Feng Chen

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Feng Chen is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Feng Chen has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Feng Chen's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (52 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers). Feng Chen is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (74 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (52 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers). Feng Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Feng Chen's co-authors include Nianzhi Jiao, Steven W. Wilhelm, Curtis A. Suttle, Jingrang Lu, Ronald Benner, Gerhard J. Herndl, Farooq Azam, Tingwei Luo, David L. Kirchman and Dennis A. Hansell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Feng Chen

115 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

2010 1.3k citations Nianzhi Jiao, Gerhard J. Herndl et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
The microbial carbon pump and climate change

2024 122 citations Nianzhi Jiao, Tingwei Luo et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feng Chen United States	39	4.5k	2.1k	2.0k	799	563	120	6.0k
Télesphore Sime‐Ngando France	47	4.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	835 1.0×	878 1.6×	193	6.2k
Assaf Vardi Israel	42	2.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	970 1.2×	582 1.0×	100	5.2k
Ian Hewson United States	39	5.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	716 0.9×	639 1.1×	100	6.8k
Grieg F. Steward United States	40	4.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.5×	914 1.1×	793 1.4×	80	6.5k
Alison Buchan United States	29	3.9k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	565 0.7×	579 1.0×	62	5.1k
Mark V. Brown Australia	38	4.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	760 1.0×	523 0.9×	66	5.3k
Rex R. Malmstrom United States	41	4.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	932 1.2×	670 1.2×	71	5.9k
Jesús M. Arrieta Spain	31	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	808 1.0×	314 0.6×	63	5.5k
Silvia G. Acinas Spain	35	4.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.5×	1.5k 0.7×	801 1.0×	408 0.7×	81	6.0k
Corina P. D. Brussaard Netherlands	47	5.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	2.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.8×	139	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Feng Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Feng Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Feng Chen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Feng Chen. The network helps show where Feng Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Feng Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Feng Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Feng 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 Feng Chen. Feng Chen 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

Su, Kang, et al.. (2026). Induced fit growth of Ga-based semiconductor thin films for brain-inspired electronics and optoelectronics. Light Science & Applications. 15(1). 103–103.

Dong, Junfu, Xiao Chen, Fangshuai Chen, et al.. (2025). Temperature Thresholds Govern Microbial‐Mediated Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems. Advanced Science. 13(2). e11348–e11348.

Chen, Haoyu, et al.. (2024). Growth and Cell Size of Microalga Auxenochlorella protothecoides AS-1 under Different Trophic Modes. Microorganisms. 12(4). 835–835. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Hualong, Feilong Liu, Min Wang, et al.. (2024). Planktonic eukaryotes in the Chesapeake Bay: contrasting responses of abundant and rare taxa to estuarine gradients. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(5). e0404823–e0404823. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Feng, Leilei Yu, Chuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Lead toxicity mitigation effect of a Lactiplantibacillus plantarum–chondroitin sulfate complex revealed by microbiome and metabolomic analyses. Food & Function. 15(19). 10110–10120. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Qi, Christian Lønborg, Feng Chen, et al.. (2024). Bottom-up and top-down controls on Alteromonas macleodii lead to different dissolved organic matter compositions. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae010–ycae010. 1 indexed citations

Jiao, Nianzhi, Tingwei Luo, Quanrui Chen, et al.. (2024). The microbial carbon pump and climate change. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 22(7). 408–419. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Yuanfang, Xue Meng, Lanlan Cai, et al.. (2023). A novel long-tailed myovirus represents a new T4-like cyanophage cluster. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1293846–1293846. 1 indexed citations

Mohy-Ud-Din, Waqas, Muhammad Javed Akhtar, Safdar Bashir, et al.. (2023). Isolation of Glyphosate-Resistant Bacterial Strains to Improve the Growth of Maize and Degrade Glyphosate under Axenic Condition. Agriculture. 13(4). 886–886. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuanfang, et al.. (2023). An Estuarine Cyanophage S-CREM1 Encodes Three Distinct Antitoxin Genes and a Large Number of Non-Coding RNA Genes. Viruses. 15(2). 380–380. 3 indexed citations

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Jiao, Nianzhi, Chenba Zhu, Jihua Liu, et al.. (2023). A roadmap for Ocean Negative Carbon Emission eco-engineering in sea-farming fields. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1(2). 100029–100029. 14 indexed citations

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Xie, Zhang-Xian, Ling‐Fen Kong, Yingbao Gai, et al.. (2022). Metabolic tuning of a stable microbial community in the surface oligotrophic Indian Ocean revealed by integrated meta-omics. Marine Life Science & Technology. 4(2). 277–290. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Feng, Jianbo Li, Xiefang Yuan, et al.. (2021). Novel Lytic Phages Protect Cells and Mice against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection. Journal of Virology. 95(8). 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Hualong, Feng Chen, Chuanlun Zhang, Min Wang, & Jinjun Kan. (2021). Estuarine gradients dictate spatiotemporal variations of microbiome networks in the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental Microbiome. 16(1). 22–22. 41 indexed citations

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Gonsior, Michael, Leanne C. Powers, Ernest Williams, et al.. (2019). The chemodiversity of algal dissolved organic matter from lysed Microcystis aeruginosa cells and its ability to form disinfection by-products during chlorination. Water Research. 155. 300–309. 77 indexed citations

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Zhan, Yuanchao, Sijun Huang, Sonja Voget, Meinhard Simon, & Feng Chen. (2016). A novel roseobacter phage possesses features of podoviruses, siphoviruses, prophages and gene transfer agents. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30372–30372. 45 indexed citations

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Zheng, Qiang, Nianzhi Jiao, Rui Zhang, Feng Chen, & Curtis A. Suttle. (2013). Prevalence of psbA-containing cyanobacterial podoviruses in the ocean. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 3207–3207. 12 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yanlin, Kui Wang, Nianzhi Jiao, & Feng Chen. (2009). Genome sequences of two novel phages infecting marine roseobacters. Environmental Microbiology. 11(8). 2055–2064. 64 indexed citations

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Kan, Jinjun, Thomas E. Hanson, Joy M. Ginter, Kui Wang, & Feng Chen. (2005). Metaproteomic analysis of Chesapeake Bay microbial communities. PubMed. 1(1). 7–7. 79 indexed citations

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Kan, Jinjun & Feng Chen. (2004). Co-monitoring bacterial and dinoflagellates communities by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and SSU rRNA sequencing during a dinoflagellates bloom. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 23(3). 483–492. 2 indexed citations

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