Jian Song

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 921 citations indexed

About

Jian Song is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Song has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 921 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Soil Science and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jian Song's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Jian Song is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Jian Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Jian Song's co-authors include Shiqiang Wan, Jingyi Ru, Dafeng Hui, Zhenxing Zhou, Mengmei Zheng, Mingxing Zhong, Jing Wang, Jiayin Feng, Lin Jiang and Yangyang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jian Song

64 papers receiving 905 citations

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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.

Soil microbial diversity and network complexity drive the ecosystem multifunctionality of temperate grasslands under changing precipitation

2023 93 citations An‐Hui Ge, Zhenxing Zhou et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Song China	19	340	306	265	191	163	72	921
Xiai Zhu China	19	545 1.6×	313 1.0×	236 0.9×	260 1.4×	145 0.9×	49	1.2k
Bingwei Zhang China	16	261 0.8×	275 0.9×	194 0.7×	193 1.0×	164 1.0×	42	788
Geng Sun China	18	324 1.0×	224 0.7×	295 1.1×	239 1.3×	133 0.8×	51	885
Junen Wu China	17	573 1.7×	340 1.1×	238 0.9×	285 1.5×	147 0.9×	47	1.2k
Cheng Meng China	11	460 1.4×	152 0.5×	252 1.0×	217 1.1×	128 0.8×	18	744
Youchao Chen China	20	486 1.4×	220 0.7×	420 1.6×	168 0.9×	213 1.3×	55	1.2k
Seongjun Kim South Korea	15	290 0.9×	231 0.8×	195 0.7×	193 1.0×	182 1.1×	100	855
Yuan Miao China	17	385 1.1×	205 0.7×	280 1.1×	237 1.2×	162 1.0×	56	793
Jürgen Esperschütz Germany	15	326 1.0×	233 0.8×	258 1.0×	300 1.6×	88 0.5×	21	847

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Song

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20 of 20 papers shown

Song, Jian, Mengmei Zheng, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Effects of decade‐long grazing exclusion and wind erosion reduction on community temporal stability in a semi‐arid grassland. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 555–565. 1 indexed citations

Song, Jian, Shiqiang Wan, Shilong Piao, et al.. (2025). Global change and China's terrestrial carbon sink: A quantitative review of 30 years' ecosystem manipulative experiments. Ecological Monographs. 95(1). 7 indexed citations

Song, Jian, Sicheng Wang, Chongru He, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence in orthopedics: fundamentals, current applications, and future perspectives. Military Medical Research. 12(1). 42–42. 2 indexed citations

Song, Jian, Jianyang Xia, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Responses of plant community drought resistance and resilience to warming and nitrogen addition vary with recurrent droughts in a semi-arid grassland. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 389. 109712–109712.

Wang, Chao, Jiayin Feng, Jian Song, et al.. (2025). Nighttime warming reshapes thermal regimes in freshwater wetlands: cascading effects on carbon dynamics. Journal of Plant Ecology.

Yang, Yunfeng, An‐Hui Ge, Zhenxing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient. Journal of Ecology. 113(5). 1269–1280. 1 indexed citations

Song, Jian, Jiayin Feng, Hongpeng Wang, et al.. (2024). Nighttime warming and nitrogen addition effects on the microclimate of a freshwater wetland dominated by Phragmites australis. The Science of The Total Environment. 924. 171573–171573. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ping, Kaixuan Wang, Jian Song, et al.. (2024). THBS1 knockdown suppresses pancreatic cancer progression through JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 79. 102003–102003.

Feng, Jiayin, et al.. (2024). Additive effects of N addition and changing precipitation on soil respiration in a climate transitional forest. CATENA. 244. 108237–108237. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Jiayin, et al.. (2024). Changes in plant litter and root carbon inputs alter soil respiration in three different forests of a climate transitional region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 358. 110212–110212. 8 indexed citations

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Ru, Jingyi, Shiqiang Wan, Jianyang Xia, et al.. (2024). Advanced precipitation peak offsets middle growing‐season drought in impacting grassland C sink. New Phytologist. 244(5). 1775–1787. 8 indexed citations

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Feng, Jiayin, Linlin Wang, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2024). Root carbon inputs outweigh litter in shaping grassland soil microbiomes and ecosystem multifunctionality. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 150–150. 12 indexed citations

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Song, Jian, Shiqiang Wan, Kesheng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ecological restoration enhances dryland carbon stock by reducing surface soil carbon loss due to wind erosion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2416281121–e2416281121. 8 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhenxing, Jian Song, Jingyi Ru, et al.. (2023). Divergent responses of reproductive phenology to asymmetric warming: Evidence from a 10-year grassland experiment in the inner mongolian steppe. Ecological Indicators. 154. 110516–110516. 1 indexed citations

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Ru, Jingyi, Shiqiang Wan, Dafeng Hui, & Jian Song. (2023). Overcompensation of ecosystem productivity following sustained extreme drought in a semiarid grassland. Ecology. 104(4). e3997–e3997. 30 indexed citations

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Sundert, Kevin Van, Sebastian Leuzinger, Martin Karl‐Friedrich Bader, et al.. (2023). When things get MESI: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 29(7). 1922–1938. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Yongwen, Shilong Piao, David Makowski, et al.. (2022). Data-driven quantification of nitrogen enrichment impact on Northern Hemisphere plant biomass. Environmental Research Letters. 17(7). 74032–74032. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiajia, et al.. (2022). Temporal change in community temporal stability in response to mowing and nutrient enrichment: evidence from a 15-year grassland experiment. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16(4). 4 indexed citations

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Han, Juanjuan, Jiquan Chen, Weiyu Shi, et al.. (2021). Asymmetric responses of resource use efficiency to previous‐year precipitation in a semi‐arid grassland. Functional Ecology. 35(3). 807–814. 12 indexed citations

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Song, Jian, et al.. (2018). Effects of wildfire on soil respiration and its heterotrophic and autotrophic components in a montane coniferous forest. Journal of Plant Ecology. 12(2). 336–345. 17 indexed citations

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