OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 69. 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
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	628
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	463
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	431
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	219
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	181
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	179
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	167
Wildland fire ash enhances short-term CO2 flux from soil in a Southern African savannah	163
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	156
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	146
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	143
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	137
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	135
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	131
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	129
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	126
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	123
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	120
Spatially-distributed microbial enzyme activities at intact, coated macropore surfaces in Luvisol Bt-horizons	119
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	118
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	117
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	115
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	114
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	111
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	111

Editorial Board	111
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	111
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	110
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	109
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	108
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	103
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	100
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	99
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	96
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	95
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	95
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	93
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	93
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	92
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	88
Soil macrofauna: Study problems and perspectives	88
VNIR and MIR spectroscopy of PLFA-derived soil microbial properties and associated soil physicochemical characteristics in an experimental plant diversity gradient	87
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	87
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	85
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	83
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	82
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	82
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	81
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	81
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	81
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	79
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	79
Aggregate fractions shaped molecular composition change of soil organic matter in a rice paddy under elevated CO2 and air warming	78
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	78
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	78
Tidal rewetting in salt marshes triggers pulses of nitrous oxide emissions but slows carbon dioxide emission	77
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	76
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	75
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	75
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic	74
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	74
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	74
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	74
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores	73
Plant-microbe interactions in response to grassland herbivory and nitrogen eutrophication	72
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	72
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model	72
Climate change drivers alter root controls over litter decomposition in a semi-arid grassland	71
Root-o-Mat: A novel tool for 2D image processing of root-soil interactions and its application in soil zymography	71
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	69