Qicheng Xu

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 800 citations indexed

About

Qicheng Xu is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Qicheng Xu has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 800 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Qicheng Xu's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Qicheng Xu is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Qicheng Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, France and Germany. Qicheng Xu's co-authors include Ning Ling, Qirong Shen, Shiwei Guo, Junjie Guo, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Chen Zhu, Hanyue Guo, He Zhang, Qiwei Huang and Tingting Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Qicheng Xu

24 papers receiving 792 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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 Zhendong Wang, Hanyue Guo et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qicheng Xu China	14	381	303	289	213	112	25	800
Lu Luan China	16	421 1.1×	447 1.5×	348 1.2×	208 1.0×	87 0.8×	23	934
Selene Gómez-Acata Mexico	13	312 0.8×	187 0.6×	247 0.9×	202 0.9×	139 1.2×	27	726
Afnan Khalil Ahmad Suleiman Netherlands	15	475 1.2×	384 1.3×	345 1.2×	301 1.4×	113 1.0×	21	1.0k
Sana Romdhane France	15	315 0.8×	427 1.4×	359 1.2×	191 0.9×	176 1.6×	29	947
Jiejun Qi China	12	349 0.9×	253 0.8×	267 0.9×	170 0.8×	67 0.6×	23	669
Doreen Fischer Germany	19	337 0.9×	557 1.8×	241 0.8×	250 1.2×	114 1.0×	25	988
Zhenhua Yu China	11	593 1.6×	374 1.2×	508 1.8×	254 1.2×	147 1.3×	23	1.0k
Manoeli Lupatini Brazil	13	442 1.2×	432 1.4×	384 1.3×	296 1.4×	88 0.8×	29	980
Ziheng Peng China	14	404 1.1×	287 0.9×	315 1.1×	208 1.0×	66 0.6×	30	757
Lukas Beule Germany	17	188 0.5×	227 0.7×	237 0.8×	146 0.7×	72 0.6×	41	793

Countries citing papers authored by Qicheng Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qicheng Xu

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

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.

Xu, Qicheng, He Zhang, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, et al.. (2024). Carbon starvation raises capacities in bacterial antibiotic resistance and viral auxiliary carbon metabolism in soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(16). e2318160121–e2318160121. 43 indexed citations

Wang, Tingting, Yang Ruan, Qicheng Xu, et al.. (2024). Effect of plant-derived microbial soil legacy in a grafting system—a turn for the better. Microbiome. 12(1). 234–234. 4 indexed citations

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

Wang, Zhendong, Hanyue Guo, Yang Song, et al.. (2024). Synthetic community derived from grafted watermelon rhizosphere provides protection for ungrafted watermelon against Fusarium oxysporum via microbial synergistic effects. Microbiome. 12(1). 44 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Ling, Qicheng Xu, Shengjing Jiang, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric winter warming reduces microbial carbon use efficiency and growth more than symmetric year-round warming in alpine soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2401523121–e2401523121. 10 indexed citations

Huang, Jinhui, Hongliang Ma, Junjie Guo, et al.. (2024). Soil net carbon balance depends on soil C: N: P stoichiometry. Soil and Tillage Research. 245. 106298–106298. 13 indexed citations

Guo, Junjie, Yong Li, Qicheng Xu, et al.. (2024). Assemblages of rhizospheric and root endospheric mycobiota and their ecological associations with functional traits of rice. mBio. 15(3). e0273323–e0273323. 2 indexed citations

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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Ruan, Yang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Xiaoyu Liu, et al.. (2023). Elevated temperature and CO2 strongly affect the growth strategies of soil bacteria. Nature Communications. 14(1). 391–391. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Ling, Yakov Kuzyakov, Qicheng Xu, et al.. (2023). Bacterial communities in cropland soils: Taxonomy and functions. Plant and Soil. 497(1-2). 297–315. 18 indexed citations

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Huang, Qiwei, Hanyue Guo, Meijie Qi, et al.. (2023). Nutrient status changes bacterial interactions in a synthetic community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(1). e0156623–e0156623. 16 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenbo, Yanfen Cheng, Junjie Guo, et al.. (2022). Long-term manure inputs induce a deep selection on agroecosystem soil antibiotic resistome. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 436. 129163–129163. 39 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chen, Ville‐Petri Friman, Ling Li, et al.. (2022). Meta‐analysis of diazotrophic signatures across terrestrial ecosystems at the continental scale. Environmental Microbiology. 24(4). 2013–2028. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Qicheng, Ning Ling, Achim Quaiser, et al.. (2021). Rare Bacteria Assembly in Soils Is Mainly Driven by Deterministic Processes. Microbial Ecology. 83(1). 137–150. 32 indexed citations

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Xu, Qicheng, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Ling Li, et al.. (2021). Microbial generalists and specialists differently contribute to the community diversity in farmland soils. Journal of Advanced Research. 40. 17–27. 120 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenbo, Ning Ling, Gongwen Luo, et al.. (2020). Active phoD-harboring bacteria are enriched by long-term organic fertilization. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 152. 108071–108071. 54 indexed citations

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Xu, Qicheng, Ning Ling, Huan Chen, et al.. (2020). Long-Term Chemical-Only Fertilization Induces a Diversity Decline and Deep Selection on the Soil Bacteria. mSystems. 5(4). 78 indexed citations

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Xu, Qicheng, Yang Ruan, Christopher Rensing, et al.. (2018). Probing active microbes involved in Bt-containing rice straw decomposition. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102(23). 10273–10284. 13 indexed citations

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