OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 63. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter	487
The microplastisphere: Biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function	345
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	326
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health	233
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	185
Network analysis and subsequent culturing reveal keystone taxa involved in microbial litter decomposition dynamics	144
Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	139
Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	133
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil	129
Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity	126
Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality	118
Microbial necromass on the rise: The growing focus on its role in soil organic matter development	114
Organic amendments drive shifts in microbial community structure and keystone taxa which increase C mineralization across aggregate size classes	109
Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition	108
Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils	103
Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses	103
Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation	102
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	98
Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content	96
Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein	96
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	94
Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter	94
How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations	92
Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization	92
Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China	90

Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil	89
Assembly of abundant and rare bacterial and fungal sub-communities in different soil aggregate sizes in an apple orchard treated with cover crop and fertilizer	89
An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments	88
Increasing contribution of microbial residues to soil organic carbon in grassland restoration chronosequence	88
Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests	87
Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils	86
Fungi determine increased soil organic carbon more than bacteria through their necromass inputs in conservation tillage croplands	85
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?	85
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	84
Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology	83
Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon	81
The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	81
Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions	78
The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality	77
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	77
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	77
Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation	76
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	76
Metagenomics reveals taxon-specific responses of the nitrogen-cycling microbial community to long-term nitrogen fertilization	75
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	74
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation	73
Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests	72
A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling	72
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	72
NosZ clade II rather than clade I determine in situ N2O emissions with different fertilizer types under simulated climate change and its legacy	69
Century long fertilization reduces stochasticity controlling grassland microbial community succession	69
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds	69
Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species	68
Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?	68
Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling	68
Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis	67
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	66
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	65
Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils	65
Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method	64
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	64
Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession	64
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms	63
Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate	63
Rare fungus, Mortierella capitata, promotes crop growth by stimulating primary metabolisms related genes and reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community	63
Plant residue chemical quality modulates the soil microbial response related to decomposition and soil organic carbon and nitrogen stabilization in a rainfed Mediterranean agroecosystem	63
Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently	63