Ning Ling

11.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
161 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Ning Ling is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Ling has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Plant Science, 63 papers in Soil Science and 49 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ning Ling's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (61 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (42 papers). Ning Ling is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (61 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (42 papers). Ning Ling collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Russia. Ning Ling's co-authors include Qirong Shen, Shiwei Guo, Qiwei Huang, Tingting Wang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Junjie Guo, Qirong Shen, Gongwen Luo, Waseem Raza and Chen Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ning Ling

155 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions

2022 647 citations Ning Ling, Tingting Wang et al. profile →
Organic amendments increase crop yields by improving microbe-mediated soil functioning of agroecosystems: A meta-analysis

2018 358 citations Gongwen Luo, Ling Li et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Insight into how organic amendments can shape the soil microbiome in long-term field experiments as revealed by network analysis

2016 312 citations Ning Ling, Chao Xue et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Core species impact plant health by enhancing soil microbial cooperation and network complexity during community coalescence

2023 119 citations Tingting Wang, Qiwei Huang et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Synthetic community derived from grafted watermelon rhizosphere provides protection for ungrafted watermelon against Fusarium oxysporum via microbial synergistic effects

2024 44 citations Hanyue Guo, Yang Ruan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ning Ling China	55	5.3k	3.3k	2.3k	1.5k	998	161	8.8k
Shiwei Guo China	57	7.4k 1.4×	3.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	575 0.6×	220	10.9k
Ruifu Zhang China	55	6.6k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	2.9k 1.9×	763 0.8×	178	10.4k
Gary D. Bending United Kingdom	53	5.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	854 0.9×	146	9.5k
Philippe Lemanceau France	44	5.7k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	3.0k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	74	9.4k
Pankaj Trivedi United States	47	6.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	111	10.3k
Siu Mui Tsai Brazil	50	4.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	467 0.5×	261	8.7k
Klaus Schlaeppi Switzerland	29	8.3k 1.6×	2.1k 0.6×	3.4k 1.5×	3.0k 2.0×	1.2k 1.2×	55	12.1k
James J. Germida Canada	48	4.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	551 0.6×	154	7.7k
A. Roldán Spain	59	6.0k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.4×	612 0.4×	649 0.7×	191	9.1k
Giuliano Bonanomi Italy	47	4.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	849 0.6×	519 0.5×	217	7.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Ling

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Ruan, Yang, et al.. (2025). Manure application primarily drives changes in antibiotic resistome composition rather than abundance in agricultural soil profile. Journal of Environmental Management. 382. 125421–125421.

Wei, Liang, Xin Rong, Hongzhao Yuan, et al.. (2025). Carbon stabilization by iron plaque on rice roots: The role of oxygen loss. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 210. 109947–109947. 4 indexed citations

Ruan, Yang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Qiwei Huang, et al.. (2025). Viruses Facilitate Energy Acquisition Potential by Their Bacterial Hosts in Rhizosphere of Grafted Plants. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(6). 4599–4610.

Li, Ling, Chao Xue, Yue Wang, et al.. (2025). Microbial lifestyles adapted to distinct soil fertility. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 212. 110023–110023.

Xu, Hao, Tong Chen, Kang Chen, et al.. (2024). Recycling food waste to agriculture through hydrothermal carbonization sustains food-energy-water nexus. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 153710–153710. 10 indexed citations

Guo, Junjie, Jian Huang, Min Wang, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the active bacteria involving glucose-triggered priming effect in soils with gradient N inputs. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 199. 109612–109612. 2 indexed citations

Vasilchenko, Alexey S., et al.. (2024). The effect of long-term application of nitrogen-rich fertilizers on soil resistome: A study of conventional and organic cropping systems. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(3). 2 indexed citations

Du, Juan, et al.. (2024). Habitat-specific changes of plant and soil microbial community composition in response to fairy ring fungus Agaricus xanthodermus on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(3).

Pan, Yonghui, Hongliang Ma, Min Wang, et al.. (2024). Optimal organic-inorganic fertilization increases rice yield through source-sink balance during grain filling. Field Crops Research. 308. 109285–109285. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, He, Yang Ruan, Yakov Kuzyakov, et al.. (2024). Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 199. 109580–109580. 4 indexed citations

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Gong, Xin, Paul Kardol, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2024). Evolutionarily conserved core microbiota as an extended trait in nitrogen acquisition strategy of herbaceous species. New Phytologist. 244(4). 1570–1584. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Tingting, Qiwei Huang, Hanyue Guo, et al.. (2023). Core species impact plant health by enhancing soil microbial cooperation and network complexity during community coalescence. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 188. 109231–109231. 119 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Tingting, Cendrine Mony, Qicheng Xu, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the hologenome concept by analyzing the root-endosphere microbiota of chimeric plants. iScience. 26(2). 106031–106031. 7 indexed citations

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He, Peng, Ning Ling, Xiao‐Tao Lü, et al.. (2023). Contributions of abundant and rare bacteria to soil multifunctionality depend on aridity and elevation. Applied Soil Ecology. 188. 104881–104881. 11 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuming, Limin Gao, Jian Huang, et al.. (2023). Large‐scale exploration of nitrogen utilization efficiency in Asia region for rice crop: Variation patterns and determinants. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5367–5378. 6 indexed citations

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Fu, Yingyi, Amit Kumar, Lijun Chen, et al.. (2021). Rhizosphere microbiome modulated effects of biochar on ryegrass 15N uptake and rhizodeposited 13C allocation in soil. Plant and Soil. 463(1-2). 359–377. 24 indexed citations

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Liu, Weixing, Lin Jiang, Sen Yang, et al.. (2020). Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment. Ecology. 101(8). e03053–e03053. 151 indexed citations

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Guo, Junjie, Ning Ling, Zhaojie Chen, et al.. (2019). Soil fungal assemblage complexity is dependent on soil fertility and dominated by deterministic processes. New Phytologist. 226(1). 232–243. 140 indexed citations

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Luo, Gongwen, Ville‐Petri Friman, Huan Chen, et al.. (2017). Long-term fertilization regimes drive the abundance and composition of N-cycling-related prokaryotic groups via soil particle-size differentiation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 213–223. 72 indexed citations

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Ling, Ning. (1983). Isolation, Characterisation and Utilization of T Lymphocyte Clones. Immunology. 49(3). 567. 7 indexed citations

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