Xin Sun

3.5k total citations
158 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xin Sun is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Sun has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 40 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Xin Sun's work include Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies (51 papers), Study of Mite Species (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers). Xin Sun is often cited by papers focused on Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies (51 papers), Study of Mite Species (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers). Xin Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Australia. Xin Sun's co-authors include Jinggui Fang, Chaoyang Wei, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu, Xiangpeng Leng, Jian Han, Emrul Kayesh, Lingfei Shangguan, Donghui Wu and Chen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xin Sun

148 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xin Sun China 21 517 389 376 370 262 158 1.7k
Jennifer H. Richards United States 28 676 1.3× 500 1.3× 794 2.1× 382 1.0× 153 0.6× 75 2.3k
Irakli Loladze United States 18 943 1.8× 242 0.6× 456 1.2× 90 0.2× 320 1.2× 28 2.0k
Aaron S. David United States 14 614 1.2× 257 0.7× 624 1.7× 354 1.0× 95 0.4× 43 1.5k
Lin Zhu China 25 673 1.3× 238 0.6× 275 0.7× 195 0.5× 389 1.5× 85 2.3k
Dan He China 25 556 1.1× 172 0.4× 1.1k 2.8× 531 1.4× 113 0.4× 49 1.9k
Mary C. Savin United States 26 379 0.7× 224 0.6× 621 1.7× 226 0.6× 81 0.3× 89 1.7k
Gurdeep Rastogi India 24 524 1.0× 87 0.2× 800 2.1× 690 1.9× 168 0.6× 60 2.3k
Ke Dong China 25 755 1.5× 255 0.7× 1.2k 3.2× 828 2.2× 102 0.4× 109 2.4k
Stephanie A. Yarwood United States 23 524 1.0× 164 0.4× 714 1.9× 224 0.6× 253 1.0× 53 1.6k
Dominik Schneider Germany 25 441 0.9× 132 0.3× 668 1.8× 519 1.4× 125 0.5× 80 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Xin Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Dong, Xin Gong, Martin Schädler, et al.. (2025). Land-use change reshapes communities and guild structure of Collembola across a wide geographic range of the temperate zone. Applied Soil Ecology. 209. 106036–106036. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Jake M., Craig Liddicoat, Xin Sun, et al.. (2024). The climate change–pollution–aerobiome nexus: A ‘systems thinking’ mini‐review. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(10). e70018–e70018.
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Wang, Bin, et al.. (2024). Intercropping outweighs straw incorporation driving community and functional diversity of microarthropods after 5 years of tillage practices. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 377. 109251–109251. 2 indexed citations
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Gong, Xin, et al.. (2024). Urban greenspaces reduce the community specialization of soil nematodes. Geoderma. 453. 117139–117139. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Fan, et al.. (2024). Optimizing Sponge Construction Scheme for abandoned mines: Sustainable Assessment Model Framework and practical implications. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 63. 105557–105557. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Haifeng, et al.. (2024). Invasion by red imported fire ants depletes soil microarthropod communities in agricultural systems. European Journal of Soil Science. 75(4). 3 indexed citations
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Li, Zhipeng, Haifeng Yao, Xiao‐Ru Yang, et al.. (2024). Colonization ability and uniformity of resources and environmental factors determine biological homogenization of soil protists in human land‐use systems. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17411–e17411. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Haibo, Chengcheng Liu, S. W. Tang, et al.. (2024). Prototype Design of Readout Electronics for the Multiple Sampling Ionization Chamber at HIAF-HFRS. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 72(3). 454–461.
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Li, Shun, Xinrong Huang, Shu‐Yi‐Dan Zhou, et al.. (2024). Diversity and Activity of Soil N2O-Reducing Bacteria Shaped by Urbanization. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(39). 17295–17303. 2 indexed citations
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Robinson, Jake M., et al.. (2024). Food webs in food webs: the micro–macro interplay of multilayered networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(10). 913–922. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yulin, et al.. (2023). No tillage increases soil microarthropod (Acari and Collembola) abundance at the global scale. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(2). 5 indexed citations
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Gong, Xin, Xin Sun, Madhav P. Thakur, et al.. (2023). Climate and edaphic factors drive soil nematode diversity and community composition in urban ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 180. 109010–109010. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Zhipeng, Stefan Geisen, Alexei V. Tiunov, et al.. (2023). Land use decouples parasite–metazoan host biodiversity associations in soils across subtropical and temperate zones in China. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(12). 2164–2176. 6 indexed citations
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Geisen, Stefan, Zhipeng Li, Haifeng Yao, et al.. (2023). Urban greenspaces shape soil protist communities in a location-specific manner. Environmental Research. 240(Pt 1). 117485–117485. 5 indexed citations
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Xie, Zhijing, et al.. (2023). Changes in oribatid mite community structure along two altitudinal gradients in Asia and Europe as related to environmental factors. Applied Soil Ecology. 189. 104912–104912. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yiyue, Jian‐Qiang Su, Hu Liao, et al.. (2023). Increasing Antimicrobial Resistance and Potential Human Bacterial Pathogens in an Invasive Land Snail Driven by Urbanization. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(18). 7273–7284. 25 indexed citations
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Sun, Xin, Ramón Filgueira, Nan Wang, et al.. (2023). Vacuum Effect: A Redistribution Process of Organic Carbon Mediated by Bivalve Farming. ACS ES&T Water. 3(10). 3215–3222. 7 indexed citations
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Isabwe, Alain, et al.. (2022). Spatial assortment of soil organisms supports the size-plasticity hypothesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 102–102. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Xin, Yinhuan Ding, Michael C. Orr, & Feng Zhang. (2020). Streamlining universal single‐copy orthologue and ultraconserved element design: A case study in Collembola. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(3). 706–717. 23 indexed citations

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