Jian Sun

8.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
200 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Jian Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Sun has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 52 papers in Ecology and 52 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Jian Sun's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (38 papers). Jian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (38 papers). Jian Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Jian Sun's co-authors include Xuyang Lu, Baibing Ma, Genwei Cheng, Shuli Niu, Steven C. Bourassa, Martin Hoesli, Xiaojing Qin, Miao Liu, Xiaodan Wang and Weipeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Jian Sun

186 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Dual Influence of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities on the Spatiotemporal Vegetation Dynamics Over the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau From 1981 to 2015

2022 120 citations Yanqiang Wei, Jinniu Wang et al. Earth s Future profile →
Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau

2024 52 citations Jian Sun, Yingxin Wang et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Jian Sun

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jian Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Sun

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Short-term grazing exclusion is more conducive to the rate of soil organic carbon stock in alpine grassland of the Tibetan Plateau 2025 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·(unknown), Tiancai Zhou, (unknown), Chen Zhang, Yunhui Li, (unknown), (unknown), Eryuan Liang, Jian Sun	0
2	State-of-the-art and challenges in global grassland degradation studies 2024 ·Geography and sustainability ·(unknown), Jian Sun, Yi Wang, Yunhui Li, (unknown)	13
3	Reservoirs alter terrestrial mammal habitat over the Indochina Peninsula 2024 ·Ecological Indicators ·(unknown), Tiancai Zhou, Tao Zeng, Zhe Chen, (unknown), Jian Sun	1
4	N6-methyladenosine (m6A) Writer WTAP Potentiates Hepatocellular Carcinoma Immune Evasion and Aerobic Glycolysis 2024 ·Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics ·(unknown), (unknown), Qing Wang, Jian Sun	6
5	Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau breakdown → 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Jian Sun, Yingxin Wang, Tien Ming Lee, Xiaowei Nie, Tao Wang, Eryuan Liang, Yafeng Wang, Lin Zhang, Jun Wang, Shilong Piao, Fahu Chen, Bojie Fu	52
6	Plant diversity increases spatial stability of aboveground productivity in alpine grasslands 2024 ·Oecologia ·Zeng Cui, Jian Sun, Gao‐Lin Wu	2
7	Dynamics and controls of ecosystem multiserviceability across the Qingzang Plateau 2023 ·Geography and sustainability ·(unknown), Guodong Han, Jian Sun, Tiancai Zhou, Junhe Chen, (unknown), Yi Wang	14
8	Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services and their threshold effects in the largest tableland of the Loess Plateau 2023 ·Global Ecology and Conservation ·Jianxiang Zhang, (unknown), Jian Sun, Yaozong Zhang, (unknown), Junhe Chen, Eryuan Liang	14
9	Identifying ecological compensation areas for ecosystem services degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 2023 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·Hua Liu, Shiliang Liu, Fangfang Wang, Yixuan Liu, Yanxu Liu, Jian Sun, Kim R. McConkey, Lam‐Son Phan Tran, Yuhong Dong, Lu Yu, Qingbo Wang	11
10	Food Nitrogen Footprint Increased by 35% on the Third Pole During 1998–2018 2023 ·GeoHealth ·Fangfang Wang, Shiliang Liu, Yixuan Liu, Lu Yu, (unknown), Hua Liu, Yuhong Dong, Jian Sun	4
11	Biogeographic Patterns and Richness of the Meconopsis Species and Their Influence Factors across the Pan-Himalaya and Adjacent Regions 2022 ·Diversity ·Ning Shi, Chunya Wang, Jinniu Wang, Ning Wu, Niyati Naudiyal, Lin Zhang, Lihua Wang, Jian Sun, Wentao Du, Yanqiang Wei, (unknown), Yan Wu	4
12	Functional traits of a plant species fingerprint ecosystem productivity along broad elevational gradients in the Himalayas 2022 ·Functional Ecology ·Shalik Ram Sigdel, Eryuan Liang, Maan Bahadur Rokaya, (unknown), (unknown), Jian Sun, Lin Zhang, Haifeng Zhu, Nakul Chettri, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, J. Julio Camarero, Josep Peñuelas	22
13	Species richness is a strong driver of forest biomass along broad bioclimatic gradients in the Himalayas 2022 ·Ecosphere ·(unknown), Shalik Ram Sigdel, Eryuan Liang, Flurin Babst, J. Julio Camarero, (unknown), Nakul Chettri, Shan Gao, Xiaoming Lu, Jian Sun, Tao Wang, Gengxin Zhang, Haifeng Zhu, Shilong Piao, Josep Peñuelas	14
14	Dual Influence of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities on the Spatiotemporal Vegetation Dynamics Over the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau From 1981 to 2015 breakdown → 2022 ·Earth s Future ·Yanqiang Wei, (unknown), Jinniu Wang, Xufeng Wang, Jian Sun	120
15	Vegetation type controls root turnover in global grasslands 2019 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Jinsong Wang, Jian Sun, Zhen Yu, Yong Li, Dashuan Tian, Bingxue Wang, Zhaolei Li, Shuli Niu	58
16	[Multivariate analysis of relationship between soil nutrient factors and fruit quality characte-ristic of 'Fuji' apple in two dominant production regions of China]. 2017 ·PubMed ·Qiang Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jian Sun, (unknown), (unknown)	5
17	Spatial-Temporal Patterns and Controls of Evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau (2000–2012) 2017 ·Advances in Meteorology ·Hao Zhang, Jian Sun, Junnan Xiong	14
18	Effects of Land Use Change for Crops on Water and Carbon Budgets in the Midwest USA 2017 ·Sustainability ·Jian Sun, T. E. Twine, Jason Hill, (unknown), Jiancheng Shi, (unknown)	11
19	The Haze Nightmare Following the Economic Boom in China: Dilemma and Tradeoffs 2016 ·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Jian Sun, Jinniu Wang, Yanqiang Wei, Yurui Li, (unknown)	22
20	A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PLEUROCYTOSPORA 2003 ·Mycosystema ·Jian Sun	1

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