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Nianzhi Jiao

Nianzhi Jiao

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
20211
World Ranking
1292
National Ranking
26

Nianzhi Jiao 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 Nianzhi Jiao sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 466 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nianzhi Jiao 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 Nianzhi Jiao sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Nianzhi Jiao is affiliated with Xiamen University in China and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in Jiao's research include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Jiao has contributed to scientific journals frequently including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Science China Earth Sciences
  • Science Bulletin
  • The ISME Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Some recent publications by Jiao are:

  • The microbial carbon pump and climate change, 2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality, 2021, The Innovation
  • Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation, 2023, The Innovation Geoscience
  • DOC dynamics and bacterial community succession during long-term degradation of Ulva prolifera and their implications for the legacy effect of green tides on refractory DOC pool in seawater, 2020, Water Research
  • Carbon Sequestration in the Form of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Seaweed (Kelp) Farming Environment, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Jiao collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Qiang Zheng
  • Rui Zhang
  • Quan Shi
  • Ruanhong Cai
  • Jihua Liu

Recognition for Jiao's work includes the fellowship awarded by The World Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean.

    Nianzhi Jiao;Gerhard J. Herndl;Dennis A. Hansell;Ronald Benner

  • Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

    Pedro Flombaum;José L. Gallegos;Rodolfo A. Gordillo;José Rincon

  • Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

    Fang Wang;Jean Damascene Harindintwali;Zhizhang Yuan;Zhizhang Yuan;Min Wang

  • Mechanisms of Microbial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean - Future Research Directions

    N Jiao;C Robinson;F Azam;Hassan Thomas

  • Ulva prolifera green-tide outbreaks and their environmental impact in the Yellow Sea, China

    Yongyu Zhang;Yongyu Zhang;Peimin He;Hongmei Li;Gang Li

  • Novel lineages of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus in the global oceans

    Sijun Huang;Sijun Huang;Steven W Wilhelm;H Rodger Harvey;Karen Taylor

  • Drivers shaping the diversity and biogeography of total and active bacterial communities in the South China Sea

    Yao Zhang;Zihao Zhao;Minhan Dai;Nianzhi Jiao

  • Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation

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  • Distinct distribution pattern of abundance and diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in the global ocean

    Nianzhi Jiao;Yao Zhang;Yonghui Zeng;Ning Hong

  • Ecological anomalies in the East China Sea: Impacts of the three gorges dam?

    Nianzhi Jiao;Yao Zhang;Yonghui Zeng;Wilford D. Gardner

  • Dynamics of autotrophic picoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the East China Sea

    Nianzhi Jiao;Yanhui Yang;Ning Hong;Ying Ma

  • Microbial transformation of virus-induced dissolved organic matter from picocyanobacteria: coupling of bacterial diversity and DOM chemodiversity.

    Zhao Zhao;Zhao Zhao;Michael Gonsior;Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin;Yuanchao Zhan

  • Isolation and characterization of a marine algicidal bacterium against the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense

    Jian Qiang Su;Xiao Ru Yang;Tian Ling Zheng;Yun Tian

  • VERTIGO (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean) : A study of particle sources and flux attenuation in the North Pacific

    Ken O. Buesseler;Thomas W. Trull;Deborah K. Steinberg;Mary W. Silver

  • Evolving paradigms in biological carbon cycling in the ocean

    Chuanlun Zhang;Hongyue Dang;Farooq Azam;Ronald Benner

  • Bacterial diversity in the snow over Tibetan Plateau Glaciers

    Yongqin Liu;Tandong Yao;Nianzhi Jiao;Shichang Kang

  • Antagonistic roles of abscisic acid and cytokinin during response to nitrogen depletion in oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica expand the evolutionary breadth of phytohormone function.

    Yandu Lu;Danuše Tarkowská;Veronika Turečková;Tingwei Luo

  • Carbon Sequestration in the Form of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Seaweed (Kelp) Farming Environment.

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  • Uncovering the spatial heterogeneity of Ediacaran carbon cycling

    Chao Li;Dalton S. Hardisty;Genming Luo;Junhua Huang

  • Genome sequences of siphoviruses infecting marine Synechococcus unveil a diverse cyanophage group and extensive phage–host genetic exchanges

    Sijun Huang;Kui Wang;Nianzhi Jiao;Feng Chen

  • The microbial carbon pump: from genes to ecosystems.

    Nianzhi Jiao;Qiang Zheng

  • Picocyanobacteria and deep-ocean fluorescent dissolved organic matter share similar optical properties

    Zhao Zhao;Michael Gonsior;Jenna L. Luek;Stephen Timko

  • Microbial Carbon Pump in the Ocean

    Nianzhi Jiao;Farooq Azam;Sean Sanders

Frequent Co-Authors

Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Baiqing Xu
Baiqing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Anyi Hu
Anyi Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Farooq Azam
Farooq Azam University of California, San Diego
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Curtis A. Suttle
Curtis A. Suttle University of British Columbia

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