Zhenjiang Zech Xu: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Zhenjiang Zech Xu's h-index is 50 (79 i10-index, 48,978+ total citations across 5+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of July 2026. Zhenjiang Zech Xu is affiliated with state key lab of food science and resources, nu.
Zhenjiang Zech Xu is a researcher affiliated with state key lab of food science and resources, nu, specializing in microbiome, ncRNA, AI4S. Their work has been cited 48,978 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Zhenjiang Zech Xu's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 5 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 50
- i10-Index
- 79
- Total Citations
- 48,978
- Citing Countries
- 29
As of July 2026.
Zhenjiang Zech Xu has an h-index of 50 and 48,978 total citations across 5 publications, with research cited by institutions in 29 countries.
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Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
201925,413
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The researcher developed foundational methods for resolving single-nucleotide community patterns and established best practices for scalable, reproducible microbiome data science.
The researcher established a foundational framework for understanding Earth's multiscale microbial diversity through a seminal 2017 Nature publication that has garnered over 3,000 citations.
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About Zhenjiang Zech Xu's research
Zhenjiang Zech Xu is a researcher in microbiome, ncRNA and AI4S at state key lab of food science and resources, nu. Their work has been cited 48,978 times across 5 publications (h-index 50), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” (2019), has accumulated 25,413 citations. Other influential works include “A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity” (2017) with 3,068 citations and “Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics” (2017) with 2,303 citations.
Citations of Zhenjiang Zech Xu's research come primarily from United States, China and Germany, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
