Xinquan Zhao

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
155 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Xinquan Zhao is a scholar working on Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinquan Zhao has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Ecology, 38 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Xinquan Zhao's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (36 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Xinquan Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (36 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Xinquan Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xinquan Zhao's co-authors include Yanhong Tang, Song Gu, Julia A. Klein, John Harte, Huakun Zhou, Zhenhua Zhang, Yingnian Li, Mingyuan Du, Shiping Wang and Caiyun Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xinquan Zhao

152 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production

2018 522 citations Huiying Liu, Zhaorong Mi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

2023 112 citations Qiuan Zhu, Huai Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinquan Zhao

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Livestock assemblies grazing influences the abundance of genes associated with carbon decomposition and fermentation within the soil carbon cycle 2025 ·Plant and Soil ·(unknown), (unknown), Quanmin Dong, Xiaoxia Yang, Yuzhen Liu, Chunhui Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, Xinquan Zhao	0
2	Hepatotoxic effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of polystyrene microplastics on senescent Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Patterns of stress response and metabolomic alterations 2025 ·Aquatic Toxicology ·(unknown), Mohammad Mehdi Ommati, (unknown), (unknown), Lei Han, Xinquan Zhao, Hongwei Wang, (unknown), Ping Sun	9
3	Fungal diversity shapes ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grasslands under different herbivore assemblages: A case study from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 2025 ·CATENA ·Yuzhen Liu, (unknown), Xinquan Zhao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shengnan Sun, Quan Cao, Quanmin Dong	2
4	Dual-functional remediation of ammonia nitrogen contamination in ionic rare earth mines: Efficient washing and soil stabilization using lignosulfonates 2025 ·Environmental Technology & Innovation ·Chang-Jin Kang, Jiahao Pan, Yuxia Luo, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xinquan Zhao, (unknown), Chunying Wang	1
5	Yak and Tibetan sheep mixed grazing enhances plant functional diversity in alpine grassland 2024 ·Journal of Integrative Agriculture ·Yuzhen Liu, Xinquan Zhao, Xiaoxia Yang, Wenting Liu, Bin Feng, Shengnan Sun, Quanmin Dong	4
6	Fecal microbiota reveal adaptation of herbivores to the extreme environment of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Qi Li, Jie Liu, Xiangtao Wang, Qun Gao, Yunfeng Yang, Xinquan Zhao	6
7	An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Qiuan Zhu, Huai Chen, Changhui Peng, Jinxun Liu, Shilong Piao, Jin He, Shiping Wang, Xinquan Zhao, Jiang Zhang, Xiuqin Fang, Jiaxin Jin, Qi‐En Yang, Liliang Ren, Yanfen Wang	112
8	Long-term warming reduces surface soil organic carbon by reducing mineral-associated carbon rather than “free” particulate carbon 2022 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Ying Chen, Mengguang Han, Xia Yuan, Huakun Zhou, Xinquan Zhao, Joshua P. Schimel, Biao Zhu	32
9	Density and Stoichiometric Characteristicsof Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in SurfaceSoil of Alpine Grassland in Sanjiangyuan 2022 ·Polish Journal of Environmental Studies ·Dongdong Chen, Qi Li, Chunli Li, (unknown), (unknown), Xin Chen, Li Zhang, (unknown), Xinquan Zhao, Liang Zhao	5
10	An observation dataset of carbon, water and heat fluxes over an alpine shrubland in Haibei (2003–2010) 2021 ·China Scientific Data ·Fawei Zhang, Hongqin Li, Liang Zhao, Leiming Zhang, Zhi Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Yongsheng Yang, Xinquan Zhao, Guirui Yu, Yingnian Li	5
11	Warming has a minor effect on surface soil organic carbon in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Ying Chen, Mengguang Han, Xia Yuan, Yanhui Hou, Wenkuan Qin, Huakun Zhou, Xinquan Zhao, Julia A. Klein, Biao Zhu	57
12	Restoration Measures Supported Surface SoilCarbon and Nitrogen Density in Alpine Grasslandof Sanjiangyuan Region, China 2020 ·Polish Journal of Environmental Studies ·Dongdong Chen, Qi Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xinquan Zhao, Jingmei Li, Lihua Liu, Liang Zhao	5
13	Multi-functionality and management of grassland in the Sanjiangyuan region 2020 ·资源科学 ·Liang Zhao, Qi Li, Xinquan Zhao	10
14	Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production breakdown → 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Huiying Liu, Zhaorong Mi, Li Lin, Yonghui Wang, Zhenhua Zhang, Fawei Zhang, Hao Wang, Lingli Liu, Biao Zhu, Guangmin Cao, Xinquan Zhao, Nathan J. Sanders, Aimée T. Classen, Peter B. Reich, Jin He	522
15	Rumen prokaryotic communities of ruminants under different feeding paradigms on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 2017 ·Systematic and Applied Microbiology ·Dan Xue, Huai Chen, Xinquan Zhao, Shixiao Xu, Linyong Hu, Tianwei Xu, Lin Jiang, Wei Zhan	63
16	Ecosystem carbon exchange under different land use on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau 2015 ·Photosynthetica ·Caiyun Luo, Xiaoxue Zhu, (unknown), Shujuan Cui, (unknown), (unknown), Liang Zhao, Yang Li, Xinquan Zhao	5
17	Carbon dynamics of peatlands in China during the Holocene 2014 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Mei Wang, Huai Chen, Ning Wu, Changhui Peng, Qiuan Zhu, Dan Zhu, Gang Yang, Jianghua Wu, Yixin He, Yongheng Gao, Jianqing Tian, Xinquan Zhao	60
18	[Impacts of uncertainty in data processing on estimation of CO2 flux components]. 2010 ·PubMed ·Min Liu, Honglin He, Guirui Yu, Xiaomin Sun, Xudong Zhu, Li Zhang, Xinquan Zhao, Huimin Wang, Peili Shi, Shijie Han	8
19	Long-term grazing alters species composition and biomass of a shrub meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 2006 ·Pakistan Journal of Botany ·Huakun Zhou, Yanhong Tang, Xinquan Zhao, Zhou Li	46
20	Seasonal patterns of gross primary production and ecosystem respiration in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau 2004 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Tomomichi Kato, Yanhong Tang, Song Gu, Mitsuru Hirota, Xiaoyong Cui, Mingyuan Du, Yingnian Li, Xinquan Zhao, Takehisa Oikawa	59

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