Dima Chen

6.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Dima Chen is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dima Chen has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Soil Science, 40 papers in Ecology and 35 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Dima Chen's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (64 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers). Dima Chen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (64 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers). Dima Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Mongolia. Dima Chen's co-authors include Yongfei Bai, Shuijin Hu, Zhichun Lan, Muhammad Saleem, Jianjun Li, Ying Wu, Junhui Cheng, Hui Guo, Pengfei Chu and James B. Grace and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Dima Chen

90 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Divergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils

2018 354 citations Dima Chen, Huifeng Hu et al. profile →
Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China’s terrestrial ecosystems

2018 297 citations Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen et al. profile →
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability

2022 173 citations Shengen Liu, Pablo García‐Palacios et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dima Chen China	34	2.9k	1.9k	1.6k	943	696	96	4.5k
Honghua Ruan China	36	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	762 0.8×	730 1.0×	187	4.4k
Qingkui Wang China	32	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	822 0.9×	774 1.1×	120	4.1k
Lucia Fuchslueger Austria	25	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	539 0.6×	581 0.8×	55	4.3k
Colin Averill United States	21	2.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	765 0.8×	449 0.6×	36	3.9k
Dashuan Tian China	33	3.0k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	772 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	108	4.8k
Chengjie Ren China	40	3.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	536 0.6×	419 0.6×	141	4.8k
Weixing Liu China	33	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	650 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	79	4.1k
Edward Brzostek United States	31	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	57	4.9k
Shaoshan An China	39	3.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	873 0.6×	554 0.6×	478 0.7×	106	4.5k
Marion Schrumpf Germany	37	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	516 0.5×	692 1.0×	104	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Dima Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dima Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Fei, et al.. (2025). Contrasting Trends in Plant Diversity and Soil Carbon Mineralization Under Precipitation‐Driven Vegetation and Soil Carbon Dynamics in the Mongolian Plateau. Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). e71806–e71806.

Zhou, Xuan, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1699–1711.

Zhang, Huiling, Ying Wu, Liji Wu, et al.. (2025). Plants and soil biota co‐regulate stability of ecosystem multifunctionality under multiple environmental changes. Ecology. 106(2). e4534–e4534. 7 indexed citations

Wu, Liji, et al.. (2024). Environmental preferences of soil microbial attributes for long-term nitrogen and acid addition: From phylotype to community. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 197. 109541–109541. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Fengwei, Jianjun Li, Liji Wu, et al.. (2024). Independent biodiversity mechanisms regulate ecosystem multifunctionality and its temporal stability under resource enrichment in a mown grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(1). 4 indexed citations

Huang, Jing, et al.. (2024). Litter quality and climate regulate the effect of invertebrates on litter decomposition in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: A global meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 935. 173102–173102. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Jiamei, Bin Zhang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). Changes in productivity partitioning induced by precipitation extremes increase inaccuracy of grassland carbon estimation. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17404–e17404. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Bing, et al.. (2023). Soil biota associated with soil N cycling under multiple anthropogenic stressors in grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology. 193. 105134–105134. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Liji, et al.. (2023). Stronger effects of long-term P enrichment on soil biota than plants in grasslands. Soil and Tillage Research. 229. 105668–105668. 6 indexed citations

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Ren, Haiyan, Kathryn A. Yurkonis, Lifeng Wang, et al.. (2022). Temporal stabilizing effects of species richness and seed arrangement on grassland biomass production. Journal of Ecology. 110(7). 1606–1614. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Shengen, Pablo García‐Palacios, Leho Tedersoo, et al.. (2022). Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 900–909. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pan, Qingmin, Amy J. Symstad, Yongfei Bai, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity–productivity relationships in a natural grassland community vary under diversity loss scenarios. Journal of Ecology. 110(1). 210–220. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Zhen, Fuwei Wang, Fanglong Su, et al.. (2021). Climate change drivers alter root controls over litter decomposition in a semi-arid grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 158. 108278–108278. 32 indexed citations

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Wu, Ying, Dima Chen, Muhammad Saleem, et al.. (2021). Rare soil microbial taxa regulate the negative effects of land degradation drivers on soil organic matter decomposition. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(8). 1658–1669. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Ying, Jianping Wu, Muhammad Saleem, et al.. (2020). Ecological clusters based on responses of soil microbial phylotypes to precipitation explain ecosystem functions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 142. 107717–107717. 37 indexed citations

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Li, Ping, Emma J. Sayer, Zhou Jia, et al.. (2020). Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland. Global Change Biology. 26(5). 3015–3027. 61 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuqing, Wenhong Ma, Dan Kou, et al.. (2019). How deep do we dig for surface soil? A comparison of patterns of microbial C : N : P stoichiometry between topsoil and subsoil along an aridity gradient. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Dima, Xing Wen, Zhichun Lan, et al.. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen enrichment on soil organisms and carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a semi‐arid grassland. Functional Ecology. 33(1). 175–187. 144 indexed citations

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Chen, Dima, Qingmin Pan, Yongfei Bai, et al.. (2016). Effects of plant functional group loss on soil biota and net ecosystem exchange: a plant removal experiment in the Mongolian grassland. Journal of Ecology. 104(3). 734–743. 62 indexed citations

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Chen, Dima, et al.. (2005). Analysis on micro-habitat variables affecting natural regeneration and survival of seedlings in Picea schrenkiana stand. 28(3). 35–39. 3 indexed citations

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