Meng Zhu

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Meng Zhu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meng Zhu has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Soil Science and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Meng Zhu's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Meng Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers). Meng Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Australia. Meng Zhu's co-authors include Qi Feng, Linshan Yang, Jutao Zhang, Xinwei Yin, Yongge Li, Wei Liu, Zhenliang Yin, Jan Adamowski, Xiaohu Wen and Qi Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Meng Zhu

67 papers receiving 1.5k 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 role of land use change in affecting ecosystem services and the ecological security pattern of the Hexi Regions, Northwest China

2022 231 citations Yongge Li, Wei Liu et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meng Zhu China	20	686	352	321	281	250	73	1.5k
Jun Du China	23	949 1.4×	489 1.4×	314 1.0×	287 1.0×	176 0.7×	61	1.9k
Stacy L. Hutchinson United States	18	630 0.9×	314 0.9×	191 0.6×	239 0.9×	259 1.0×	52	1.3k
Xuguang Tang China	21	810 1.2×	645 1.8×	238 0.7×	223 0.8×	177 0.7×	73	1.4k
Shree R. S. Dangal United States	24	838 1.2×	573 1.6×	374 1.2×	164 0.6×	352 1.4×	35	1.7k
Tianling Qin China	24	972 1.4×	278 0.8×	232 0.7×	745 2.7×	318 1.3×	131	1.7k
Longfei Chen China	24	846 1.2×	570 1.6×	497 1.5×	151 0.5×	225 0.9×	71	1.9k
Mei Huang China	21	997 1.5×	529 1.5×	323 1.0×	125 0.4×	237 0.9×	91	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Meng Zhu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meng Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meng Zhu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Meng Zhu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Meng Zhu 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 Meng Zhu. Meng Zhu 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

Liu, Wei, Feng Qi, Zhenliang Yin, et al.. (2025). Patterns and drivers of water-land resources nexus in arid inland river basins of northwestern China. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 26. 100702–100702.

Feng, Qi, et al.. (2025). Climate-smart protected areas in drylands can effectively safeguard biodiversity without expanding boundaries. Land Use Policy. 158. 107723–107723. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Tengfei, Qi Feng, Weiyu Chen, et al.. (2024). Divergent response of upper layer soil organic and inorganic carbon to biotic and abiotic factors in afforestation by aerial seeding in desert, China. CATENA. 246. 108383–108383. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Meng, et al.. (2024). High accuracy pressure and temperature simultaneous measurement based on forward Brillouin scattering in highly nonlinear fiber. Optical Fiber Technology. 84. 103741–103741. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Qi, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Snow Cover Service Value on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing. 16(14). 2600–2600.

Ding, Anzi, Meng Zhu, Xiaoqing Qian, et al.. (2024). Identification of amine-producing bacterium (APB) in Chinese fermented mandarin fish (Chouguiyu) by high-throughput sequencing and culture-dependent methods. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 133. 106368–106368. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Yan, et al.. (2024). The changes in the annual distribution of mountain runoff during the period of 1965–2018 in Hexi Corridor, Northwest China. 16(2). 73–83. 2 indexed citations

Lü, Ke, Mili Liu, Qi Feng, et al.. (2024). Predicting the Global Distribution of Nitraria L. Under Climate Change Based on Optimized MaxEnt Modeling. Plants. 14(1). 67–67. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaomei, Qi Feng, & Meng Zhu. (2024). Vegetation characteristics and soil properties of artificially remediated grasslands: The case study of the Shimenhe mining area in Qilian Mountains, northwest China. 16(4). 190–200. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaomei, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Artificial Restoration of Alpine Grasslands in the Qilian Mountains on Vegetation, Soil Bacteria, and Soil Fungal Community Diversity. Microorganisms. 12(5). 854–854. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaomei, Qi Feng, Meng Zhu, et al.. (2023). Changes in Nutrient-Regulated Soil Microbial Communities in Soils Concomitant with Grassland Restoration in the Alpine Mining Region of the Qilian Mountains. Agronomy. 13(12). 3052–3052. 6 indexed citations

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Yin, Xinwei, Qi Feng, Wei Liu, et al.. (2023). Assessment and mechanism analysis of plant salt tolerance regulates soil moisture dynamics and controls root zone salinity and sodicity in seasonally irrigated agroecosystems. Journal of Hydrology. 617. 129138–129138. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Tingting Ning, et al.. (2023). Attributing the streamflow variation by incorporating glacier mass balance and frozen ground into the Budyko framework in alpine rivers. Journal of Hydrology. 628. 130438–130438. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiaohong, et al.. (2023). Patterns and controls of ecosystem service values under different land-use change scenarios in a mining-dominated basin of northern China. Ecological Indicators. 151. 110321–110321. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaofang, et al.. (2023). Grazing practices affect soil microbial networks but not diversity and composition in alpine meadows of northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Environmental Research. 235. 116656–116656. 11 indexed citations

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Shi, Qi, Qi Feng, Heping Shu, et al.. (2022). Redistribution effect of irrigation on shallow groundwater recharge source contributions in an arid agricultural region. The Science of The Total Environment. 865. 161106–161106. 17 indexed citations

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Yin, Xinwei, Qi Feng, Xinjun Zheng, et al.. (2021). Assessing the impacts of irrigated agriculture on hydrological regimes in an oasis-desert system. Journal of Hydrology. 594. 125976–125976. 43 indexed citations

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Yin, Xinwei, Qi Feng, Yan Li, et al.. (2021). An interplay of soil salinization and groundwater degradation threatening coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems. The Science of The Total Environment. 806(Pt 2). 150599–150599. 63 indexed citations

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Yang, Linshan, Qi Feng, Jan Adamowski, et al.. (2020). The role of climate change and vegetation greening on the variation of terrestrial evapotranspiration in northwest China's Qilian Mountains. The Science of The Total Environment. 759. 143532–143532. 90 indexed citations

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Liu, Wei, Zongxing Li, Meng Zhu, Xiaoyan Guo, & Lijuan Chen. (2016). Temperature and precipitation changes in Extensive Hexi Region, China, 1960-2011. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions. 8(3). 212–226. 2 indexed citations

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