Ming Nie

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
158 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Ming Nie is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Nie has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Ecology, 57 papers in Soil Science and 32 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ming Nie's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (57 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (36 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers). Ming Nie is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (57 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (36 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers). Ming Nie collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Ming Nie's co-authors include Bo Li, Elise Pendall, Changming Fang, Jinquan Li, Junmin Pei, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Colin Bell, Hongyang Chen, Wenjun Tang and Xiao Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ming Nie

148 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

  1. Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates
    2024 68 citations Han Hu, Ji Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  2. Unprotected carbon dominates decadal soil carbon increase
    2025 17 citations Elise Pendall, Jinquan Li et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ming Nie 1.7k 1.6k 961 646 413 158 4.0k
Dong Wang 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.6× 388 0.9× 278 4.9k
Qing Liu 1.1k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.8× 778 1.2× 358 0.9× 243 4.5k
Meng Wang 1.4k 0.8× 755 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 976 1.5× 608 1.5× 254 4.8k
Kaibo Wang 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 552 0.6× 1.0k 1.6× 348 0.8× 84 3.7k
Vanessa Bailey 1.9k 1.1× 3.1k 2.0× 862 0.9× 814 1.3× 476 1.2× 97 5.4k
Xingchang Zhang 1.7k 1.0× 3.6k 2.3× 1.1k 1.1× 511 0.8× 305 0.7× 131 5.3k
Gangsheng Wang 1.2k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 552 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 341 0.8× 137 3.8k
Yidong Wang 885 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 684 0.7× 459 0.7× 194 0.5× 151 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming Nie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ming Nie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Nie

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Xiaoni, Jianjun Xu, Bo Li, Jinquan Li, & Ming Nie. (2025). Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Exhibit Thermal Response Thresholds at Which Carbon–Climate Feedback Changes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(4). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, Jintao Li, Jianjun Xu, et al.. (2025). Carbon‐Degrading Gene Resistance Contributes to Microbial Thermal Adaptation of Soil Carbon Decomposition. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70463–e70463.
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Sun, Baoyu, Jianjun Xu, Xiaojing Chu, et al.. (2025). Warming‐Induced Plant Species Shifts Lead to Substantial Losses of Wetland Soil Carbon. Ecology Letters. 28(5). e70129–e70129.
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Sun, Huimin, Michael W. Schmidt, Jintao Li, et al.. (2024). Nine years of warming and nitrogen addition in the Tibetan grassland promoted loss of soil organic carbon but did not alter the bulk change in chemical structure. Biogeosciences. 21(2). 575–589. 2 indexed citations
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Cui, Jun, Ming Nie, Shuang Wang, et al.. (2024). CO2 emission from soil inorganic C in coastal croplands of the Yangtze Delta. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 381. 109440–109440. 2 indexed citations
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Das, Suvendu, Pil Joo Kim, Ming Nie, & Abad Chabbi. (2024). Soil organic matter in the anthropocene: Role in climate change mitigation, carbon sequestration, and food security. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 375. 109180–109180. 10 indexed citations
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Hu, Han, Ji Chen, Feng Zhou, et al.. (2024). Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates. Nature Geoscience. 17(1). 26–31. 68 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Shuai, Zezhen Pan, Ming Nie, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Flooding Mitigates the Linkage between Paddy Soil Organic Carbon Sink and Climate Factors. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 8(7). 1495–1504. 1 indexed citations
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He, Peng, Lu‐Jun Li, Shan‐Shan Dai, et al.. (2024). Straw addition and low soil moisture decreased temperature sensitivity and activation energy of soil organic matter. Geoderma. 442. 116802–116802. 10 indexed citations
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Huang, Xingyun, Kexin Wang, Jie Liu, et al.. (2023). Flooding duration affects the temperature sensitivity of soil extracellular enzyme activities in a lakeshore wetland in Poyang Lake, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 874. 162397–162397. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, Jintao Li, Xiao Xu, et al.. (2023). Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(2). 205–213. 37 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiajia, Yan-Ni Qu, Paul N. Evans, et al.. (2023). Evidence for nontraditional mcr -containing archaea contributing to biological methanogenesis in geothermal springs. Science Advances. 9(26). eadg6004–eadg6004. 14 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yan, et al.. (2023). Root plasticity benefits a global invasive species in eutrophic coastal wetlands. Functional Ecology. 38(1). 165–178. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jintao, Yan Zhang, Hongyang Chen, et al.. (2022). Low soil moisture suppresses the thermal compensatory response of microbial respiration. Global Change Biology. 29(3). 874–889. 32 indexed citations
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Qiu, Shiyun, Shuangshuang Liu, Xinhong Cui, et al.. (2020). Changes in multiple environmental factors additively enhance the dominance of an exotic plant with a novel trade‐off pattern. Journal of Ecology. 108(5). 1989–1999. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Jinquan, Junmin Pei, Elise Pendall, et al.. (2020). Rising Temperature May Trigger Deep Soil Carbon Loss Across Forest Ecosystems. Advanced Science. 7(19). 2001242–2001242. 81 indexed citations
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Li, Jinquan, Ming Nie, Elise Pendall, et al.. (2019). Biogeographic variation in temperature sensitivity of decomposition in forest soils. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1873–1885. 73 indexed citations
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Groenigen, Kees Jan van, Craig W. Osenberg, César Terrer, et al.. (2017). Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO 2. Global Change Biology. 23(10). 4420–4429. 114 indexed citations
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Nie, Ming, Jiayi Yu, Ming Xiao, et al.. (2011). Understanding Plant-Microbe Interactions for Phytoremediation of Petroleum-Polluted Soil. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e17961–e17961. 74 indexed citations

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