Ruixing Hou

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ruixing Hou is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruixing Hou has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Soil Science and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ruixing Hou's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (9 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers). Ruixing Hou is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (9 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers). Ruixing Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Ruixing Hou's co-authors include Zhu Ouyang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Yuanshi Gong, Haiqing Chen, Mingsheng Fan, Hongwen Li, Glenn V. Wilson, Fulu Tao, Yibo Li and Daorui Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Ruixing Hou

40 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming

2024 102 citations Jing Tian, Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al. Nature Communications profile →
Conservation agriculture improves soil health and sustains crop yields after long-term warming

2024 43 citations Ruixing Hou, Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruixing Hou China	19	765	492	289	242	184	42	1.3k
Gina Garland Switzerland	18	644 0.8×	460 0.9×	300 1.0×	204 0.8×	116 0.6×	36	1.2k
Narendra Kumar Lenka India	20	858 1.1×	500 1.0×	165 0.6×	207 0.9×	102 0.6×	54	1.3k
Jianfu Xue China	20	913 1.2×	522 1.1×	365 1.3×	389 1.6×	205 1.1×	59	1.5k
Shengli Guo China	22	1.0k 1.3×	368 0.7×	393 1.4×	180 0.7×	89 0.5×	48	1.4k
Lijin Guo China	19	718 0.9×	451 0.9×	283 1.0×	167 0.7×	157 0.9×	38	1.1k
Haiming Tang China	20	992 1.3×	480 1.0×	408 1.4×	221 0.9×	187 1.0×	103	1.4k
Somasundaram Jayaraman India	22	827 1.1×	526 1.1×	167 0.6×	248 1.0×	127 0.7×	67	1.4k
Nimai Senapati United Kingdom	17	507 0.7×	571 1.2×	172 0.6×	319 1.3×	203 1.1×	49	1.2k
Crisanta Sunio Bueno Philippines	19	770 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	257 0.9×	249 1.0×	211 1.1×	35	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ruixing Hou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruixing Hou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dungait, Jennifer A. J., Wen‐Hui Shang, Ruixing Hou, et al.. (2025). Conservation agriculture raises crop nitrogen acquisition by amplifying plant-microbe synergy under climate warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11067–11067.

Yu, Miao, et al.. (2025). Improving cropland soil water management to promote soil organic carbon increase through organic material returning in cold black soil areas. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 382. 109470–109470. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yuedong, et al.. (2025). Carbon saturation level regulates the stability of mineral-associated organic carbon in forest soils. CATENA. 259. 109391–109391.

Gong, Huarui, Jing Li, Zhen Liu, et al.. (2024). Linkages of soil and microbial stoichiometry to crop nitrogen use efficiency: Evidence from a long-term nitrogen addition experiment. CATENA. 240. 107961–107961. 3 indexed citations

Hou, Ruixing, et al.. (2024). Effects of climactic warming on the starch and protein content of winter wheat grain under conservation tillage in the North China Plain. Soil and Tillage Research. 238. 105995–105995. 6 indexed citations

Hou, Ruixing, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Guiyao Zhou, et al.. (2024). Conservation agriculture improves soil health and sustains crop yields after long-term warming. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8785–8785. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

Tian, Jing, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Ruixing Hou, et al.. (2024). Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming. Nature Communications. 15(1). 377–377. 102 indexed citations breakdown →

Hou, Ruixing, et al.. (2023). Climate warming extends the effective growth period of winter wheat and increases grain protein content. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 336. 109477–109477. 12 indexed citations

Liu, Zhen, Jing Li, Yitao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Soil Microbes from Saline–Alkali Farmland Can Form Carbonate Precipitates. Agronomy. 13(2). 372–372. 5 indexed citations

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Hou, Ruixing, Huarui Gong, Zhu Ouyang, Maxim Dorodnikov, & Yakov Kuzyakov. (2023). Fast labile carbon and litter exhaustion under no-tillage after 5-year soil warming. CATENA. 231. 107337–107337. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenjing, et al.. (2022). Dimethyl phthalate inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli K-12 by regulating sugar transport and energy metabolism. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(5). 13702–13710. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yibo, Ruixing Hou, Xiaodi Liu, Yi Chen, & Fulu Tao. (2022). Changes in wheat traits under future climate change and their contributions to yield changes in conventional vs. conservational tillage systems. The Science of The Total Environment. 815. 152947–152947. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Mengru, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Xiaomeng Wei, et al.. (2022). Long-term warming increased microbial carbon use efficiency and turnover rate under conservation tillage system. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 172. 108770–108770. 52 indexed citations

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Qiao, Fei, et al.. (2021). Moderately decreasing fertilizer in fields does not reduce populations of cereal aphids but maximizes fitness of parasitoids. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 2517–2517. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Yibo, Ruixing Hou, & Fulu Tao. (2020). Wheat morpho‐physiological traits and radiation use efficiency under interactive effects of warming and tillage management. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(7). 2386–2401. 26 indexed citations

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Han, Daorui, Zhigang Sun, Fadong Li, et al.. (2016). Changes and controlling factors of cropland soil organic carbon in North China Plain over a 30-year period. Plant and Soil. 403(1-2). 437–453. 7 indexed citations

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Dong, Zhaoke, et al.. (2013). Response of soil nematodes to elevated temperature in conventional and no-tillage cropland systems. Plant and Soil. 373(1-2). 907–918. 30 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yunpu, Ming Xu, Ruixing Hou, et al.. (2013). Effects of experimental warming on stomatal traits in leaves of maize (Zea may L.). Ecology and Evolution. 3(9). 3095–3111. 70 indexed citations

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Hou, Ruixing, et al.. (2012). Is the change of winter wheat yield under warming caused by shortened reproductive period?. Ecology and Evolution. 2(12). 2999–3008. 51 indexed citations

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Chen, Haiqing, Ruixing Hou, Yuanshi Gong, et al.. (2009). Effects of 11 years of conservation tillage on soil organic matter fractions in wheat monoculture in Loess Plateau of China. Soil and Tillage Research. 106(1). 85–94. 321 indexed citations

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