Wei Sun

6.4k total citations
143 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Sun is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Sun has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Soil Science, 54 papers in Plant Science and 48 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Wei Sun's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (58 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers). Wei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (58 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers). Wei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Spain. Wei Sun's co-authors include Jianying Ma, Xuechen Yang, Bo Meng, Tianzuo Wang, Víctor Resco de Dios, Wenzheng Song, David G. Williams, Shangzhi Zhong, Xinxin Zhang and Di Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Wei Sun

140 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Sun China 36 1.7k 1.1k 1.0k 969 814 143 4.0k
Juan Gaitán Argentina 19 896 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.7k 1.7× 965 1.2× 43 3.9k
Zoë G. Cardon United States 29 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 866 0.9× 988 1.0× 638 0.8× 59 3.3k
Ivano Brunner Switzerland 39 2.8k 1.6× 1.4k 1.3× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.3k 1.5× 138 5.8k
Daniel S. Maynard United States 27 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 650 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 851 1.0× 42 3.7k
Sally A. Power Australia 37 1.9k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 1.3k 1.6× 149 4.5k
Jyoti Singh India 34 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.6k 2.0× 96 4.4k
Zhiqun Huang China 36 1.4k 0.8× 2.2k 2.0× 761 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 920 1.1× 125 4.1k
Karin Pritsch Germany 33 1.8k 1.0× 857 0.8× 638 0.6× 645 0.7× 784 1.0× 84 3.3k
Huakun Zhou China 39 1.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.5× 1.4k 1.4× 2.0k 2.1× 912 1.1× 228 4.9k
Shuai Ouyang China 31 1.5k 0.9× 731 0.7× 944 0.9× 650 0.7× 936 1.1× 93 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Sun 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 Wei Sun. Wei Sun 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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Sun, Wei, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the multi-fencing effects: Changes in plant diversity across dimensions and spatio, and the relationship between diversity and stability. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 124019–124019. 3 indexed citations
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Cui, Haiying, Shanling Wang, Xuechen Yang, et al.. (2025). Soil phoD-harboring bacteria mediate the responses of phosphorus availability to N addition and mowing among soil aggregates. Geoderma. 454. 117170–117170. 4 indexed citations
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Xing, Z. Z., Ming Xu, Yuting Zhao, et al.. (2025). Comparative assessment of silver nanoparticle and silver nitrate toxicities in Mytilus galloprovincialis. Marine Environmental Research. 209. 107184–107184. 1 indexed citations
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Mo, Lidong, et al.. (2025). Water availability boosts multidimensional plant diversity in a temperate grassland despite anthropogenic disturbances. Ecological Applications. 35(7). e70124–e70124.
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Ma, Jianying, et al.. (2024). Differential eco-physiological performance to declining groundwater depth in Central Asian C3 and C4 shrubs in the Gurbantunggut Desert. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1244555–1244555. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Xuechen, Marcelo Sternberg, Wenzheng Song, et al.. (2024). The Responses of Soil Nitrogen Transformations to Rainfall Reduction Mainly Occurred in the Early Growing‐Season in a Temperate Meadow. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(6). 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Weifeng, Xu Yang, Baoku Shi, et al.. (2023). Synergistic effects of precipitation events and long-term N addition on N2O emissions in a temperate meadow steppe, Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 345. 109860–109860. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Junqin, Tao Zhang, Bo Meng, et al.. (2023). Disruption of fungal hyphae suppressed litter-derived C retention in soil and N translocation to plants under drought-stressed temperate grassland. Geoderma. 432. 116396–116396. 14 indexed citations
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Wu, Angjian, Jiabao Lv, Xiaoxu Xuan, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalytic Disproportionation of Nitric Oxide Toward Efficient Nitrogen Fixation. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(14). 31 indexed citations
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Cui, Haiying, Peter M. Vitousek, Sasha C. Reed, et al.. (2022). Environmental filtering controls soil biodiversity in wet tropical ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108571–108571. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Wei, et al.. (2022). Measurement and decomposition of the spatial spillover effect of innovation development in the Yangtze River Delta. 自然资源学报. 37(6). 1455–1455. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiaopeng, et al.. (2022). The response of soil respiration to different N compounds addition in a saline–alkaline grassland of northern China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 15(5). 897–910. 15 indexed citations
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Cui, Haiying, Wei Sun, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2021). Cascading effects of N fertilization activate biologically driven mechanisms promoting P availability in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem. Functional Ecology. 35(4). 1001–1011. 29 indexed citations
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Cui, Haiying, Wei Sun, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2020). Phosphorus addition regulates the responses of soil multifunctionality to nitrogen over-fertilization in a temperate grassland. Plant and Soil. 473(1-2). 73–87. 48 indexed citations
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Cui, Haiying, Wei Sun, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2020). The effects of mowing and multi-level N fertilization on soil bacterial and fungal communities in a semiarid grassland are year-dependent. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 151. 108040–108040. 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Nannan, Lei Li, Bingwei Zhang, et al.. (2020). Population turnover promotes fungal stability in a semi-arid grassland under precipitation shifts. Journal of Plant Ecology. 13(4). 499–509. 7 indexed citations
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He, Bin, et al.. (2018). Farm ponds in southern China: Challenges and solutions for conserving a neglected wetland ecosystem. The Science of The Total Environment. 659. 1322–1334. 104 indexed citations

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