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D-Index
51
Citations
11444
World Ranking
1990
National Ranking
176

Xuhui Zhang 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 Xuhui Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 125 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xuhui Zhang 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 Xuhui Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% 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:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Carbon dioxide

Xuhui Zhang focuses on Agronomy, Biochar, Paddy field, Soil carbon and Crop yield. His work carried out in the field of Agronomy brings together such families of science as Soil water and Topsoil. The study incorporates disciplines such as Soil pH, Soil respiration and Greenhouse gas in addition to Biochar.

Xuhui Zhang works mostly in the field of Paddy field, limiting it down to topics relating to Soil organic matter and, in certain cases, Soil microbiology, Human fertilization and Straw. Xuhui Zhang focuses mostly in the field of Soil carbon, narrowing it down to topics relating to Total organic carbon and, in certain cases, Plough, Irrigation, Arable land and Soil survey. His work is dedicated to discovering how Crop yield, Fertilizer are connected with Inceptisol, Rainfed agriculture, Soil fertility and Sowing and other disciplines.

His most cited work include:

  • Effect of biochar amendment on yield and methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a rice paddy from Tai Lake plain, China. (501 citations)
  • Storage and sequestration potential of topsoil organic carbon in China's paddy soils (357 citations)
  • Effects of biochar amendment on soil quality, crop yield and greenhouse gas emission in a Chinese rice paddy: A field study of 2 consecutive rice growing cycles (351 citations)

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

His primary areas of study are Agronomy, Biochar, Paddy field, Soil water and Soil carbon. Xuhui Zhang has included themes like Soil pH and Topsoil in his Agronomy study. His study deals with a combination of Biochar and Amendment.

His research integrates issues of Biomass, Relative species abundance, Global warming and Soil microbiology in his study of Paddy field. His Soil water study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Environmental chemistry and Total organic carbon. His Soil carbon research focuses on subjects like Soil organic matter, which are linked to Soil chemistry and Soil biology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (52.78%)
  • Biochar (33.33%)
  • Paddy field (29.63%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Biochar (33.33%)
  • Agronomy (52.78%)
  • Amendment (20.37%)

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

His main research concerns Biochar, Agronomy, Amendment, Environmental chemistry and Soil water. His study in Biochar is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Soil biology and Topsoil. His Topsoil research includes elements of Soil organic matter and Soil carbon.

Xuhui Zhang has researched Agronomy in several fields, including Canopy and Soil health. As a part of the same scientific family, Xuhui Zhang mostly works in the field of Environmental chemistry, focusing on Raw material and, on occasion, Total organic carbon, Heavy metals and Alkali soil. Xuhui Zhang interconnects Methanogen, Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere and Greenhouse gas in the investigation of issues within Paddy field.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Effects of biochar on availability and plant uptake of heavy metals – A meta-analysis (53 citations)
  • Biochar amendment changes temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and composition of microbial communities 3 years after incorporation in an organic carbon-poor dry cropland soil (35 citations)
  • Biochar provided limited benefits for rice yield and greenhouse gas mitigation six years following an amendment in a fertile rice paddy (15 citations)

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

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Carbon dioxide

His primary areas of study are Biochar, Environmental chemistry, Amendment, Agronomy and Soil water. His study looks at the relationship between Biochar and fields such as Soil biology, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. His Environmental chemistry study incorporates themes from Raw material and Fertilizer.

His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Canopy and Climate change. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Crop yield, Paddy field and Greenhouse gas. His Paddy field research incorporates elements of Methanogen and Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

Best Publications

  • Effect of biochar amendment on yield and methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a rice paddy from Tai Lake plain, China.

    Afeng Zhang;Liqiang Cui;Gengxing Pan;Lianqing Li

  • Effects of biochar amendment on soil quality, crop yield and greenhouse gas emission in a Chinese rice paddy: A field study of 2 consecutive rice growing cycles

    Afeng Zhang;Rongjun Bian;Genxing Pan;Liqiang Cui

  • Storage and sequestration potential of topsoil organic carbon in China's paddy soils

    Genxing Pan;Lianqing Li;Laosheng Wu;Xuhui Zhang

  • Effect of biochar amendment on maize yield and greenhouse gas emissions from a soil organic carbon poor calcareous loamy soil from Central China Plain

    Afeng Zhang;Yuming Liu;Genxing Pan;Qaiser Hussain

  • Biochar soil amendment increased bacterial but decreased fungal gene abundance with shifts in community structure in a slightly acid rice paddy from Southwest China

    Junhui Chen;Xiaoyu Liu;Jinwei Zheng;Bin Zhang

  • Effects of amendment of biochar-manure compost in conjunction with pyroligneous solution on soil quality and wheat yield of a salt-stressed cropland from Central China Great Plain

    Muhammad Siddique Lashari;Yuming Liu;Lianqing Li;Weinan Pan

  • Carbon footprint of China's crop production—An estimation using agro-statistics data over 1993–2007

    Kun Cheng;Genxing Pan;Pete Smith;Ting Luo

  • Biochar decreased microbial metabolic quotient and shifted community composition four years after a single incorporation in a slightly acid rice paddy from southwest China.

    Jufeng Zheng;Junhui Chen;Junhui Chen;Genxing Pan;Xiaoyu Liu

  • Heavy metal pollution decreases microbial abundance, diversity and activity within particle‐size fractions of a paddy soil

    Junhui Chen;Feng He;Xuhui Zhang;Xuan Sun

  • Combined inorganic/organic fertilization enhances N efficiency and increases rice productivity through organic carbon accumulation in a rice paddy from the Tai Lake region, China.

    Genxing Pan;Ping Zhou;Zhipeng Li;Pete Smith

  • Effects of biochar on availability and plant uptake of heavy metals – A meta-analysis

    De Chen;Xiaoyu Liu;Rongjun Bian;Kun Cheng

  • Biochar soil amendment as a solution to prevent Cd-tainted rice from China: Results from a cross-site field experiment

    Rongjun Bian;De Chen;Xiaoyu Liu;Liqiang Cui

  • Biochar helps enhance maize productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions under balanced fertilization in a rainfed low fertility inceptisol.

    Dengxiao Zhang;Genxing Pan;Gang Wu;Grace Wanjiru Kibue

  • Changes in microbial biomass and the metabolic quotient with biochar addition to agricultural soils: A meta-analysis

    Huimin Zhou;Dengxiao Zhang;Pan Wang;Xiaoyu Liu

  • Consistent increase in abundance and diversity but variable change in community composition of bacteria in topsoil of rice paddy under short term biochar treatment across three sites from South China

    Junhui Chen;Junhui Chen;Xiaoyu Liu;Lianqing Li;Jinwei Zheng

  • Biochar compound fertilizer increases nitrogen productivity and economic benefits but decreases carbon emission of maize production

    Jufeng Zheng;Jiming Han;Zhiwei Liu;Wenbin Xia

  • Is current biochar research addressing global soil constraints for sustainable agriculture

    Dengxiao Zhang;Ming Yan;Yaru Niu;Xiaoyu Liu

  • Biochar compound fertilizer as an option to reach high productivity but low carbon intensity in rice agriculture of China

    Li Qian;Lin Chen;Stephen Joseph;Genxing Pan

  • Cd immobilization in a contaminated rice paddy by inorganic stabilizers of calcium hydroxide and silicon slag and by organic stabilizer of biochar.

    Rongjun Bian;Lianqing Li;Dandan Bao;Jinwei Zheng

  • Change in net global warming potential of a rice-wheat cropping system with biochar soil amendment in a rice paddy from China

    Afeng Zhang;Rongjun Bian;Qaiser Hussain;Qaiser Hussain;Lianqing Li

  • Increase in soil organic carbon stock over the last two decades in China's Jiangsu Province

    Qilin Liao;Xuhui Zhang;Zhipeng Li;Genxing Pan

Frequent Co-Authors

Genxing Pan
Genxing Pan Nanjing Agricultural University
Jufeng Zheng
Jufeng Zheng Nanjing Agricultural University
Lianqing Li
Lianqing Li Nanjing Agricultural University
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
David E. Crowley
David E. Crowley University of California, Riverside
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Timothy R. Filley
Timothy R. Filley University of Oklahoma
Andrew C. Chang
Andrew C. Chang University of California, Riverside
Huixin Li
Huixin Li Nanjing Agricultural University
Feng Hu
Feng Hu Nanjing Agricultural University

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