Xiaoxu Jia

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
155 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Xiaoxu Jia is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoxu Jia has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Soil Science, 64 papers in Environmental Engineering and 63 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaoxu Jia's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (63 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (47 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (41 papers). Xiaoxu Jia is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (63 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (47 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (41 papers). Xiaoxu Jia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xiaoxu Jia's co-authors include Mingan Shao, Yuanjun Zhu, Xiaorong Wei, Chunlei Zhao, Yunqiang Wang, Yi Luo, Xuezhang Li, Qingyin Zhang, Jiangbo Qiao and Chencheng Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoxu Jia

149 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Soil moisture decline due to afforestation across the Loess Plateau, China

2017 572 citations Xiaoxu Jia, Mingan Shao et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality

2021 541 citations Liping Qiu, Qian Zhang et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

2024 55 citations Yunqiang Wang, Wei Hu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Declining precipitation frequency may drive earlier leaf senescence by intensifying drought stress and enhancing drought acclimation

2025 15 citations Xiaoxu Jia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoxu Jia China	43	2.7k	1.8k	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	155	6.1k
Baoyuan Liu China	43	4.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	777 0.6×	2.6k 1.9×	148	6.8k
Vincent Chaplot France	49	3.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	491 0.4×	1.9k 1.4×	125	6.3k
Xianli Xu China	38	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	848 0.6×	435 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	123	4.5k
Gao‐Lin Wu China	47	4.1k 1.5×	1.5k 0.8×	683 0.5×	901 0.7×	2.5k 1.9×	220	7.5k
Tyson E. Ochsner United States	36	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	747 0.6×	124	5.1k
Ryusuke Hatano Japan	40	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	667 0.5×	958 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	237	6.0k
Helmut Elsenbeer Germany	40	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	880 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	71	4.5k
Wim Cornelis Belgium	50	4.1k 1.5×	762 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	281	7.2k
Wei Hu China	39	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	431 0.3×	138	4.2k
Francisco Domingo Spain	43	1.4k 0.5×	3.0k 1.6×	743 0.5×	481 0.3×	894 0.7×	118	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoxu Jia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoxu Jia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaoxu Jia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaoxu Jia 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 Xiaoxu Jia. Xiaoxu Jia 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

Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2025). Relationship of vegetation stand age to soil water dynamics and use in artificial shrublands and grasslands in a semiarid region. Agricultural Water Management. 313. 109487–109487. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingshun, Xiao Bai, J. Liu, et al.. (2025). Simulating long-term effects of vegetation managements on soil moisture in steep slopes of China’s Loess Plateau. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 389. 109673–109673.

Wang, Yunqiang, Wei Hu, Yali Zhao, et al.. (2024). Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(15). e2322127121–e2322127121. 55 indexed citations breakdown →

Jia, Xiaoxu, Ping Zhu, Xiaorong Wei, et al.. (2024). Bringing ancient loess critical zones into a new era of sustainable development goals. Earth-Science Reviews. 255. 104852–104852. 4 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxu, Xiangdong Li, Chunlei Zhao, et al.. (2024). Developing novel ensemble models for predicting soil hydraulic properties in China’s arid region. Journal of Hydrology. 636. 131354–131354. 5 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2023). A preliminary investigation of water storage in check‐dams across China's Loess Plateau using electrical resistivity tomography. Hydrological Processes. 37(2). 6 indexed citations

Huang, Laiming, Mingan Shao, Xiaoxu Jia, et al.. (2023). Water sources used by artificial Salix psammophila in stands of different ages based on stable isotope analysis in northeastern Mu Us Sandy Land. CATENA. 226. 107087–107087. 22 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2023). Differences in plant water use between check-dam land and slope land on the Loess Plateau: Significance for vegetation restoration. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 362. 108849–108849. 8 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2023). Analysis of soil water use by exotic and native vegetation in a semi-arid area and their associated interspecific competition. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167066–167066. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Mingyu, Xueqin Yang, Yue Bai, et al.. (2023). Response of soil water to long-term revegetation, topography, and precipitation on the Chinese Loess Plateau. CATENA. 236. 107711–107711. 18 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the soil water content of two managed ecosystems using cosmic‐ray neutron sensing on China's Loess Plateau. European Journal of Soil Science. 74(1). 3 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxu, Xiaofan Yang, Jiao Wang, et al.. (2022). Tracing the Sources and Fate of NO₃^– in the Vadose Zone–Groundwater System of a Thousand-Year-Cultivated Region. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(13). 9335–9345. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunqiang, et al.. (2022). Spatial–temporal dynamics and recovery mechanisms of dried soil layers under Robinia pseudoacacia forest based on in‐situ field data from 2017 to 2020. Land Degradation and Development. 33(14). 2500–2511. 11 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxu, et al.. (2021). Changing soil organic carbon with land use and management practices in a thousand-year cultivation region. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 322. 107639–107639. 32 indexed citations

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Qiu, Liping, Qian Zhang, Hansong Zhu, et al.. (2021). Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality. The ISME Journal. 15(8). 2474–2489. 541 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bai, Xiao, Xiaoxu Jia, Yuhua Jia, Mingan Shao, & Wei Hu. (2020). Modeling long-term soil water dynamics in response to land-use change in a semi-arid area. Journal of Hydrology. 585. 124824–124824. 84 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxu, Haiming Wu, Mingan Shao, et al.. (2020). Re-evaluation of organic carbon pool from land surface down to bedrock on China’s Loess Plateau. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 293. 106842–106842. 18 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxu, Chunlei Zhao, Yunqiang Wang, et al.. (2019). Traditional dry soil layer index method overestimates soil desiccation severity following conversion of cropland into forest and grassland on China’s Loess Plateau. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 291. 106794–106794. 87 indexed citations

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Jia, Yuhua, Tongchuan Li, Mingan Shao, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the formation and evolvement mechanism of plants-induced dried soil layers on China’s Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 269-270. 57–70. 73 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Jennifer M., et al.. (2017). Tile Drainage Expansion Detection using Satellite Soil Moisture Dynamics. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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