Xiaoli Cheng

1.5k total citations
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Xiaoli Cheng is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoli Cheng has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Soil Science, 24 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xiaoli Cheng's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (12 papers). Xiaoli Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (12 papers). Xiaoli Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiaoli Cheng's co-authors include Quanfa Zhang, Junjun Wu, Qi Deng, Ming Li, Qian Zhang, Dafeng Hui, Fan Yang, Xiaolin Dou, Qian Zhang and Lei Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoli Cheng

34 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaoli Cheng China 19 865 577 218 194 115 37 1.2k
Courtney A. Creamer United States 16 827 1.0× 492 0.9× 174 0.8× 233 1.2× 102 0.9× 27 1.1k
Valérie Pouteau France 14 1.1k 1.3× 671 1.2× 244 1.1× 254 1.3× 119 1.0× 20 1.4k
Peng Tian China 18 687 0.8× 463 0.8× 293 1.3× 157 0.8× 112 1.0× 39 1.0k
Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu United States 15 856 1.0× 652 1.1× 323 1.5× 210 1.1× 77 0.7× 24 1.4k
Guangyu Zhu China 18 883 1.0× 491 0.9× 244 1.1× 144 0.7× 179 1.6× 29 1.3k
Judith Prommer Austria 14 809 0.9× 508 0.9× 424 1.9× 194 1.0× 110 1.0× 21 1.3k
Mounir Takriti Austria 7 969 1.1× 620 1.1× 316 1.4× 340 1.8× 84 0.7× 10 1.3k
Felix Heitkamp Germany 15 682 0.8× 340 0.6× 219 1.0× 181 0.9× 101 0.9× 25 1.0k
Bingxue Wang China 16 570 0.7× 332 0.6× 306 1.4× 158 0.8× 161 1.4× 37 936
Per‐Marten Schleuss Germany 13 747 0.9× 531 0.9× 295 1.4× 199 1.0× 126 1.1× 15 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoli Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoli Cheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoli Cheng

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

All Works

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Liao, Chang, et al.. (2025). Warming inhibits new soil organic carbon formation with higher bacterial necromass contribution. Journal of Plant Ecology. 18(1). 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Qiong, Suhui Ma, Qin Li, et al.. (2025). Context-dependent forest carbon storage: A shift in dominance from structural complexity to large-sized trees across disturbance gradients. Forest Ecology and Management. 600. 123309–123309.
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Chen, Rui, et al.. (2023). Afforestation inhibited soil microbial activities along the riparian zone of the upper Yangtze River of China. Forest Ecology and Management. 538. 120998–120998. 5 indexed citations
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Long, Chunyan, Qian Zhang, Qiong Chen, & Xiaoli Cheng. (2023). Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change. Ecosystems. 26(6). 1209–1223. 5 indexed citations
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Gurmesa, Geshere Abdisa, et al.. (2022). Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry in secondary grasslands along a climatic gradient of subtropical China. The Science of The Total Environment. 825. 154019–154019. 53 indexed citations
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Li, Qianxi, et al.. (2021). Determinants of soil carbon- and nitrogen-hydrolyzing enzymes within different afforested lands in central China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(13). 18868–18881. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, Jianyang Xia, Xuhui Zhou, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the simulated mean soil carbon transit times by Earth system models using observations. Biogeosciences. 16(4). 917–926. 13 indexed citations
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Feng, Jiao, Xia Xu, Junjun Wu, et al.. (2018). Inhibited enzyme activities in soil macroaggregates contribute to enhanced soil carbon sequestration under afforestation in central China. The Science of The Total Environment. 640-641. 653–661. 54 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qian, Jiao Feng, Junjun Wu, et al.. (2018). Variations in carbon‐decomposition enzyme activities respond differently to land use change in central China. Land Degradation and Development. 30(4). 459–469. 43 indexed citations
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Dou, Xiaolin, Xiaoli Cheng, Ping He, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of physically- separated soil organic carbon pools assessed from δ13C changes under 25 years of cropping systems. Soil and Tillage Research. 174. 6–13. 25 indexed citations
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Dou, Xiaolin, Ping He, Xiaoli Cheng, & Wei Zhou. (2016). Long-term fertilization alters chemically-separated soil organic carbon pools: Based on stable C isotope analyses. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19061–19061. 54 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qian, Junjun Wu, Fan Yang, et al.. (2016). Alterations in soil microbial community composition and biomass following agricultural land use change. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36587–36587. 139 indexed citations
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Deng, Qi, Xiaoli Cheng, Dafeng Hui, et al.. (2015). Soil microbial community and its interaction with soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics following afforestation in central China. The Science of The Total Environment. 541. 230–237. 230 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xiaoli, et al.. (2010). Variation of Soil Labile Organic Carbon Pools along an Elevational Gradient in the Wuyi Mountains, China. Journal of Resources and Ecology. 1(4). 368–374. 22 indexed citations

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