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Ecology and Evolution
China
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
88
Citations
31213
World Ranking
518
National Ranking
9

Ye Deng 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 Ye Deng sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 243 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ye Deng 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 Ye Deng sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award

Overview

Ye Deng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research predominantly lies at the intersection of Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these overarching fields, they focus on subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Pollution.

The scientist's work addresses a diverse array of topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Vehicle Emissions and Performance.

Ye Deng's publication record includes multiple recent papers contributing to understanding microbial and environmental processes. Notable publications include:

  • Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K-selected microbial community, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • iNAP: An integrated network analysis pipeline for microbiome studies, 2022, iMeta
  • Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • The Great Oxidation Event expanded the genetic repertoire of arsenic metabolism and cycling, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Temperature and microbial interactions drive the deterministic assembly processes in sediments of hot springs, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Research, PubMed, and Global Change Biology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ye Deng include Kai Feng, Shuzhen Li, Songsong Gu, Shang Wang, and Xiongfeng Du, reflecting a network of research partnerships largely centered on microbiological and environmental studies.

In addition to journal articles, Ye Deng has contributed to book literature, notably publishing "Microbial Regulation of Soil Carbon Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems" in 2023 with Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Molecular ecological network analyses

    Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang;Yunfeng Yang;Zhili He

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

    Daliang Ning;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;James M Tiedje;Jizhong Zhou

  • Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO2

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

    Sophie Weiss;Will Van Treuren;Catherine Lozupone;Karoline Faust;Karoline Faust

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

    Jizhong Zhou;Kai Xue;Jianping Xie;Jianping Xie;Ye Deng

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detection

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Ye Deng;Xiaoyang Zhi

  • Biodiversity and species competition regulate the resilience of microbial biofilm community.

    Kai Feng;Zhaojing Zhang;Zhaojing Zhang;Weiwei Cai;Weiwei Cai;Wenzong Liu

  • Network succession reveals the importance of competition in response to emulsified vegetable oil amendment for uranium bioremediation.

    Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Yujia Qin;Qichao Tu

  • High-Throughput Metagenomic Technologies for Complex Microbial Community Analysis: Open and Closed Formats

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Zhili He;Yunfeng Yang;Ye Deng;Ye Deng

  • Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K-selected microbial community

    Hui Li;Shan Yang;Mikhail V Semenov;Fei Yao

  • NCycDB: a curated integrative database for fast and accurate metagenomic profiling of nitrogen cycling genes.

    Qichao Tu;Lu Lin;Lei Cheng;Ye Deng

  • Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial community

    Christopher L Hemme;Ye Deng;Terry J Gentry;Terry J Gentry;Matthew W Fields

  • GeoChip 3.0 as a high-throughput tool for analyzing microbial community composition, structure and functional activity

    Zhili He;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Qichao Tu

  • Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Kai Xue;Kai Xue;Mengting M. Yuan;Zhou J. Shi;Yujia Qin

  • Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community.

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Wenzong Liu;Wenzong Liu;Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang

  • Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2

    Zhili He;Meiying Xu;Ye Deng;Sanghoon Kang

  • Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plume

    Zhenmei Lu;Zhenmei Lu;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Zhili He

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Kai Xue
Kai Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Ninghua Zhu
Ninghua Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University

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