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Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Aimé J. Messiga
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
99
2
Zhenke Zhu
Ningbo University
86
3
M. Francesca Cotrufo
Colorado State University
80
4
Xinhui Han
Northwest A&F University
79
5
Shuli Niu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
77
6
Heinz Rennenberg
Southwest University
73
7
Jingyun Fang
Peking University
70
8
Yasvir Singh Shivey
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
68
9
Wenlan Zhu
Nanjing Forestry University
68
10
Xinhua Peng
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning
66

Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sheng Tang
Anhui Agricultural University
99
2
Chris Geremia
National Park Service
87
3
Sadhana Shukla
Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies
85
4
Xiaodong Sun
Shanxi Agricultural University
80
5
Mingzhen Lu
Santa Fe Institute
79
6
Lei Luo
Chinese Academy of Sciences
78
7
Dominik Žák
Aarhus University
75
8
Lei Chang
Jilin University
73
9
Yi Li
Hohai University
68
10
Wenting Jiang
Yan'an University
68

Emerging Leaders Papers

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Jennifer J. Follstad Shah
Duke University
99
2
Yakov Kuzyakov
University of Göttingen
99
3
Joshua P. Schimel
University of California, Santa Barbara
91
4
Bonnie G. Waring
Utah State University
89
5
Noah Fierer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
83
6
Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner
Technical University of Munich
81
7
John Grace
University of Edinburgh
79
8
A. G. Slater
University of Colorado Boulder
71
9
Christian Körner
University of Basel
70
10
Jon Lloyd
University of Leeds
69

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil
Frontiers in Microbiology|2012
1.4k cit.
2
Plant and mycorrhizal regulation of rhizodeposition
New Phytologist|2004
1.3k cit.
3
A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses
The ISME Journal|2009
1.2k cit.
4
Microaggregates in soils
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science|2017
1.1k cit.
5
Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions
Nature Communications|2022
1k cit.
6
The above‐ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots
Global Change Biology|2004
556 cit.
7
Temporal variability is a personalized feature of the human microbiome
Genome biology|2014
470 cit.
8
The Representation of Snow in Land Surface Schemes: Results from PILPS 2(d)
Journal of Hydrometeorology|2001
364 cit.

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