OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 41. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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	261
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	151
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	126
Short note	95
Layered manure enhances root development via soil hydrothermal optimization in ridge tillage	95
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	93
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	90
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	86
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	79
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	76
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	70
Multispecies grasslands sustain on-farm forage productivity and quality while reducing nitrogen fertilizer inputs	65
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	64
Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture	64
Bioavailability-driven enrichment and transport of potentially toxic elements in urban roadside soil–plant systems	60
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	59
Conifer and broadleaf trees show a strong co-evolution with rhizosphere diazotrophic microbiome	58
Effect of histone acetylation on plant resistance to salt stress	57
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	54
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	53
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	53
Eruca vesicaria leaf extracts and intercropping mitigate the Kiwifruit Vine Decline Syndrome and modulate the rhizosphere pathobiome	52
Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards	51
Soil-atmosphere terpene exchanges in the tropical forest of French Guiana with nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application	51
The role of litter in enhancing water availability to Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass) changes according to soils	51

Effect of different digestates derived from anaerobic co-digestion of olive mill solid waste (omsw) and various microalgae as fertilizers for the cultivation of ryegrass	50
Synergistic biochar-silicon amendments: a mechanistic study to enhanced salt tolerance and soil health in turfgrass systems	50
A global synthesis of plant-plant interaction investigations: current knowledge and future directions	50
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	48
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	46
Root characteristics explain greater water use efficiency and drought tolerance in invasive Compositae plants	45
Soil aggregate stability of forest islands and adjacent ecosystems in West Africa	45
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	44
Iron dynamics and isotope fractionation in soil and rice during 2000 years of rice cultivation	44
Nitrogen addition decreases root exudation of four temperate tree species seedlings, independent of the applied nitrogen form	42
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	42
Vineyard landscape position influences grape nitrogen via soil nitrogen supply: insights from Ion exchange membrane monitoring	42
Suppression of tomato bacterial wilt by anaerobic soil disinfestation and associations with production of antagonistic compounds	42
Short-term thinning effects on saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal soil fungal communities in a Pinus halepensis common garden	41
Development and evaluation of barley mini-core collection for salinity tolerance and identification of novel haplotypic variants for HvRAF	41
First report of ectomycorrhizae in Prunus serotina in the exotic range	41
Host genotype-specific rhizosphere protists associate soil-borne viral disease resistance in wheat	41