Yizhi Sheng

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yizhi Sheng is a scholar working on Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yizhi Sheng has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Pollution, 22 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yizhi Sheng's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (12 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (11 papers). Yizhi Sheng is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (12 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (11 papers). Yizhi Sheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Spain. Yizhi Sheng's co-authors include Hailiang Dong, Guangcai Wang, Qiang Zeng, Zheming Shi, Wanjun Jiang, Chunmei Chen, Guanghui Yu, Andreas Kappler, Dongyi Guo and Liang Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yizhi Sheng

65 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications

2022 253 citations Hailiang Dong, Qiang Zeng et al. profile →
Coupled iron cycling and organic matter transformation across redox interfaces

2023 228 citations Hailiang Dong, Qiang Zeng et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yizhi Sheng China	26	582	560	514	475	418	70	2.0k
Caroline Schmidt Germany	25	523 0.9×	658 1.2×	518 1.0×	768 1.6×	602 1.4×	43	2.3k
Kimberley S. Hunter United States	11	310 0.5×	335 0.6×	303 0.6×	307 0.6×	765 1.8×	19	1.7k
Tim Mansfeldt Germany	25	439 0.8×	557 1.0×	265 0.5×	215 0.5×	617 1.5×	105	2.1k
Boris M. van Breukelen Netherlands	32	833 1.4×	735 1.3×	551 1.1×	1.3k 2.7×	677 1.6×	80	2.9k
Jenny Webster-Brown New Zealand	27	471 0.8×	447 0.8×	391 0.8×	192 0.4×	981 2.3×	61	2.2k
Joyce McBeth Canada	19	220 0.4×	533 1.0×	417 0.8×	438 0.9×	480 1.1×	36	1.9k
Matthew F. Kirk United States	22	310 0.5×	227 0.4×	259 0.5×	455 1.0×	893 2.1×	48	1.7k
Thilo Rennert Germany	24	553 1.0×	366 0.7×	255 0.5×	162 0.3×	518 1.2×	89	1.9k
Kurt Friese Germany	33	580 1.0×	424 0.8×	589 1.1×	257 0.5×	1.2k 2.9×	112	2.8k
P. M. Jardine United States	24	382 0.7×	318 0.6×	475 0.9×	663 1.4×	354 0.8×	42	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yizhi Sheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yizhi Sheng

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

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Lin, Jiayu, et al.. (2025). Explore the Positive Influence of Influencer Marketing on Beauty Brand. Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences. 198(1). 260–266.

Li, Jun, et al.. (2025). Investigating Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions and Transformations in a Typical Dry–Hot Valley Through Environmental Isotopes Analysis. Water. 17(6). 775–775. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Hongyu, et al.. (2025). Uranium contamination mediating soil and ore microbial community assembly at four mining sites, South China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1553072–1553072. 3 indexed citations

Sheng, Yizhi, et al.. (2025). A promising peanut shell-derived biochar via ultrasonic-assisted P/O codoping for simultaneous adsorption of cadmium(II) and tetracycline from aqueous solutions. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116642–116642. 2 indexed citations

Sheng, Yizhi, Cheng Liu, Qing Yi, et al.. (2025). Predicting badminton outcomes through machine learning and technical action frequencies. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 10575–10575. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xianglong, Yizhi Sheng, Guangcai Wang, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal successions of N, S, C, Fe, and As cycling genes in groundwater of a wetland ecosystem: Enhanced heterogeneity in wet season. Water Research. 251. 121105–121105. 44 indexed citations

Jiang, Wanjun, Yizhi Sheng, Zheming Shi, et al.. (2024). Hydrogeochemical characteristics and evolution of formation water in the continental sedimentary basin: A case study in the Qaidam Basin, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177672–177672. 11 indexed citations

Xia, Qingyin, Gaoyuan Li, Xinyu Li, et al.. (2024). Biogeochemical Fe-Redox Cycling in Oligotrophic Deep-Sea Sediment. Water. 16(19). 2740–2740.

Jiang, Wanjun, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive Study on Hydrogeological Conditions and Suitability Evaluation of In Situ Leaching for Sandstone-Hosted Uranium Deposit in Erlian Basin. Water. 16(19). 2785–2785. 1 indexed citations

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Zhuo, Ning, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic and isotopic insights into carbon fixation by autotrophic microorganisms in a petroleum hydrocarbon impacted red clay aquifer. Environmental Pollution. 361. 124824–124824. 6 indexed citations

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Sheng, Yizhi, Yanning Zheng, Mingyue Jiang, et al.. (2024). Bioavailability of molybdenite to support nitrogen fixation on early Earth by an anoxygenic phototroph. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 647. 119056–119056. 8 indexed citations

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Sheng, Yizhi, Guangcai Wang, Xianglong Chen, et al.. (2023). Deterministic factors modulating assembly of groundwater microbial community in a nitrogen-contaminated and hydraulically-connected river-lake-floodplain ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Management. 347. 119210–119210. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Xianglong, Guangcai Wang, Yizhi Sheng, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen species and microbial community coevolution along groundwater flowpath in the southwest of Poyang Lake area, China. Chemosphere. 329. 138627–138627. 15 indexed citations

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Dong, Hailiang, et al.. (2023). Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in nontronite: Role of biochar as a redox mediator. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 345. 102–116. 55 indexed citations

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Dong, Hailiang, Qiang Zeng, Yizhi Sheng, et al.. (2023). Coupled iron cycling and organic matter transformation across redox interfaces. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(9). 659–673. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheng, Yizhi, Danni Li, Feng He, et al.. (2022). Change of the structure and assembly of bacterial and photosynthetic communities by the ecological engineering practices in Dianchi Lake. Environmental Pollution. 315. 120386–120386. 10 indexed citations

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Sheng, Yizhi, Hailiang Dong, Ravi Kukkadapu, et al.. (2021). Lignin-enhanced reduction of structural Fe(III) in nontronite: Dual roles of lignin as electron shuttle and donor. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 307. 1–21. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baogang, Jun Liu, Yizhi Sheng, Jiaxin Shi, & Hailiang Dong. (2021). Disentangling Microbial Syntrophic Mechanisms for Hexavalent Chromium Reduction in Autotrophic Biosystems. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(9). 6340–6351. 58 indexed citations

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Sheng, Yizhi, Guangcai Wang, Chunbo Hao, Qian Xie, & Qian Zhang. (2016). Microbial Community Structures in Petroleum Contaminated Soils at an Oil Field, Hebei, China. CLEAN - Soil Air Water. 44(7). 829–839. 24 indexed citations

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Jiang, Wanjun, et al.. (2016). Enrichment and Sources of Nitrogen in Groundwater in the Turpan-Hami Area, Northwestern China. Exposure and Health. 8(3). 389–400. 20 indexed citations

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