OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 71. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	579
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	260
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	202
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	195
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	195
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	178
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	177
Wildland fire ash enhances short-term CO2 flux from soil in a Southern African savannah	163
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	161
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	160
Microbial transformation mechanisms of particulate organic carbon to mineral-associated organic carbon at the chemical molecular level: Highlighting the effects of ambient temperature and soil moistur	154
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	154
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	151
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	145
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	141
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	138
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	137
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	135
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	132
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	131
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	129
Editorial Board	123
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	123
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	119
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	114

Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	112
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	105
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	104
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	103
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	101
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	100
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	99
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	99
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	98
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	98
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	97
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	97
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	93
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	92
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	90
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	90
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	89
VNIR and MIR spectroscopy of PLFA-derived soil microbial properties and associated soil physicochemical characteristics in an experimental plant diversity gradient	89
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	86
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	85
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	85
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	85
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	84
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	83
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	82
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	82
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	82
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	82
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	81
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	80
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	79
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	79
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	78
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	77
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	77
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	77
Shedding light on the functional role of the Ignavibacteria in Italian rice field soil: A meta-genomic/transcriptomic analysis	76
Editorial Board	75
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources	74
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	74
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	74
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	74
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region	73
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	73
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic	72
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	71
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	71
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	71