OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 37. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	339
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	176
Short note	145
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	113
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	88
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	86
Probabilistic modelling of tree root distribution: Accounting for inter-trench and inter-species variability	72
The role of litter in enhancing water availability to Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass) changes according to soils	72
Bioavailability-driven enrichment and transport of potentially toxic elements in urban roadside soil–plant systems	68
Commentary on the use of nutrient-coated quantum dots as a means of tracking nutrient uptake by and movement within plants	63
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	61
Microbial responses to soil heavy metal pollution under different vegetation types in high-density urban parks	61
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	61
Organic farming promotes general disease suppression and modulates functional potential of rhizosphere microbiome in mustard	59
Interplay between living or dead plant carbon input and soil organic matter – key drivers and agricultural management for soil carbon sequestration	56
Layered manure enhances root development via soil hydrothermal optimization in ridge tillage	56
Synergistic biochar-silicon amendments: a mechanistic study to enhanced salt tolerance and soil health in turfgrass systems	52
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	47
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	45
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	45
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	45
Effect of histone acetylation on plant resistance to salt stress	44
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus promote Flaveria bidentis invasion success by inhibiting the growth of native species under different soil nutrient levels	44
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	44
Conifer and broadleaf trees show a strong co-evolution with rhizosphere diazotrophic microbiome	42

Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	42
Pseudomonas is a key player in conferring disease suppressiveness in organic farming	42
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	41
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	41
Differences in soil microbial communities with successional stage depend on vegetation coverage and soil substrates in alpine desert shrublands	40
Mechanical responses of Chrysopogon zizanioides roots under cyclic loading conditions	40
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	40
Effects of maize/soybean intercropping on nitrogen mineralization and fungal communities in soil	40
Editorial: Belowground adaptation of plants to climate change	39
ACC deaminase-encoding Pseudomonas putida arrests seed germination: an alternative strategy for grass and weed control	39
Biochar alters the morphology of plant roots to enable optimized and reduced nitrogen fertilizer applications	39
Iron dynamics and isotope fractionation in soil and rice during 2000 years of rice cultivation	37