Ziheng Peng

1.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 757 citations indexed

About

Ziheng Peng is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziheng Peng has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 757 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Soil Science and 13 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ziheng Peng's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Ziheng Peng is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Ziheng Peng collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and United States. Ziheng Peng's co-authors include Shuo Jiao, Jiejun Qi, Jiamin Gao, Gehong Wei, Yu Liu, Haibo Pan, Gehong Wei, Beibei Chen, Gehong Wei and Chunling Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ziheng Peng

28 papers receiving 747 citations

Hit Papers

Linking Bacterial-Fungal ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 2024 2025 50 100 150
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.

  1. Linking Bacterial-Fungal Relationships to Microbial Diversity and Soil Nutrient Cycling
    2021 170 citations Shuo Jiao, Ziheng Peng et al. profile →
  2. Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems
    2022 116 citations Shuo Jiao, Jiejun Qi et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  3. Land conversion to agriculture induces taxonomic homogenization of soil microbial communities globally
    2024 84 citations Ziheng Peng, Xun Qian et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Agricultural subsoil microbiomes and functions exhibit lower resistance to global change than topsoils in Chinese agroecosystems
    2025 13 citations Ziheng Peng, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ziheng Peng China 14 404 315 287 208 97 30 757
Jiejun Qi China 12 349 0.9× 267 0.8× 253 0.9× 170 0.8× 79 0.8× 23 669
Bram WG Stone United States 12 377 0.9× 279 0.9× 209 0.7× 180 0.9× 46 0.5× 20 725
Pierre Plassart France 12 489 1.2× 436 1.4× 363 1.3× 259 1.2× 105 1.1× 12 955
Lu Luan China 16 421 1.0× 348 1.1× 447 1.6× 208 1.0× 74 0.8× 23 934
Kristin Kaiser Germany 6 255 0.6× 207 0.7× 269 0.9× 144 0.7× 84 0.9× 7 582
Manoeli Lupatini Brazil 13 442 1.1× 384 1.2× 432 1.5× 296 1.4× 84 0.9× 29 980
D.P. Di Lonardo Netherlands 10 480 1.2× 449 1.4× 305 1.1× 229 1.1× 87 0.9× 11 900
Pierre Alain Maron France 5 287 0.7× 192 0.6× 217 0.8× 144 0.7× 67 0.7× 5 583
Babur S. Mirza United States 14 508 1.3× 361 1.1× 460 1.6× 292 1.4× 81 0.8× 17 1.1k
Marcel Meyer United Kingdom 8 420 1.0× 323 1.0× 657 2.3× 316 1.5× 122 1.3× 11 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ziheng Peng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ziheng Peng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ziheng Peng. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ziheng Peng. The network helps show where Ziheng Peng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ziheng Peng

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gao, Hui-Yuan, Mingyu Li, Min Gao, et al.. (2025). Nutrient Availability Shapes the Resistance of Soil Bacterial Community and Functions to Disturbances in Desert Ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology. 27(3). e70081–e70081. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Xingjie, Jingjing Peng, Ashish A. Malik, et al.. (2025). A Global Relationship Between Genome Size and Encoded Carbon Metabolic Strategies of Soil Bacteria. Ecology Letters. 28(1). e70064–e70064. 12 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Yiran Zhang, Xiaomeng Li, et al.. (2025). Trait‐Based Life History Strategies Shape Bacterial Niche Breadth. Advanced Science. 12(20). e2405947–e2405947. 12 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Yu Liu, et al.. (2025). Agricultural subsoil microbiomes and functions exhibit lower resistance to global change than topsoils in Chinese agroecosystems. Nature Food. 6(4). 375–388. 13 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Beibei, Ziheng Peng, Chen Shi, et al.. (2024). Bridging ecological processes to diversity formation and functional profiles in belowground bacterial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 198. 109573–109573. 9 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Xun Qian, Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Land conversion to agriculture induces taxonomic homogenization of soil microbial communities globally. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3624–3624. 84 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liang, Chunling, Jiejun Qi, Xingyu Chen, et al.. (2024). Smaller microorganisms outcompete larger ones in resistance and functional effects under disturbed agricultural ecosystems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). e219–e219. 8 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Hang Gao, Haibo Pan, et al.. (2024). Environmental change legacies attenuate disturbance response of desert soil microbiome and multifunctionality. Functional Ecology. 38(5). 1104–1120. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Xinxin Zhang, Wenfeng Chen, et al.. (2023). Core autotrophic microbes drive functional stability of soil cbbL-containing autotrophic microbes during desertification. Applied Soil Ecology. 190. 105027–105027. 6 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Yunfeng Yang, Yu Liu, et al.. (2023). The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e16996–e16996. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Yu Liu, Jiejun Qi, et al.. (2023). The climate‐driven distribution and response to global change of soil‐borne pathogens in agroecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(5). 766–779. 10 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Yu Liu, Zhifeng Wang, et al.. (2023). Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil micronutrient availability in paddy and maize fields of eastern China. Geoderma. 431. 116342–116342. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Shi, Lulu Wang, Jiamin Gao, et al.. (2022). Agricultural Management Drive Bacterial Community Assembly in Different Compartments of Soybean Soil-Plant Continuum. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 868307–868307. 11 indexed citations
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Peng, Ziheng, Chunling Liang, Min Gao, et al.. (2022). The neglected role of micronutrients in predicting soil microbial structure. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 8(1). 103–103. 23 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, et al.. (2021). Regulation of root secondary metabolites by partial root‐associated microbiotas under the shaping of licorice ecotypic differentiation in northwest China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 63(12). 2093–2109. 19 indexed citations
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Chen, Beibei, Wu Xiong, Jiejun Qi, et al.. (2021). Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 163. 108445–108445. 31 indexed citations
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Yan, Hongmei, et al.. (2019). Subsoil microbial community responses to air exposure and legume growth depend on soil properties across different depths. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18536–18536. 28 indexed citations

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