Xinhua He

15.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
357 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Xinhua He is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinhua He has authored 357 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Plant Science, 145 papers in Soil Science and 44 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xinhua He's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (131 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (71 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (39 papers). Xinhua He is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (131 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (71 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (39 papers). Xinhua He collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Xinhua He's co-authors include Qiang‐Sheng Wu, Ying‐Ning Zou, Weiyu Shi, Yiping Chen, Kaibo Wang, Yi Song, Yishan Lin, Caroline S. Bledsoe, Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda and Minggang Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xinhua He

343 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Balancing green and grain trade 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 250 500 750
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.

  1. Balancing green and grain trade
    2015 758 citations Xinhua He et al. profile →

Peers

Xinhua He
Shuijin Hu United States
Carlos Garcı́a Spain
Torgny Näsholm Sweden
Shenglei Fu China
Xingliang Xu China
Douglas L. Godbold United Kingdom
Richard P. Dick United States
David E. Crowley United States
Wolfgang Wanek Austria
Еvgenia Blagodatskaya Germany
Shuijin Hu United States
Xinhua He
Citations per year, relative to Xinhua He Xinhua He (= 1×) peers Shuijin Hu

Countries citing papers authored by Xinhua He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xinhua He

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xinhua He. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xinhua He. The network helps show where Xinhua He may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinhua He

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

All Works

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Wen, Yongli, Xin-Jian Wen, Zhuoyue Zhang, et al.. (2025). Exogenous iron mitigates photo-facilitation of soil organic matter. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 395. 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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Patkó, Dániel, Álvaro Mata, Xinhua He, et al.. (2025). Microcosm fabrication platform for live microscopy of plant-soil systems. Biosystems Engineering. 252. 105–114. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanliang, Xin Wei, Jing Yuan, et al.. (2025). Both a Growth‐Defence Trade‐Off and a Leaf N: P Stoichiometric Imbalance Can Account For Ectomycorrhizal Hyphae Inhibited Non‐Host Plant Growth. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(8). 5753–5768.
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Chen, Yuhang, et al.. (2024). Biochar assisted bioremediation of soils with combined contamination of petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals: A review. Applied Soil Ecology. 204. 105720–105720. 4 indexed citations
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He, Xinhua, Yue Wang, & Weibing Zhang. (2024). New insight into amino acids on the structure and rheological properties of rice starch via ultra-high pressure processing. Food Chemistry. 466. 142201–142201. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Dongli, Congcong Liu, Ning Zhang, et al.. (2024). Habitat differentiation and environmental adaptability contribute to leaf size variations globally in C3 and C4 grasses. The Science of The Total Environment. 937. 173309–173309. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Jing, Rui Yan, Xueqiong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Soil organic phosphorus is mainly hydrolyzed via phosphatases from ectomycorrhiza-associated bacteria rather than ectomycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil. 504(1-2). 659–678. 10 indexed citations
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Yu, Dongli, Jian Feng, Shixing Zhou, et al.. (2024). The variation in climate conditions and fire-related traits across Pinus (Pinaceae) species. Global Ecology and Conservation. 54. e03152–e03152. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuhang, Fumei Wang, Jiaqi Gao, et al.. (2024). Enhancing bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil by sophorolipids-modified biochar: Combined metagenomic and metabolomic analyses. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175772–175772. 6 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhenghu, Chuankuan Wang, Yue Li, et al.. (2024). Carbon gain in upper but loss in deeper cropland soils across China over the last four decades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2422371122–e2422371122. 14 indexed citations
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He, Xinhua, et al.. (2023). Differential responses of soil bacterial communities to elevated CO2 between strongly CO2-responsive and weakly CO2-responsive rice cultivars. The Science of The Total Environment. 869. 161843–161843. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, Yingli Cai, Peixin He, et al.. (2022). Genetic polymorphism of Mel-21 Morchella tissue isolates. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 9. 100324–100324. 1 indexed citations
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Xiong, Huaye, Yuheng Wang, Wenli Li, et al.. (2020). Fruit Yields Depend on Biomass and Nutrient Accumulations in New Shoots of Citrus Trees. Agronomy. 10(12). 1988–1988. 23 indexed citations
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Sarker, Jharna Rani, Bhupinder Pal Singh, Xinhua He, et al.. (2017). Tillage and nitrogen fertilization enhanced belowground carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in a semi-arid canola crop–soil system. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10726–10726. 29 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuehong, Zakaria A. Mirza, Hong Li, et al.. (2016). Cost of agronomic biofortification of wheat with zinc in China. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 36(3). 46 indexed citations

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