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D-Index
62
Citations
14097
World Ranking
2074
National Ranking
44

Jianyang Xia publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jianyang Xia sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 175 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Jianyang Xia D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jianyang Xia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jianyang Xia is affiliated with East China Normal University in China and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, soil science, and atmospheric science. Their work broadly addresses ecological processes and environmental dynamics as reflected in numerous publications across multiple scientific domains.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing applications in agriculture, ecology and vegetation dynamics, soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, and climate variability modeling. Additionally, Jianyang Xia's research encompasses atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics as well as peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Among their recent papers are the following notable publications:

  • Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions (2021), Global Change Biology
  • Robust leaf trait relationships across species under global environmental changes (2020), Nature Communications
  • Impacts of global environmental change drivers on non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants (2020), Functional Ecology
  • Depth-dependent soil C-N-P stoichiometry in a mature subtropical broadleaf forest (2020), Geoderma
  • Nitrogen enrichment alters multiple dimensions of grassland functional stability via changing compositional stability (2022), Ecology Letters

Jianyang Xia frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Erqian Cui
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Liming Yan
  • Chenyu Bian
  • Shuli Niu

Key publication venues where Jianyang Xia's work is often featured include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Plant Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

The main research fields are reflected in 165 publications categorized under Environmental Science, with subfields spanning global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, soil science, and atmospheric science.

Best Publications

  • Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition.

    Jianyang Xia;Shiqiang Wan

  • Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe

    Shuli Niu;Mingyu Wu;Yi Han;Jianyang Xia

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Climate warming and biomass accumulation of terrestrial plants: a meta-analysis

    Delu Lin;Jianyang Xia;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan

  • Water-use efficiency in response to climate change: from leaf to ecosystem in a temperate steppe

    Shuli Niu;Xuerong Xing;Zhe Zhang;Jianyang Xia

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

    William R. Wieder;Steven D. Allison;Eric A. Davidson;Katerina Georgiou;Katerina Georgiou

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming

    Jianyang Xia;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais

  • Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two hydrologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Shiqiang Wan

  • Photosynthetic overcompensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration.

    Shiqiang Wan;Jianyang Xia;Weixing Liu;Shuli Niu

  • Divergent shifts in peak photosynthesis timing of temperate and alpine grasslands in China

    Jilin Yang;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Junhu Dai

  • Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Shuli Niu;Aimée T. Classen;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Paul Kardol

  • Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms.

    Kun Huang;Jianyang Xia;Yingping Wang;Yingping Wang;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • Nitrogen deposition weakens plant–microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems

    Cunzheng Wei;Qiang Yu;Qiang Yu;Edith Bai;Xiaotao Lü

  • Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: An overview

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Dejun Li;Shuanghe Cao

  • Differential responses of carbon-degrading enzyme activities to warming: Implications for soil respiration.

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Pablo García-Palacios;Junji Cao;Junji Cao

  • Differential responses of ecosystem respiration components to experimental warming in a meadow grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

    Ji Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Jianyang Xia;Zheng Shi

  • Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions

    Yuqi Zhou;Baoyu Sun;Baoyu Sun;Baohua Xie;Kai Feng

  • Climatic warming changes plant photosynthesis and its temperature dependence in a temperate steppe of northern China

    Shuli Niu;Zhixiong Li;Jianyang Xia;Yi Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Shiqiang Wan
Shiqiang Wan Henan University
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shuli Niu
Shuli Niu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Anders Ahlström
Anders Ahlström Lund University
Xuhui Zhou
Xuhui Zhou Northeast Forestry University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Junji Cao
Junji Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University

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