Xihui Xu

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Xihui Xu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Xihui Xu has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Xihui Xu's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Xihui Xu is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Xihui Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Israel and Austria. Xihui Xu's co-authors include Chen Chen, Jiandong Jiang, Zhenguo Shen, Yahua Chen, Zhepu Ruan, Shiri Freilich, Qiming Zhao, Shunli Hu, Xiaowei Liu and Zhou Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Xihui Xu

37 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling

2024 92 citations Zhepu Ruan, Kai Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xihui Xu China	17	542	395	346	185	177	37	1.2k
Mingjing Ke China	21	683 1.3×	763 1.9×	262 0.8×	216 1.2×	186 1.1×	39	1.8k
Lee Newman United States	16	1.2k 2.3×	402 1.0×	397 1.1×	294 1.6×	143 0.8×	25	1.8k
Susana Castro‐Sowinski Uruguay	23	633 1.2×	179 0.5×	448 1.3×	330 1.8×	113 0.6×	59	1.5k
Viviane Radl Germany	23	693 1.3×	372 0.9×	286 0.8×	453 2.4×	74 0.4×	52	1.5k
Lea Ellegaard‐Jensen Denmark	17	285 0.5×	330 0.8×	162 0.5×	214 1.2×	175 1.0×	48	944
Tomoyasu Nishizawa Japan	24	444 0.8×	382 1.0×	465 1.3×	563 3.0×	66 0.4×	71	1.5k
Tanja Barac Belgium	10	1.2k 2.3×	412 1.0×	473 1.4×	366 2.0×	108 0.6×	11	1.8k
Saskia Gerards Netherlands	20	839 1.5×	482 1.2×	376 1.1×	479 2.6×	144 0.8×	31	1.7k
Sahadevan Seena Portugal	22	358 0.7×	266 0.7×	133 0.4×	397 2.1×	97 0.5×	58	1.5k
Wei Tian China	18	570 1.1×	256 0.6×	339 1.0×	193 1.0×	50 0.3×	60	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xihui Xu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Peng, Qiannan, Xiaopeng Wang, Kai Cheng, et al.. (2025). Modeling bacterial interactions uncovers the importance of outliers in the coastal lignin-degrading consortium. Nature Communications. 16(1). 639–639. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Xihui, Yannong Dou, Chunfang Zhao, et al.. (2025). Rhizosphere microbes enhance plant resistance to cadmium through a root ROS-microbial IAA-root DNA methylation interkingdom signaling pathway. Cell Reports. 44(11). 116491–116491. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chen, et al.. (2025). Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 87. 102652–102652. 1 indexed citations

Ruan, Zhepu, et al.. (2024). Enhanced growth of wheat in contaminated fields via synthetic microbiome as revealed by genome-scale metabolic modeling. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176047–176047. 4 indexed citations

Ruan, Zhepu, Kai Chen, Lei Meng, et al.. (2024). Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4694–4694. 92 indexed citations breakdown →

Meng, Lei, et al.. (2022). Effects of Cigarette Smoke Exposure on the Gut Microbiota and Liver Transcriptome in Mice Reveal Gut–Liver Interactions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(19). 11008–11008. 16 indexed citations

Xu, Xihui, Jing Peng, Can Li, et al.. (2022). Comparative Genomics of Three Aspergillus Strains Reveals Insights into Endophytic Lifestyle and Endophyte-Induced Plant Growth Promotion. Journal of Fungi. 8(7). 690–690. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Yong, Sijia Liu, Jing Peng, et al.. (2022). Enhancing the Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals by Combining Hyperaccumulator and Heavy Metal-Resistant Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 912350–912350. 33 indexed citations

Yang, Hongxing, et al.. (2021). Bioaugmentation of acetamiprid-contaminated soil with Pigmentiphaga sp. strain D-2 and its effect on the soil microbial community. Ecotoxicology. 30(8). 1559–1571. 8 indexed citations

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Hu, Ruiwen, Hai-Ming Zhao, Xihui Xu, et al.. (2021). Bacteria-driven phthalic acid ester biodegradation: Current status and emerging opportunities. Environment International. 154. 106560–106560. 131 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, et al.. (2019). Photoprotection in heteromorphic leaves of savin juniper (Juniperus sabina L.). Photosynthetica. 57(3). 780–787. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaowei, et al.. (2019). Shift in Bacterial Community Structure Drives Different Atrazine-Degrading Efficiencies. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 88–88. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Xiaomei Liu, Long Zhang, et al.. (2018). Bioaugmentation of chlorothalonil-contaminated soil with hydrolytically or reductively dehalogenating strain and its effect on soil microbial community. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 351. 240–249. 41 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Guopeng Li, Li Lu, Zhen-Zhu Su, & Chen Chen. (2017). Genome-wide comparative analysis of putative Pth11-related G protein-coupled receptors in fungi belonging to Pezizomycotina. BMC Microbiology. 17(1). 166–166. 14 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Chen Chen, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2017). The influence of environmental factors on communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Chenopodium ambrosioides revealed by MiSeq sequencing investigation. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45134–45134. 97 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Qin He, Chen Chen, & Chu‐Long Zhang. (2016). Differential Communications between Fungi and Host Plants Revealed by Secretome Analysis of Phylogenetically Related Endophytic and Pathogenic Fungi. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0163368–e0163368. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Chen Wang, Shuxian Li, et al.. (2015). Friend or foe: differential responses of rice to invasion by mutualistic or pathogenic fungi revealed by RNAseq and metabolite profiling. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 13624–13624. 37 indexed citations

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Xu, Xihui, Zhen-Zhu Su, Chen Wang, et al.. (2014). The rice endophyte Harpophora oryzae genome reveals evolution from a pathogen to a mutualistic endophyte. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5783–5783. 61 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiaying, Xihui Xu, Lijuan Mao, et al.. (2013). Endophytic Diaporthe from Southeast China are genetically diverse based on multi-locus phylogeny analyses. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 30(1). 237–243. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Chen, et al.. (2011). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for Dipteronia dyerana (Sapindaceae), an endangered endemic species in China. American Journal of Botany. 98(10). e271–3. 3 indexed citations

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