Litong Chen

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Litong Chen is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Litong Chen has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Plant Science and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Litong Chen's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (12 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (8 papers). Litong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (12 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (8 papers). Litong Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Estonia. Litong Chen's co-authors include Jin He, Haiyan Chu, Xin Jing, Yu Shi, Yue Shi, Nathan J. Sanders, Aimée T. Classen, Youxu Jiang, Ke Zhao and Teng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Litong Chen

58 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

2015 644 citations Xin Jing, Nathan J. Sanders 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
Litong Chen China	26	1.0k	814	634	465	434	64	2.5k
Silong Wang China	35	1.1k 1.1×	1.9k 2.3×	705 1.1×	1.0k 2.2×	961 2.2×	178	3.9k
Fengrui Li China	32	392 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	842 1.3×	325 0.7×	493 1.1×	128	3.0k
Cátia Nunes da Cunha Brazil	32	1.3k 1.3×	406 0.5×	385 0.6×	1.2k 2.5×	876 2.0×	98	3.4k
Xiaoke Zhang China	28	838 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 2.0×	315 0.7×	293 0.7×	109	2.8k
Zoë G. Cardon United States	29	988 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	638 1.4×	866 2.0×	59	3.3k
Yide Li China	25	484 0.5×	557 0.7×	357 0.6×	390 0.8×	510 1.2×	133	2.0k
Haifeng Zheng China	31	541 0.5×	580 0.7×	472 0.7×	264 0.6×	749 1.7×	100	2.3k
Nadine Herold Germany	15	842 0.8×	554 0.7×	356 0.6×	107 0.2×	214 0.5×	30	1.6k
Sheng Du China	33	560 0.6×	772 0.9×	820 1.3×	632 1.4×	989 2.3×	116	3.0k
Qi Li China	27	655 0.7×	791 1.0×	511 0.8×	308 0.7×	459 1.1×	135	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Litong Chen

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Wen, Hui, Mingxin Zhang, Zhifeng Huang, et al.. (2025). Polylactic acid electrospun composite fibrous membrane with hydrophobic–hydrophilic dual-layer structure for oil–water separation application. Journal of Materials Science. 60(45). 23092–23108.

Chen, Litong, et al.. (2025). Climate shapes the spatial pattern in local β-diversity of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 178977–178977. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yu-Ling, Lijing Zhu, Litong Chen, & Zhixiang Zeng. (2024). Anti-fouling graphene oxide membranes intercalated with Co-anchored graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet for enhanced water purification. Materials Letters. 364. 136383–136383. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Zhen, Guixing Ma, Bo Zhou, et al.. (2024). Targeting miR-29 mitigates skeletal senescence and bolsters therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(8). 101665–101665. 15 indexed citations

Lu, Lu, Fuxing Yang, Peidong Yang, et al.. (2024). Effects of miR-29c on proliferation and adipogenic differentiation of porcine bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells. Adipocyte. 13(1). 2365211–2365211. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiaoya, Qian Zhao, Litong Chen, et al.. (2024). Construction of pyridine-functionalized metal–organic frameworks for the detection of flazasulfuron. Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry. 80(12). 806–814.

Ma, Guixing, Siyuan Cheng, Yingying Han, et al.. (2024). The p53-miR17 family-Rankl axis bridges liver-bone communication. Molecular Therapy. 33(2). 631–648.

Chen, Yangshan, Bo Zhou, Wanze Tang, et al.. (2023). Talin-1 inhibits Smurf1-mediated Stat3 degradation to modulate β-cell proliferation and mass in mice. Cell Death and Disease. 14(10). 709–709. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Litong, Lin Jiang, Xin Jing, et al.. (2021). Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(7). 1418–1429. 67 indexed citations

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Jing, Xin, Case M. Prager, Litong Chen, et al.. (2021). The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(3). 486–500. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Litong, et al.. (2021). A robust high-throughput fluorescent polarization assay for the evaluation and screening of SARS-CoV-2 fusion inhibitors. Bioorganic Chemistry. 116. 105362–105362. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Ni, Jin He, Litong Chen, & Li Wang. (2018). No upward shift of alpine grassland distribution on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau despite rapid climate warming from 2000 to 2014. The Science of The Total Environment. 625. 1361–1368. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Litong, Xin Jing, Dan F. B. Flynn, et al.. (2016). Changes of carbon stocks in alpine grassland soils from 2002 to 2011 on the Tibetan Plateau and their climatic causes. Geoderma. 288. 166–174. 62 indexed citations

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Ren, Fei, Weimin Song, Litong Chen, et al.. (2016). Phosphorus does not alleviate the negative effect of nitrogen enrichment on legume performance in an alpine grassland. Journal of Plant Ecology. rtw089–rtw089. 37 indexed citations

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Jing, Xin, Nathan J. Sanders, Yu Shi, et al.. (2015). The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8159–8159. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Litong, Dan F. B. Flynn, Xin Jing, et al.. (2015). A Comparison of Two Methods for Quantifying Soil Organic Carbon of Alpine Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126372–e0126372. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Litong, Dan F. B. Flynn, X. Gao, et al.. (2014). Divergent patterns of foliar 13C and 15N in Quercus aquifolioides with an altitudinal transect on the Tibetan Plateau: an integrated study based on multiple key leaf functional traits. Journal of Plant Ecology. 8(3). 303–312. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Fei, Xiaowei Zhang, Litong Chen, Xia Wang, & Changming Zhao. (2012). The alpine homoploid hybrid Pinus densata has greater cold photosynthesis tolerance than its progenitors. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 85. 85–91. 8 indexed citations

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Ma, Fei, Litong Chen, Buqing Yao, & Changming Zhao. (2009). Physiological performances of maternally-dependent genotypes in the homoploid hybrid species Hippophae goniocarpa.. Botanical studies. 50(2). 171–179. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Fei, Changming Zhao, Richard I. Milne, et al.. (2009). Enhanced drought‐tolerance in the homoploid hybrid speciesPinus densata: implication for its habitat divergence from two progenitors. New Phytologist. 185(1). 204–216. 47 indexed citations

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