Virginia L. Jin

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Virginia L. Jin is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia L. Jin has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Soil Science, 32 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 30 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Virginia L. Jin's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (68 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (31 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (21 papers). Virginia L. Jin is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (68 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (31 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (21 papers). Virginia L. Jin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Virginia L. Jin's co-authors include Marty R. Schmer, Brian J. Wienhold, Gary E. Varvel, Philip A. Fay, Humberto Blanco‐Canqui, H. Wayne Polley, R. Evans, R. Michael Lehman, Robert B. Mitchell and Aaron J. Sindelar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Virginia L. Jin

102 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Understanding and Enhancing Soil Biological Health: The Solution for Reversing Soil Degradation

2015 288 citations R. Michael Lehman, Harold P. Collins et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia L. Jin United States	34	1.7k	809	663	563	442	105	2.9k
Brigitte Josefine Feigl Brazil	37	2.4k 1.4×	891 1.1×	442 0.7×	1.1k 1.9×	602 1.4×	76	3.9k
Bill Deen Canada	28	1.2k 0.7×	574 0.7×	789 1.2×	312 0.6×	184 0.4×	67	2.2k
Antonio Berti Italy	32	1.5k 0.9×	929 1.1×	484 0.7×	413 0.7×	321 0.7×	87	2.9k
D. C. Reicosky United States	27	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	576 1.0×	489 1.1×	57	3.5k
Peter P. Motavalli United States	33	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	620 0.9×	474 0.8×	283 0.6×	115	3.8k
Sylvie M. Brouder United States	32	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	706 1.1×	328 0.6×	252 0.6×	79	2.7k
Sibylle Steinbeiss Germany	15	2.1k 1.2×	858 1.1×	325 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	379 0.9×	17	3.3k
Mahdi Al‐Kaisi United States	31	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	576 1.0×	367 0.8×	108	3.5k
Marshall D. McDaniel United States	23	1.8k 1.0×	963 1.2×	687 1.0×	698 1.2×	231 0.5×	63	2.7k
Longlong Xia China	32	2.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	666 1.0×	936 1.7×	423 1.0×	65	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginia L. Jin

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Dangal, Shree R. S., Makki Khorchani, Andualem Shiferaw, et al.. (2025). Soil organic carbon trends in US Midwest continuous maize and maize–soybean systems over 20 years. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 8(4).

De, Mriganka, Márcio Renato Nunes, Debasish Saha, et al.. (2025). Connections between roots and soil health across agriculture management practices. Plant and Soil. 514(1). 131–151.

Halvorson, Jonathan J., et al.. (2025). Rapid formation of abiotic CO₂ after adding phenolic gallic acid, to agricultural soils. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Li, Lidong, Tala Awada, Yeyin Shi, Virginia L. Jin, & Michael Kaiser. (2024). Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agriculture: Pathways to Sustainable Reductions. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70015–e70015. 19 indexed citations

Khorchani, Makki, Marty R. Schmer, Ariel Freidenreich, et al.. (2024). The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at Platte River High Plains Aquifer. Journal of Environmental Quality. 53(6). 948–956. 3 indexed citations

Shiferaw, Andualem, Tsegaye Tadesse, Marty R. Schmer, et al.. (2024). Optimizing Cover Crop Management in Eastern Nebraska: Insights from Crop Simulation Modeling. Agronomy. 14(7). 1561–1561. 1 indexed citations

Freidenreich, Ariel, Marty R. Schmer, Makki Khorchani, et al.. (2024). The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Platte River/High Plains Aquifer. Journal of Environmental Quality. 53(6). 939–947. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Kang, Xuesong Zhang, Virginia L. Jin, et al.. (2023). Simulating agroecosystem soil inorganic nitrogen dynamics under long-term management with an improved SWAT-C model. The Science of The Total Environment. 879. 162906–162906. 14 indexed citations

Shiferaw, Andualem, Tsegaye Tadesse, Brian Wardlow, et al.. (2023). Cover crop performance under a changing climate in continuous corn system over Nebraska. Journal of Environmental Quality. 53(1). 66–77. 4 indexed citations

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Schmer, Marty R., et al.. (2023). Near-Term Effects of Perennial Grasses on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in Eastern Nebraska. Environments. 10(5). 80–80. 1 indexed citations

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Jin, Virginia L., et al.. (2023). No‐till marginally mitigates the impact of harvesting corn stover on soil microbial parameters. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87(6). 1348–1364.

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Dangal, Shree R. S., Christopher R. Schwalm, Michel A. Cavigelli, et al.. (2022). Improving Soil Carbon Estimates by Linking Conceptual Pools Against Measurable Carbon Fractions in the DAYCENT Model Version 4.5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(5). 22 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, A. Stuart Grandy, Francisco Calderón Sánchez, et al.. (2022). Microbial feedbacks on soil organic matter dynamics underlying the legacy effect of diversified cropping systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 167. 108584–108584. 34 indexed citations

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Drijber, Rhae A., et al.. (2022). Evaluating coal char as an alternative to biochar for mitigating nutrient and carbon loss from manure‐amended soils: Insights from a greenhouse experiment. Journal of Environmental Quality. 51(2). 272–287. 11 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, et al.. (2022). Complex crop rotations improve organic nitrogen cycling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 177. 108911–108911. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Lidong, Virginia L. Jin, Timothy Kettler, et al.. (2021). Decreased land use intensity improves surface soil quality on marginal lands. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 4(4). 10 indexed citations

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Polley, H. Wayne, Michael J. Aspinwall, Harold P. Collins, et al.. (2018). CO₂ enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity. New Phytologist. 222(1). 183–192. 12 indexed citations

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Fay, Philip A., Michael J. Aspinwall, Harold P. Collins, et al.. (2017). Flowering in grassland predicted by CO ₂ and resource effects on species aboveground biomass. Global Change Biology. 24(4). 1771–1781. 1 indexed citations

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Stewart, Catherine E., Karolien Denef, R. F. Follett, et al.. (2016). Switchgrass ecotypes alter microbial contribution to deep-soil C. SOIL. 2(2). 185–197. 14 indexed citations

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Fay, Philip A., H. Wayne Polley, Virginia L. Jin, & Michael J. Aspinwall. (2012). Productivity of well-watered Panicum virgatum does not increase with CO2 enrichment. Journal of Plant Ecology. 5(4). 366–375. 8 indexed citations

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