Feng Zhou

14.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Feng Zhou is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Feng Zhou has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Water Science and Technology, 43 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 30 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Feng Zhou's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (32 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (20 papers). Feng Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (32 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (20 papers). Feng Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Feng Zhou's co-authors include Huaicheng Guo, Yong Liu, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, Zejia Hao, Shu Tao, Xiaoqing Cui, Ziyin Shang, Qihui Wang and Wulahati Adalibieke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Feng Zhou

199 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Genomic basis of geographical adaptation to soil nitrogen in rice

2021 290 citations Feng Zhou et al. profile →
The underappreciated role of agricultural soil nitrogen oxide emissions in ozone pollution regulation in North China

2021 165 citations Feng Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →
Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades

2023 120 citations Jin Fu, Yiwei Jian et al. Nature Food profile →
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates

2024 68 citations Han Hu, Ji Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feng Zhou China	50	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	1.2k	217	7.4k
Yang Gao China	43	1.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.7×	775 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	193	8.4k
Tao Liang China	51	1.3k 0.8×	702 0.6×	649 0.5×	610 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	268	8.2k
Lei Chen China	44	3.0k 1.8×	878 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	519 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	374	7.4k
Ying Ouyang United States	36	1.9k 1.1×	757 0.6×	816 0.7×	592 0.5×	606 0.5×	225	5.1k
Maximilian Posch Netherlands	46	630 0.4×	761 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	555 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	185	7.0k
Chen Taiwan	32	905 0.5×	537 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	623 0.5×	447 0.4×	775	5.4k
Yi Wang China	35	862 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	853 0.7×	638 0.5×	948 0.8×	282	4.6k
Fanghua Hao China	55	2.9k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	4.7k 3.9×	674 0.6×	929 0.8×	190	8.8k
Peng Li China	51	2.2k 1.4×	4.2k 3.4×	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	953 0.8×	602	10.7k
Si‐Liang Li China	49	2.1k 1.3×	451 0.4×	767 0.6×	337 0.3×	2.0k 1.7×	308	8.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Feng Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Feng Zhou

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Feng Zhou. 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 Zhou. The network helps show where Feng Zhou may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Feng Zhou

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

Fu, Jin, Chengjie Wang, Yue Qin, et al.. (2025). Regionally variable responses of maize and soybean yield to rainfall events in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110458–110458. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Fu‐Jun Yue, Li Li, et al.. (2025). Chronic nitrogen legacy in the aquifers of China. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 6 indexed citations

Yu, Xiayang, et al.. (2024). Subsurface fluxes dominate the dissolved nitrogen losses from rice paddies in central China. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 363. 108881–108881. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Feng, Wenyue Wang, Kaiyi Li, et al.. (2024). Controlling of irreversible fouling and mechanism in a hybrid ceramic membrane bioreactor (CMBR)-reverse osmosis (RO) process for textile wastewater reclamation. Desalination. 586. 117914–117914. 12 indexed citations

Wu, Yali, et al.. (2024). Raindrop-induced ejections contribute to one fifth of nitrogen and phosphorous runoff losses from China’s rice fields. Journal of Hydrology. 650. 132534–132534. 1 indexed citations

Adalibieke, Wulahati, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Longfei Yu, et al.. (2024). Modeling denitrification nitrogen losses in China's rice fields based on multiscale field‐experiment constraints. Global Change Biology. 30(2). e17199–e17199. 6 indexed citations

Hu, Han, Ji Chen, Feng Zhou, et al.. (2024). Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates. Nature Geoscience. 17(1). 26–31. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

Qiu, Tianyi, Yu Shi, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2024). Optimizing cover crop practices as a sustainable solution for global agroecosystem services. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10617–10617. 26 indexed citations

Shang, Ziyin, Xiaoqing Cui, Kees Jan van Groenigen, et al.. (2024). Global cropland nitrous oxide emissions in fallow period are comparable to growing‐season emissions. Global Change Biology. 30(2). 13 indexed citations

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Li, Kang, et al.. (2023). Passive athermalization design of a cooled infrared optical system. Chinese Optics. 16(4). 853–860. 3 indexed citations

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Xiao, Han, Xu-Ri Xu-Ri, Zhongmin Hu, et al.. (2023). Four decades of full-scale nitrous oxide emission inventory in China. National Science Review. 11(3). nwad285–nwad285. 26 indexed citations

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Fu, Jin, Chengjie Wang, Wulahati Adalibieke, et al.. (2023). Declines in nutrient losses from China’s rice paddies jointly driven by fertilizer application and extreme rainfall. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 353. 108537–108537. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Peng, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Yi Zheng, et al.. (2022). Policy-enabled stabilization of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock production in China over 1978–2017. Nature Food. 3(5). 356–366. 40 indexed citations

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Zhou, Feng & Tianhe Xu. (2021). Modeling and assessment of GPS/BDS/Galileo triple-frequency precise point positioning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7 indexed citations

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Shen, Jianlin, Yong Li, Xuejun Liu, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen emission and deposition budget in an agricultural catchment in subtropical central China. Environmental Pollution. 289. 117870–117870. 17 indexed citations

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Yin, Zun, Catherine Ottlé, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2021). Irrigation, damming, and streamflow fluctuations of the Yellow River. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(3). 1133–1150. 29 indexed citations

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Shen, Huizhong, Yilin Chen, Yongtao Hu, et al.. (2020). Intense Warming Will Significantly Increase Cropland Ammonia Volatilization Threatening Food Security and Ecosystem Health. One Earth. 3(1). 126–134. 32 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yong, Yanxi Pei, Yongguang Zhao, et al.. (2019). Disrupted interhemispheric functional coordination in patients with chronic low back-related leg pain: a multiscale frequency-related homotopic connectivity study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Shilong Piao, Philippe Bousquet, et al.. (2016). Inventory of anthropogenic methane emissions in mainland China from 1980 to 2010. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(22). 14545–14562. 143 indexed citations

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Liu, Bo, et al.. (2013). [Influence of Vallisneria spiralis on the physicochemical properties of black-odor sediment in urban sluggish river].. PubMed. 34(7). 2642–9. 2 indexed citations

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