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D-Index
60
Citations
12737
World Ranking
1215
National Ranking
103

Xiaolin 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 Xiaolin Li sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 191 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.

Xiaolin 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 Xiaolin Li sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% 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:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

Agronomy, Botany, Calcareous, Species richness and Shoot are his primary areas of study. He interconnects Soil water, Soil carbon and Soil test in the investigation of issues within Agronomy. Xiaolin Li has researched Species richness in several fields, including Biodiversity, Relative species abundance and Kobresia.

His Shoot study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Nutrient. His Nutrient research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Inoculation and Dry matter. The concepts of his Fertilizer study are interwoven with issues in Crop, Intercropping, Vicia faba, Root system and Root barrier.

His most cited work include:

  • Interspecific facilitation of nutrient acquisition by intercropped maize and faba bean (155 citations)
  • A modified glass bead compartment cultivation system for studies on nutrient and trace metal uptake by arbuscular mycorrhiza. (86 citations)
  • Effects of EDTA application and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on growth and zinc uptake by maize (Zea mays L.) in soil experimentally contaminated with zinc (76 citations)

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

Agronomy, Botany, Mycorrhiza, Shoot and Glomus are his primary areas of study. His Agronomy research integrates issues from Soil test, Soil carbon and Nutrient. His work on Hypha is typically connected to Altitude, Pisolithus and Potassium as part of general Botany study, connecting several disciplines of science.

His work on Cenococcum geophilum as part of general Mycorrhiza study is frequently connected to Plant nutrition, Poaceae, Cultivar and Germination, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. His study focuses on the intersection of Shoot and fields such as Inoculation with connections in the field of Fungus, Dry weight and Root-knot nematode. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cucumis, Root system and Seedling in addition to Glomus.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (48.45%)
  • Botany (26.80%)
  • Mycorrhiza (21.65%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Agronomy (48.45%)
  • Ecosystem (13.40%)
  • Fertilizer (15.46%)

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

Xiaolin Li mainly focuses on Agronomy, Ecosystem, Fertilizer, Soil carbon and Ecology. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Soil organic matter, Soil test, Nutrient and Soil fertility. His Nutrient research includes themes of Dry matter and Hyphal growth.

His studies in Soil fertility integrate themes in fields like Fluvisol, Calcareous and Soil horizon. His research in Ecosystem intersects with topics in Biomass and Soil pH. The various areas that Xiaolin Li examines in his Fertilizer study include Soil water and Manure.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Maize yield and soil fertility with combined use of compost and inorganic fertilizers on a calcareous soil on the North China Plain (71 citations)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil and roots respond differently to phosphorus inputs in an intensively managed calcareous agricultural soil (66 citations)
  • Response of the soil microbial community to different fertilizer inputs in a wheat-maize rotation on a calcareous soil (36 citations)

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

His primary scientific interests are in Agronomy, Soil carbon, Agriculture, Calcareous and Fertilizer. His study in Agronomy is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Nutrient management and Soil water. His Soil carbon study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Soil organic matter, Soil pH and Soil horizon.

While the research belongs to areas of Agriculture, Xiaolin Li spends his time largely on the problem of Water resources, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Carbon cycle. His studies deal with areas such as Biodiversity, Compost, Species richness, Community structure and Soil microbiology as well as Calcareous. His Fertilizer study incorporates themes from Organic matter, Soil classification, Soil test, Crop rotation and Manure.

Best Publications

  • Wheat/maize or wheat/soybean strip intercropping - I. Yield advantage and interspecific interactions on nutrients

    Long Li;Long Li;Jianhao Sun;Fusuo Zhang;Xiaolin Li

  • Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice

    Shaozhong Kang;Xinmei Hao;Taisheng Du;Ling Tong

  • Interspecific complementary and competitive interactions between intercropped maize and faba bean

    Long Li;Sicun Yang;Xiaolin Li;Fusuo Zhang

  • Phosphorus depletion and pH decrease at the root–soil and hyphae–soil interfaces of VA mycorrhizal white clover fertilized with ammonium

    Xiao‐Lin Li;Eckhard George;Horst Marschner

  • Arbuscular mycorrhiza can depress translocation of zinc to shoots of host plants in soils moderately polluted with zinc

    Peter Christie;Xiaolin Li;Baodong Chen

  • Environmental implications of low nitrogen use efficiency in excessively fertilized hot pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.) cropping systems

    J.H. Zhu;X.L. Li;Peter Christie;J.L. Li

  • Interspecific facilitation of nutrient acquisition by intercropped maize and faba bean

    Long Li;Fusuo Zhang;Xiaolin Li;Peter Christie

  • Evaluation of current fertilizer practice and soil fertility in vegetable production in the Beijing region

    Qing Chen;Qing Chen;Xiaosheng Zhang;Hongyan Zhang;Peter Christie;Peter Christie

  • Maize yield and soil fertility with combined use of compost and inorganic fertilizers on a calcareous soil on the North China Plain

    Yunlong Zhang;Caihua Li;Yanwei Wang;Yimin Hu

  • Studies on the improvement in iron nutrition of peanut by intercropping with maize on a calcareous soil

    Yuanmei Zuo;Fusuo Zhang;Xiaolin Li;Yiping Cao

  • Wheat/maize or wheat/soybean strip intercropping: II. Recovery or compensation of maize and soybean after wheat harvesting

    Long Li;Long Li;Jianhao Sun;Fusuo Zhang;Xiaolin Li

  • Effect of rainwater harvesting with ridge and furrow on yield of potato in semiarid areas

    Yuan Tian;Derong Su;Fengmin Li;Xiaoling Li

  • Response of the soil microbial community to different fertilizer inputs in a wheat-maize rotation on a calcareous soil

    Shuikuan Bei;Yunlong Zhang;Tengteng Li;Peter Christie

  • Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to utilization of organic sources of phosphorus by red clover in a calcareous soil

    G. Feng;Y.C. Song;X.L. Li;Peter Christie

  • Influence of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae on uptake of arsenate by the As hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata L.

    Y. Liu;Y.G. Zhu;B.D. Chen;Peter Christie;Peter Christie

  • Local and systemic mycorrhiza-induced protection against the ectoparasitic nematode Xiphinema index involves priming of defence gene responses in grapevine

    Zhipeng Hao;Léon Fayolle;Diederik van Tuinen;Odile Chatagnier

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil and roots respond differently to phosphorus inputs in an intensively managed calcareous agricultural soil

    Wei Liu;Yunlong Zhang;Shanshan Jiang;Yan Deng

  • Transforming agriculture in China: From solely high yield to both high yield and high resource use efficiency

    Jianbo Shen;Zhenling Cui;Yuxin Miao;Guohua Mi

  • Soil microbial community structure and activity along a montane elevational gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

    Meng Xu;Xiaoliang Li;Xiaobu Cai;Jingping Gai

  • Contrasting impacts of manure and inorganic fertilizer applications for nine years on soil organic carbon and its labile fractions in bulk soil and soil aggregates

    Tengteng Li;Yunlong Zhang;Shuikuan Bei;Xiaolin Li

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity along a Tibetan elevation gradient

    J.P. Gai;H. Tian;F.Y. Yang;P. Christie

  • Effects of EDTA application and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on growth and zinc uptake by maize (Zea mays L.) in soil experimentally contaminated with zinc

    Baodong Chen;Hong Shen;Xiaolin Li;Gu Feng

  • Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in intensively managed arable soils

    Yun Yan;Yun Yan;Jing Tian;Mingsheng Fan;Fusuo Zhang

  • Lauric acid in crown daisy root exudate potently regulates root-knot nematode chemotaxis and disrupts Mi-flp-18 expression to block infection

    Linlin Dong;Xiaolin Li;Li-Li Huang;Ying-Ying Gao

  • Uptake of zinc, cadmium and phosphorus by arbuscular mycorrhizal maize (Zea mays L.) from a low available phosphorus calcareous soil spiked with zinc and cadmium.

    Hong Shen;Hong Shen;Peter Christie;Peter Christie;Xiaolin Li

  • Mobilization of sparingly soluble inorganic phosphates by the external mycelium of an abuscular mycorrhizal fungus

    Qing Yao;Xiaolin Li;Gu Feng;Peter Christie;Peter Christie

  • Microbial response to rhizodeposition depending on water regimes in paddy soils

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Michaela Dippold;Johanna Pausch;Evgenia Blagodatskaya

  • Life cycle assessment of wheat-maize rotation system emphasizing high crop yield and high resource use efficiency in Quzhou County

    Chong Wang;Xiaolin Li;Tingting Gong;Hongyan Zhang

  • Organic fertilizer, but not heavy liming, enhances banana biomass, increases soil organic carbon and modifies soil microbiota

    Jiangzhou Zhang;Shuikuan Bei;Baoshen Li;Junling Zhang

  • The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae can enhance arsenic tolerance in Medicago truncatula by increasing plant phosphorus status and restricting arsenate uptake.

    Pengliang Xu;Peter Christie;Peter Christie;Yu Liu;Junling Zhang

  • Influence of root zone nitrogen management and a summer catch crop on cucumber yield and soil mineral nitrogen dynamics in intensive production systems

    Ruiying Guo;Ruiying Guo;Xiaolin Li;Peter Christie;Peter Christie;Qing Chen

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi differ in their ability to regulate the expression of phosphate transporters in maize (Zea mays L.)

    Hui Tian;Rhae A. Drijber;Xiaolin Li;Daniel N. Miller

  • Labile soil organic matter fractions as influenced by non-flooded mulching cultivation and cropping season in rice–wheat rotation

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Shihua Lu;Mingsheng Fan;Xiaolin Li

  • Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Growth and Yield of Cucumber Plants

    Changxian Wang;Xiaolin Li;Jianchao Zhou;Guiqiang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Christie
Peter Christie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
Baodong Chen
Baodong Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Zed Rengel
Zed Rengel University of Western Australia
Petra Marschner
Petra Marschner University of Adelaide
Philippe Hinsinger
Philippe Hinsinger INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Steve P. McGrath
Steve P. McGrath Rothamsted Research
Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia
Oene Oenema
Oene Oenema Wageningen University & Research

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