Fazhu Zhao

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Fazhu Zhao is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fazhu Zhao has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Soil Science, 53 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Fazhu Zhao's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (82 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (22 papers). Fazhu Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (82 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (22 papers). Fazhu Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Spain. Fazhu Zhao's co-authors include Xinhui Han, Chengjie Ren, Yongzhong Feng, Gaihe Yang, Guangxin Ren, Jian Deng, Upendra M. Sainju, Di Kang, Ji Chen and Gaihe Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Fazhu Zhao

87 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Global turnover of soil mineral-associated and particulate organic carbon

2024 83 citations Zhenghu Zhou, Chengjie Ren et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fazhu Zhao China	34	2.7k	1.6k	1.0k	412	403	90	3.7k
Yongzhong Feng China	36	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	450 1.1×	438 1.1×	73	4.0k
Zhenghu Zhou China	27	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	997 1.0×	217 0.5×	332 0.8×	63	3.1k
Jessica Gutknecht United States	30	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	946 0.9×	237 0.6×	329 0.8×	71	3.1k
Chengjie Ren China	40	3.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	386 0.9×	536 1.3×	141	4.8k
Sibylle Steinbeiss Germany	15	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	858 0.8×	325 0.8×	711 1.8×	17	3.3k
Lucia Fuchslueger Austria	25	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	251 0.6×	539 1.3×	55	4.3k
Abad Chabbi France	32	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	970 1.0×	429 1.0×	338 0.8×	87	4.1k
Anna Gunina Germany	33	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	365 0.9×	150 0.4×	92	3.6k
M. Francesca Cotrufo United States	17	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	694 0.7×	346 0.8×	383 1.0×	21	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Fazhu Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fazhu Zhao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fazhu Zhao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Yang, et al.. (2025). Relationships between soil health and dynamics of soil potential pathogenic microbiota in functional domains of Xi'an urban greenspaces, China. Environmental Research. 277. 121604–121604. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jieying, Fazhu Zhao, Liyuan He, et al.. (2025). Aboveground Productivity Shapes the Active Soil Microbiome Across China. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70497–e70497.

Liu, Rui, Upendra M. Sainju, Rajan Ghimire, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms of cover crop-derived carbon sequestration in winter wheat fields: Insights from 13C labeling. Soil and Tillage Research. 248. 106462–106462. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhenghu, Chengjie Ren, Chuankuan Wang, et al.. (2024). Global turnover of soil mineral-associated and particulate organic carbon. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5329–5329. 83 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Caidi, Yang Liu, Nannan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Long-term fertilization differentially increased the CAZyme encoding genes responsible for soil organic matter decomposition under winter wheat on the Loess Plateau of China. Applied Soil Ecology. 198. 105354–105354. 6 indexed citations

Ren, Chengjie, Zhenghu Zhou, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2024). Thermal sensitivity of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across forest biomes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6269–6269. 32 indexed citations

Yang, Caidi, et al.. (2024). Mulching drive changes in soil microbial community assembly processes and networks across aggregate fractions. European Journal of Soil Biology. 122. 103664–103664. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Rui, et al.. (2024). Regulation of wheat growth by soil multifunctionality and metagenomic-based microbial functional profiles under mulching treatments. The Science of The Total Environment. 920. 170881–170881. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Nannan, Upendra M. Sainju, Fazhu Zhao, et al.. (2023). Mulching decreased the abundance of microbial functional genes in phosphorus cycling under maize. Applied Soil Ecology. 187. 104833–104833. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Junqi, Liyuan He, Jieying Wang, et al.. (2023). Contrasting potential impact patterns of unique and shared microbial species on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland soil on the Tibetan Plateau. Applied Soil Ecology. 195. 105246–105246. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Caidi, et al.. (2023). Differential Responses of Soil Microbial N-Cycling Functional Genes to 35 yr Applications of Chemical Fertilizer and Organic Manure in Wheat Field Soil on Loess Plateau. Agronomy. 13(6). 1516–1516. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Rui, et al.. (2023). The Nitrogen Cycling Key Functional Genes and Related Microbial Bacterial Community α−Diversity Is Determined by Crop Rotation Plans in the Loess Plateau. Agronomy. 13(7). 1769–1769. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Caidi, Upendra M. Sainju, Chao Li, et al.. (2023). Long-Term Chemical and Organic Fertilization Differently Affect Soil Aggregates and Associated Carbon and Nitrogen in the Loess Plateau of China. Agronomy. 13(6). 1466–1466. 9 indexed citations

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Ren, Chengjie, Fei Mo, Zhenghu Zhou, et al.. (2022). The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(8). 1679–1687. 31 indexed citations

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Zhou, Sha, Yi Li, Jieying Wang, et al.. (2022). Contrasting Soil Microbial Functional Potential for Phosphorus Cycling in Subtropical and Temperate Forests. Forests. 13(12). 2002–2002. 4 indexed citations

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Liang, Yue, Jieying Wang, Yanfang Liu, et al.. (2021). Unique genes carried by abundant species enhance CH4 emissions during the growing season at the Tibetan Plateau. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(2). 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Chengjie, Jieying Wang, Felipe Bastida, et al.. (2021). Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes. Global Change Biology. 28(4). 1516–1528. 72 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fazhu, Chengjie Ren, Shelby K. Shelton, et al.. (2017). Grazing intensity influence soil microbial communities and their implications for soil respiration. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 249. 50–56. 114 indexed citations

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Ren, Chengjie, Di Kang, Jian Wu, et al.. (2016). Temporal variation in soil enzyme activities after afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China. Geoderma. 282. 103–111. 140 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fazhu, et al.. (2014). Soil stoichiometry and carbon storage in long-term afforestation soil affected by understory vegetation diversity. Ecological Engineering. 74. 415–422. 124 indexed citations

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