OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 38. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	327
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	173
Short note	139
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	105
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	100
A global synthesis of plant-plant interaction investigations: current knowledge and future directions	86
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	78
The role of litter in enhancing water availability to Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass) changes according to soils	70
Different tillage and stubble management practices affect root growth and wheat production in a semi-arid area	69
Probabilistic modelling of tree root distribution: Accounting for inter-trench and inter-species variability	66
Soil-atmosphere terpene exchanges in the tropical forest of French Guiana with nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application	61
Bioavailability-driven enrichment and transport of potentially toxic elements in urban roadside soil–plant systems	61
Multispecies grasslands sustain on-farm forage productivity and quality while reducing nitrogen fertilizer inputs	61
Commentary on the use of nutrient-coated quantum dots as a means of tracking nutrient uptake by and movement within plants	59
Phosphorus deficiency promotes root morphological and biochemical changes to enhance phosphorus uptake in Phyllostachys edulis seedlings	59
Nanoscale zero-valent iron mitigates arsenic mobilization and accumulation in Sinapis alba grown on a metal(loid)-polluted soil treated with a dunite mining waste-compost amendment	57
Microbial responses to soil heavy metal pollution under different vegetation types in high-density urban parks	56
Nitrogen enrichment boosts subsoil carbon sequestration by enhancing microbial straw utilization	56
First report of ectomycorrhizae in Prunus serotina in the exotic range	55
Soil nutrients affect production and biomass allocation at the individual tree level in Populus deltoides	54
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	53
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	46
Organic farming promotes general disease suppression and modulates functional potential of rhizosphere microbiome in mustard	45
Layered manure enhances root development via soil hydrothermal optimization in ridge tillage	44
Synergistic biochar-silicon amendments: a mechanistic study to enhanced salt tolerance and soil health in turfgrass systems	43

Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	43
Interplay between living or dead plant carbon input and soil organic matter – key drivers and agricultural management for soil carbon sequestration	43
Correction to: Intraspecific variations in activities of four classes of fine root phosphatases in Quercus serrata, a dominant deciduous oak, occurring across a wide soil phosphorus gradient in Japan	43
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	42
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus promote Flaveria bidentis invasion success by inhibiting the growth of native species under different soil nutrient levels	41
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	41
Effect of histone acetylation on plant resistance to salt stress	40
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	40
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	39
Poly-γ-glutamic acid could enhance the salt resistance of maize by collectively increasing the osmotic, ion, and oxidative stresses resistance and enriching the salt-tolerant PGPBs in rhizosphere soil	39
Conifer and broadleaf trees show a strong co-evolution with rhizosphere diazotrophic microbiome	39
Pseudomonas is a key player in conferring disease suppressiveness in organic farming	39
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	38
Patch establishment of the summer annual saltwort plant (Salsola inermis Forssk.) increases N cycling rates and soil nitrous oxide emissions in Israel’s Negev Desert	38