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Jizhong Zhou 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 Jizhong Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 793 publications — 100th percentile

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Jizhong Zhou 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 Jizhong Zhou sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 154 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - ASM Award for Environmental Research, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jizhong Zhou is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research spans environmental science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences, with a total of over 500 publications distributed among these main fields.

The scientist's work focuses heavily on microbial community ecology and physiology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and gut microbiota and health. Other significant research topics include genomics and phylogenetic studies, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, evolution and genetic dynamics, and polar research and ecology.

Jizhong Zhou has contributed extensively to the following publication venues:

  • The ISME Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Frequent collaboration is seen with scholars such as Yunfeng Yang, Daliang Ning, Mengting Yuan, Joy D. Van Nostrand, and Xue Guo.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jizhong Zhou include:

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity, 2020, Microbiome
  • Root exudates drive soil-microbe-nutrient feedbacks in response to plant growth, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming, 2022, Nature Microbiology

The subfields of study within their research portfolio include ecology, molecular biology, soil science, pollution, and plant science.

Jizhong Zhou has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by University of Lodz Press titled New Dynamics in Asia (2020).

The scientist has received the following awards:

  • ASM Award for Environmental Research, American Society for Microbiology, 2019
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008

Best Publications

  • DNA recovery from soils of diverse composition.

    Jizhong Zhou;Mary Ann Bruns;James M. Tiedje

  • Molecular ecological network analyses

    Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang;Yunfeng Yang;Zhili He

  • Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Daliang Ning

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

    Mengting Maggie Yuan;Mengting Maggie Yuan;Xue Guo;Xue Guo;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming.

    Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

    Shengjing Shi;Shengjing Shi;Erin E. Nuccio;Erin E. Nuccio;Zhou J. Shi;Zhili He

  • A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

    Daliang Ning;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;James M Tiedje;Jizhong Zhou

  • Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • A Proposed Genus Boundary for the Prokaryotes Based on Genomic Insights

    Qi-Long Qin;Bin-Bin Xie;Xi-Ying Zhang;Xiu-Lan Chen

  • Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO2

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

    Sophie Weiss;Will Van Treuren;Catherine Lozupone;Karoline Faust;Karoline Faust

  • Spatial and Resource Factors Influencing High Microbial Diversity in Soil

    Jizhong Zhou;Beicheng Xia;David S. Treves;L.-Y. Wu;L.-Y. Wu

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • GeoChip: a comprehensive microarray for investigating biogeochemical, ecological and environmental processes

    Zhili He;Terry J Gentry;Terry J Gentry;Christopher W Schadt;Liyou Wu;Liyou Wu

  • Current Production and Metal Oxide Reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Wild Type and Mutants

    Orianna Bretschger;Anna Obraztsova;Carter A. Sturm;In Seop Chang;In Seop Chang

  • Nitrite reductase genes (nirK and nirS) as functional markers to investigate diversity of denitrifying bacteria in pacific northwest marine sediment communities.

    Gesche Braker;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Allan H. Devol

  • Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

    Jizhong Zhou;Kai Xue;Jianping Xie;Jianping Xie;Ye Deng

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Metagenome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Olivia U. Mason;Olivia U. Mason;Terry C. Hazen;Terry C. Hazen;Sharon Borglin;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew W. Fields
Matthew W. Fields Montana State University
Daliang Ning
Daliang Ning University of Oklahoma

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