Lingfei Yu

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lingfei Yu is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lingfei Yu has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Plant Science and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lingfei Yu's work include Plant responses to elevated CO2 (12 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (10 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers). Lingfei Yu is often cited by papers focused on Plant responses to elevated CO2 (12 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (10 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers). Lingfei Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Lingfei Yu's co-authors include Yao Huang, Wenjuan Sun, Dan Yu, Jin He, Wen Zhang, Lijun Yu, Zhijian Huang, Pete Smith, Shenzheng Zeng and Josep G. Canadell and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Lingfei Yu

59 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Climate drives global soil carbon sequestration and crop yield changes under conservation agriculture

2020 198 citations Wenjuan Sun, Lijun Yu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lingfei Yu China	23	630	400	359	349	256	62	1.6k
Barry Thornton United Kingdom	32	839 1.3×	1.0k 2.6×	418 1.2×	1.1k 3.2×	239 0.9×	123	2.8k
Clifford E. Kraft United States	29	1.5k 2.4×	225 0.6×	583 1.6×	61 0.2×	75 0.3×	81	2.6k
Angélique Gobet France	21	1.5k 2.4×	134 0.3×	149 0.4×	311 0.9×	31 0.1×	31	2.2k
Rima B. Franklin United States	23	1.8k 2.9×	484 1.2×	294 0.8×	348 1.0×	187 0.7×	47	2.8k
Christina Bienhold Germany	18	1.6k 2.6×	132 0.3×	213 0.6×	260 0.7×	328 1.3×	35	2.5k
Margarete Watzka Austria	15	725 1.2×	900 2.3×	111 0.3×	388 1.1×	216 0.8×	27	1.6k
David G. Patriquin Canada	25	952 1.5×	245 0.6×	232 0.6×	815 2.3×	55 0.2×	57	2.2k
Xue Wu China	17	209 0.3×	94 0.2×	254 0.7×	198 0.6×	89 0.3×	59	1.1k
Rui Sun China	16	349 0.6×	50 0.1×	236 0.7×	62 0.2×	108 0.4×	61	978
Ting Xu China	21	547 0.9×	44 0.1×	379 1.1×	128 0.4×	69 0.3×	76	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lingfei Yu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Chao, Xiaona Li, Yonghui Wang, et al.. (2025). Biogeochemical niches modulate shoot and root biomass in Potentillinae across Chinese grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 113(9). 2358–2369.

Wang, Chao, Zhihui Yang, Mingzhu He, et al.. (2025). Coordinated variations in leaf and root biogeochemical niches. New Phytologist. 246(3). 947–960. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, Guojiao Yang, Lingfei Yu, et al.. (2025). Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe. Journal of Ecology. 113(3). 742–752. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaojing, Jing Wang, Lingfei Yu, et al.. (2025). Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale. Functional Ecology. 39(6). 1455–1468. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaomin, Wen Xia, Kexiang Yan, et al.. (2025). Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe. Ecological Processes. 14(1).

Yu, Lingfei, Wenjuan Sun, Haiyang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Grazing exclusion jeopardizes plant biodiversity effect but enhances dryness effect on multifunctionality in arid grasslands. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 363. 108883–108883. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Qing, Fangyu Ding, L.Y. Meng, et al.. (2024). The effect of CD4 injection on WD molecule sputtering at the divertor target in EAST. Nuclear Materials and Energy. 41. 101795–101795.

Yang, Kai, Yao Huang, Jingrui Yang, et al.. (2023). Do rice growth and yield respond similarly to abrupt and gradual increase in atmospheric CO2?. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167658–167658. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Kai, Yao Huang, Jingrui Yang, et al.. (2023). Effects of three patterns of elevated CO2 in single and multiple generations on photosynthesis and stomatal features in rice. Annals of Botany. 131(3). 463–473. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Renjun, Dongwei Hou, Shenzheng Zeng, et al.. (2022). Sedimentary Nitrogen and Sulfur Reduction Functional-Couplings Interplay With the Microbial Community of Anthropogenic Shrimp Culture Pond Ecosystem. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 830777–830777. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, et al.. (2022). The determiner of photosynthetic acclimation induced by biochemical limitation under elevated CO2 in japonica rice. Journal of Plant Physiology. 280. 153889–153889. 14 indexed citations

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Wei, Dongdong, Chengguang Xing, Dongwei Hou, et al.. (2021). Distinct bacterial communities in the environmental water, sediment and intestine between two crayfish-plant coculture ecosystems. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 105(12). 5087–5101. 28 indexed citations

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Xu, J.C., Liang Wang, Huiqian Wang, et al.. (2021). Characteristics of double-peaked particle deposition at divertor target plates in the EAST tokamak. Nuclear Fusion. 61(9). 96004–96004. 10 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhijian, Dongwei Hou, Renjun Zhou, et al.. (2021). Environmental Water and Sediment Microbial Communities Shape Intestine Microbiota for Host Health: The Central Dogma in an Anthropogenic Aquaculture Ecosystem. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 772149–772149. 24 indexed citations

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Wei, Dongdong, Shenzheng Zeng, Dongwei Hou, et al.. (2020). Community diversity and abundance of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and bacteria in shrimp pond sediment at different culture stages. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 130(5). 1442–1455. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Tingting, Yanyu Lu, Lingfei Yu, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of CH4MOD _wetland and Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) used to estimate global CH ₄ emissions from natural wetlands. Geoscientific model development. 13(8). 3769–3788. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Tingting, Yanyu Lu, Lingfei Yu, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of CH4MOD _wetland and TEM models used to estimate global CH ₄ emissions from natural wetlands. 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhijian, Shenzheng Zeng, Jinbo Xiong, et al.. (2020). Microecological Koch’s postulates reveal that intestinal microbiota dysbiosis contributes to shrimp white feces syndrome. Microbiome. 8(1). 32–32. 173 indexed citations

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Wang, Sheng, Yao Huang, Wenjuan Sun, & Lingfei Yu. (2018). Mapping the vertical distribution of maize roots in China in relation to climate and soil texture. Journal of Plant Ecology. 11(6). 899–908. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Tingting, Hailing Li, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2018). Prediction of CH4 emissions from potential natural wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau during the 21st century. The Science of The Total Environment. 657. 498–508. 11 indexed citations

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