Fusuo Zhang

80.4k total citations · 33 hit papers
789 papers, 56.6k citations indexed

About

Fusuo Zhang is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fusuo Zhang has authored 789 papers receiving a total of 56.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 464 papers in Plant Science, 279 papers in Soil Science and 202 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Fusuo Zhang's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (217 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (183 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (116 papers). Fusuo Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (217 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (183 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (116 papers). Fusuo Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Fusuo Zhang's co-authors include Zhenling Cui, Xuejun Liu, Long Li, Xinping Chen, Jianbo Shen, Peter Christie, Xinping Chen, Xiaotang Ju, Haigang Li and Rongfeng Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fusuo Zhang

757 papers receiving 55.1k citations

Hit Papers

Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in ... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2009 2013 2011 2009 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems
    2009 2.2k citations Xiaotang Ju, Guangxi Xing et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China
    2013 2.1k citations Xuejun Liu, Zhenling Cui et al. profile →
  3. Phosphorus Dynamics: From Soil to Plant
    2011 1.3k citations Jianbo Shen, Xinping Chen et al. profile →
  4. Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development
    2009 1.1k citations Peter M. Vitousek, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  5. Diversity enhances agricultural productivity via rhizosphere phosphorus facilitation on phosphorus-deficient soils
    2007 702 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. New technologies reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogenous fertilizer in China
    2013 668 citations Xiaotang Ju, Xinping Chen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Nitrogen deposition and its ecological impact in China: An overview
    2010 657 citations Xuejun Liu, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  8. Integrated soil–crop system management for food security
    2011 631 citations Xinping Chen, Zhenling Cui et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Using competitive and facilitative interactions in intercropping systems enhances crop productivity and nutrient-use efficiency
    2003 531 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  10. Improving crop productivity and resource use efficiency to ensure food security and environmental quality in China
    2011 515 citations Jianbo Shen, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  11. Strategies for overcoming low agronomic nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated rice systems in China
    2005 497 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. Field Crops Research profile →
  12. Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture
    2014 480 citations David Tilman, Hans Lambers et al. profile →
  13. Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures
    2012 477 citations Fusuo Zhang, Zhaoliang Zhu et al. profile →
  14. Improving nitrogen fertilization in rice by sitespecific N management. A review
    2010 469 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  15. Closing yield gaps in China by empowering smallholder farmers
    2016 457 citations Xinping Chen, Zhenling Cui et al. profile →
  16. Long-term experiments for sustainable nutrient management in China. A review
    2010 446 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  17. Syndromes of production in intercropping impact yield gains
    2020 407 citations Chunjie Li, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  18. Intercropping enhances soil carbon and nitrogen
    2014 384 citations Wen‐Feng Cong, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  19. China’s livestock transition: Driving forces, impacts, and consequences
    2018 353 citations Lin Ma, O. Oenema et al. profile →
  20. An experiment for the world
    2013 323 citations Fusuo Zhang, Xinping Chen et al. profile →
  21. Benefits and trade‐offs of replacing synthetic fertilizers by animal manures in crop production in China: A meta‐analysis
    2019 318 citations Qunchao Fang, Yong Hou et al. profile →
  22. Carbon and phosphorus exchange may enable cooperation between an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and a phosphate‐solubilizing bacterium
    2016 297 citations Minggang Xu, Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  23. Intercropping maize and soybean increases efficiency of land and fertilizer nitrogen use; A meta-analysis
    2019 210 citations Chunjie Li, Wopke van der Werf et al. Field Crops Research profile →
  24. Magnesium Fertilization Improves Crop Yield in Most Production Systems: A Meta-Analysis
    2020 207 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. profile →
  25. Effects of plastic residues and microplastics on soil ecosystems: A global meta-analysis
    2022 200 citations Wen Xu, Xuejun Liu et al. profile →
  26. The productive performance of intercropping
    2023 152 citations Chunjie Li, T.J. Stomph et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  27. Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects
    2023 131 citations Fusuo Zhang, Jing Tian et al. profile →
  28. Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming
    2024 102 citations Jing Tian, Fusuo Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  29. Global mean nitrogen recovery efficiency in croplands can be enhanced by optimal nutrient, crop and soil management practices
    2023 100 citations Gerard H. Ros, Fusuo Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  30. Microbiome convergence enables siderophore-secreting-rhizobacteria to improve iron nutrition and yield of peanut intercropped with maize
    2024 62 citations Fusuo Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  31. Conservation agriculture improves soil health and sustains crop yields after long-term warming
    2024 43 citations Jing Tian, Zhenling Cui et al. Nature Communications profile →
  32. Soil organic carbon thresholds control fertilizer effects on carbon accrual in croplands worldwide
    2025 23 citations Zhenling Cui, Wushuai Zhang et al. profile →
  33. Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development
    2025 17 citations Jianxing Zhu, Yanlong Jia et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Fusuo Zhang
Comparison fields: 5 of 189
  • Plant Science 32.0k
  • Soil Science 21.1k
  • Agronomy and Crop Science 15.0k
  • Environmental Chemistry 8.2k
  • Ecology 7.3k
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Johannes Lehmann United States
Johan Six United States
Rattan Lal United States
Davey L. Jones United Kingdom
Kenneth G. Cassman United States
K.E. Giller Netherlands
Peter Christie China
Pete Smith United Kingdom
Philip C. Brookes China
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Bacterial rrn copy numbers linked to soil function and crop yield in long-term manure-fertilized soils
2025 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·Shuikuan Bei, Xingjie Wu, Yong Hou, Huimin Yuan, Christopher Rensing, Zhenling Cui, Fusuo Zhang, Jingjing Peng
1
2
Environmental trade-offs and productivity gains through sustainable nitrogen use in an intensive high-input sugarcane production system in China
2025 ·Industrial Crops and Products ·Linsheng Yang, (unknown), Bo Meng, Huayang Wang, (unknown), Prakash Lakshmanan, Ting Luo, Yan Deng, Xinping Chen, Fusuo Zhang
0
3
Crop rotations synergize yield, nutrition, and revenue: a meta-analysis
2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Jingying Jing, David Makowski, Xueqing He, Zhengyuan Liang, (unknown), Thomas Cherico Wanger, David Tilman, Fusuo Zhang, Wen‐Feng Cong
1
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Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development breakdown →
2025 ·Nature Communications ·Jianxing Zhu, Yanlong Jia, Guirui Yu, Qiufeng Wang, Nianpeng He, Zhi Chen, Honglin He, Xianjin Zhu, Li Pan, Fusuo Zhang, Xuejun Liu, K. W. T. Goulding, D. Fowler, Peter M. Vitousek
17
5
Large loss of reactive nitrogen and the associated environmental damages from tea production in China
2024 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·(unknown), Prakash Lakshmanan, Wushuai Zhang, Xiaozhong Wang, Bin Liu, Kang Ni, Jianyun Ruan, Xiaojun Shi, Xinping Chen, Fusuo Zhang
5
6
High sugarcane yield and large reduction in reactive nitrogen loss can be achieved by lowering nitrogen input
2024 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Linsheng Yang, (unknown), Bo Meng, Jianming Zhan, Min Xi, Yan Deng, Wenge Wu, Prakash Lakshmanan, Xinping Chen, Fusuo Zhang
7
7
Improving smallholders' capacity building by creating an enabling environment for sustainable crop production
2024 ·Agricultural Systems ·Yajuan Li, Xinxin Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xiaoqiang Jiao, Fusuo Zhang
4
8
A partial transfer component regression framework for standard-free calibration transfer of NIR spectroscopic data for soil analysis
2024 ·Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ·Jixiong Zhang, Mingyang Wang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Fusuo Zhang
2
9
More inputs of antibiotics into groundwater but less into rivers as a result of manure management in China
2024 ·Environmental Science and Ecotechnology ·Qi Zhang, (unknown), Carolien Kroeze, Milou G.M. van de Schans, Jantiene Baartman, Jing Yang, Shiyang Li, (unknown), Mengru Wang, Lin Ma, Fusuo Zhang, Maryna Strokal
8
10
Mitigation strategies for soil acidification based on optimal nitrogen management
2024 ·Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Prakash Lakshmanan, Yan Deng, Qichao Zhu, Fusuo Zhang
8
11
Nitrogen input strategies impact fertilizer nitrogen saving by intercropping: A global meta-analysis
2024 ·Field Crops Research ·Yalin Liu, T.J. Stomph, Fusuo Zhang, Chunjie Li, Wopke van der Werf
5
12
Exploring phosphorus fertiliser management in wheat production
2023 ·European Journal of Agronomy ·Xiaojun Yan, Xiaohui Chen, (unknown), Ziwei Luo, Changcheng Ma, Wenqing Huang, Zhenling Cui, Xinping Chen, (unknown), Fusuo Zhang
5
13
Root exudation of organic acid anions and recruitment of beneficial actinobacteria facilitate phosphorus uptake by maize in compacted silt loam soil
2023 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Zed Rengel, Tim H. Mauchline, Jianbo Shen, Fusuo Zhang, Kemo Jin
47
14
Patterns and driving factors of soil organic carbon sequestration efficiency under various manure regimes across Chinese croplands
2023 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Fengling Ren, Ruqiang Zhang, Nan Sun, Yalin Li, Minggang Xu, Fusuo Zhang, Wen Xu
22
15
Ammonia mitigation measures reduce greenhouse gas emissions from an integrated manure-cropland system
2023 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·(unknown), (unknown), Ying Zhang, Xuejun Liu, O. Oenema, Gerard H. Ros, W. de Vries, Wen Xu, Yong Hou, Hongliang Wang, Fusuo Zhang
11
16
Intercropping increases soil macroaggregate carbon through root traits induced microbial necromass accumulation
2023 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Ruqiang Zhang, Nianyuan Jiao, Jing Tian, Hans Lambers, Chao Liang, Wen‐Feng Cong, Fusuo Zhang
60
17
Boosting domestic feed production with less environmental cost through optimized crop distribution
2023 ·Resources Conservation and Recycling ·(unknown), Yong Hou, Qunchao Fang, Xiaoying Zhang, Hongliang Wang, Siqi Wang, Xueqin Zhu, Fusuo Zhang, O. Oenema
12
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Below‐ground‐mediated and phase‐dependent processes drive nitrogen‐evoked community changes in grasslands
2020 ·Journal of Ecology ·Qiuying Tian, Liuyi Yang, Pengfei Ma, (unknown), Nana Liu, Wenming Bai, Hong Wang, (unknown), Peng Lü, (unknown), Peggy A. Schultz, James D. Bever, Fusuo Zhang, Hans Lambers, Wenhao Zhang
46
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Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems breakdown →
2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xiaotang Ju, Guangxi Xing, Xinping Chen, Shaolin Zhang, Lijuan Zhang, Xuejun Liu, Zhenling Cui, Bin Yin, Peter Christie, Zhaoliang Zhu, Fusuo Zhang
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Root size and nitrogen‐uptake activity in two maize (Zea mays) inbred lines differing in nitrogen‐use efficiency
2009 ·Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science ·Jinxin Liu, Fanjun Chen, (unknown), Anthony D. M. Glass, Yi‐Ping Tong, Fusuo Zhang, Guohua Mi
70

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