Guibiao Yang

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Guibiao Yang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Guibiao Yang has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 24 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Guibiao Yang's work include Climate change and permafrost (30 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (19 papers). Guibiao Yang is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (30 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (19 papers). Guibiao Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Finland. Guibiao Yang's co-authors include Yuanhe Yang, Kai Fang, Shuqi Qin, Fei Li, Yunfeng Peng, Leiyi Chen, Dianye Zhang, Guanqin Wang, Jianchun Yu and Li Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Guibiao Yang

43 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale

2019 313 citations Leiyi Chen, Li Liu 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
Guibiao Yang China	25	1.2k	997	844	444	366	45	2.3k
Joseph C. Blankinship United States	21	1.5k 1.2×	943 0.9×	324 0.4×	441 1.0×	415 1.1×	35	2.3k
I. N. Kurganova Russia	26	1.6k 1.3×	782 0.8×	446 0.5×	443 1.0×	228 0.6×	98	2.3k
S. L. Piao China	6	1.0k 0.8×	692 0.7×	328 0.4×	583 1.3×	397 1.1×	6	1.7k
Xiaofeng Chang China	28	1.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	511 0.6×	693 1.6×	239 0.7×	53	2.8k
Xiaoming Kang China	28	866 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	412 0.5×	724 1.6×	275 0.8×	91	2.3k
Heidi Lux United States	6	966 0.8×	716 0.7×	458 0.5×	753 1.7×	170 0.5×	6	1.8k
Wouter Dieleman United States	8	1.3k 1.1×	848 0.9×	321 0.4×	734 1.7×	370 1.0×	9	2.1k
Rainer Gasché Germany	27	1.7k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	432 0.5×	851 1.9×	849 2.3×	55	2.5k
Ulrik Ilstedt Sweden	27	1.2k 1.0×	742 0.7×	365 0.4×	890 2.0×	323 0.9×	61	2.6k
Fernando Moyano Germany	15	1.3k 1.1×	812 0.8×	316 0.4×	734 1.7×	251 0.7×	23	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guibiao Yang

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

Wei, Bin, Dianye Zhang, Carolina Voigt, et al.. (2025). Progressive decline in soil nitrogen stocks with warming in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem. Nature Geoscience. 18(10). 997–1004. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Guibiao, Meifeng Deng, Lulu Guo, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of leaf nutrient resorption efficiency in Tibetan alpine permafrost ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4044–4044. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Laiming, Shuqi Qin, Dan Kou, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal patterns of methane fluxes across alpine permafrost region on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7474–7474. 1 indexed citations

Bai, Yuxuan, Yunfeng Peng, Dianye Zhang, et al.. (2024). Heating up the roof of the world: tracing the impacts of in-situ warming on carbon cycle in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. National Science Review. 12(2). nwae371–nwae371. 7 indexed citations

Kang, Luyao, Leiyi Chen, Jianjun Wang, et al.. (2023). Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(12). 2244–2256.

Yang, Guibiao, Benjamin W. Abbott, David Olefeldt, et al.. (2023). Characteristics of methane emissions from alpine thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3121–3121. 44 indexed citations

Bai, Yuxuan, Yunfeng Peng, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2023). SWAMP : A new experiment for simulating permafrost warming and active layer deepening on the Tibetan Plateau. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). 1732–1746. 7 indexed citations

Wei, Bin, Dianye Zhang, Guanqin Wang, et al.. (2023). Experimental warming altered plant functional traits and their coordination in a permafrost ecosystem. New Phytologist. 240(5). 1802–1816. 45 indexed citations

Wei, Bin, Dianye Zhang, Dan Kou, et al.. (2022). Decreased ultraviolet radiation and decomposer biodiversity inhibit litter decomposition under continuous nitrogen inputs. Functional Ecology. 36(4). 998–1009. 9 indexed citations

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Yang, Guibiao, et al.. (2022). Effects of land degradation on soil and microbial stoichiometry in Qingzang Plateau alpine grasslands. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 46(4). 461–472. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Guanqin, Leiyi Chen, Dianye Zhang, et al.. (2022). Divergent Trajectory of Soil Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Respiration upon Permafrost Thaw. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(14). 10483–10493. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Guibiao, Yunfeng Peng, Benjamin W. Abbott, et al.. (2021). Phosphorus rather than nitrogen regulates ecosystem carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw. Global Change Biology. 27(22). 5818–5830. 56 indexed citations

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Kou, Dan, Guibiao Yang, Fei Li, et al.. (2020). Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3331–3331. 89 indexed citations

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Chen, Leiyi, Li Liu, Shuqi Qin, et al.. (2019). Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5112–5112. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Fei, Yunfeng Peng, Dianye Zhang, et al.. (2019). Leaf Area Rather Than Photosynthetic Rate Determines the Response of Ecosystem Productivity to Experimental Warming in an Alpine Steppe. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(7). 2277–2287. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Leiyi, Li Liu, Chao Mao, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen availability regulates topsoil carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw by altering microbial metabolic efficiency. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3951–3951. 231 indexed citations

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Kou, Dan, Jinzhi Ding, Fei Li, et al.. (2018). Spatially-explicit estimate of soil nitrogen stock and its implication for land model across Tibetan alpine permafrost region. The Science of The Total Environment. 650(Pt 2). 1795–1804. 23 indexed citations

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Kou, Dan, Yunfeng Peng, Guanqin Wang, et al.. (2017). Diverse responses of belowground internal nitrogen cycling to increasing aridity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 189–192. 27 indexed citations

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Peng, Yunfeng, Fei Li, Guoying Zhou, et al.. (2017). Nonlinear response of soil respiration to increasing nitrogen additions in a Tibetan alpine steppe. Environmental Research Letters. 12(2). 24018–24018. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Beibei, et al.. (2016). Soil inorganic carbon stock in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau: an updated evaluation using deep cores. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 40(2). 93–101. 4 indexed citations

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