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D-Index
50
Citations
10101
World Ranking
3830
National Ranking
79

Weibo Song 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 Weibo Song sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 382 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Weibo Song 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 Weibo Song sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Weibo Song is a researcher affiliated with Ocean University of China in China, specializing in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work covers several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist focuses on topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Gut microbiota and health.

Weibo Song has published extensively, contributing to various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Marine Life Science & Technology
  • European Journal of Protistology
  • Science China Life Sciences
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms, 2021, Science China Life Sciences
  • Biodiversity of freshwater ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora) in the Lake Weishan Wetland, China: the state of the art, 2022, Marine Life Science & Technology
  • Morphology, taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of three marine peritrich ciliates, including two new species: Zoothamnium apoarbuscula n. sp. and Z. apohentscheli n. sp. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia), 2020, Marine Life Science & Technology
  • New contributions to the phylogeny of the ciliate class Heterotrichea (Protista, Ciliophora): analyses at family-genus level and new evolutionary hypotheses, 2020, Science China Life Sciences
  • Integrative studies on the taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of four new Pleuronema species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), 2022, Marine Life Science & Technology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors. Notable collaborators include:

  • Saleh Alfarraj
  • Alan Warren
  • Borong Lu
  • Yong Chi
  • Jie Huang

Best Publications

  • The All-Data-Based Evolutionary Hypothesis of Ciliated Protists with a Revised Classification of the Phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata).

    Feng Gao;Alan Warren;Qianqian Zhang;Jun Gong

  • Protargol Synthesis: An In‐house Protocol

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  • Periphytic ciliate colonization: annual cycle and responses to environmental conditions

    Jun Gong;Weibo Song;Alan Warren

  • Faunistic studies on marine ciliates from the Antarctic benthic area, including descriptions of one epizoic form, 6 new species and, 2 new genera (Protozoa: Ciliophora)

    Weibo Song;Norbert Wilbert

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Beyond the "Code": A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora).

    Alan Warren;David J. Patterson;Micah Dunthorn;John C. Clamp

  • Application of an indicator based on taxonomic relatedness of ciliated protozoan assemblages for marine environmental assessment

    Henglong Xu;Yong Jiang;Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid;Saleh A. Al-Farraj

  • Analysis of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) Region of Scuticociliates and Related Taxa (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) to Infer their Evolution and Phylogeny

    Miao Miao;Alan Warren;Weibo Song;Shi Wang

  • Insights into the phylogenetic and taxonomy of philasterid ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia) based on analyses of multiple molecular markers.

    Feng Gao;Laura A. Katz;Laura A. Katz;Weibo Song

  • Evolution of the Order Urostylida (Protozoa, Ciliophora): New Hypotheses Based on Multi-Gene Information and Identification of Localized Incongruence

    Zhenzhen Yi;Weibo Song

  • Three-gene based phylogeny of the Urostyloidea (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotricha), with notes on classification of some core taxa.

    Jie Huang;Zigui Chen;Weibo Song;Helmut Berger

  • Reconsideration of systematic relationships within the order Euplotida (Protista, Ciliophora) using new sequences of the gene coding for small-subunit rRNA and testing the use of combined data sets to construct phylogenies of the Diophrys-complex

    Zhenzhen Yi;Weibo Song;John C. Clamp;Zigui Chen

  • Planktonic protist communities in a semi-enclosed mariculture pond : structural variation and correlation with environmental conditions

    Henglong Xu;Weibo Song;Alan Warren;Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid

  • Disentangling sources of variation in SSU rDNA sequences from single cell analyses of ciliates: impact of copy number variation and experimental error.

    Chundi Wang;Tengteng Zhang;Yurui Wang;Laura A. Katz

  • An approach to determining the sampling effort for analyzing biofilm-dwelling ciliate colonization using an artificial substratum in coastal waters.

    Henglong Xu;Wei Zhang;Yong Jiang;Mingzhuang Zhu

  • Biodiversity of freshwater ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora) in the Lake Weishan Wetland, China: the state of the art

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  • Multigene-based analyses on evolutionary phylogeny of two controversial ciliate orders: Pleuronematida and Loxocephalida (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea).

    Feng Gao;Laura A. Katz;Laura A. Katz;Weibo Song

  • Functional groups of marine ciliated protozoa and their relationships to water quality

    Yong Jiang;Henglong Xu;Xiaozhong Hu;Alan Warren

  • Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of two marine Euplotes species, E. orientalis spec. nov. and E. raikovi (Ciliophora, Euplotida).

    Jiamei Jiang;Qianqian Zhang;Alan Warren;Khaled A.S. Al-Rasheid

  • Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms.

    Long Zhao;Feng Gao;Shan Gao;Yujun Liang

  • New contributions to the marine benthic ciliates from the Antarctic area, including description of seven new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

    Norbert Wilbert;Weibo Song

  • A further study on littoral ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) near King George Island, Antarctica, with description of a new genus and seven new species

    Norbert Wilbert;Weibo Song

  • Systematic studies on ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) in China: Progress and achievements based on molecular information

    Feng Gao;Jie Huang;Yan Zhao;Lifang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Warren
Alan Warren Natural History Museum
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid King Saud University
Zigui Chen
Zigui Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong
Henglong Xu
Henglong Xu Ocean University of China
Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Laura A. Katz
Laura A. Katz Smith College
Abdulaziz A. Al-Khedhairy
Abdulaziz A. Al-Khedhairy King Saud University
Denis H. Lynn
Denis H. Lynn University of British Columbia
Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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