Weixing Liu

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Weixing Liu is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Weixing Liu has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Soil Science, 32 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Weixing Liu's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (14 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Weixing Liu is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (14 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Weixing Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Weixing Liu's co-authors include Shiqiang Wan, Lingli Liu, Zhe Zhang, Sen Yang, Shuli Niu, Meifeng Deng, Jing Wang, Xin Wang, Jianyang Xia and Naili Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Weixing Liu

74 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland

2008 556 citations Weixing Liu, Shiqiang Wan et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration

2014 286 citations Xin Wang, Lingli Liu et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weixing Liu China	33	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	650	79	4.1k
Yolima Carrillo Australia	26	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	893 0.8×	601 0.9×	73	3.5k
Dima Chen China	34	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	696 0.7×	943 1.5×	96	4.5k
Dashuan Tian China	33	3.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	772 1.2×	108	4.8k
Meng Lu China	22	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	873 0.8×	331 0.5×	57	3.8k
Honghua Ruan China	36	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	730 0.7×	762 1.2×	187	4.4k
Qingkui Wang China	32	2.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	774 0.7×	822 1.3×	120	4.1k
Lucia Fuchslueger Austria	25	2.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	581 0.5×	539 0.8×	55	4.3k
Marion Schrumpf Germany	37	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	692 0.7×	516 0.8×	104	4.5k
Weixing Zhu United States	33	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	791 1.2×	99	4.2k
Zhiqun Huang China	36	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	761 0.7×	920 1.4×	125	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Weixing Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weixing Liu

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Li, Jie, et al.. (2025). Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions. Journal of Ecology. 113(4). 943–954. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Weixing, et al.. (2024). Synergistic assessment of environmental pollutants and carbon emissions in the Yellow River Basin, China: An integrated study based on scenario simulation and process decomposition. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112334–112334. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Lingli, et al.. (2024). Long‐term nitrogen input reduces soil bacterial network complexity by shifts in life history strategy in temperate grassland. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). e194–e194. 36 indexed citations

Chen, Yaru, et al.. (2024). Fire alters soil bacterial and fungal communities and intensifies seasonal variation in subtropical forest ecosystem. European Journal of Soil Biology. 123. 103677–103677. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Weixing, et al.. (2024). Distributed-observer-based adaptive fault tolerant formation maneuver for autonomous surface vehicles under stochastic cyber-attack. Ocean Engineering. 312. 119249–119249. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yaru, et al.. (2024). Taxonomic turnover dominates changes in soil microbial communities and functions in response to wildfire in subtropical forest. Applied Soil Ecology. 202. 105572–105572. 2 indexed citations

Song, Jian, Shiqiang Wan, Kesheng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ecological restoration enhances dryland carbon stock by reducing surface soil carbon loss due to wind erosion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2416281121–e2416281121. 8 indexed citations

Peng, Ziyang, Yuntao Wu, Lulu Guo, et al.. (2023). Foliar nutrient resorption stoichiometry and microbial phosphatase catalytic efficiency together alleviate the relative phosphorus limitation in forest ecosystems. New Phytologist. 238(3). 1033–1044. 34 indexed citations

Deng, Meifeng, Ping Li, Weixing Liu, et al.. (2023). Deepened snow cover increases grassland soil carbon stocks by incorporating carbon inputs into deep soil layers. Global Change Biology. 29(16). 4686–4696. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Lu, Weixing Liu, Zhou Jia, et al.. (2022). Land-use change reduces soil nitrogen retention of both particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in a temperate grassland. CATENA. 216. 106432–106432. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Weixing, Xian Yang, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2022). Partitioning of beta‐diversity reveals distinct assembly mechanisms of plant and soil microbial communities in response to nitrogen enrichment. Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). e9016–e9016. 13 indexed citations

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Jia, Zhou, Ping Li, Yuntao Wu, et al.. (2022). Deepened snow loosens temporal coupling between plant and microbial N utilization and induces ecosystem N losses. Global Change Biology. 28(15). 4655–4667. 21 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuntao, Meifeng Deng, Junsheng Huang, et al.. (2022). Global patterns in mycorrhizal mediation of soil carbon storage, stability, and nitrogen demand: A meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108578–108578. 42 indexed citations

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Liu, Weixing, Lingli Liu, Xian Yang, et al.. (2021). Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland. Global Change Biology. 27(16). 3939–3950. 133 indexed citations

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Huang, Junsheng, Weixing Liu, Sen Yang, et al.. (2021). Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 160. 108322–108322. 96 indexed citations

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Yang, Sen, Weixing Liu, Lulu Guo, et al.. (2021). The changes in plant and soil C pools and their C:N stoichiometry control grassland N retention under elevated N inputs. Ecological Applications. 32(2). e2517–e2517. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Junsheng, Weixing Liu, Zhe Wang, et al.. (2021). Divergent contributions of living roots to turnover of different soil organic carbon pools and their links to plant traits. Functional Ecology. 35(12). 2821–2830. 29 indexed citations

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Guo, Lulu, Meifeng Deng, Sen Yang, et al.. (2021). The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(11). 2286–2296. 87 indexed citations

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Li, Ping, Emma J. Sayer, Zhou Jia, et al.. (2020). Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland. Global Change Biology. 26(5). 3015–3027. 61 indexed citations

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Liu, Weixing. (2006). ADVANCES IN THE RESEARCH AND THE EXPLOITATION OF THE EDIBLE INSECTS. Shipin yanjiu yu kaifa. 1 indexed citations

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