Kelin Wang

19.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
446 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Kelin Wang is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelin Wang has authored 446 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Soil Science, 139 papers in Ecology and 98 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kelin Wang's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (130 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (59 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (59 papers). Kelin Wang is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (130 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (59 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (59 papers). Kelin Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Kelin Wang's co-authors include Hongsong Chen, Wei Zhang, Dejun Li, Yuemin Yue, Chunhua Zhang, Xianli Xu, Yunpeng Nie, Jie Zhao, Xiaowei Tong and Martin Brandt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Kelin Wang

427 papers receiving 15.0k 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.

Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

2018 623 citations Yuemin Yue, Kelin Wang et al. profile →
Karst landscapes of China: patterns, ecosystem processes and services

2019 441 citations Kelin Wang, Hongsong Chen et al. profile →
Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

2020 391 citations Yuemin Yue, Kelin Wang et al. profile →
A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

2022 243 citations Yuemin Yue, Kelin Wang et al. profile →
Construction and optimization strategy of ecological security pattern in a rapidly urbanizing region: A case study in central-south China

2022 139 citations Kelin Wang et al. profile →
Tree species diversity increases soil microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest

2023 97 citations Pengpeng Duan, Hu Du et al. profile →
Stable Soil Biota Network Enhances Soil Multifunctionality in Agroecosystems

2025 24 citations Xionghui Liao, Wei Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelin Wang China	63	5.7k	4.8k	4.7k	2.6k	2.3k	446	15.3k
Mingan Shao China	73	9.3k 1.6×	5.2k 1.1×	3.5k 0.7×	3.5k 1.4×	3.0k 1.3×	541	20.3k
N.H. Batjes Netherlands	45	8.3k 1.4×	4.0k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	145	17.0k
Amilcare Porporato United States	70	6.5k 1.1×	10.5k 2.2×	5.4k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	3.9k 1.7×	306	21.5k
Bingfang Wu China	49	2.3k 0.4×	7.7k 1.6×	5.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 0.8×	376	12.8k
Ronald Amundson United States	67	5.3k 0.9×	3.2k 0.7×	5.4k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	5.0k 2.2×	228	17.7k
Rodrigo Vargas United States	47	3.3k 0.6×	6.5k 1.4×	3.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	225	12.7k
William J. Mitsch United States	69	1.9k 0.3×	4.0k 0.8×	9.7k 2.1×	955 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	315	17.3k
Genxu Wang China	53	2.1k 0.4×	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.6×	499	11.0k
Margaret Torn United States	75	11.3k 2.0×	5.9k 1.2×	7.6k 1.6×	2.8k 1.1×	4.4k 1.9×	211	22.4k
Hongyan Liu China	52	1.7k 0.3×	5.5k 1.2×	2.6k 0.5×	3.2k 1.3×	4.6k 2.0×	393	13.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelin Wang

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

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Yue, Yuemin, et al.. (2025). Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 49(4). 362–376. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jia, Pingping Fan, Feng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Heavy metal(loid)s migration mechanisms during soil erosion: A systematic quantitative review. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 13(2). 410–421. 3 indexed citations

Pan, Fujing, Yueming Liang, Peilei Hu, et al.. (2025). Restoration boosts soil P-cycle multifunctionality in karst ecosystems by modulating soil properties and rare bacterial taxa. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 25(2). 513–528.

Xiao, Dan, Xunyang He, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Strengthen interactions among fungal and protistan taxa by increasing root biomass and soil nutrient in the topsoil than in the soil-rock mixing layer. Journal of Environmental Management. 355. 120468–120468. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuheng, Chun Liu, Zhiyong Fu, et al.. (2024). Optical properties and molecular compositions of dissolved organic matter in multiple runoff components during rainfalls on the karst hillslope. Water Research. 257. 121664–121664. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Jun, Sheng Wang, Zhiyong Fu, Kelin Wang, & Hongsong Chen. (2024). Characterizing rapid infiltration processes on complex hillslopes: Insights from soil moisture response to rainfall events. Journal of Hydrology. 644. 132110–132110. 4 indexed citations

Hu, Peilei, Lei Xie, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Contrasting accumulation of glomalin-related soil proteins along a temperature gradient in karst and non-karst soils. CATENA. 244. 108259–108259. 11 indexed citations

Liao, Xionghui, Jiangnan Li, Deborah A. Neher, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen fertilization increases the niche breadth of soil nitrogen-cycling microbes and stabilizes their co-occurrence network in a karst agroecosystem. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 374. 109177–109177. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Qiumei, et al.. (2023). Biochar drives humus formation during composting by regulating the specialized metabolic features of microbiome. Chemical Engineering Journal. 458. 141380–141380. 79 indexed citations

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Xiao, Dan, Xunyang He, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Habitat heterogeneity drives arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and shrub communities in karst ecosystems. CATENA. 233. 107513–107513. 15 indexed citations

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Liao, Xionghui, Jie Zhao, Lin Xu, et al.. (2023). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase the interspecific competition between two forage plant species and stabilize the soil microbial network during a drought event: Evidence from the field. Applied Soil Ecology. 185. 104805–104805. 17 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jie, Rong Yang, Xin Liu, et al.. (2023). Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 188. 109224–109224. 8 indexed citations

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Xiao, Lumei, et al.. (2023). Effect of moss removal on soil multifunctionality during vegetation restoration in subtropical ecosystems. Applied Soil Ecology. 194. 105170–105170. 4 indexed citations

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Luo, Zidong, Yunpeng Nie, Hongsong Chen, et al.. (2023). Water Age Dynamics in Plant Transpiration: The Effects of Climate Patterns and Rooting Depth. Water Resources Research. 59(4). 22 indexed citations

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Du, Hu, Kun Gao, Kelin Wang, et al.. (2023). Plant species diversity enhances soil gross nitrogen transformations in a subtropical forest, southwest China. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(7). 1364–1375. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinyi, Pengpeng Duan, Yubo Cao, Kelin Wang, & Dejun Li. (2023). Mechanisms of mitigating nitrous oxide emission during composting by biochar and calcium carbonate addition. Bioresource Technology. 388. 129772–129772. 9 indexed citations

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Xiao, Dan, Xunyang He, Zhihong Xu, et al.. (2023). Strong cooperations among diazotroph and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi taxa promote free-living nitrogen fixation at soil-rock mixing layer. Geoderma. 437. 116600–116600. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenbo, Wenhua Xiang, Shuai Ouyang, et al.. (2020). Atmospheric Wet Deposition of Organic Carbon and Dissolved Nitrogen in City, Countryside and Nature Reserve of Subtropical China. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 56(6). 1045–1058. 5 indexed citations

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Du, Hu, Fuping Zeng, Wanxia Peng, et al.. (2015). Carbon Storage in a Eucalyptus Plantation Chronosequence in Southern China. Forests. 6(6). 1763–1778. 63 indexed citations

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Yang, Shan, Xunyang He, Yirong Su, Wei Zhang, & Kelin Wang. (2010). [Effects of parent rock and land use pattern on soil fertility in Karst region of Northwest Guangxi].. PubMed. 21(6). 1596–602. 1 indexed citations

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