Qingqing Hou

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 835 citations indexed

About

Qingqing Hou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingqing Hou has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 835 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Qingqing Hou's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Qingqing Hou is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Qingqing Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, Israel and United States. Qingqing Hou's co-authors include Min He, Xuewei Chen, Wei Yan, Lijuan Zou, Yihua Yang, Jianming Deng, Jinzhi Ran, Weigang Hu, Longwei Dong and Shuran Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Qingqing Hou

37 papers receiving 825 citations

Hit Papers

Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topso... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands
    2022 147 citations Weigang Hu, Qingqing Hou et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qingqing Hou China 15 362 188 176 154 89 40 835
Mingtian Wang China 12 246 0.7× 112 0.6× 114 0.6× 115 0.7× 44 0.5× 45 681
Taoufik Ksiksi United Arab Emirates 15 291 0.8× 98 0.5× 165 0.9× 87 0.6× 39 0.4× 52 700
Jennifer L. Wood Australia 18 273 0.8× 276 1.5× 309 1.8× 51 0.3× 54 0.6× 51 968
Shenghua Chang China 22 302 0.8× 105 0.6× 331 1.9× 131 0.9× 62 0.7× 78 1.2k
Yiping Zhang China 17 338 0.9× 181 1.0× 50 0.3× 291 1.9× 53 0.6× 71 974
Donatella Paffetti Italy 16 610 1.7× 287 1.5× 215 1.2× 62 0.4× 142 1.6× 49 1.1k
Nan Liu China 18 353 1.0× 137 0.7× 160 0.9× 67 0.4× 29 0.3× 71 886
Chengqun Yu China 15 177 0.5× 44 0.2× 173 1.0× 177 1.1× 34 0.4× 42 757

Countries citing papers authored by Qingqing Hou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qingqing Hou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingqing Hou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qingqing Hou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qingqing Hou 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 Qingqing Hou. Qingqing Hou 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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Hou, Qingqing, Shengdong Zhang, & Chongqing Wang. (2025). Porous carbon derived from waste plastics for energy and environmental application: A review. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(2). 115368–115368. 8 indexed citations
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Xie, Shubin, Jie Peng, Ying Sun, et al.. (2025). The Increased Effect of Spring Leaf Unfolding on Autumn Senescence in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(12). 1 indexed citations
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Xiong, Junlan, Weigang Hu, A. Allan Degen, et al.. (2025). Morphological and physiological responses to aridity in narrowly- and widely-distributed plant species in drylands. Science China Life Sciences. 68(9). 2784–2795.
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Hou, Qingqing, et al.. (2024). Interannual variations in grassland carbon fluxes and attribution of influencing factors in Qilian Mountains, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177786–177786. 2 indexed citations
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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
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Yi, Hong, W. F. Mader, Junjie Yin, et al.. (2024). E3 ubiquitin ligase IPI1 controls rice immunity and flowering via both E3 ligase-dependent and -independent pathways. Developmental Cell. 59(20). 2719–2730.e4. 15 indexed citations
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Aqeel, Muhammad, Noreen Khalid, Ali Noman, et al.. (2023). Interplay between edaphic and climatic factors unravels plant and microbial diversity along an altitudinal gradient. Environmental Research. 242. 117711–117711. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Cuicui, et al.. (2023). Research on Thermal Insulation Characteristics of Thermal Barrier Coating Materials Based on Human-Machine-Environment Engineering. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2539(1). 12001–12001. 1 indexed citations
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Akram, Muhammad Adnan, Xiaoting Wang, Nawal Shrestha, et al.. (2023). Variations and driving factors of leaf functional traits in the dominant desert plant species along an environmental gradient in the drylands of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 897. 165394–165394. 26 indexed citations
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Hou, Qingqing, Ling Zhang, Dan‐Yang Wang, et al.. (2023). Isorhynchophylline improves lipid metabolism disorder by mediating a circadian rhythm gene Bmal1 in spontaneously hypertensive rat. Phytotherapy Research. 37(12). 5991–6005. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, Erwang Chen, Ahong Wang, et al.. (2022). A retrotransposon insertion in MUTL-HOMOLOG 1 affects wild rice seed set and cultivated rice crossover rate. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 190(3). 1747–1762. 2 indexed citations
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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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Hou, Qingqing, et al.. (2022). The relationship between school assets and early adolescents' psychosocial adaptation: A latent transition analysis. Acta Psychologica Sinica. 54(8). 917–917. 7 indexed citations
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Hou, Qingqing, et al.. (2022). Impacts of climate change and human activities on different degraded grassland based on NDVI. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15918–15918. 38 indexed citations
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Hou, Qingqing, et al.. (2021). Childhood maltreatment and violent delinquency in Chinese juvenile offenders: Callous-unemotional traits as a mediator. Child Abuse & Neglect. 117. 105085–105085. 23 indexed citations
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Hou, Qingqing, Shiming Zhang, Yuan Li, et al.. (2021). New insights on association between circadian rhythm and lipid metabolism in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Life Sciences. 271. 119145–119145. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Huanjun, Xiaoming Wang, Dongmei Qi, et al.. (2020). Establishment of the circadian metabolic phenotype strategy in spontaneously hypertensive rats: a dynamic metabolomics study. Journal of Translational Medicine. 18(1). 38–38. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Ahong, Qingqing Hou, Lizhen Si, et al.. (2019). The PLATZ Transcription Factor GL6 Affects Grain Length and Number in Rice. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 180(4). 2077–2090. 142 indexed citations

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