Qichao Tu

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Qichao Tu is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Qichao Tu has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Qichao Tu's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (48 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (19 papers). Qichao Tu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (48 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (19 papers). Qichao Tu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Qichao Tu's co-authors include Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng, Liyou Wu, Zhi Xiao, Feng Luo, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Yujia Qin, Yunfeng Yang and Lei Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Qichao Tu

72 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

2010 834 citations Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Qichao Tu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qichao Tu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qichao Tu

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Temperature Thresholds Govern Microbial‐Mediated Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems 2025 ·Advanced Science ·Junfu Dong, Xiao Chen, Fangshuai Chen, Zhenzhen Hu, Qichao Tu, Gang Li, Chen He, Quan Shi, Qiang Zheng, Feng Chen, Tuo Shi, Nianzhi Jiao, Jihua Liu	0
2	Global diversity and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in human wastewater treatment systems 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Congmin Zhu, Linwei Wu, Daliang Ning, Renmao Tian, Shu-Hong Gao, Bing Zhang, Jianshu Zhao, Ya Zhang, Naijia Xiao, Yajiao Wang, Mathew R. Brown, Qichao Tu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David A. Stahl, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	19
3	Disentangling drivers of mudflat intertidal DOM chemodiversity using ecological models 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Wen Song, Jiayin Zhou, (unknown), Mengqi Wang, (unknown), Linlin Wang, Qichao Tu	16
4	Biodiversity of mudflat intertidal viromes along the Chinese coasts 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Jiayin Zhou, Yan Li, (unknown), Wen Song, (unknown), Jizhong Zhou, Qichao Tu	9
5	Comprehensive profiles of sulfur cycling microbial communities along a mangrove sediment depth 2024 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Lu Qian, (unknown), Jiayin Zhou, Yijun Fan, (unknown), (unknown), Cheng Wang, Qichao Tu, Yun Tian, Qiang He, Kai Wu, Mingyang Niu, Qingyun Yan, Zoran Nikoloski, Guangli Liu, Xiaoli Yu, Zhili He	9
6	Beyond water and soil: Air emerges as a major reservoir of human pathogens 2024 ·Environment International ·Tong Li, Kai Feng, Shang Wang, (unknown), Xi Peng, Qichao Tu, Ye Deng	6
7	Bacteria rather than fungi mediate the chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter in a mudflat intertidal zone 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wen Song, Jiayin Zhou, (unknown), Mengqi Wang, Chun Li, Jihua Liu, Qichao Tu	11
8	The diversity and ecological significance of microbial traits potentially involved in B₁₂ biosynthesis in the global ocean 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jiayin Zhou, Wei Qin, Xinda Lu, Yunfeng Yang, (unknown), Nianzhi Jiao, Jizhong Zhou, Jihua Liu, Qichao Tu	6
9	Ocean acidification altered microbial functional potential in the Arctic Ocean 2023 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·Yu Wang, Rui Zhang, Yunfeng Yang, Qichao Tu, Jizhong Zhou, Nianzhi Jiao	3
10	Vertically stratified methane, nitrogen and sulphur cycling and coupling mechanisms in mangrove sediment microbiomes 2023 ·Microbiome ·Lu Qian, Xiaoli Yu, Hang Gu, Fei Liu, Yijun Fan, Cheng Wang, Qiang He, Yun Tian, Yisheng Peng, Longfei Shu, Shanquan Wang, Zhijian Huang, Qingyun Yan, Jianguo He, Guangli Liu, Qichao Tu, Zhili He	70
11	Environmental heterogeneity and dispersal limitation simultaneously determine the spatial scaling of different microbial functional groups 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Wen Song, Jiayin Zhou, Xia Liu, Mengqi Wang, Qichao Tu	8
12	MCycDB: A curated database for comprehensively profiling methane cycling processes of environmental microbiomes 2022 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Lu Qian, Xiaoli Yu, Jiayin Zhou, Hang Gu, (unknown), Yisheng Peng, Qiang He, Yun Tian, Jihua Liu, Shanquan Wang, Cheng Wang, Longfei Shu, Qingyun Yan, Jianguo He, Guangli Liu, Qichao Tu, Zhili He	55
13	PCycDB: a comprehensive and accurate database for fast analysis of phosphorus cycling genes 2022 ·Microbiome ·Jiaxiong Zeng, Qichao Tu, Xiaoli Yu, Lu Qian, Cheng Wang, Longfei Shu, Fei Liu, Shengwei Liu, Zhijian Huang, Jianguo He, Qingyun Yan, Zhili He	113
14	Determinism governs the succession of disturbed bacterioplankton communities in a coastal maricultural ecosystem 2022 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Chun Li, Jihua Liu, Xiao Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qichao Tu	9
15	Eco-engineering approaches for ocean negative carbon emission 2022 ·Science Bulletin ·Chuanlun Zhang, Tuo Shi, Jihua Liu, Zhili He, Helmuth Thomas, Hailiang Dong, Buki Rinkevich, Yuze Wang, Jung‐Ho Hyun, Markus G. Weinbauer, Celeste López‐Abbate, Qichao Tu, Shucheng Xie, Youhei Yamashita, P. Ya. Tishchenko, Quanrui Chen, Rui Zhang, Nianzhi Jiao	39
16	Comparative evaluation of Vibrio delineation methodologies in post‐genomic era 2021 ·Environmental Microbiology Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qichao Tu	1
17	SCycDB: A curated functional gene database for metagenomic profiling of sulphur cycling pathways 2020 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Xiaoli Yu, Jiayin Zhou, Wen Song, (unknown), Qiang He, Yisheng Peng, Yun Tian, Cheng Wang, Longfei Shu, Shanquan Wang, Qingyun Yan, Jihua Liu, Qichao Tu, Zhili He	112
18	Large losses of ammonium-nitrogen from a rice ecosystem under elevated CO ₂ 2020 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Kaihang Zhang, (unknown), Jing Xiao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chunwu Zhu, Qichao Tu, Xin Chen, Jianguo Zhu, Shuijin Hu, Roger T. Koide, Mary K. Firestone, Lei Cheng	34
19	Bacterioplankton assembly and interspecies interaction indicating increasing coastal eutrophication 2017 ·Chemosphere ·Wenfang Dai, Jinjie Zhang, Qichao Tu, Ye Deng, Qiongfen Qiu, Jinbo Xiong	81
20	Gene content dissimilarity for subclassification of highly similar microbial strains 2016 ·BMC Genomics ·Qichao Tu, Lu Lin	14

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