OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 36. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	144
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	139
Short note	125
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	94
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	85
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	82
Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards	82
Interplay between living or dead plant carbon input and soil organic matter – key drivers and agricultural management for soil carbon sequestration	76
Host genotype-specific rhizosphere protists associate soil-borne viral disease resistance in wheat	74
Changes in species abundances with short-term and long-term nitrogen addition are mediated by stoichiometric homeostasis	72
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect root morphology locally but not systemically through altering nutrient- and phytohormone-related gene expressions at low soil P level	71
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	68
Low Si combined with drought causes reduced transpiration in sorghum Lsi1 mutant	64
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	63
Long-term fertilization effects on soil biotic communities are mediated by plant diversity in a Tibetan alpine meadow	59
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	56
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	54
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	49
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	48
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	46
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	46
Different effects of six saponins on the rhizosphere soil microorganisms of Panax notoginseng	45
Diagnosis alfalfa salt stress based on UAV multispectral image texture and vegetation index	44
Zinc localization and speciation in rice grain under variable soil zinc deficiency	42
Biochar alters the morphology of plant roots to enable optimized and reduced nitrogen fertilizer applications	42

Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	41
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	40
Responses of mycorrhizal colonization to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in fourteen woody and herbaceous species: the roles of hypodermal passage cells and penetration points	40
Pigeon pea biochar addition in tropical Arenosol under maize increases gross nitrification rate without an effect on nitrous oxide emission	40
Variations in the traits of fine roots of different orders and their associations with leaf traits in 12 co-occuring plant species in a semiarid inland dune	40
Effect of plastic film and hemp canvas mulching on soil properties, microbial diversity and lettuce yield	39
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	38
Pseudomonas is a key player in conferring disease suppressiveness in organic farming	37
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	37
Editorial: Belowground adaptation of plants to climate change	37
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	36
Nitrogen uptake by rapeseed varieties from organic matter and inorganic fertilizer sources	36
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	36