Yaying Li

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Yaying Li is a scholar working on Pollution, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaying Li has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Pollution, 32 papers in Soil Science and 32 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Yaying Li's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers). Yaying Li is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (31 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers). Yaying Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Yaying Li's co-authors include Huaiying Yao, Stephen J. Chapman, Graeme W. Nicol, Bo Gao, Rongliang Qiu, Yongxiang Yu, Fuxia Pan, Ningguo Zheng, Hongkai Liao and Xiangtian Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Yaying Li

125 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Nitrification and nitrifiers in acidic soils

2017 402 citations Yaying Li, Stephen J. Chapman et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaying Li China	34	1.8k	949	820	744	710	133	4.0k
Jun Meng China	40	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 2.1×	756 0.9×	986 1.3×	526 0.7×	141	5.1k
Peter Winterton France	33	1.3k 0.7×	587 0.6×	525 0.6×	874 1.2×	360 0.5×	75	3.9k
Rongjun Bian China	35	1.7k 0.9×	2.4k 2.5×	533 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	569 0.8×	92	5.1k
Xinyu Zhao China	41	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 2.2×	920 1.1×	658 0.9×	450 0.6×	162	5.3k
Edoardo Puglisi Italy	34	1.1k 0.6×	884 0.9×	328 0.4×	931 1.3×	584 0.8×	120	3.7k
Xiao‐Ru Yang China	43	2.6k 1.5×	714 0.8×	696 0.8×	748 1.0×	1.6k 2.2×	114	5.3k
Giovanni Gigliotti Italy	35	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	794 1.1×	311 0.4×	96	3.6k
Qin Liu China	22	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	968 1.3×	232 0.3×	59	4.1k
Martin Brtnický Czechia	33	1.2k 0.7×	929 1.0×	600 0.7×	1.9k 2.6×	270 0.4×	213	4.8k
Jianming Xue New Zealand	33	1.2k 0.7×	632 0.7×	486 0.6×	516 0.7×	288 0.4×	126	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yaying Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yaying Li

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Wang, Mian, et al.. (2025). Functional characterization and regulatory pattern of Neoseiulus barkeri peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP). International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 293. 139458–139458.

Peng, Chao, Yaying Li, Juntao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Revealing the underestimated role of Gram-positive bacteria in iron reduction within paddy soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 178985–178985. 1 indexed citations

Qin, Fangfang, et al.. (2025). Effects of growth stage and soil type on the secretion of biological nitrification inhibitors from sorghum. Applied Soil Ecology. 212. 106180–106180.

Li, Wěi, Ningguo Zheng, Chaorong Ge, et al.. (2025). Astragalus polysaccharide slows the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes and reduces the prevalence of opportunistic pathogens in the fish gut. Journal of Environmental Management. 389. 126058–126058.

Yu, Yongxiang, Nataliya Bilyera, Xiangtian Meng, et al.. (2024). Microbial communities overwhelm environmental controls in explaining nitrous oxide emission in acidic soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 194. 109453–109453. 7 indexed citations

Gao, Bo, et al.. (2024). Effects of different sizes of microplastic particles on soil respiration, enzyme activities, microbial communities, and seed germination. The Science of The Total Environment. 933. 173100–173100. 28 indexed citations

Xiang, Dong, Haoyue Tan, Mian Wang, et al.. (2024). Transgenerational stability of a high temperature-adapted strain of Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and differential expression of antioxidant genes in response to heat stress. Biological Control. 198. 105617–105617.

Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Yakov Kuzyakov, Lihu Liu, et al.. (2024). Positive soil priming effects are the rule at a global scale. Global Change Biology. 30(9). e17502–e17502. 17 indexed citations

Yu, Haiyang, Xing Han, Xuechen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Fertilizer-induced N2O and NO emissions in tea gardens and the main controlling factors: A recent three-decade data synthesis. The Science of The Total Environment. 871. 162054–162054. 21 indexed citations

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Yu, Yongxiang, Zihan Zhang, Yanxia Zhang, et al.. (2023). Abundances of agricultural microplastics and their contribution to the soil organic carbon pool in plastic film mulching fields of Xinjiang, China. Chemosphere. 316. 137837–137837. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zihan, et al.. (2023). Effect of Different Microplastics on Phosphorus Availability in an Alkaline Paddy Soil. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 234(11). 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenjie, et al.. (2023). Population Genetic Diversity of Two Blue Oat Mite Species on Triticum Hosts in China. Insects. 14(4). 377–377. 2 indexed citations

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Meng, Xiangtian, et al.. (2023). Fertilization regimes and the nitrification process in paddy soils: Lessons for agricultural sustainability from a meta-analysis. Applied Soil Ecology. 186. 104844–104844. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Sixuan, et al.. (2023). An Insight into the Prevention and Control Methods for Bacterial Wilt Disease in Tomato Plants. Agronomy. 13(12). 3025–3025. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Yaying, et al.. (2022). Short-Term Benzalkonium Chloride (C₁₂) Exposure Induced the Occurrence of Wide-Spectrum Antibiotic Resistance in Agricultural Soils. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(21). 15054–15063. 38 indexed citations

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Peng, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen Distribution and Soil Microbial Community Characteristics in A Legume–cereal Intercropping System: A Review. Preprints.org. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Ziwu, Xi Zhong, Wen‐Shen Liu, et al.. (2021). Indicator species drive the key ecological functions of microbiota in a river impacted by acid mine drainage generated by rare earth elements mining in South China. Environmental Microbiology. 24(2). 919–937. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Yaying, Tong Lu, Muhammad Noman, et al.. (2019). Antidepressant-like activities of extracts of the fungus Paecilomyces tenuipes M98. Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 29(4). 872–879. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yaying & R. J. Haynes. (2017). Formation, properties and revegetation prospects for bauxite processing residue and the effects of seawater neutralisation. International Journal of Environmental Engineering. 9(1). 11–39. 5 indexed citations

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Guo, Shiyu, Hanwei Jiao, Qiaoyun Shi, et al.. (2016). Transcriptome Analysis of HepG2 Cells Expressing ORF3 from Swine Hepatitis E Virus to Determine the Effects of ORF3 on Host Cells. BioMed Research International. 2016. 1–8. 8 indexed citations

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