Zhangcai Qin

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Zhangcai Qin is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhangcai Qin has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 21 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Zhangcai Qin's work include Bioenergy crop production and management (20 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (17 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers). Zhangcai Qin is often cited by papers focused on Bioenergy crop production and management (20 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (17 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers). Zhangcai Qin collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Zhangcai Qin's co-authors include Qianlai Zhuang, Yao Huang, Xudong Zhu, Jennifer B. Dunn, Steffen Mueller, Hoyoung Kwon, Min Chen, Michael Wang, Michelle M. Wander and Ximing Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Zhangcai Qin

67 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.

Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops

2020 176 citations Alicia Ledo, Pete Smith et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhangcai Qin China	26	579	577	531	518	474	69	2.1k
Ilya Gelfand United States	22	724 1.3×	538 0.9×	418 0.8×	502 1.0×	533 1.1×	40	1.9k
Ritvik Sahajpal United States	17	432 0.7×	331 0.6×	345 0.6×	622 1.2×	203 0.4×	43	1.5k
Terenzio Zenone Italy	21	625 1.1×	402 0.7×	238 0.4×	662 1.3×	250 0.5×	33	1.5k
T. W. Hudiburg United States	24	344 0.6×	265 0.5×	428 0.8×	1.3k 2.5×	311 0.7×	52	2.1k
Sylvestre Njakou Djomo Denmark	19	601 1.0×	565 1.0×	247 0.5×	342 0.7×	123 0.3×	28	1.5k
M. Wachendorf Germany	34	1.1k 1.8×	529 0.9×	1.4k 2.6×	378 0.7×	585 1.2×	242	3.6k
S. Prieler Austria	13	255 0.4×	356 0.6×	248 0.5×	440 0.8×	205 0.4×	22	1.5k
Virginia L. Jin United States	34	663 1.1×	318 0.6×	563 1.1×	442 0.9×	1.7k 3.5×	105	2.9k
Évelyne Thiffault Canada	26	408 0.7×	178 0.3×	392 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	401 0.8×	89	2.1k
Peter B. Woodbury United States	21	293 0.5×	149 0.3×	342 0.6×	724 1.4×	502 1.1×	50	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhangcai Qin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhangcai Qin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhangcai Qin

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiangqian, Ruoque Shen, Wenfang Xu, et al.. (2025). Long-term reconstructed vegetation index dataset in China from fused MODIS and Landsat data. Scientific Data. 12(1). 152–152. 5 indexed citations

Li, Tingting, Xinyi Liu, Jiahui Tian, et al.. (2025). Methane and nitrous oxide budget for Chinese natural terrestrial ecosystems. National Science Review. 12(4). nwaf094–nwaf094.

Zhu, Yakun, Xiaosheng Xia, Josep G. Canadell, et al.. (2025). China’s carbon sinks from land-use change underestimated. Nature Climate Change. 15(4). 428–435. 8 indexed citations

Zhu, Yakun, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Wenjuan Sun, et al.. (2025). Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation. Science. 389(6763). 931–934. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Tongtiegang, et al.. (2025). Decreasing soil erosion in South China with uncertainties driven by NDVI estimates. Ecological Indicators. 173. 113422–113422. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Ziqi, Zhangcai Qin, Wen Zhang, et al.. (2025). Climate-management interactions drive soil organic carbon sequestration potential in China's croplands during 2020–2060. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 100159–100159.

Chan, Kelvin T. F., et al.. (2025). Human-induced water loss potentially threatens sustainable development of sandy regions in China. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Liao, Xiaolin, Ying Wang, Saadatullah Malghani, et al.. (2024). Methane and nitrous oxide emissions and related microbial communities from mangrove stems on Qi'ao Island, Pearl River Estuary in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 915. 170062–170062. 5 indexed citations

Zhu, Xudong, et al.. (2024). Asynchronous Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Drive Temporal Variability of Mangrove Blue Carbon Sequestration. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(11). 10 indexed citations

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Xia, Xiaosheng, et al.. (2024). National forest carbon harvesting and allocation dataset for the period 2003 to 2018. Earth system science data. 16(5). 2465–2481. 4 indexed citations

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Qin, Zhangcai, Yakun Zhu, Josep G. Canadell, et al.. (2024). Global spatially explicit carbon emissions from land-use change over the past six decades (1961–2020). One Earth. 7(5). 835–847. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Han, et al.. (2024). Estimating fossil CO2 emissions from COVID-19 post-pandemic recovery in G20: A machine learning approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 442. 140875–140875. 6 indexed citations

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Tang, Yuqi, Tingting Li, Xiu‐Qun Yang, et al.. (2023). Mango‐GPP: A Process‐Based Model for Simulating Gross Primary Productivity of Mangrove Ecosystems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(12). 8 indexed citations

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Xia, Xiaosheng, Jiangzhou Xia, Xiuzhi Chen, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing Long‐Term Forest Cover in China by Fusing National Forest Inventory and 20 Land Use and Land Cover Data Sets. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(4). 30 indexed citations

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Deng, Xi, Yao Huang, Wenping Yuan, et al.. (2023). Building soil to reduce climate change impacts on global crop yield. The Science of The Total Environment. 903. 166711–166711. 19 indexed citations

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Xia, Jiangzhou, Changxin Liu, Han Chen, et al.. (2022). How large is the mitigation potential of natural climate solutions in China?. Environmental Research Letters. 18(1). 15001–15001. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Tingting, Yanyu Lu, Lingfei Yu, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of CH4MOD _wetland and Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) used to estimate global CH ₄ emissions from natural wetlands. Geoscientific model development. 13(8). 3769–3788. 9 indexed citations

18.

Ledo, Alicia, Pete Smith, Ayalsew Zerihun, et al.. (2020). Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 4158–4168. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Field, John, Tom L. Richard, Erica A. H. Smithwick, et al.. (2020). Robust paths to net greenhouse gas mitigation and negative emissions via advanced biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21968–21977. 128 indexed citations

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Qin, Zhangcai, Qianlai Zhuang, & Min Chen. (2011). Impacts of land use change due to biofuel crops on carbon balance, bioenergy production, and agricultural yield, in the conterminous United States. GCB Bioenergy. 4(3). 277–288. 65 indexed citations

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