Kees Jan van Groenigen

17.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
99 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Kees Jan van Groenigen is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kees Jan van Groenigen has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Soil Science, 45 papers in Plant Science and 26 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kees Jan van Groenigen's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (72 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (19 papers) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (16 papers). Kees Jan van Groenigen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (72 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (19 papers) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (16 papers). Kees Jan van Groenigen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Kees Jan van Groenigen's co-authors include Chris van Kessel, Bruce A. Hungate, Bruce A. Linquist, Johan Six, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Cameron M. Pittelkow, Maria Arlene Adviento‐Borbe, Rodney T. Venterea, Craig W. Osenberg and Natasja van Gestel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kees Jan van Groenigen

95 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture

2014 1.1k citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Johan Six et al. profile →
Towards an agronomic assessment of N₂O emissions: a case study for arable crops

2010 633 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Chris van Kessel et al. profile →
When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis

2015 617 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Johan Six et al. profile →
An agronomic assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from major cereal crops

2011 564 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Chris van Kessel et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2

2011 445 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Craig W. Osenberg et al. profile →
A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

2021 429 citations César Terrer, Richard P. Phillips et al. profile →
Earthworms increase plant production: a meta-analysis

2014 428 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen et al. profile →
Fertilizer management practices and greenhouse gas emissions from rice systems: A quantitative review and analysis

2012 412 citations Chris van Kessel, Kees Jan van Groenigen et al. profile →
Climate, duration, and N placement determine N₂O emissions in reduced tillage systems: a meta‐analysis

2012 363 citations Chris van Kessel, Johan Six et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Greenhouse-gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms

2013 350 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Johan Six et al. profile →
A keystone microbial enzyme for nitrogen control of soil carbon storage

2018 307 citations Ji Chen, Yiqi Luo et al. profile →
Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon‐degrading enzymes

2020 198 citations Ji Chen, Lars Elsgaard et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis

2021 177 citations Kees Jan van Groenigen, Josep Peñuelas et al. profile →
Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production

2023 131 citations Longlong Xia, Liang Cao et al. Nature Food profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Toward Climate‐Smart Rice Systems: Moving Beyond Cultivar Improvement 2025 ·Global Change Biology ·Jinyang Wang, Yu Jiang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Zhaoqiang Han, Shuwei Liu, Yao Huang, Pete Smith, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Jianwen Zou	0
2	Linking soil extracellular enzymes with soil respiration under altered litter inputs 2025 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Hao Chen, (unknown), Kees Jan van Groenigen, Bruce A. Hungate, Pete Smith, Dejun Li, Daryl Moorhead, Brooke B. Osborne, Zilong Ma, Jørgen E. Olesen, Chaoqun Wang, Ji Liu, (unknown), Chengjin Chu, Ji Chen	2
3	Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis 2025 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown), Ji Chen, Johannes J. Le Roux, Mark van Kleunen, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Linchuan Fang, (unknown), (unknown), Yi Liu, Lin Su, Yiqi Luo, Junji Cao, Zhou Yong, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Min Luo	0
4	Water-saving irrigation practices in rice paddies reverse the impact of root aerenchyma on methane emissions 2024 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Siyu Li, Yajun Zhang, (unknown), Kees Jan van Groenigen, (unknown), Hao Zhang, Junfei Gu, Weiyang Zhang, Dafeng Hui, Yun Chen, Lijun Liu	12
5	Soil pH Determines Nitrogen Effects on Methane Emissions From Rice Paddies 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Haoyu Qian, Xiangcheng Zhu, (unknown), Yakov Kuzyakov, Jianwen Zou, Jinyang Wang, Qiang Xü, Ganghua Li, Zhenghui Liu, Songhan Wang, Weijian Zhang, Jun Zhang, Shan Huang, Yanfeng Ding, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Yu Jiang	13
6	Diminishing warming effects on plant phenology over time 2024 ·New Phytologist ·(unknown), Kees Jan van Groenigen, (unknown), Robert D. Hollister, Eric Post, Elisabeth J. Cooper, J. M. Welker, Yixuan Huang, (unknown), Jianghui Chen, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Marguerite Mauritz, Nicoletta Cannone, Susan M. Natali, Edward A. G. Schuur, Ulf Molau, Tao Yan, Hao Wang, Jin He, Huiying Liu	14
7	Global cropland nitrous oxide emissions in fallow period are comparable to growing‐season emissions 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Ziyin Shang, Xiaoqing Cui, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Matthias Kuhnert, Mohamed Abdalla, Jiafa Luo, Weijian Zhang, Zhenwei Song, Yu Jiang, Pete Smith, Feng Zhou	13
8	Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase gaps of rice yields between low- and middle-to-high-income countries 2024 ·Nature Food ·Lian Song, Ye Tao, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Scott X. Chang, Josep Peñuelas, Jishuang Zhang, Liangzhi You, (unknown), (unknown), Yu Jiang, (unknown), Xiaoyuan Yan, Kang Ni, (unknown), Yu Wang, Chunwu Zhu	13
9	On the adjusted N₂O emission factor in dry subhumid, semiarid, and arid regions 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Ziyin Shang, Xiaoqing Cui, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Matthias Kuhnert, Mohamed Abdalla, Jiafa Luo, Weijian Zhang, Zhenwei Song, Yu Jiang, Pete Smith, Feng Zhou	1
10	Liming reduces nitrogen uptake from chemical fertilizer but increases that from straw in a double rice cropping system 2023 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Ping Liao, Lei Liu, Jin Chen, Yanni Sun, Shan Huang, Yongjun Zeng, Kees Jan van Groenigen	8
11	Shifts in soil ammonia‐oxidizing community maintain the nitrogen stimulation of nitrification across climatic conditions 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Xiaoli Cheng, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Pablo García‐Palacios, Junji Cao, Xunhua Zheng, Yiqi Luo, Bruce A. Hungate, César Terrer, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Jørgen E. Olesen, Ji Chen	13
12	Strong links between aggregate stability, soil carbon stocks and microbial community composition across management practices in a Chinese dryland cropping system 2023 ·CATENA ·Fengjun Zheng, Xiaotong Liu, Mengni Zhang, Shengping Li, Xiaojun Song, Bisheng Wang, Xueping Wu, Kees Jan van Groenigen	14
13	Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Food ·Longlong Xia, Liang Cao, Yi Yang, Chaopu Ti, Yize Liu, Pete Smith, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Johannes Lehmann, Rattan Lal, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Ralf Kiese, Minghao Zhuang, Xi Lu, Xiaoyuan Yan	131
14	Soil extracellular enzymes for climate-smart and resource-efficient agroecosystems: Research priorities 2023 ·PLOS Climate ·Ji Chen, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Kees Jan van Groenigen	6
15	Liming modifies greenhouse gas fluxes from soils: A meta-analysis of biological drivers 2022 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Huimin Zhang, Zhi Liang, Yong Li, Zhaoxiong Chen, Jinbo Zhang, Zucong Cai, Lars Elsgaard, Yi Cheng, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Diego Ábalos	27
16	Elevated CO2 negates O3 impacts on terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles 2021 ·One Earth ·Longlong Xia, Shu Kee Lam, Ralf Kiese, Deli Chen, Yiqi Luo, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Ji Chen, Shuwei Liu, Lei Ma, (unknown), Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl	56
17	Grassland conversion along a climate gradient in northwest China: Implications for soil carbon and nutrients 2020 ·Soil Use and Management ·Xiaomin Huang, Zhenwei Song, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Zhiyu Xu, Bo Huang, Yi Zhang, Xiaoning Hang, Shuhao Tan, Degang Zhang, Weijian Zhang	6
18	Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO ₂ 2017 ·Global Change Biology ·Kees Jan van Groenigen, Craig W. Osenberg, César Terrer, Yolima Carrillo, Feike A. Dijkstra, James E. Heath, Ming Nie, Elise Pendall, Richard P. Phillips, Bruce A. Hungate	114
19	Faster Decomposition Under Increased Atmospheric CO ₂ Limits Soil Carbon Storage 2014 ·Science ·Kees Jan van Groenigen, Qi Xuan, Craig W. Osenberg, Yiqi Luo, Bruce A. Hungate	257
20	Interactions Between Plant Growth and Soil Nutrient Cycling Under Elevated CO2: a Meta-Analysis. 2005 ·AGUFM ·Marie‐Anne de Graaff, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Johan Six, Chris van Kessel	27

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