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D-Index
65
Citations
13379
World Ranking
940
National Ranking
71

Weiming Shi 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 Weiming Shi sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 187 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Weiming Shi 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 Weiming Shi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Botany

His primary areas of study are Agronomy, Biochemistry, Arabidopsis, Botany and Leaching. Weiming Shi interconnects Nitrate, Soil water, Nitrification and Nitrogen balance in the investigation of issues within Agronomy. As part of one scientific family, he deals mainly with the area of Biochemistry, narrowing it down to issues related to the Hordeum vulgare, and often Northern blot, Peptide sequence and Symporter.

His work carried out in the field of Arabidopsis brings together such families of science as Arabidopsis thaliana, Signal transduction, Auxin and Shoot. His research integrates issues of Abscisic acid and Nitrogen cycle in his study of Botany. Weiming Shi has researched Leaching in several fields, including Pollution, Nutrient pollution and Leachate.

His most cited work include:

  • SOS3 Function in Plant Salt Tolerance Requires N-Myristoylation and Calcium Binding (385 citations)
  • Vegetable cultivation under greenhouse conditions leads to rapid accumulation of nutrients, acidification and salinity of soils and groundwater contamination in South-Eastern China (170 citations)
  • Abscisic acid accumulation modulates auxin transport in the root tip to enhance proton secretion for maintaining root growth under moderate water stress. (162 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Agronomy, Biochemistry, Botany, Arabidopsis and Ammonium. His studies deal with areas such as Soil water and Leaching as well as Agronomy. His studies examine the connections between Soil water and genetics, as well as such issues in Environmental chemistry, with regards to Nitrification.

Biochemistry is frequently linked to Hordeum vulgare in his study. His studies in Botany integrate themes in fields like Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa, Gene and Horticulture. His Arabidopsis study combines topics in areas such as Biophysics, Auxin, Abscisic acid and Cell biology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (32.41%)
  • Biochemistry (24.14%)
  • Botany (24.14%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Agronomy (32.41%)
  • Ammonium (14.48%)
  • Leaching (11.72%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Weiming Shi mainly investigates Agronomy, Ammonium, Leaching, Cell biology and Ammonia volatilization from urea. His research in Agronomy tackles topics such as Nitrate which are related to areas like Crop species, Botany and Nutrient. His Leaching study incorporates themes from Sugar, Reactive nitrogen, Yield and Nitrous oxide.

His research integrates issues of Arabidopsis and Gene in his study of Cell biology. His study in the fields of Nh3 volatilization under the domain of Ammonia volatilization from urea overlaps with other disciplines such as Biochar and Volatilisation. Weiming Shi usually deals with Mutant and limits it to topics linked to Auxin and Wild type.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • GSNOR provides plant tolerance to iron toxicity via preventing iron-dependent nitrosative and oxidative cytotoxicity. (28 citations)
  • A Roadmap for Lowering Crop Nitrogen Requirement. (19 citations)
  • N and P runoff losses in China's vegetable production systems: Loss characteristics, impact, and management practices. (19 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Agriculture

His main research concerns Agronomy, Cell biology, Soil water, Biochar and Ammonia volatilization from urea. His research in Agronomy intersects with topics in Leaching and Anthrosol. His work deals with themes such as Arabidopsis and Meristem, which intersect with Cell biology.

His Arabidopsis research incorporates themes from Wild type, Auxin and Shoot. His studies in Soil water integrate themes in fields like Nitrosomonas, Nitrification, Nitrosopumilus and Environmental chemistry, Microcosm. The study incorporates disciplines such as Growing season, Surface runoff, Pollution, Reactive nitrogen and Eutrophication in addition to Fertilizer.

Best Publications

  • SOS3 Function in Plant Salt Tolerance Requires N-Myristoylation and Calcium Binding

    Manabu Ishitani;Jiping Liu;Ursula Halfter;Cheol-Soo Kim

  • Nitrogen transformations in modern agriculture and the role of biological nitrification inhibition

    Devrim Coskun;Dev T. Britto;Weiming Shi;Herbert J. Kronzucker;Herbert J. Kronzucker

  • How Plant Root Exudates Shape the Nitrogen Cycle.

    Devrim Coskun;Dev T. Britto;Weiming Shi;Herbert J. Kronzucker;Herbert J. Kronzucker

  • WheatOmics: A platform combining multiple omics data to accelerate functional genomics studies in wheat.

    Shengwei Ma;Shengwei Ma;Meng Wang;Jianhui Wu;Weilong Guo

  • Vegetable cultivation under greenhouse conditions leads to rapid accumulation of nutrients, acidification and salinity of soils and groundwater contamination in South-Eastern China

    Wei-Ming Shi;Jing Yao;Feng Yan

  • Abscisic acid accumulation modulates auxin transport in the root tip to enhance proton secretion for maintaining root growth under moderate water stress.

    Weifeng Xu;Liguo Jia;Liguo Jia;Weiming Shi;Jiansheng Liang

  • Biochar applied with appropriate rates can reduce N leaching, keep N retention and not increase NH 3 volatilization in a coastal saline soil

    Haijun Sun;Haiying Lu;Lei Chu;Hongbo Shao

  • Nitrogen runoff dominates water nitrogen pollution from rice-wheat rotation in the Taihu Lake region of China

    Xu Zhao;Yang Zhou;Ju Min;Shenqiang Wang

  • Ammonium stress in Arabidopsis: signaling, genetic loci, and physiological targets

    Baohai Li;Guangjie Li;Herbert J. Kronzucker;František Baluška

  • Biological nitrification inhibition by rice root exudates and its relationship with nitrogen-use efficiency.

    Li Sun;Yufang Lu;Fangwei Yu;Herbert J. Kronzucker

  • Cloning of peroxisomal ascorbate peroxidase gene from barley and enhanced thermotolerance by overexpressing in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    W.M. Shi;Y. Muramoto;A. Ueda;T. Takabe

  • Root growth inhibition by NH4+ in Arabidopsis is mediated by the root tip and is linked to NH4+ efflux and GMPase activity

    Qing Li;Bao-Hai Li;Herbert J Kronzucker;Wei-Ming Shi

  • Nitrogen Balance and Loss in a Greenhouse Vegetable System in Southeastern China

    Ju Min;Xu Zhao;Wei-Ming Shi;Guang-Xi Xing

  • Optimizing nitrogen input to reduce nitrate leaching loss in greenhouse vegetable production

    Ju Min;Hailin Zhang;Weiming Shi

  • Selenium Biofortification and Interaction With Other Elements in Plants: A Review.

    Xinbin Zhou;Jing Yang;Herbert J Kronzucker;Weiming Shi

  • Higher rates of nitrogen fertilization decrease soil enzyme activities, microbial functional diversity and nitrification capacity in a Chinese polytunnel greenhouse vegetable land

    Weishou Shen;Weishou Shen;Xiangui Lin;Weiming Shi;Ju Min

  • Functional Analysis of Salt-Inducible Proline Transporter of Barley Roots

    Akihiro Ueda;Weiming Shi;Kazutsuka Sanmiya;Mariko Shono

  • Rice production, nitrous oxide emission and ammonia volatilization as impacted by the nitrification inhibitor 2-chloro-6-(trichloromethyl)-pyridine

    Haijun Sun;Haijun Sun;Hailin Zhang;David Powlson;Ju Min

  • TaCYP81D5, one member in a wheat cytochrome P450 gene cluster, confers salinity tolerance via reactive oxygen species scavenging

    Meng Wang;Meng Wang;Jiarui Yuan;Lumin Qin;Weiming Shi

  • Difference in Selenite Absorption Between High- and Low-Selenium Rice Cultivars and its Mechanism

    Lianhe Zhang;Weiming Shi;Xiaochang Wang

  • A Roadmap for Lowering Crop Nitrogen Requirement.

    Stéphanie M. Swarbreck;Meng Wang;Yuan Wang;Daniel Kindred

  • Nitrogen Balance in a Highly Fertilized Rice–Wheat Double-Cropping System in Southern China

    Xu Zhao;Yang Zhou;Shenqiang Wang;Guangxi Xing

  • Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in rice links to NH4+ toxicity and futile NH4+ cycling in roots

    Gui Chen;Shiwei Guo;Herbert J. Kronzucker;Weiming Shi

  • Do high nitrogen use efficiency rice cultivars reduce nitrogen losses from paddy fields

    Gui Chen;Ying Chen;Guohua Zhao;Wangda Cheng

  • Nitrogen fertilization induced changes in ammonia oxidation are attributable mostly to bacteria rather than archaea in greenhouse-based high N input vegetable soil

    Wenhui Zhong;Biyun Bian;Nan Gao;Ju Min

  • Arabidopsis Plastid AMOS1/EGY1 Integrates Abscisic Acid Signaling to Regulate Global Gene Expression Response to Ammonium Stress

    Baohai Li;Qing Li;Liming Xiong;Herbert J. Kronzucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert J. Kronzucker
Herbert J. Kronzucker University of British Columbia
Hailin Zhang
Hailin Zhang Oklahoma State University
Tetsuko Takabe
Tetsuko Takabe Meijo University
Akihiro Ueda
Akihiro Ueda Hiroshima University
Weifeng Xu
Weifeng Xu Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Jianhua Zhang
Jianhua Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
Xiangui Lin
Xiangui Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liming Xiong
Liming Xiong Hong Kong Baptist University
František Baluška
František Baluška University of Bonn
Guangxi Xing
Guangxi Xing Chinese Academy of Sciences

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