Yun Chen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yun Chen is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Yun Chen has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Soil Science, 19 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Yun Chen's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Yun Chen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Yun Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yun Chen's co-authors include Jinliang Wang, Yuqiang Li, Mengfang Chen, Lu Han, Linbo Qian, Da Ouyang, Zhiyuan Liu, Pinliang Dong, Wenying Zhang and Wenjie Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yun Chen

65 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Soil Acidification Destabilizes Terrestrial Ecosystems via Decoupling Soil Microbiome

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yun Chen China	20	306	255	245	224	200	71	1.2k
Yishan Lin China	15	438 1.4×	355 1.4×	271 1.1×	144 0.6×	300 1.5×	42	1.3k
Binbin Li China	21	329 1.1×	413 1.6×	366 1.5×	155 0.7×	328 1.6×	109	1.4k
Фу China	21	358 1.2×	228 0.9×	203 0.8×	178 0.8×	174 0.9×	251	1.7k
Chunlin Wang China	19	501 1.6×	159 0.6×	231 0.9×	151 0.7×	287 1.4×	80	1.4k
Jingji Li China	19	294 1.0×	164 0.6×	314 1.3×	131 0.6×	53 0.3×	77	992
Luo China	18	241 0.8×	223 0.9×	168 0.7×	88 0.4×	161 0.8×	151	1.2k
Zhong‐Liang Wang China	24	421 1.4×	563 2.2×	600 2.4×	262 1.2×	472 2.4×	56	2.0k
Georgeta Bandoc Romania	19	597 2.0×	314 1.2×	331 1.4×	179 0.8×	145 0.7×	32	1.5k
Shibin Liu China	17	182 0.6×	596 2.3×	424 1.7×	79 0.4×	136 0.7×	59	1.9k
Xiaoping Xin China	25	406 1.3×	383 1.5×	748 3.1×	324 1.4×	103 0.5×	112	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yun Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Wenjie, Yun Chen, Yuqiang Li, et al.. (2025). Soil microbial C:N:P stoichiometry across environmental transects in China’s typical ecologically fragile regions. Geoderma. 460. 117454–117454.

Xu, Jintao, Bo Dong, Xie Hu, et al.. (2025). GMCP: A Fully Global Multisource Merging-and-Calibration Precipitation Dataset (1-Hourly, 0.1°, Global, 2000–the Present). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(4). E596–E624. 6 indexed citations

Li, Yuqiang, Wenjie Cao, Yun Chen, & Lili Han. (2025). Responses of soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry to afforestation of severely desertified land in northern China. Ecological Indicators. 175. 113520–113520. 1 indexed citations

Duan, Yulong, Jianhua Zhao, Junbiao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in high-elevation montane grasslands and deserts of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in China. CATENA. 258. 109321–109321. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yajun, Kuanyu Zhu, Weilu Wang, et al.. (2024). Coated and un-coated urea incorporated with organic fertilizer improves rice nitrogen uptake and mitigates gaseous active nitrogen loss and microplastic pollution. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 375. 109201–109201. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xuyang, Yuqiang Li, Lilong Wang, et al.. (2023). Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects microbial metabolic limitations in different desert types of northwestern China. The Science of The Total Environment. 874. 162504–162504. 48 indexed citations

Chen, Yun, Xing‐Qiu Chen, Dianzhong Li, et al.. (2023). Scaling law for growth of misoriented equiaxed Al-Cu dendrites: A phase-field study with in situ experiment validation. Computational Materials Science. 226. 112238–112238. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yun, et al.. (2023). Changes in Net Primary Productivity and Factor Detection in China’s Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2019. Remote Sensing. 15(11). 2798–2798. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Yun, Yuqiang Li, Lilong Wang, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneity of leaf stoichiometry of different life forms along environmental transects in typical ecologically fragile areas of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 910. 168495–168495. 14 indexed citations

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Cao, Wenjie, Yuqiang Li, Yun Chen, & Xuyang Wang. (2023). Grazing exclusion is more beneficial for restoring soil organic carbon and nutrient balance than afforestation on degraded sandy land. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1326244–1326244. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Fengqin, Jiale Yang, Yanwen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Mulches assist degraded soil recovery via stimulating biogeochemical cycling: metagenomic analysis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 108(1). 20–20. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Zichen, Yuqiang Li, Xuyang Wang, et al.. (2023). Remote Sensing of Soil Organic Carbon at Regional Scale Based on Deep Learning: A Case Study of Agro-Pastoral Ecotone in Northern China. Remote Sensing. 15(15). 3846–3846. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Yun, et al.. (2022). Ecological security assessment at different spatial scales in central Yunnan Province, China. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0270267–e0270267. 9 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Da, Yun Chen, Wenying Zhang, et al.. (2021). Degradation of 1,4-dioxane by biochar activating peroxymonosulfate under continuous flow conditions. The Science of The Total Environment. 809. 151929–151929. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Yun, et al.. (2019). Hyperspectral Estimation Model of Forest Soil Organic Matter in Northwest Yunnan Province, China. Forests. 10(3). 217–217. 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Yun & Jinliang Wang. (2019). Ecological security early-warning in central Yunnan Province, China, based on the gray model. Ecological Indicators. 111. 106000–106000. 61 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinliang, et al.. (2019). Remote-Sensing Monitoring of Grassland Degradation Based on the GDI in Shangri-La, China. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 3030–3030. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinliang, et al.. (2018). Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level. Forests. 9(7). 398–398. 124 indexed citations

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He, Binghui, et al.. (2012). Effects of Different Fertilization Level on Erosion,Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses on Sloping Farmland of Purple Soil. 26(4). 59–63. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yun, Yun Ma, & Binghui He. (2012). Effects of hedgerow on soil fractal characteristics and erodibility of sloping farmland in the purple soil area of Sichuan, China. World Automation Congress. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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