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Shaoshan An publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Shaoshan An between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Shaoshan An published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 7 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2021. 17 of the 139 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2021. 2006: 1 publication 2007: 0 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 9 publications
2006 2025

139 publications in total across all disciplines

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Shaoshan An: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 1
2007 0
2008 2
2009 3
2010 2
2011 2
2012 2
2013 9
2014 3
2015 8
2016 6
2017 11
2018 14
2019 9
2020 11
2021 20
2022 6
2023 13
2024 8
2025 9
Total 139
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Shaoshan An publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shaoshan An sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 121–130 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 130 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617 130
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Shaoshan An D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shaoshan An sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 51 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232 51
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Shaoshan An is affiliated with Northwest A&F University in China, with a research focus spanning Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work has contributed extensively to the understanding of soil science and related ecological and environmental processes.

Their scholarship has explored several subfields, including:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Pollution
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics within Shaoshan An's research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • CATENA
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Shaoshan An include:

  • "Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition" (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • "Soil microbial community and their functional genes during grassland restoration" (2022, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • "Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient" (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • "Identifying the Biogeographic Patterns of Rare and Abundant Bacterial Communities Using Different Primer Sets on the Loess Plateau" (2021, Microorganisms)
  • "The accumulation of microbial necromass carbon from litter to mineral soil and its contribution to soil organic carbon sequestration" (2021, CATENA)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Baorong Wang
  • Yimei Huang
  • Zhaolong Zhu
  • Qian Huang
  • Quanchao Zeng

Best Publications

  • Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems

    Baorong Wang;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Chao Liang;Yang Liu

  • Soil aggregation, aggregate stability, organic carbon and nitrogen in different soil aggregate fractions under forest and shrub vegetation on the Loess Plateau, China

    Shaoshan An;Axel Mentler;Herwig Mayer;Winfried E.H. Blum

  • Deciphering factors driving soil microbial life‐history strategies in restored grasslands

    Unknown

  • Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis

    Unknown

  • Changes in soil properties across a chronosequence of vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau of China

    Feng Jiao;Feng Jiao;Zhong-Ming Wen;Zhong-Ming Wen;Shao-Shan An;Shao-Shan An

  • Revegetation as an efficient means of increasing soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Shao Shan An;Frédéric Darboux;Man Cheng

  • Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity

    Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Ting Li;Yunqiang Wang;Yunqiang Wang;Huan Cheng

  • Soil organic carbon distribution in relation to land use and its storage in a small watershed of the Loess Plateau, China

    Xuan Fang;Zhijing Xue;Bicheng Li;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Ecological stoichiometry in leaves, roots, litters and soil among different plant communities in a desertified region of Northern China

    Yang Yang;Bing-Ru Liu;Shao-Shan An

  • Soil bacterial community response to vegetation succession after fencing in the grassland of China.

    Quanchao Zeng;Quanchao Zeng;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Yang Liu

  • Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects the shift from P- to N-limitation of microorganisms with grassland restoration

    Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Chao Liang;Yunqiang Wang;Yunqiang Wang;Huan Cheng;Huan Cheng

  • Effects of slope aspect on soil nitrogen and microbial properties in the Chinese Loess region

    Yi-Mei Huang;Dong Liu;Shao-Shan An

  • Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition

    Xuejuan Bai;Michaela A. Dippold;Shaoshan An;Baorong Wang

  • Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling

    Unknown

  • Evaluation of soil microbial indices along a revegetation chronosequence in grassland soils on the Loess Plateau, Northwest China

    Shao-shan An;Yi-mei Huang;Fen-li Zheng;Fen-li Zheng

  • Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate

    Unknown

  • Soil aggregation and intra-aggregate carbon fractions in relation to vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau, China

    Man Cheng;Man Cheng;Yun Xiang;Zhijing Xue;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Soil quality degradation processes along a deforestation chronosequence in the Ziwuling area, China

    Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Fenli Zheng;Fenli Zheng;Feng Zhang;Feng Zhang;Scott Van Pelt

  • Soil microbial community and their functional genes during grassland restoration.

    Unknown

  • Links between Soil Fungal Diversity and Plant and Soil Properties on the Loess Plateau.

    Yang Yang;Yanxing Dou;Yimei Huang;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Bacterial Community Responses to Soils along a Latitudinal and Vegetation Gradient on the Loess Plateau, China

    Quanchao Zeng;Yanghong Dong;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Soil aggregate stability under different rain conditions for three vegetation types on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Quanchao Zeng;Quanchao Zeng;Frédéric Darboux;Cheng Man;Zhaolong Zhu

  • Soil and plant components ecological stoichiometry in four steppe communities in the Loess Plateau of China

    Quanchao Zeng;Xin Li;Yanghong Dong;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Successional changes in soil stoichiometry after land abandonment in Loess Plateau, China

    Feng Jiao;Feng Jiao;Zhong-Ming Wen;Zhong-Ming Wen;Shao-Shan An;Shao-Shan An;Z. Yuan;Z. Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yunqiang Wang
Yunqiang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frédéric Darboux
Frédéric Darboux INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Fenli Zheng
Fenli Zheng Northwest A&F University
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Scott X. Chang
Scott X. Chang University of Alberta
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal The Ohio State University
Dong Liu
Dong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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