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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	378
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	200
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	122
The role of litter in enhancing water availability to Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass) changes according to soils	92
Probabilistic modelling of tree root distribution: Accounting for inter-trench and inter-species variability	74
Bioavailability-driven enrichment and transport of potentially toxic elements in urban roadside soil–plant systems	73
Microbial responses to soil heavy metal pollution under different vegetation types in high-density urban parks	72
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	68
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	64
Layered manure enhances root development via soil hydrothermal optimization in ridge tillage	64
Organic farming promotes general disease suppression and modulates functional potential of rhizosphere microbiome in mustard	64
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	63
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	59
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	56
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	54
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	53
Conifer and broadleaf trees show a strong co-evolution with rhizosphere diazotrophic microbiome	52
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	49
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	49
Mechanical responses of Chrysopogon zizanioides roots under cyclic loading conditions	47
Vineyard landscape position influences grape nitrogen via soil nitrogen supply: insights from Ion exchange membrane monitoring	47
Blue carbon dynamics across a salt marsh-seagrass ecotone in a cool-temperate estuary	47
Genetic resources for enhancing drought tolerance from National Genebank collection of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) in India	44
Effects of different cultivation patterns of grasses on plant community structure, soil physicochemical properties, microbial community structure, and functions	44
Development and evaluation of barley mini-core collection for salinity tolerance and identification of novel haplotypic variants for HvRAF	44

Soil nutrients affect production and biomass allocation at the individual tree level in Populus deltoides	43
The salt bladder is essential for Atriplex canescens in response to salinity by regulating the ion homeostasis and water balance	42
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect root morphology locally but not systemically through altering nutrient- and phytohormone-related gene expressions at low soil P level	42
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	42
Rhizosphere-induced shift in the composition of bacterial community favors mineralization of crop residue nitrogen	41
Intercropped alfalfa and spring wheat reduces soil alkali-salinity in the arid area of northwestern China	40
Diversity of AMF in the rhizosphere soil of Juglans sigillata Dode in karst rocky desertification areas and the influence of dominance population Glomus reticulatum on the drought resistance of the se	39
Short-term influences of C4 versus C3 plant growth on dissolved inorganic carbon in a carbonate-poor soil	39
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	38
Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture	38
First report of ectomycorrhizae in Prunus serotina in the exotic range	38
Different tillage and stubble management practices affect root growth and wheat production in a semi-arid area	37
MdDnaJ107, a member of the DnaJ protein family, positively regulates drought tolerance in apple	37
Nitrogen addition decreases root exudation of four temperate tree species seedlings, independent of the applied nitrogen form	37
Linking soil organic carbon and viral communities in alpine grasslands	37