ·International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation ·Sabzoi Nizamuddin, (unknown), Chengrong Chen, (unknown), Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak	50
8	Effect of hydrothermal carbonization aqueous phase on soil dissolved organic matter and microbial community during rice production: A two-year experiment 2023 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Detian Li, Qingnan Chu, Jixiang Wang, (unknown), Chengrong Chen, Yanfang Feng, Pengfu Hou, Lihong Xue	12
9	Cow manure compost‐based products as alternative rhizobial carrier materials 2023 ·Land Degradation and Development ·Yantao Li, (unknown), Mehran Rezaei Rashti, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Chengrong Chen	7
10	Latitudinal patterns of terrestrial phosphorus limitation over the globe 2021 ·Ecology Letters ·Enqing Hou, Dazhi Wen, Lifen Jiang, Xianzhen Luo, Yuanwen Kuang, X. L. Lu, Chengrong Chen, (unknown), Xianjin He, Xingzhao Huang, Yiqi Luo	102
11	Responses of soil nutrients and microbial activity to the mill-mud application in a compaction-affected sugarcane field 2021 ·Soil Research ·Xiangyu Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Lukas Van Zwieten, Mehran Rezaei Rashti, Mohsen Esfandbod, Chengrong Chen	7
12	Persistence of atrazine and trifluralin in a clay loam soil undergoing different temperature and moisture conditions 2021 ·Environmental Pollution ·(unknown), Maheswaran Rohan, Benjamin J. Stodart, Chengrong Chen, Hanwen Wu, Gregory Doran	57
13	Spatial and temporal dynamics of nutrients in riparian soils after nine years of operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China 2019 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Chengrong Chen, Orpheus M. Butler, Mehran Rezaei Rashti, Mohsen Esfandbod, Ming Du, Quanfa Zhang	65
14	Changed by fire: Linking C and energy fluxes by microbial decomposition of soil organic matter after frequent forest burning events 2019 ·EGUGA ·Anna Gunina, (unknown), Chengrong Chen, Mohsen Esfandbod, Mehran Rezaei Rashti, Yakov Kuzyakov	2
15	Environmental factors, but not abundance and diversity of nitrifying microorganisms, explain sediment nitrification rates in Yangtze lakes 2018 ·RSC Advances ·Lu Yao, Chengrong Chen, Guihua Liu, Feng Li, Wenzhi Liu	16
16	Technical note: Manipulating interactions between plant stress responses and soil methane oxidation rates 2018 ·Biogeosciences ·Xiaoqi Zhou, Cheng‐Yuan Xu, Shahla Hosseini Bai, Zhihong Xu, Simeon J. Smaill, Peter W. Clinton, Chengrong Chen	5
17	Temporal Changes Rather than Long-Term Repeated Burning Predominately Control the Shift in the Abundance of Soil Denitrifying Community in an Australian Sclerophyll Forest 2016 ·Microbial Ecology ·Xian Liu, Chengrong Chen, Jane Hughes, Weijin Wang, Tom Lewis	8
18	Phosphatase activity in relation to key litter and soil properties in mature subtropical forests in China 2015 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen, Dazhi Wen, Xian Liu	64
19	[Soil soluble organic matter, microbial biomass, and enzyme activities in forest plantations in degraded red soil region of Jiangxi Province, China]. 2010 ·PubMed ·Yumei Jiang, Chengrong Chen, Zhihong Xu, Yuanqiu Liu, Jing Ouyang, Fang Wang	3
20	Behaviour and dynamics of di-ammonium phosphate in bauxite processing residue sand in Western Australia—II. Phosphorus fractions and availability 2009 ·Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Chengrong Chen, Ian Phillips, Liang Wei, Zhihong Xu	15

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