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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy 47 2583 2395 47 44 194 6899
Ecology and Evolution 48 4286 4134 98 96 204 7347

Mai-He Li publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mai-He Li between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mai-He Li published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 11.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 64 publications in 2025. 109 of the 345 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 64. Peak 64 publications in 2025. 1996: 1 publication 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 1 publication 2005: 0 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 24 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 24 publications 2022: 32 publications 2023: 30 publications 2024: 45 publications 2025: 64 publications
1996 2025

345 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mai-He Li: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 1
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 1
2002 1
2003 1
2004 1
2005 0
2006 3
2007 3
2008 6
2009 8
2010 8
2011 2
2012 9
2013 11
2014 5
2015 8
2016 9
2017 18
2018 14
2019 24
2020 17
2021 24
2022 32
2023 30
2024 45
2025 64
Total 345
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Mai-He Li 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 Mai-He Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 467+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 255. Most scientists, 255, have 111–115 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 191–195 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 2 scientists 41–45 publications: 7 scientists 46–50 publications: 40 scientists 51–55 publications: 58 scientists 56–60 publications: 60 scientists 61–65 publications: 107 scientists 66–70 publications: 130 scientists 71–75 publications: 153 scientists 76–80 publications: 191 scientists 81–85 publications: 199 scientists 86–90 publications: 206 scientists 91–95 publications: 218 scientists 96–100 publications: 226 scientists 101–105 publications: 227 scientists 106–110 publications: 247 scientists 111–115 publications: 255 scientists 116–120 publications: 253 scientists 121–125 publications: 233 scientists 126–130 publications: 219 scientists 131–135 publications: 201 scientists 136–140 publications: 194 scientists 141–145 publications: 176 scientists 146–150 publications: 157 scientists 151–155 publications: 147 scientists 156–160 publications: 151 scientists 161–165 publications: 159 scientists 166–170 publications: 137 scientists 171–175 publications: 128 scientists 176–180 publications: 126 scientists 181–185 publications: 98 scientists 186–190 publications: 114 scientists 191–195 publications: 100 scientists 196–200 publications: 90 scientists 201–205 publications: 71 scientists 206–210 publications: 98 scientists 211–215 publications: 70 scientists 216–220 publications: 86 scientists 221–225 publications: 61 scientists 226–230 publications: 58 scientists 231–235 publications: 53 scientists 236–240 publications: 64 scientists 241–245 publications: 39 scientists 246–250 publications: 46 scientists 251–255 publications: 51 scientists 256–260 publications: 36 scientists 261–265 publications: 44 scientists 266–270 publications: 35 scientists 271–275 publications: 30 scientists 276–280 publications: 33 scientists 281–285 publications: 35 scientists 286–290 publications: 36 scientists 291–295 publications: 26 scientists 296–300 publications: 26 scientists 301–305 publications: 31 scientists 306–310 publications: 30 scientists 311–315 publications: 21 scientists 316–320 publications: 29 scientists 321–325 publications: 14 scientists 326–330 publications: 15 scientists 331–335 publications: 15 scientists 336–340 publications: 17 scientists 341–345 publications: 15 scientists 346–350 publications: 12 scientists 351–355 publications: 17 scientists 356–360 publications: 18 scientists 361–365 publications: 12 scientists 366–370 publications: 11 scientists 371–375 publications: 6 scientists 376–380 publications: 6 scientists 381–385 publications: 11 scientists 386–390 publications: 9 scientists 391–395 publications: 10 scientists 396–400 publications: 8 scientists 401–405 publications: 4 scientists 406–410 publications: 9 scientists 411–415 publications: 11 scientists 416–420 publications: 4 scientists 421–425 publications: 7 scientists 426–430 publications: 4 scientists 431–435 publications: 3 scientists 436–440 publications: 5 scientists 441–445 publications: 8 scientists 446–450 publications: 6 scientists 451–455 publications: 7 scientists 456–460 publications: 5 scientists 461–465 publications: 6 scientists 466 publications: 2 scientists 467+ publications: 99 scientists
36–40 publications 467+

This scientist: 194 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 2
41–45 7
46–50 40
51–55 58
56–60 60
61–65 107
66–70 130
71–75 153
76–80 191
81–85 199
86–90 206
91–95 218
96–100 226
101–105 227
106–110 247
111–115 255
116–120 253
121–125 233
126–130 219
131–135 201
136–140 194
141–145 176
146–150 157
151–155 147
156–160 151
161–165 159
166–170 137
171–175 128
176–180 126
181–185 98
186–190 114
191–195 100 194
196–200 90
201–205 71
206–210 98
211–215 70
216–220 86
221–225 61
226–230 58
231–235 53
236–240 64
241–245 39
246–250 46
251–255 51
256–260 36
261–265 44
266–270 35
271–275 30
276–280 33
281–285 35
286–290 36
291–295 26
296–300 26
301–305 31
306–310 30
311–315 21
316–320 29
321–325 14
326–330 15
331–335 15
336–340 17
341–345 15
346–350 12
351–355 17
356–360 18
361–365 12
366–370 11
371–375 6
376–380 6
381–385 11
386–390 9
391–395 10
396–400 8
401–405 4
406–410 9
411–415 11
416–420 4
421–425 7
426–430 4
431–435 3
436–440 5
441–445 8
446–450 6
451–455 7
456–460 5
461–465 6
466 2
467+ 99
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Mai-He Li 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 Mai-He Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 80 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 109+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 47 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 200
31 236
32 253
33 283
34 288
35 240
36 246
37 243
38 247
39 229
40 232
41 230
42 228
43 219
44 193
45 164
46 158
47 143 47
48 131
49 127
50 122
51 122
52 110
53 102
54 98
55 79
56 85
57 88
58 91
59 62
60 61
61 59
62 54
63 61
64 59
65 58
66 41
67 49
68 39
69 32
70 40
71 47
72 38
73 28
74 29
75 28
76 22
77 21
78 25
79 26
80 19
81 16
82 12
83 16
84 14
85 11
86 17
87 13
88 10
89 12
90 18
91 16
92 16
93 17
94 12
95 8
96 9
97 9
98 11
99 12
100 5
101 8
102 4
103 11
104 5
105 9
106 7
107 4
108 8
109+ 99
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Overview

Mai-He Li is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland, with extensive research contributions primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields, including Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

Their main research topics focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Seedling Growth and Survival Studies.

Mai-He Li's recent published papers include:

  • Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis (2020) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China (2021) in Ecology and Evolution
  • Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extreme Precipitation on Consecutive Days Occurs More Often in a Warming Climate (2021) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Exogenous GABA promotes adaptation and growth by altering the carbon and nitrogen metabolic flux in poplar seedlings under low nitrogen conditions (2020) in Tree Physiology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Mai-He Li include:

  • Hong S. He
  • Fei-Hai Yu
  • Xin Sui
  • Arthur Geßler
  • Beat Frey

Mai-He Li has published consistently in several venues notable for contributions to environmental and plant sciences. These venues include Frontiers in Plant Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, Tree Physiology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Microorganisms.

Best Publications

  • Improved Brassica rapa reference genome by single-molecule sequencing and chromosome conformation capture technologies.

    Lei Zhang;Xu Cai;Jian Wu;Min Liu

  • Source/sink removal affects mobile carbohydrates in Pinus cembra at the Swiss treeline

    Mai He Li;Günter Hoch;Christian Körner

  • Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control

    Frank Hagedorn;Jobin Joseph;Jobin Joseph;Martina Peter;Jörg Luster

  • Regional assessment of environmental vulnerability in the Tibetan Plateau: Development and application of a new method

    X. D. Wang;X. H. Zhong;S. Z. Liu;J. G. Liu

  • Environmental changes drive the temporal stability of semi-arid natural grasslands through altering species asynchrony

    Zhuwen Xu;Zhuwen Xu;Haiyan Ren;Mai-He Li;Jasper van Ruijven

  • Mobile carbohydrates in Himalayan treeline trees I. Evidence for carbon gain limitation but not for growth limitation.

    Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Wen-Fa Xiao;San-Gen Wang;Gen-Wei Cheng

  • Nitrogen and carbon source-sink relationships in trees at the Himalayan treelines compared with lower elevations

    Mai-He Li;Wen-Fa Xiao;Peili Shi;San-Gen Wang

  • Coupled response of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities to nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia

    Ruzhen Wang;Timothy R. Filley;Zhuwen Xu;Xue Wang

  • Fractal characteristics of soils under different land-use patterns in the arid and semiarid regions of the Tibetan Plateau, China

    Xiaodan Wang;Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Shuzhen Liu;Gangcai Liu

  • Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis

    Decai Gao;Decai Gao;Edith Bai;Maihe Li;Maihe Li;Chunhong Zhao;Chunhong Zhao

  • Litterfall production, decomposition and nutrient use efficiency varies with tropical forest types in Xishuangbanna, SW China: a 10-year study

    Jian-Wei Tang;Jian-Wei Tang;Min Cao;Jian-Hou Zhang;Mai-He Li

  • Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity

    Zhuwen Xu;Zhuwen Xu;Mai‐He Li;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Shao‐Peng Li

  • Warming-induced upward migration of the alpine treeline in the Changbai Mountains, northeast China

    Haibo Du;Jie Liu;Mai-He Li;Ulf Büntgen

  • Seasonal Exposure to Drought and Air Warming Affects Soil Collembola and Mites

    Guo Liang Xu;Thomas M. Kuster;Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg;Matthias Dobbertin

  • Growth responses of Picea abies and Larix decidua to elevation in subalpine areas of Tyrol, Austria

    Mai He Li;Jian Yang;Norbert Kräuchi

  • Land use change effects on diversity of soil bacterial, Acidobacterial and fungal communities in wetlands of the Sanjiang Plain, northeastern China.

    Xin Sui;Rongtao Zhang;Beat Frey;Libin Yang

  • Variation in Carbon Storage and Its Distribution by Stand Age and Forest Type in Boreal and Temperate Forests in Northeastern China

    Yawei Wei;Maihe Li;Hua Chen;Hua Chen;Bernard J. Lewis

  • Effects of microsite on growth of Pinus cembra in the subalpine zone of the Austrian Alps

    Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Jian Yang

  • Effects of water and nitrogen addition on species turnover in temperate grasslands in northern China.

    Zhuwen Xu;Shiqiang Wan;Haiyan Ren;Xingguo Han

  • Extreme precipitation on consecutive days occurs more often in a warming climate

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  • Damage to the oxygen-evolving complex by superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radical in photoinhibition of photosystem II

    Yu Guang Song;Bin Liu;Lan Fen Wang;Mai He Li

  • Rates of litter decomposition and soil respiration in relation to soil temperature and water in different-aged Pinus massoniana forests in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China.

    Wenfa Xiao;Xiaogai Ge;Lixiong Zeng;Zhilin Huang

  • Resprouting ability and mobile carbohydrate reserves in an oak shrubland decline with increasing elevation on the eastern edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

    Wan-Ze Zhu;Jin-Song Xiang;San-Gen Wang;Mai-He Li

  • Patterns of Plant Biomass Allocation in Temperate Grasslands across a 2500-km Transect in Northern China

    Wentao Luo;Yong Jiang;Xiaotao Lü;Xue Wang

  • Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris.

    Leonie Schönbeck;Leonie Schönbeck;Arthur Gessler;Günter Hoch;Nate G. McDowell

  • Responses of fine roots and soil N availability to short-term nitrogen fertilization in a broad-leaved Korean pine mixed forest in northeastern China

    Cunguo Wang;Shijie Han;Yumei Zhou;Caifeng Yan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Jiang
Yong Jiang Hebei University
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Marcus Schaub
Marcus Schaub Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Fei-Hai Yu
Fei-Hai Yu Taizhou University
Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiao-Tao Lü
Xiao-Tao Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ivano Brunner
Ivano Brunner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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