Xinhua Peng

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Xinhua Peng is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinhua Peng has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 34 papers in Soil Science and 17 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xinhua Peng's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (32 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Xinhua Peng is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (32 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Xinhua Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Bangladesh. Xinhua Peng's co-authors include Rainer Horn, Zichun Guo, Zhongbin Zhang, Stephan Peth, Paul D. Hallett, Mahbub Ul Islam, Fahui Jiang, Zhongbin Zhang, Lei Gao and Ying Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Xinhua Peng

58 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Does straw return increase crop yield in the wheat-maize cropping system in China? A meta-analysis

2022 141 citations Mahbub Ul Islam, Zichun Guo et al. profile →
Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification

2024 72 citations Ruibo Sun, Zixuan Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xinhua Peng China	22	859	418	308	242	229	63	1.6k
Donghao Ma China	24	713 0.8×	371 0.9×	405 1.3×	290 1.2×	125 0.5×	75	1.4k
Shiwei Zhao China	19	1.0k 1.2×	394 0.9×	208 0.7×	189 0.8×	118 0.5×	62	1.5k
R. Lal United States	20	1.3k 1.5×	467 1.1×	412 1.3×	273 1.1×	252 1.1×	73	2.0k
İsmail Çelik Türkiye	16	1.3k 1.5×	326 0.8×	417 1.4×	187 0.8×	251 1.1×	39	1.8k
M.V. López Spain	27	1.5k 1.7×	501 1.2×	338 1.1×	327 1.4×	274 1.2×	67	2.1k
Ryan D. Stewart United States	23	841 1.0×	650 1.6×	223 0.7×	589 2.4×	208 0.9×	115	2.1k
Jinshi Jian China	21	1.0k 1.2×	223 0.5×	212 0.7×	239 1.0×	221 1.0×	62	1.7k
Marcus Hardie Australia	19	784 0.9×	558 1.3×	268 0.9×	287 1.2×	69 0.3×	49	1.5k
Nadia Vignozzi Italy	23	1.3k 1.5×	696 1.7×	559 1.8×	236 1.0×	182 0.8×	52	2.1k
Rogerio Cichota New Zealand	20	525 0.6×	214 0.5×	322 1.0×	188 0.8×	272 1.2×	76	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xinhua Peng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xinhua Peng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinhua Peng

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

Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2025). Contrasting soil structure and yield responses to 8-year conservation tillage in Fluvo-aquic and Shajiang black soils. European Journal of Agronomy. 172. 127881–127881.

Liu, Shuai, Yue Dong, Milton Halder, et al.. (2025). Vertical dynamics of soil organic carbon sequestration under contrasting groundwater table levels after 35-year straw return. Soil and Tillage Research. 252. 106580–106580.

Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2025). Long-term nitrogen fertilization promotes fresh particulate organic matter accumulation within macroaggregates under straw return by increasing pore connectivity. Soil and Tillage Research. 256. 106906–106906. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2025). Crop rotation impacts on SOC fraction contents and stability: Insights from a global meta-analysis. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 399. 110128–110128.

Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2025). Long-term straw return with nitrogen fertilization enhances soil pore structure, POM accumulation, and their positive feedback in a Vertisol. Soil and Tillage Research. 252. 106602–106602. 4 indexed citations

Dong, Yue, et al.. (2025). Effects of long-term straw application and groundwater management on acidification of paddy soils in subtropical China: Insight from a 35-year field experiment. Agricultural Water Management. 309. 109337–109337. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhongbin, et al.. (2025). Impacts of tillage treatments on soil physical properties and maize growth at two sites under different climatic conditions in black soil region of Northeast China. Soil and Tillage Research. 248. 106471–106471. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhongbin, et al.. (2025). Responses of root hairs to soil compaction: A review. Plant Science. 355. 112461–112461. 2 indexed citations

Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2024). Soil pore structure shaped compositions and structures of soil microbial community during 13C-labelled maize straw decomposition. Applied Soil Ecology. 204. 105746–105746. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2024). Interaction between POM and pore structure during straw decomposition in two soils with contrasting texture. Soil and Tillage Research. 245. 106288–106288. 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Ruibo, Zixuan Wang, Kenneth Dumack, et al.. (2024). Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2924–2924. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

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Islam, Mahbub Ul, et al.. (2024). Quantitative assessment of different straw management practices on soil organic carbon and crop yield in the Chinese upland soils: A data-driven approach based on simulation and prediction model. European Journal of Agronomy. 154. 127092–127092. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Xinguo, et al.. (2024). Linking main ecological clusters of soil bacterial–fungal networks and nitrogen cycling genes to crop yields under diverse cropping systems in the North China Plain. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture. 11(1). 2 indexed citations

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Guo, Zichun, et al.. (2024). Quantifying and visualizing soil macroaggregate pore structure and particulate organic matter in a Vertisol under various straw return practices using X-ray computed tomography. Geoderma. 452. 117105–117105. 9 indexed citations

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Gao, Lei, et al.. (2023). Pore shrinkage capacity of Shajiang black soils (Vertisols) on the North China Plain and its influencing factors. Pedosphere. 34(3). 620–630. 2 indexed citations

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Peng, Xinhua, et al.. (2023). Tree rings in Tsuga dumosa reveal increasing drought variability in subtropical southwest China over the past two centuries. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 628. 111757–111757. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Zhi, et al.. (2023). Comparison of GPM IMERG Version 06 Final Run Products and Its Latest Version 07 Precipitation Products across Scales: Similarities, Differences and Improvements. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5622–5622. 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaofan, et al.. (2023). Estimating the permeability of soils under different tillage practices and cropping systems: Roles of the three percolating pore radii derived from X-ray CT. Soil and Tillage Research. 235. 105903–105903. 21 indexed citations

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Tang, Jialiang, Stephen McDonald, Xinhua Peng, et al.. (2011). Modelling Cryptosporidium oocysts transport in small ungauged agricultural catchments. Water Research. 45(12). 3665–3680. 29 indexed citations

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Peng, Xinhua, Bin Zhang, Zhao Qiguo, & Rainer Horn. (2005). Soil Strength Characteristics along an Arable Eroded Slope. Pedosphere. 15(6). 739–745. 3 indexed citations

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