Mengting Yuan

8.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Mengting Yuan is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mengting Yuan has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Mengting Yuan's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Mengting Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Mengting Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Mengting Yuan's co-authors include Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang, Linwei Wu, Daliang Ning, Xue Guo, Xishu Zhou, Ya Zhang, Liyou Wu, James M. Tiedje and Zhou Jason Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mengting Yuan

56 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

2021 1.4k citations Mengting Yuan, Xue Guo et al. profile →
A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

2020 853 citations Daliang Ning, Mengting Yuan et al. Nature Communications profile →
Differentiation strategies of soil rare and abundant microbial taxa in response to changing climatic regimes

2020 247 citations Yuting Liang, Erin Nuccio et al. profile →
Home‐based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low‐fertility soil

2023 80 citations Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Mengting Yuan et al. New Phytologist profile →
Nutrient and moisture limitations reveal keystone metabolites linking rhizosphere metabolomes and microbiomes

2024 45 citations Mengting Yuan, Liyou Wu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mengting Yuan

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microbial community dynamics in the soil-root continuum are linked with plant species turnover during secondary succession 2025 ·ISME Communications ·Weiming Yan, Mengting Yuan, Wang Shi, Patrick O. Sorensen, Tao Wen, Yuting Xu, Honglei Wang, Shuo Jiao, Ji Chen, Zhouping Shangguan, Lei Deng, (unknown), Yangquanwei Zhong	1
2	Warming stimulates cellulose decomposition by recruiting phylogenetically diverse but functionally similar microorganisms 2025 ·ISME Communications ·(unknown), Xue Guo, Yamei Gao, Jiajie Feng, Linwei Wu, Jiesi Lei, Suo Liu, Qun Gao, Yufei Zeng, Wei Qin, Zheng Shi, (unknown), Zhencheng Ye, Mengting Yuan, Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang	0
3	Changes in microbial community and network structure precede shrub degradation in a desert ecosystem 2024 ·CATENA ·Guohua Wang, Seth M. Munson, Elly Morriën, (unknown), Mengting Yuan, Bin Wang, Ning Chen, Jian‐Sheng Ye, Kailiang Yu	4
4	Arbuscular mycorrhiza convey significant plant carbon to a diverse hyphosphere microbial food web and mineral‐associated organic matter 2024 ·New Phytologist ·Anne Kakouridis, Mengting Yuan, Erin Nuccio, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Katerina Estera‐Molina, Peter Nico, Peter Weber, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone	34
5	Intrinsic microbial temperature sensitivity and soil organic carbon decomposition in response to climate change 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Jixian Ding, Han Hu, Weigen Huang, (unknown), Haowei Ni, (unknown), Mengting Yuan, Jizhong Zhou, Jiabao Zhang, Yuting Liang	19
6	Quinolone-mediated metabolic cross-feeding develops aluminium tolerance in soil microbial consortia 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Zhiyuan Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Ertao Wang, Yang Bai, Mengting Yuan, Shengjing Shi, Jizhong Zhou, Jixian Ding, Yuanhong Xie, Hui Zhang, Yan Yang, Ren Fang Shen, Thomas W. Crowther, Jiabao Zhang, Yuting Liang	18
7	Warming effects on grassland soil microbial communities are amplified in cool months 2024 ·The ISME Journal ·Jiesi Lei, (unknown), Siyang Jian, Xue Guo, Mengting Yuan, Colin T. Bates, Zhou Jason Shi, Jiabao Li, (unknown), Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang	5
8	Manganese losses induced by severe soil acidification in the extensive Lei bamboo (Phyllostachys violascens) plantation stands in Eastern China 2023 ·Chemosphere ·Yutong Zong, Zichuan Li, Renyi Gui, Chen De, Mengting Yuan, Yanjun Chai, (unknown), Ming Hung Wong	2
9	Long‐term elevated precipitation induces grassland soil carbon loss via microbe‐plant–soil interplay 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Xin Sun, (unknown), Nona R. Chiariello, Kathryn M. Docherty, Christopher B. Field, Qun Gao, Jessica Gutknecht, Xue Guo, Genhe He, Bruce A. Hungate, Jiesi Lei, Audrey Niboyet, Xavier Le Roux, Zhou Jason Shi, Wensheng Shu, Mengting Yuan, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang	27
10	Home‐based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low‐fertility soil breakdown → 2023 ·New Phytologist ·(unknown), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Mengting Yuan, Jixian Ding, Étienne Yergeau, Jizhong Zhou, Thomas W. Crowther, Yuting Liang	80
11	Enhanced Bacterium–Phage Symbiosis in Attached Microbial Aggregates on a Membrane Surface Facing Elevated Hydraulic Stress 2023 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Pingfeng Yu, Dan Huang, Mengting Yuan, Zhuodong Yu, Huijie Lü, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Liang Zhu	18
12	The association of prokaryotic antiviral systems and symbiotic phage communities in drinking water microbiomes 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Dan Huang, Mengting Yuan, Juhong Chen, Xiaoxuan Zheng, (unknown), Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Pingfeng Yu	12
13	Root microbiota confers rice resistance to aluminium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency in acidic soils 2023 ·Nature Food ·(unknown), (unknown), Mengting Yuan, Ertao Wang, Yang Bai, Thomas W. Crowther, Jizhong Zhou, Zhiyuan Ma, Li Zhang, Yu Wang, Jixian Ding, Wuxing Liu, Bo Sun, Ren Fang Shen, Jiabao Zhang, Yuting Liang	78
14	Spatial turnover of soil viral populations and genotypes overlain by cohesive responses to moisture in grasslands 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christian Santos‐Medellín, Katerina Estera‐Molina, Mengting Yuan, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone, Joanne Emerson	44
15	Long-term nitrogen deposition enhances microbial capacities in soil carbon stabilization but reduces network complexity 2022 ·Microbiome ·Xingyu Ma, (unknown), Zhou Jason Shi, Nona R. Chiariello, Kathryn M. Docherty, Christopher B. Field, Jessica Gutknecht, Qun Gao, Yunfu Gu, Xue Guo, Bruce A. Hungate, Jiesi Lei, Audrey Niboyet, Xavier Le Roux, Mengting Yuan, Tong Yuan, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang	68
16	Belowground allocation and dynamics of recently fixed plant carbon in a California annual grassland 2021 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), Katerina Estera‐Molina, Mengting Yuan, Donald J. Herman, (unknown), Peter Nico, Keith D. Morrison, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone	30
17	A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Daliang Ning, Mengting Yuan, Linwei Wu, Ya Zhang, Xue Guo, Xishu Zhou, Yunfeng Yang, Adam P. Arkin, Mary K. Firestone, Jizhong Zhou	853
18	Taxonomic and Functional Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Annual Removal of Aboveground Plant Biomass 2018 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Xue Guo, Xishu Zhou, Lauren Hale, Mengting Yuan, Jiajie Feng, Daliang Ning, Zhou Jason Shi, Yujia Qin, Feifei Liu, Liyou Wu, Zhili He, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Xueduan Liu, Yiqi Luo, James M. Tiedje, Jizhong Zhou	12
19	Long-term elevated CO2 shifts composition of soil microbial communities in a Californian annual grassland, reducing growth and N utilization potentials 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Sihang Yang, (unknown), Mengting Yuan, Zhou Jason Shi, Nona R. Chiariello, Kathryn M. Docherty, Shikui Dong, Christopher B. Field, Yunfu Gu, Jessica Gutknecht, Bruce A. Hungate, Xavier Le Roux, Xingyu Ma, Audrey Niboyet, Tong Yuan, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang	34
20	Metagenomics Reveals Pervasive Bacterial Populations and Reduced Community Diversity across the Alaska Tundra Ecosystem 2016 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Eric R. Johnston, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Chengwei Luo, Mengting Yuan, Liyou Wu, Zhili He, Edward A. G. Schuur, Yiqi Luo, James M. Tiedje, Jizhong Zhou, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis	48

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