Congcong Shen

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Congcong Shen is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Congcong Shen has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Soil Science and 13 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Congcong Shen's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (8 papers). Congcong Shen is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (8 papers). Congcong Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Congcong Shen's co-authors include Haiyan Chu, Xiangui Lin, Huayong Zhang, Yuan Ge, Wenju Liang, Youzhi Feng, Xinyu Li, Jinbo Xiong, Xuejun Liu and Ling Song and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Congcong Shen

40 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain

2012 819 citations Congcong Shen, Wenju Liang et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Nitrogen fertilization directly affects soil bacterial diversity and indirectly affects bacterial community composition

2015 565 citations Congcong Shen, Haiyan Chu et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Congcong Shen China	24	2.0k	1.6k	1.2k	805	363	44	3.5k
Binu M. Tripathi South Korea	30	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	893 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	307 0.8×	62	3.2k
Mark A. Williams United States	34	1.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	767 1.0×	449 1.2×	104	4.3k
Kelly E. Mason United Kingdom	10	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	544 0.7×	366 1.0×	11	2.9k
Pierre‐Alain Maron France	28	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	851 0.7×	621 0.8×	273 0.8×	46	2.8k
Aurore Kaisermann France	9	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	587 0.7×	335 0.9×	13	2.6k
Ashish A. Malik United Kingdom	22	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	941 0.8×	601 0.7×	321 0.9×	38	4.2k
Jessica Gutknecht United States	30	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	946 0.8×	413 0.5×	241 0.7×	71	3.1k
Romain L. Barnard France	26	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	687 0.9×	343 0.9×	42	3.9k
Kelly S. Ramirez United States	18	2.7k 1.4×	2.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	435 1.2×	30	4.8k
Rongxiao Che China	30	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	852 0.7×	397 0.5×	208 0.6×	77	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Congcong Shen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Congcong Shen

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Yuan, X., Xiaotong Zhu, Yu Shi, et al.. (2025). Soil microbiomes in degraded grasslands: Assembly, function, and application. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 352–365. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yuzhuo, Tian Lin, Congcong Shen, et al.. (2025). Identification of Advantaged Genes for Low-Nitrogen-Tolerance-Related Traits in Rice Using a Genome-Wide Association Study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(12). 5749–5749.

Nie, Shiqing, Congcong Shen, Sai Qu, et al.. (2025). Predicting the impact of climate warming on soil quality using bacteria and machine learning. Journal of Environmental Management. 391. 126473–126473.

Shen, Congcong, Michael K. Borregaard, Marcell K. Peters, et al.. (2025). Climate and microbial community composition drive shifts in ecosystem function along three parallel elevational gradients. Ecography. 2025(12).

Liu, Siyi, Lin Zhang, Yi Cheng, et al.. (2024). Elevational Patterns of Soil Nitrogen Forms and Transformations in the Southeastern Qinghai–Xizang Plateau. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 10.

Xu, Yongli, et al.. (2023). Nano-Nd2O3 reduced soil bacterial community function by altering the relative abundance of rare and sensitive taxa. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(32). 78332–78338. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Congcong, Lin Zhang, Jichen Wang, et al.. (2022). Dispersal limitation and host selection drive geo-specific and plant-specific differentiation of soil bacterial communities in the Tibetan alpine ecosystem. The Science of The Total Environment. 863. 160944–160944. 9 indexed citations

Shen, Congcong, Huayong Wu, Limei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Environmental selection dominates over dispersal limitation in shaping bacterial biogeographical patterns across different soil horizons of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 2). 156177–156177. 18 indexed citations

Jing, Xin, et al.. (2022). Rare Taxa Drive the Response of Soil Fungal Guilds to Soil Salinization in the Taklamakan Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 862245–862245. 13 indexed citations

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Dai, Zhongmin, Huadong Zang, Jie Chen, et al.. (2021). Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences. Environmental Microbiology. 23(8). 4631–4645. 82 indexed citations

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Shen, Congcong, et al.. (2021). Plant diversity enhances soil fungal network stability indirectly through the increase of soil carbon and fungal keystone taxa richness. The Science of The Total Environment. 818. 151737–151737. 52 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Yuan, Congcong Shen, Yifan Gu, Ruya Chen, & Baoyou Shi. (2020). Effect of trichloroacetic acid on iron oxidation: Implications on the control of DBPs and deposits in drinking water. Water Research. 189. 116632–116632. 12 indexed citations

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Shen, Congcong, Anna Gunina, Yu Luo, et al.. (2020). Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 22(8). 3287–3301. 184 indexed citations

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Yan, Yue, Congcong Shen, & Yuan Ge. (2019). Biochar accelerates the removal of tetracyclines and their intermediates by altering soil properties. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 380. 120821–120821. 95 indexed citations

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Li, Yan, Zhan Chen, Ji‐Zheng He, et al.. (2018). Ectomycorrhizal fungi inoculation alleviates simulated acid rain effects on soil ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in Masson pine forest. Environmental Microbiology. 21(1). 299–313. 23 indexed citations

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Ni, Yingying, Teng Yang, Kaoping Zhang, Congcong Shen, & Haiyan Chu. (2018). Fungal Communities Along a Small-Scale Elevational Gradient in an Alpine Tundra Are Determined by Soil Carbon Nitrogen Ratios. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1815–1815. 82 indexed citations

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Fan, Kunkun, César Cardona, Yuntao Li, et al.. (2017). Rhizosphere-associated bacterial network structure and spatial distribution differ significantly from bulk soil in wheat crop fields. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 113. 275–284. 231 indexed citations

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Shen, Congcong, et al.. (2016). Contrasting elevational diversity patterns for soil bacteria between two ecosystems divided by the treeline. Science China Life Sciences. 59(11). 1177–1186. 28 indexed citations

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Shen, Congcong, Yu Shi, Yingying Ni, et al.. (2016). Dramatic Increases of Soil Microbial Functional Gene Diversity at the Treeline Ecotone of Changbai Mountain. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1184–1184. 40 indexed citations

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Shen, Congcong, Yingying Ni, Wenju Liang, Jianjun Wang, & Haiyan Chu. (2015). Distinct soil bacterial communities along a small-scale elevational gradient in alpine tundra. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 582–582. 138 indexed citations

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