Kai Feng

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Kai Feng is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Feng has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kai Feng's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers), Gut microbiota and health (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Kai Feng is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers), Gut microbiota and health (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Kai Feng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Kai Feng's co-authors include Ye Deng, Zhaojing Zhang, Huaqun Yin, Weiwei Cai, Shang Wang, Meiying Xu, Shuzhen Li, Songsong Gu, Zhili He and Qing He and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Kai Feng

78 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Biodiversity and species competition regulate the resilience of microbial biofilm community

2017 381 citations Kai Feng, Zhaojing Zhang et al. profile →
iNAP: An integrated network analysis pipeline for microbiome studies

2022 295 citations Kai Feng, Songsong Gu et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kai Feng	1.6k	1.0k	958	765	720	80	3.5k
Yi‐Huei Jiang	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	749 0.8×	522 0.7×	630 0.9×	7	3.4k
Linwei Wu	2.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	855 0.9×	966 1.3×	796 1.1×	50	4.2k
Xue Guo	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	756 0.8×	733 1.0×	594 0.8×	96	4.2k
Xuesong Luo	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	581 0.6×	760 1.0×	554 0.8×	103	2.9k
Junpeng Rui	1.4k 0.9×	998 1.0×	686 0.7×	826 1.1×	503 0.7×	51	3.2k
Hyun S. Gweon	1.5k 0.9×	876 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	460 0.6×	42	3.4k
Stephanie A. Eichorst	1.6k 1.0×	905 0.9×	833 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	350 0.5×	33	3.0k
Jie Wang	1.4k 0.8×	820 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.8×	374 0.5×	192	4.0k
Flemming Ekelund	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	878 1.2×	101	4.3k
Zhou Jason Shi	2.6k 1.6×	2.4k 2.3×	1.1k 1.1×	976 1.3×	713 1.0×	35	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Feng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Feng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Feng

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

Gu, Songsong, Zhonghua Liu, Wenjun Xiao, et al.. (2025). Comparative Study on Soil Microbial Community Structure and Diversity in Five Tea (Camellia sinensis) Cultivars. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 22(6). 1553–1559.

Peng, Xi, et al.. (2025). Organic molecular network analysis reveals transformation signatures of dissolved organic matter during anaerobic digestion process. Water Research. 282. 123777–123777. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Xuefeng, Kai Feng, Hongtu Xie, et al.. (2024). Microbial necromass contribution to soil carbon storage via community assembly processes. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175749–175749. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Ziyan, Cheng‐Ying Jiang, Ye Deng, et al.. (2024). Deep insights into the assembly mechanisms, co-occurrence patterns, and functional roles of microbial community in wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Research. 263(Pt 1). 120029–120029. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Kai, Ashley J. Ansari, Na Zhang, Yongzhen Peng, & Xiaoye Song. (2024). Biochar addition to mitigate oil inhibition in anaerobic digestion of food wastewater: Microbial insights from biochemical methane potential tests. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 37. 104000–104000. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Linlin, Xiongfeng Du, Kai Feng, et al.. (2023). Fungi and cercozoa regulate methane-associated prokaryotes in wetland methane emissions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1076610–1076610. 7 indexed citations

Gu, Songsong, Xueli Zhou, Hao Yu, et al.. (2023). Microbial and chemical fertilizers for restoring degraded alpine grassland. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 59(8). 911–926. 11 indexed citations

Shi, Ke, Bin Liang, Kai Feng, et al.. (2023). Electrostimulation triggers an increase in cross-niche microbial associations toward enhancing organic nitrogen wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Management. 331. 117301–117301. 9 indexed citations

Feng, Kai, Yan Chen, Ruibo Sun, et al.. (2023). Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 181. 109026–109026. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zheng, Jiang Li, Hongjun Li, et al.. (2023). Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals the influence of human activities on microeukaryotic plankton along the Chinese coastline. Water Research. 233. 119730–119730. 31 indexed citations

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Feng, Kai, Ziyan Wei, Yueni Wu, et al.. (2022). Evaluation and redesign of the primers for detecting nitrogen cycling genes in environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). 1976–1989. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Nana, Huifeng Hu, Wenhong Ma, et al.. (2022). Relationships Between Soil Microbial Diversities Across an Aridity Gradient in Temperate Grasslands. Microbial Ecology. 85(3). 1013–1027. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Yongliang, Xue Yang, Wei Fu, et al.. (2022). Conversion of natural grassland to cropland alters microbial community assembly across northern China. Environmental Microbiology. 24(12). 5630–5642. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Baoyu, Baohua Xie, Kai Feng, et al.. (2021). Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions. Global Change Biology. 27(24). 6331–6347. 149 indexed citations

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Feng, Kai, Anna Maria Fiore‐Donno, Kenneth Dumack, et al.. (2021). On the phenology of protists: recurrent patterns reveal seasonal variation of protistan (Rhizaria: Cercozoa and Endomyxa) communities in tree canopies. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(7). 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Jie, Kai Feng, S. Emilia Hannula, et al.. (2021). Interkingdom plant-microbial ecological networks under selective and clear cutting of tropical rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management. 491. 119182–119182. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhaojing, Ye Deng, Kai Feng, et al.. (2019). Deterministic Assembly and Diversity Gradient Altered the Biofilm Community Performances of Bioreactors. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(3). 1315–1324. 154 indexed citations

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Feng, Kai, et al.. (2016). Mesozoic gold mineralization in the Jiaodong and Korean peninsulas. 32(10). 3238. 41 indexed citations

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Feng, Kai, Xin Song, Fei Tan, et al.. (2012). Topological anaylysis and prediction of aging genes in Mus musculus. 2268–2271. 2 indexed citations

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Feng, Kai & Zhisheng Xu. (2006). Visualization-Based Disaster Digital Simulation Reconstruction Theory and Case Study(III):-A Series of Models for Disaster Digital Simulation. 1 indexed citations

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