Weidong Kong

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Weidong Kong is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Weidong Kong has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Weidong Kong's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Weidong Kong is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Weidong Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Weidong Kong's co-authors include Yong‐Guan Zhu, Rachael M. Morgan‐Kiss, Shilong Piao, Linyan Yue, Shiping Wang, Gengxin Zhang, Miaogen Shen, Nan Cong, Mukan Ji and William J. Mackillop and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Weidong Kong

107 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weidong Kong China	33	1.4k	680	517	477	438	119	3.3k
Rebecca A. Daly United States	24	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 2.1×	361 0.7×	171 0.4×	404 0.9×	55	3.6k
Marja Tiirola Finland	38	2.2k 1.5×	955 1.4×	836 1.6×	320 0.7×	412 0.9×	115	4.1k
Yujia Qin China	28	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	404 0.8×	729 1.5×	623 1.4×	80	3.8k
Pengfei Liu China	38	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	430 0.8×	227 0.5×	396 0.9×	138	4.3k
Frank Yonghong Li China	35	859 0.6×	628 0.9×	169 0.3×	825 1.7×	756 1.7×	250	4.9k
Hui Zhang China	35	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	515 1.0×	116 0.2×	427 1.0×	319	5.7k
Bruce F. Moffett United Kingdom	14	710 0.5×	385 0.6×	661 1.3×	130 0.3×	257 0.6×	20	2.1k
Zhian Li China	38	1.3k 0.9×	193 0.3×	646 1.2×	1.6k 3.4×	1000 2.3×	169	4.7k
Julia W. Neilson United States	24	983 0.7×	751 1.1×	471 0.9×	358 0.8×	371 0.8×	45	2.7k
Huiying Liu China	33	951 0.7×	776 1.1×	101 0.2×	643 1.3×	604 1.4×	100	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Weidong Kong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weidong Kong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weidong Kong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weidong Kong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weidong Kong 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 Weidong Kong. Weidong Kong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Xuejiao, Li-Wen Lin, Quan Shi, et al.. (2025). Grazing accelerates soil carbon loss by enhancing the degradability of soil water-extractable organic matter and microbial turnover in fragile grasslands. CATENA. 259. 109346–109346.

Zhu, Junhao, Jannik Martens, Yakov Kuzyakov, et al.. (2025). Mineral–Enzyme Interactions Drive Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation and Stabilization in Permafrost. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(51). 27824–27835.

Brennan, Kelly, et al.. (2025). Local excision for T1 rectal cancer: A population‐based study of practice patterns and oncological outcomes. Colorectal Disease. 27(1). e17276–e17276.

Varliero, Gilda, Pedro H. Lebre, Byron J. Adams, et al.. (2024). Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica. Microbiome. 12(1). 9–9. 19 indexed citations

Li, Chaonan, Changting Wang, Ping Zou, et al.. (2023). Warming and wetting-induced soil acidification triggers methanotrophic diversity loss and species turnover in an alpine ecosystem. CATENA. 235. 107700–107700. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Jin, Wei Guo, Jianshuang Wu, et al.. (2023). Precipitation Drives Soil Protist Diversity and Community Structure in Dry Grasslands. Microbial Ecology. 86(4). 2293–2304. 12 indexed citations

Ji, Mukan, Weidong Kong, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2022). Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108550–108550. 29 indexed citations

Sun, Haibo, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome analysis of gene expression in the tomato leaf premature senescence mutant. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. 28(8). 1501–1513. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Xuejiao, Weidong Kong, Quan Shi, et al.. (2021). Patterns and drivers of the degradability of dissolved organic matter in dryland soils on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(3). 884–894. 17 indexed citations

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Feng, Yi, et al.. (2019). Finite element analysis of the effect of power arm locations on tooth movement in extraction space closure with miniscrew anchorage in customized lingual orthodontic treatment. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 156(2). 210–219. 40 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihan, Weiguo Fan, Hejie Wei, et al.. (2018). Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services based on a carbon flow model: A case study of the Manas River Basin of Xinjiang, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 652. 117–133. 81 indexed citations

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Guo, Guangxia, Weidong Kong, Jinbo Liu, et al.. (2015). Diversity and distribution of autotrophic microbial community along environmental gradients in grassland soils on the Tibetan Plateau. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 99(20). 8765–8776. 111 indexed citations

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Mackillop, William J. & Weidong Kong. (2015). Estimating the Need for Palliative Radiation Therapy: A Benchmarking Approach. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 94(1). 51–59. 19 indexed citations

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Kong, Weidong, et al.. (2014). A miniaturized wideband Vivaldi antenna and phased array. Proceedings of 2014 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 569–572. 7 indexed citations

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Schwarzer, Christian, Zhu Fu, Beate Illek, et al.. (2012). Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm-associated homoserine lactone C12 rapidly activates apoptosis in airway epithelia. Cellular Microbiology. 14(5). 698–709. 55 indexed citations

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Kong, Weidong, et al.. (2012). Characteristics of oxytetracycline sorption and potential bioavailability in soils with various physical–chemical properties. Chemosphere. 87(5). 542–548. 104 indexed citations

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Booth, Christopher M., Frances A. Shepherd, Yingwei Peng, et al.. (2012). Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Practice Patterns and Outcomes in the General Population of Ontario, Canada. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 7(3). 559–566. 24 indexed citations

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Booth, Christopher M., Frances A. Shepherd, Yingwei Peng, et al.. (2012). Time to adjuvant chemotherapy and survival in non–small cell lung cancer. Cancer. 119(6). 1243–1250. 47 indexed citations

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Booth, Christopher M., Frances A. Shepherd, Yingwei Peng, et al.. (2010). Adoption of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Outcomes Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 28(21). 3472–3478. 54 indexed citations

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Lai, Renfa, et al.. (2010). Applied Anatomic Site Study of Palatal Anchorage Implants Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography. International Journal of Oral Science. 2(2). 98–104. 20 indexed citations

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