Lauren Hale

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Lauren Hale is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lauren Hale has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Soil Science and 18 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Lauren Hale's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (10 papers). Lauren Hale is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (10 papers). Lauren Hale collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Lauren Hale's co-authors include Jizhong Zhou, David E. Crowley, Madeline R. Luth, Yunfeng Yang, Daquan Sun, Tao Wen, Jun Yuan, Qirong Shen, George A. Kowalchuk and Mengli Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Lauren Hale

49 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Root exudates drive soil‐microbe‐nutrient feedbacks in response to plant growth

2020 275 citations Mengli Zhao, Jun Yuan et al. profile →
The potential of biochar as a microbial carrier for agricultural and environmental applications

2023 227 citations Lauren Hale et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Tapping the rhizosphere metabolites for the prebiotic control of soil-borne bacterial wilt disease

2023 78 citations Tao Wen, Penghao Xie et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lauren Hale United States	29	1.0k	940	810	420	357	49	2.6k
Chao Yang China	28	1.1k 1.1×	820 0.9×	594 0.7×	320 0.8×	404 1.1×	98	2.7k
Max Kolton United States	26	968 0.9×	797 0.8×	954 1.2×	377 0.9×	433 1.2×	42	2.8k
Gehong Wei China	29	871 0.8×	690 0.7×	603 0.7×	570 1.4×	383 1.1×	82	2.8k
Magdalena Frąc Poland	28	1.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.1×	534 0.7×	375 0.9×	375 1.1×	155	3.4k
Huixin Li China	35	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	527 0.7×	272 0.6×	899 2.5×	123	3.2k
Koki Toyota Japan	31	2.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.4×	767 0.9×	326 0.8×	554 1.6×	189	4.0k
Xisheng Guo China	21	1.4k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.3×	421 1.0×	660 1.8×	47	3.1k
Yunfu Gu China	26	666 0.6×	539 0.6×	557 0.7×	414 1.0×	508 1.4×	96	2.1k
Marc Redmile‐Gordon United Kingdom	25	518 0.5×	705 0.8×	454 0.6×	256 0.6×	552 1.5×	38	2.0k
Jianbo Fan China	26	782 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	700 0.9×	250 0.6×	475 1.3×	55	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Lauren Hale

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Lauren Hale's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Lauren Hale with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Lauren Hale more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Lauren Hale

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lauren Hale. 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 Lauren Hale. The network helps show where Lauren Hale may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lauren Hale

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Begna, Sultan, et al.. (2025). Intercropping alfalfa during almond orchard establishment reduces winter soil nitrogen and water losses, provides on‐farm revenue. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Scott, Natalie, et al.. (2024). A native plant species cover crop positively impacted vineyard water dynamics, soil health, and vine vigor. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 367. 108972–108972. 8 indexed citations

Barra, Patricio Javier, Giovanni Larama, Víctor J. Carrión, et al.. (2023). Microbiome engineering optimized by Antarctic microbiota to support a plant host under water deficit. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1241612–1241612. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Hui-Ching, et al.. (2023). Grapevine Leaf Epiphytic Fungal and Bacterial Communities Are Influenced More by Spatial and Temporal Factors than by Powdery Mildew Fungicide Spray Programs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 106–120. 1 indexed citations

Wen, Tao, Penghao Xie, Hongwei Liu, et al.. (2023). Tapping the rhizosphere metabolites for the prebiotic control of soil-borne bacterial wilt disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4497–4497. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

Wen, Tao, Penghao Xie, C. Ryan Penton, et al.. (2022). Specific metabolites drive the deterministic assembly of diseased rhizosphere microbiome through weakening microbial degradation of autotoxin. Microbiome. 10(1). 177–177. 92 indexed citations

Hale, Lauren, et al.. (2021). Organic amendments, deficit irrigation, and microbial communities impact extracellular polysaccharide content in agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 162. 108428–108428. 28 indexed citations

Saleem, Ali Faisal, Lauren Hale, Raul Salinas, et al.. (2020). The Gut of Healthy Infants in the Community as a Reservoir of ESBL and Carbapenemase-Producing Bacteria. Antibiotics. 9(6). 286–286. 12 indexed citations

Eichenberger, Emily M., Felicia Ruffin, Michael Dagher, et al.. (2020). Bacteremia in solid organ transplant recipients as compared to immunocompetent patients: Acute phase cytokines and outcomes in a prospective, matched cohort study. American Journal of Transplantation. 21(6). 2113–2122. 8 indexed citations

10.

Azeem, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Biochar and compost effects on soil microbial communities and nitrogen induced respiration in turfgrass soils. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242209–e0242209. 51 indexed citations

11.

Sher, Yonatan, Nameer Baker, Don Herman, et al.. (2020). Microbial extracellular polysaccharide production and aggregate stability controlled by switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) root biomass and soil water potential. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 143. 107742–107742. 85 indexed citations

12.

Zhao, Mengxin, Bo Sun, Linwei Wu, et al.. (2019). Dissimilar responses of fungal and bacterial communities to soil transplantation simulating abrupt climate changes. Molecular Ecology. 28(7). 1842–1856. 15 indexed citations

13.

Zhu, Congmin, Junyi Zhang, Rui Guan, et al.. (2019). Alternate succession of aggregate-forming cyanobacterial genera correlated with their attached bacteria by co-pathways. The Science of The Total Environment. 688. 867–879. 38 indexed citations

14.

Gao, Qun, Qiang Dong, Linwei Wu, et al.. (2019). Environmental antibiotics drives the genetic functions of resistome dynamics. Environment International. 135. 105398–105398. 34 indexed citations

15.

Guo, Xue, Xishu Zhou, Lauren Hale, et al.. (2018). Taxonomic and Functional Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Annual Removal of Aboveground Plant Biomass. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 954–954. 12 indexed citations

16.

Saleem, Ali Faisal, Lauren Hale, Shahida Qureshi, et al.. (2017). The Gut Microbiota of Healthy Infants in the Community is a Reservoir for ESBL and Carbapenemase Producing Bacteria.. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 4(suppl_1). S48–S48. 1 indexed citations

17.

Ma, Xingyu, Cancan Zhao, Ying Gao, et al.. (2017). Divergent taxonomic and functional responses of microbial communities to field simulation of aeolian soil erosion and deposition. Molecular Ecology. 26(16). 4186–4196. 20 indexed citations

18.

Feng, Wenting, Junyi Liang, Lauren Hale, et al.. (2017). Enhanced decomposition of stable soil organic carbon and microbial catabolic potentials by long‐term field warming. Global Change Biology. 23(11). 4765–4776. 94 indexed citations

19.

Wu, Linwei, Yunfeng Yang, Shiping Wang, et al.. (2017). Alpine soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate cooling. The ISME Journal. 11(9). 2102–2111. 33 indexed citations

20.

Hale, Lauren. (2014). Biochar and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria as Soil Amendments. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact