Mingfei Ji

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 719 citations indexed

About

Mingfei Ji is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingfei Ji has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 719 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Mingfei Ji's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (5 papers). Mingfei Ji is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (5 papers). Mingfei Ji collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Mingfei Ji's co-authors include Jianming Deng, Jinzhi Ran, Jianquan Liu, Longwei Dong, Weigang Hu, Zhiqiang Wang, Genxu Wang, Zhaojin Chen, Hui Han and Karl J. Niklas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mingfei Ji

30 papers receiving 710 citations

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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.

Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands

2022 147 citations Weigang Hu, Qingqing Hou et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mingfei Ji China	13	254	203	171	169	107	34	719
Muhammad Adnan Akram China	13	244 1.0×	125 0.6×	89 0.5×	162 1.0×	92 0.9×	29	647
Masoud Tabari Iran	18	428 1.7×	271 1.3×	143 0.8×	169 1.0×	108 1.0×	102	944
E. Henry Lee United States	19	590 2.3×	186 0.9×	303 1.8×	140 0.8×	88 0.8×	40	1.3k
Paulo Henrique Müller da Silva Brazil	16	375 1.5×	305 1.5×	84 0.5×	110 0.7×	80 0.7×	67	835
Longwei Dong China	11	188 0.7×	117 0.6×	98 0.6×	150 0.9×	87 0.8×	19	500
Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita United States	16	389 1.5×	131 0.6×	92 0.5×	380 2.2×	139 1.3×	41	949
Seongjun Kim South Korea	15	193 0.8×	182 0.9×	231 1.4×	195 1.2×	71 0.7×	100	855
Erik A. Lehnhoff United States	15	392 1.5×	180 0.9×	70 0.4×	167 1.0×	121 1.1×	51	843
John Markham Canada	15	323 1.3×	132 0.7×	79 0.5×	229 1.4×	110 1.0×	55	669

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Ji, Mingfei, et al.. (2025). Decoding the selective mechanism behind a monobody inhibitor to the phosphatase domain of SHP2: insights from molecular dynamics simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(17). 9132–9142. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Lei, Feifei Zhao, Jianbiao Peng, Mingfei Ji, & Bai-Lian Li. (2025). A Comprehensive Review of the Application and Potential of Straw Biochar in the Remediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil. Toxics. 13(2). 69–69. 5 indexed citations

Ji, Mingfei, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Recognition of Phenylalanine Enantiomers Based on Silver Nanoparticles Modified Aminated Carbon Nanotubes. Chirality. 37(3). e70029–e70029. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Xuyao, Zuoliang Sun, Gaojie Li, et al.. (2025). Physiological and transcriptomic analysis reveal the response mechanisms to nutrient deficiencies in aquatic plant Spirodela polyrhiza. Plant Molecular Biology. 115(5). 107–107.

Yao, Shuran, Weigang Hu, Mingfei Ji, et al.. (2024). Distribution, species richness, and relative importance of different plant life forms across drylands in China. Plant Diversity. 47(2). 273–281. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Shuo, Shengjie Li, Mingfei Ji, et al.. (2024). Long-neglected contribution of nitrification to N2O emissions in the Yellow River. Environmental Pollution. 351. 124099–124099. 3 indexed citations

Ding, Bangjing, Gang He, Mingfei Ji, et al.. (2023). The Contribution of Anammox to Nitrogen Removal Is Greater in Bulk Soils Than in Rhizosphere Soils in Riparian Wetlands Along the Yangtze River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(5). 16 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaoting, Mingfei Ji, Yahui Zhang, et al.. (2023). Plant trait networks reveal adaptation strategies in the drylands of China. BMC Plant Biology. 23(1). 266–266. 23 indexed citations

Hu, Weigang, Qingqing Hou, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2022). Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands. Environmental Microbiology. 24(11). 5483–5497. 147 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Lei, et al.. (2022). Estimation of Copper and Cadmium Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil Remediated by Different Plants and Micron Hydroxyapatite. Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications. 2022(1). 3565550–3565550. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaojin, et al.. (2022). The Seasonal Patterns, Ecological Function and Assembly Processes of Bacterioplankton Communities in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 884765–884765. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2022). Isolation of heavy metal-immobilizing and plant growth-promoting bacteria and their potential in reducing Cd and Pb uptake in water spinach. The Science of The Total Environment. 819. 153242–153242. 63 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoqi, Yan Chen, Mingfei Ji, et al.. (2022). [High-Throughput Sequencing Combined with Metabonomics to Analyze the Effect of Heavy Metal Contamination on Farmland Soil Microbial Community and Function].. PubMed. 43(8). 4333–4341. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Lei, Hongbiao Cui, Jianbiao Peng, et al.. (2021). Effects of Different Particle Sizes of Hydroxyapatite on the Distribution and Migration of Trace Elements (Copper and Cadmium) in a Smelter-Impacted Soil. Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications. 2021. 1–10. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Heng, Jinzhi Ran, Mingfei Ji, et al.. (2020). Water content quantitatively affects metabolic rates over the course of plant ontogeny. New Phytologist. 228(5). 1524–1534. 34 indexed citations

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Ji, Mingfei, Jianming Deng, Buqing Yao, et al.. (2016). Ecogeographical variation of 12 morphological traits withinPinus tabulaeformis: the effects of environmental factors and demographic histories. Journal of Plant Ecology. rtw033–rtw033. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Renfei, et al.. (2015). Advances and prospects in plant symmetric and asymmetric competition. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 39(5). 530–540. 6 indexed citations

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Deng, Jianming, Jinzhi Ran, Zhiqiang Wang, et al.. (2012). Models and tests of optimal density and maximal yield for crop plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(39). 15823–15828. 75 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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Deng, Jianming, Tao Li, Genxu Wang, et al.. (2008). Trade-Offs between the Metabolic Rate and Population Density of Plants. PLoS ONE. 3(3). e1799–e1799. 41 indexed citations

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