Wenkuan Qin

927 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 605 citations indexed

About

Wenkuan Qin is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenkuan Qin has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 605 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Soil Science, 14 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Wenkuan Qin's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (11 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Wenkuan Qin is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (11 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Wenkuan Qin collaborates with scholars based in China, Romania and United States. Wenkuan Qin's co-authors include Biao Zhu, Jiguang Feng, Ying Chen, Xia Yuan, Xudong Wang, Mengguang Han, Huakun Zhou, Qiufang Zhang, Yawen Shen and Zhonghua Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wenkuan Qin

19 papers receiving 596 citations

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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.

Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness

2023 148 citations Xudong Wang, Jiguang Feng et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wenkuan Qin China	12	412	295	129	100	89	20	605
Gaël Alvarez France	12	459 1.1×	302 1.0×	142 1.1×	85 0.8×	71 0.8×	14	628
Emily Kyker‐Snowman United States	9	389 0.9×	308 1.0×	90 0.7×	122 1.2×	94 1.1×	14	632
Shunbao Lu China	12	375 0.9×	219 0.7×	165 1.3×	104 1.0×	62 0.7×	28	636
Qiuxiang Tian China	13	397 1.0×	261 0.9×	111 0.9×	111 1.1×	48 0.5×	22	579
Xuehui Feng China	9	404 1.0×	312 1.1×	91 0.7×	95 0.9×	142 1.6×	10	648
Judith Braun United Kingdom	5	332 0.8×	215 0.7×	116 0.9×	85 0.8×	75 0.8×	7	514
David Zezula Austria	4	404 1.0×	278 0.9×	188 1.5×	64 0.6×	43 0.5×	7	635
Emily D. Whalen United States	8	461 1.1×	284 1.0×	163 1.3×	129 1.3×	45 0.5×	9	643
Marina Dacal Spain	11	509 1.2×	352 1.2×	135 1.0×	97 1.0×	109 1.2×	14	782
Margarida Soares Sweden	10	391 0.9×	361 1.2×	101 0.8×	193 1.9×	41 0.5×	12	635

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenkuan Qin

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Qiufang, Wenkuan Qin, Xiaojie Li, et al.. (2025). Soil Carbon Availability Drives Depth‐Dependent Responses of Microbial Nitrogen Use Efficiency to Warming. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70490–e70490.

Qin, Wenkuan, Jiguang Feng, Qiufang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Different responses of priming effects in long-term nitrogen- and phosphorus-fertilized soils to exogenous carbon inputs. Plant and Soil. 500(1-2). 647–663. 9 indexed citations

Feng, Jiguang, et al.. (2024). The response of soil microbial necromass carbon to global change: A global meta-analysis. CATENA. 249. 108693–108693. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Ying, Wenkuan Qin, Qiufang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Whole-soil warming leads to substantial soil carbon emission in an alpine grassland. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4489–4489. 19 indexed citations

Chen, Ying, Mengguang Han, Wenkuan Qin, et al.. (2023). Effects of whole‐soil warming on CH₄ and N₂O fluxes in an alpine grassland. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17033–e17033. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Xudong, Jiguang Feng, Wenkuan Qin, et al.. (2023). Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 179. 108982–108982. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

Qin, Wenkuan, et al.. (2023). Linking the rhizosphere effects of 12 woody species on soil microbial activities with soil and root nitrogen status. Rhizosphere. 28. 100809–100809. 7 indexed citations

Yin, Rui, et al.. (2023). Warmer temperature promotes the contribution of invertebrate fauna to litter components release in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. CATENA. 231. 107334–107334. 6 indexed citations

Qin, Wenkuan, Jiguang Feng, Qiufang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen and phosphorus addition mediate soil priming effects via affecting microbial stoichiometric balance in an alpine meadow. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168350–168350. 21 indexed citations

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Yin, Rui, Wenkuan Qin, Xudong Wang, et al.. (2023). Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2159–2159. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiufang, Wenkuan Qin, Jiguang Feng, et al.. (2023). Whole-soil-profile warming does not change microbial carbon use efficiency in surface and deep soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(32). e2302190120–e2302190120. 53 indexed citations

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Qin, Wenkuan, Ying Chen, Xudong Wang, et al.. (2022). Whole-soil warming shifts species composition without affecting diversity, biomass and productivity of the plant community in an alpine meadow. Fundamental Research. 3(2). 160–169. 25 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiufang, Wenkuan Qin, Jiguang Feng, & Biao Zhu. (2022). Responses of soil microbial carbon use efficiency to warming: Review and prospects. Soil Ecology Letters. 4(4). 307–318. 29 indexed citations

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Yin, Rui, et al.. (2022). Climate warming in an alpine meadow: differential responses of soil faunal vs. microbial effects on litter decomposition. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 58(4). 509–514. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chi, Chao Song, Donghui Wang, et al.. (2022). Precipitation and land use alter soil respiration in an Inner Mongolian grassland. Plant and Soil. 491(1-2). 101–114. 10 indexed citations

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Qin, Wenkuan, Yonghui Wang, Xia Yuan, et al.. (2022). Responses of soil carbon dynamics to precipitation and land use in an Inner Mongolian grassland. Plant and Soil. 491(1-2). 85–100. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Ying, Mengguang Han, Xia Yuan, et al.. (2021). Warming has a minor effect on surface soil organic carbon in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology. 28(4). 1618–1629. 57 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xia, Ying Chen, Wenkuan Qin, et al.. (2021). Plant and microbial regulations of soil carbon dynamics under warming in two alpine swamp meadow ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 790. 148072–148072. 44 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xia, Wenkuan Qin, Ying Chen, et al.. (2021). Plateau pika offsets the positive effects of warming on soil organic carbon in an alpine swamp meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. CATENA. 204. 105417–105417. 20 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xia, Wenkuan Qin, Hao Xu, et al.. (2020). Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 150. 107984–107984. 89 indexed citations

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