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D-Index
65
Citations
14297
World Ranking
929
National Ranking
85

Zhong-Hua Chen 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 Zhong-Hua Chen sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 184 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhong-Hua Chen 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 Zhong-Hua Chen 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
  • Genetics

Zhong-Hua Chen mainly investigates Botany, Salinity, Hordeum vulgare, Photosynthesis and Sodium. His study on Hordeum and Plant physiology is often connected to Ultradian rhythm and Context as part of broader study in Botany. He works mostly in the field of Salinity, limiting it down to concerns involving Cultivar and, occasionally, Chlorophyll, Poaceae and Chlorophyll fluorescence.

His Hordeum vulgare research incorporates elements of Germination and Fern. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Biophysics, Stomatal conductance, Savia, Osmosis and Xylem. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Genetic variation and Horticulture.

His most cited work include:

  • Linking stomatal traits and expression of slow anion channel genes HvSLAH1 and HvSLAC1 with grain yield for increasing salinity tolerance in barley (1080 citations)
  • Screening plants for salt tolerance by measuring K+ flux: a case study for barley (368 citations)
  • Root plasma membrane transporters controlling K+/Na+ homeostasis in salt-stressed barley. (358 citations)

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

Zhong-Hua Chen spends much of his time researching Botany, Salinity, Cell biology, Guard cell and Arabidopsis. His Botany research focuses on subjects like Genetic diversity, which are linked to Genome. The study incorporates disciplines such as Agronomy, Cultivar, Shoot and Hordeum vulgare in addition to Salinity.

His Agronomy research includes elements of Quantitative trait locus and Horticulture. The concepts of his Hordeum vulgare study are interwoven with issues in Genetics and Sodium. The Cell biology study combines topics in areas such as Transporter, Abscisic acid and Drought tolerance.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (33.92%)
  • Salinity (21.05%)
  • Cell biology (30.41%)

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

  • Cell biology (30.41%)
  • Salinity (21.05%)
  • Drought tolerance (13.45%)

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

His primary areas of study are Cell biology, Salinity, Drought tolerance, Guard cell and Photosynthesis. His studies in Cell biology integrate themes in fields like Wild type, Efflux, Transporter and Transcriptome. Zhong-Hua Chen has included themes like Abiotic component, Oryza sativa, Agronomy and Horticulture in his Salinity study.

Zhong-Hua Chen interconnects Cell wall modification, Chloroplast, Abscisic acid and Water-use efficiency in the investigation of issues within Guard cell. His Photosynthesis study incorporates themes from Membrane transport, Environmental engineering, Cadmium and Ion transporter. His work in Stomatal conductance addresses subjects such as Hordeum, which are connected to disciplines such as Sodium.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants (93 citations)
  • Evolution of chloroplast retrograde signaling facilitates green plant adaptation to land (55 citations)
  • Evolution of chloroplast retrograde signaling facilitates green plant adaptation to land (55 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Genetics

Cell biology, Salinity, Efflux, Abscisic acid and Context are his primary areas of study. He has researched Cell biology in several fields, including Wild type, Transcriptome, Transporter and Drought tolerance. His work focuses on many connections between Wild type and other disciplines, such as Protein kinase B, that overlap with his field of interest in Homeostasis and Cultivar.

His research integrates issues of Oryza sativa, Shoot, Horticulture and Crop in his study of Salinity. His Shoot research integrates issues from Arabidopsis, Mutant and Calcium signaling. His research in Abscisic acid intersects with topics in Viridiplantae, Guard cell, Ceratopteris richardii, Chloroplast and Retrograde signaling.

Best Publications

  • Linking stomatal traits and expression of slow anion channel genes HvSLAH1 and HvSLAC1 with grain yield for increasing salinity tolerance in barley

    Xiaohui Liu;Michelle Mak;Mohammad Babla;Feifei Wang

  • Root plasma membrane transporters controlling K+/Na+ homeostasis in salt-stressed barley.

    Zhonghua Chen;Igor I. Pottosin;Tracey A. Cuin;Anja T. Fuglsang

  • Screening plants for salt tolerance by measuring K+ flux: a case study for barley

    Z Chen;IA Newman;M Zhou;NJ Mendham

  • Compatible solute accumulation and stress-mitigating effects in barley genotypes contrasting in their salt tolerance

    Zhonghua Chen;Tracey A. Cuin;Meixue Zhou;Amanda Twomey

  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants

    Rana Munns;Rana Munns;David A Day;Wieland Fricke;Michelle Watt

  • Potassium and sodium relations in salinised barley tissues as a basis of differential salt tolerance

    Zhonghua Chen;Meixue Zhou;Ian A Newman;Neville J Mendham

  • Molecular and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Cuticular Wax for Plant Drought Tolerance.

    Dawei Xue;Xiaoqin Zhang;Xueli Lu;Guang Chen

  • Tibet is one of the centers of domestication of cultivated barley

    Fei Dai;Eviatar Nevo;Dezhi Wu;Jordi Comadran

  • Tissue Metabolic Responses to Salt Stress in Wild and Cultivated Barley

    Dezhi Wu;Shengguan Cai;Mingxian Chen;Lingzhen Ye

  • Molecular Evolution of Grass Stomata.

    Zhong-Hua Chen;Zhong-Hua Chen;Guang Chen;Fei Dai;Yizhou Wang

  • Xylem ionic relations and salinity tolerance in barley.

    Sergey Shabala;Svetlana Shabala;Tracey A. Cuin;Jiayin Pang

  • Evolutionary Conservation of ABA Signaling for Stomatal Closure

    Shengguan Cai;Guang Chen;Yuanyuan Wang;Yuqing Huang

  • Molecular mechanisms of salinity tolerance in rice

    Tianxiao Chen;Sergey Shabala;Sergey Shabala;Yanan Niu;Zhong-Hua Chen

  • Reduced Tonoplast Fast-Activating and Slow-Activating Channel Activity Is Essential for Conferring Salinity Tolerance in a Facultative Halophyte, Quinoa

    Edgar Bonales-Alatorre;Sergey Shabala;Zhong-Hua Chen;Igor Pottosin;Igor Pottosin

  • Systems Dynamic Modeling of the Stomatal Guard Cell Predicts Emergent Behaviors in Transport, Signaling, and Volume Control

    Zhong-Hua Chen;Adrian Hills;Ulrike Bätz;Anna Amtmann

  • A Tripartite SNARE-K+ Channel Complex Mediates in Channel-Dependent K+ Nutrition in Arabidopsis

    Annegret Honsbein;Sergei Sokolovski;Christopher Grefen;Prisca Campanoni

  • OnGuard, a Computational Platform for Quantitative Kinetic Modeling of Guard Cell Physiology

    Adrian Hills;Zhong-Hua Chen;Anna Amtmann;Michael R. Blatt

  • Zinc alleviates growth inhibition and oxidative stress caused by cadmium in rice

    Muhammad Jaffar Hassan;Guoping Zhang;Feibo Wu;Kang Wei

  • Evolution of chloroplast retrograde signaling facilitates green plant adaptation to land

    Chenchen Zhao;Chenchen Zhao;Yuanyuan Wang;Kai Xun Chan;D. Blaine Marchant

  • Melatonin improves rice salinity stress tolerance by NADPH oxidase-dependent control of the plasma membrane K+ transporters and K+ homeostasis.

    Juan Liu;Juan Liu;Sergey Shabala;Sergey Shabala;Jing Zhang;Guohui Ma

  • Genome-wide transcriptome and functional analysis of two contrasting genotypes reveals key genes for cadmium tolerance in barley

    Fangbin Cao;Fei Chen;Hongyan Sun;Guoping Zhang

  • A Novel Motif Essential for SNARE Interaction with the K+ Channel KC1 and Channel Gating in Arabidopsis

    Christopher Grefen;Zhonghua Chen;Annegret Honsbein;Naomi Donald

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala University of Western Australia
Guoping Zhang
Guoping Zhang Zhejiang University
Meixue Zhou
Meixue Zhou University of Tasmania
Feibo Wu
Feibo Wu Zhejiang University
Lana Shabala
Lana Shabala University of Tasmania
Michael R. Blatt
Michael R. Blatt University of Glasgow
Fei Dai
Fei Dai Zhejiang University
Shengguan Cai
Shengguan Cai Zhejiang University
Paul Holford
Paul Holford Western Sydney University
Dezhi Wu
Dezhi Wu Zhejiang University

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