Ke Liu

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
223 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Ke Liu is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke Liu has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 37 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Ke Liu's work include Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (55 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (31 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (28 papers). Ke Liu is often cited by papers focused on Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (55 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (31 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (28 papers). Ke Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Ke Liu's co-authors include Matthew Tom Harrison, Xiaohai Tian, Joseph W. Kloepper, Yunbo Zhang, John A. McInroy, Chia‐Hui Hu, Meixue Zhou, Shah Fahad, Holger Meinke and Rui Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ke Liu

203 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Characterizing soil COPs eco-risk in China 2025 2026 2025 4 8 12
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.

  1. Characterizing soil COPs eco-risk in China
    2025 13 citations Ke Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ke Liu China 33 1.6k 513 495 475 426 223 3.6k
Dinesh Kumar Sharma India 33 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 3.1× 387 0.8× 495 1.0× 354 0.8× 181 4.0k
Muhammad Adnan Pakistan 30 1.8k 1.1× 753 1.5× 238 0.5× 479 1.0× 152 0.4× 181 3.3k
Jiaen Zhang China 35 1.2k 0.7× 753 1.5× 825 1.7× 287 0.6× 751 1.8× 248 4.4k
Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath‐Kimura Germany 28 1.3k 0.8× 864 1.7× 244 0.5× 370 0.8× 470 1.1× 172 2.9k
Awais Shakoor China 32 1.2k 0.8× 864 1.7× 169 0.3× 297 0.6× 328 0.8× 115 3.7k
Pier Paolo Roggero Italy 32 629 0.4× 776 1.5× 408 0.8× 316 0.7× 467 1.1× 110 2.7k
Surendra Singh India 35 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 2.0× 424 0.9× 279 0.6× 477 1.1× 326 4.3k
Yuan Li China 34 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 2.4× 386 0.8× 506 1.1× 530 1.2× 223 3.7k
Wei Qin China 31 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 2.5× 222 0.4× 370 0.8× 564 1.3× 75 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ke Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ke Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ke Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ke Liu. The network helps show where Ke Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ke Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ke Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ke Liu 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 Ke Liu. Ke Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Yuhao, Jun Zou, Biao Feng, et al.. (2025). Long-term N fertilization increases water use and use-efficiency of winter wheat. Field Crops Research. 325. 109808–109808.
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Zheng, He, Yan Chen, Minghua Li, et al.. (2025). Quantifying cotton source-sink relationships under layered phosphorus placement with fertigation management. Industrial Crops and Products. 234. 121497–121497.
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Yang, Rui, Sergey Shabala, Mingxia Huang, et al.. (2025). Pre-harvest sprouting in cereals: Global incidence, impacts and mitigation strategies. Field Crops Research. 333. 110111–110111.
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Ullah, Sami, Mohammad K. Okla, Ibrahim A. Alaraidh, et al.. (2024). Germination responses of Lens Culiunaris L. seeds to osmotic potentials at cardinal temperatures using hydrothermal time model. BMC Plant Biology. 24(1). 502–502.
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Zhuang, Minghao, et al.. (2024). Climate-adaptive crop distribution can feed food demand, improve water scarcity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Science of The Total Environment. 944. 173819–173819. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Datong, Matthew Tom Harrison, Ke Liu, et al.. (2024). Optimizing N rate in wheat-maize rotation to match long-term and inter-seasonal N turnover for high yield and sustainability using STICS. Field Crops Research. 322. 109718–109718. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Fangzheng, Bin Wang, Matthew Tom Harrison, et al.. (2024). Unleashing the power of machine learning and remote sensing for robust seasonal drought monitoring: A stacking ensemble approach. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131102–131102. 28 indexed citations
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Liu, Ke & Qiang Fu. (2024). Does Geopolitical Risk Affect Agricultural Exports? Chinese Evidence from the Perspective of Agricultural Land. Land. 13(3). 371–371. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Datong, Zechen Wang, Matthew Tom Harrison, et al.. (2024). Challenges and strategies in estimating soil organic carbon for multi-cropping systems: a review. 2 indexed citations
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Deng, Jun, Ke Liu, Matthew Tom Harrison, et al.. (2024). Exploring strategies for agricultural sustainability in super hybrid rice using the food–carbon–nitrogen–water–energy–profit nexus framework. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 25(2). 624–638. 1 indexed citations
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Harrison, Matthew Tom & Ke Liu. (2024). Holistic systems analyses accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Food. 5(7). 544–545. 14 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yang, Matthew Tom Harrison, Meixue Zhou, et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers of wheat yield variability across China's production regions: Insights from field experiments. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science. 210(3).
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Liu, Ke, et al.. (2023). Information Acquisition Ability and Farmers’ Herd Behavior in Rice–Crayfish Coculture System Adoption. Agriculture. 13(10). 1892–1892. 1 indexed citations
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Fahad, Shah, Imran Ali, Shah Saud, et al.. (2023). Modulation of maize growth, yield and soil enzymes activities by introducing wheat straw mulching and tillage practices. Plant and Soil. 496(1-2). 699–719. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, Wenjie Li, Jørgen E. Olesen, et al.. (2023). Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 43(4). 8 indexed citations
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Li, Xiu, Rui Yang, Ke Liu, et al.. (2023). Physiological and Molecular Responses of Wheat to Low Light Intensity. Agronomy. 13(1). 272–272. 5 indexed citations
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Muhammad, Haji, Shah Fahad, Shah Saud, et al.. (2023). A Paradigm Shift towards Beneficial Microbes Enhancing the Efficiency of Organic and Inorganic Nitrogen Sources for a Sustainable Environment. Land. 12(3). 680–680. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Ke, Matthew Tom Harrison, Sergey Shabala, et al.. (2020). The State of the Art in Modeling Waterlogging Impacts on Plants: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know. Earth s Future. 8(12). 75 indexed citations

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