Megan Kan

412 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 249 citations indexed

About

Megan Kan is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Kan has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 249 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Ecology, 3 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Megan Kan's work include Bioenergy crop production and management (2 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (2 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Megan Kan is often cited by papers focused on Bioenergy crop production and management (2 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (2 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Megan Kan collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Korea. Megan Kan's co-authors include Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone, Lewis J. Feldman, Anne Kakouridis, Stefania Mambelli, Donald J. Herman, Peter Weber, Erin Nuccio, Erik Oerter and Steven J. Blazewicz and has published in prestigious journals such as New Phytologist, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and The ISME Journal.

In The Last Decade

Megan Kan

5 papers receiving 245 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.

Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants

2022 170 citations Anne Kakouridis, Megan Kan et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Kan United States	4	188	71	39	32	28	5	249
Kangcheng Zhang China	6	150 0.8×	104 1.5×	69 1.8×	28 0.9×	14 0.5×	8	246
Younes Abbas Morocco	12	256 1.4×	36 0.5×	33 0.8×	27 0.8×	49 1.8×	42	352
Yexin Zhao China	8	129 0.7×	106 1.5×	84 2.2×	15 0.5×	11 0.4×	15	243
M. Diouf Senegal	10	231 1.2×	74 1.0×	17 0.4×	19 0.6×	34 1.2×	22	320
Simon Fiil Svane Denmark	8	335 1.8×	75 1.1×	19 0.5×	22 0.7×	27 1.0×	13	380
Janaína Ribeiro Costa Rouws Brazil	12	183 1.0×	122 1.7×	34 0.9×	23 0.7×	31 1.1×	41	323
Claudia Breitkreuz Germany	9	195 1.0×	100 1.4×	68 1.7×	14 0.4×	10 0.4×	10	295
Samba Ndao Sylla Senegal	13	303 1.6×	49 0.7×	39 1.0×	29 0.9×	37 1.3×	22	365
Anne Kakouridis United States	6	341 1.8×	100 1.4×	71 1.8×	81 2.5×	57 2.0×	8	439
Moisés A. Sosa‐Hernández Germany	9	262 1.4×	71 1.0×	55 1.4×	96 3.0×	44 1.6×	10	325

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Kan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Megan Kan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Kan

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Min, Kyungjin, Erin Nuccio, Eric Slessarev, et al.. (2025). Deep-rooted perennials alter microbial respiration and chemical composition of carbon in density fractions along soil depth profiles. Geoderma. 455. 117202–117202. 2 indexed citations

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Kakouridis, Anne, Megan Kan, Stefania Mambelli, et al.. (2022). Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants. New Phytologist. 236(1). 210–221. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hestrin, Rachel, Megan Kan, Jessica Wollard, et al.. (2022). Plant-associated fungi support bacterial resilience following water limitation. The ISME Journal. 16(12). 2752–2762. 43 indexed citations

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Oerter, Erik, Eric Slessarev, Ate Visser, et al.. (2021). Hydraulic redistribution by deeply rooted grasses and its ecohydrologic implications in the southern Great Plains of North America. Hydrological Processes. 35(9). 7 indexed citations

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Min, Kyungjin, Eric Slessarev, Megan Kan, et al.. (2021). Active microbial biomass decreases, but microbial growth potential remains similar across soil depth profiles under deeply-vs. shallow-rooted plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 162. 108401–108401. 27 indexed citations

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