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Biology and Biochemistry
Australia
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
97
Citations
32768
World Ranking
190
National Ranking
15

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
101
Citations
36469
World Ranking
361
National Ranking
17

Ji-Zheng He publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ji-Zheng He sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 356 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Ji-Zheng He D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ji-Zheng He sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Bacteria
  • Ecosystem

Ji-Zheng He mainly investigates Soil microbiology, Nitrification, Ecology, Agronomy and Archaea. His Soil microbiology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Resistome, Acidobacteria and Botany. The Nitrification study combines topics in areas such as Environmental chemistry, Nitrate, Nitrogen cycle and Terrestrial ecosystem.

His Ecology research includes themes of Microbial ecology and Thaumarchaeota. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Gemmatimonadetes, Soil water and Rhizosphere. In general Soil water, his work in Topsoil is often linked to Veterinary medicine linking many areas of study.

His most cited work include:

  • Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long‐term fertilization practices (766 citations)
  • Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen-rich grassland soils (603 citations)
  • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils (445 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of study are Ecology, Soil water, Agronomy, Soil microbiology and Nitrification. His Ecology study frequently draws connections to adjacent fields such as Microbial population biology. His study in Soil water is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Environmental chemistry and Botany.

His Agronomy research integrates issues from Soil organic matter, Rhizosphere and Soil biology. His Soil microbiology study deals with Microcosm intersecting with Microorganism. His Nitrification research incorporates themes from Nitrous oxide, Archaea, Nitrogen cycle, Denitrification and Nitrate.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Ecology (62.62%)
  • Soil water (49.01%)
  • Agronomy (38.86%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Ecology (62.62%)
  • Soil water (49.01%)
  • Ecosystem (24.01%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Ecology, Soil water, Ecosystem, Agronomy and Microbiome. Ecology is represented through his Biodiversity, Soil microbiology, Species richness, Terrestrial ecosystem and Soil pH research. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Climate change and Antibiotic resistance genes.

Ji-Zheng He has researched Soil water in several fields, including Subtropics, Relative species abundance and Environmental chemistry. Ji-Zheng He combines subjects such as Library, Nitrification, Nitrospira, Comammox and Nitrososphaera with his study of Environmental chemistry. Ji-Zheng He focuses mostly in the field of Agronomy, narrowing it down to topics relating to Nitrate and, in certain cases, Soil horizon, Nitrogen cycle and Straw.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes. (58 citations)
  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes. (58 citations)
  • Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils (36 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Bacteria
  • Ecosystem

Ji-Zheng He mainly investigates Ecology, Soil microbiology, Context, Soil water and Ecosystem. He interconnects Resistome and Nitrospira in the investigation of issues within Ecology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Paddy soils and Antibiotic resistance genes in addition to Soil microbiology.

His Soil water study frequently links to other fields, such as Microorganism. His work carried out in the field of Ecosystem brings together such families of science as Biomass, Diversity index, Biodiversity and Proteobacteria. His study focuses on the intersection of Nitrification and fields such as Nitrate with connections in the field of Environmental chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Chanda Trivedi;David J. Eldridge

  • Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen-rich grassland soils

    H. J. Di;K. C. Cameron;J. P. Shen;C. S. Winefield

  • Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long-term fertilization practices

    Ji-zheng He;Ju-pei Shen;Li-mei Zhang;Yong-guan Zhu

  • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils

    Li-Mei Zhang;Hang-Wei Hu;Ju-Pei Shen;Ji-Zheng He

  • Microbial regulation of terrestrial nitrous oxide formation: understanding the biological pathways for prediction of emission rates

    Hang-Wei Hu;Deli Chen;Ji-Zheng He;Ji-Zheng He

  • Effects and influence factors of dicyandiamide (DCD) application in agricultural ecosystem

    Yu Dai;Ji-Zheng He;Ju-Pei Shen

  • Review on iron availability in soil: interaction of Fe minerals, plants, and microbes

    Claudio Colombo;Giuseppe Palumbo;Ji-Zheng He;Roberto Pinton

  • Abundance and composition of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing archaea communities of an alkaline sandy loam

    Ju-pei Shen;Li-mei Zhang;Yong-guan Zhu;Jia-bao Zhang

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

    Jianjun Wang;Ji Shen;Yucheng Wu;Chen Tu

  • Host selection shapes crop microbiome assembly and network complexity

    Chao Xiong;Yongguan Zhu;Juntao Wang;Brajesh K Singh

  • Ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and archaea grow under contrasting soil nitrogen conditions

    Hong J. Di;Keith C. Cameron;Ju-Pei Shen;Chris S. Winefield

  • Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

    Qing-Lin Chen;Qing-Lin Chen;Jing Ding;Dong Zhu;Hang-Wei Hu

  • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea: important players in paddy rhizosphere soil?

    Xue-Ping Chen;Yong-Guan Zhu;Yue Xia;Ju-Pei Shen

  • Effects of Cd and Pb on soil microbial community structure and activities

    Sardar Khan;Abd El-Latif Hesham;Min Qiao;Shafiqur Rehman

  • Transfer of antibiotic resistance from manure-amended soils to vegetable microbiomes

    Yu-Jing Zhang;Hang-Wei Hu;Qing-Lin Chen;Brajesh K Singh

  • Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

    Zhi Bo Zhao;Ji Zheng He;Ji Zheng He;Stefan Geisen;Li Li Han

  • Autotrophic ammonia oxidation by soil thaumarchaea

    Li-Mei Zhang;Pierre R. Offre;Ji-Zheng He;Daniel T. Verhamme

  • Plant developmental stage drives the differentiation in ecological role of the maize microbiome.

    Chao Xiong;Brajesh K Singh;Ji-Zheng He;Ji-Zheng He;Yan-Lai Han

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Current insights into the autotrophic thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in acidic soils

    Ji-Zheng He;Hang-Wei Hu;Li-Mei Zhang

  • Adsorption and redox reactions of heavy metals on synthesized Mn oxide minerals

    Xiong Han Feng;Li Mei Zhai;Wen Feng Tan;Fan Liu

  • The veterinary antibiotic oxytetracycline and Cu influence functional diversity of the soil microbial community.

    W.-D. Kong;Y.-G. Zhu;B.-J. Fu;P. Marschner

  • Long-Term Nickel Contamination Increases the Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agricultural Soils.

    Hang-Wei Hu;Jun-Tao Wang;Jing Li;Xiu-Zhen Shi

  • Field‐based evidence for copper contamination induced changes of antibiotic resistance in agricultural soils

    Hang-Wei Hu;Jun-Tao Wang;Jing Li;Jun-Jian Li

  • pH-dependent distribution of soil ammonia oxidizers across a large geographical scale as revealed by high-throughput pyrosequencing

    Hang-Wei Hu;Li-Mei Zhang;Yu Dai;Hong-Jie Di

Frequent Co-Authors

Hang-Wei Hu
Hang-Wei Hu University of Melbourne
Li-Mei Zhang
Li-Mei Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ju-Pei Shen
Ju-Pei Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Deli Chen
Deli Chen University of Melbourne
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhihong Xu
Zhihong Xu Griffith University
Keith C. Cameron
Keith C. Cameron Lincoln University
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Fan Liu
Fan Liu Huazhong Agricultural University
Hong J. Di
Hong J. Di Lincoln University

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