OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 72. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	610
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	278
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	214
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	213
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	204
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	195
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	185
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	174
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	171
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	165
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	164
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	156
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	155
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	146
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	145
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	142
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	142
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	140
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	139
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	134
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	133
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	129
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	123
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	123
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	119

Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	112
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	111
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	109
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	105
Editorial Board	103
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	103
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	102
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	101
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	100
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	99
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	97
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	96
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	95
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	93
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	91
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	90
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	89
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	89
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	88
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	86
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	85
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	85
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	84
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	84
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	82
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	82
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	81
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	81
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	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
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	80
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	78
Addition of base cations increases microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass in acidic soils	78
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	78
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region	77
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources	77
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	76
Editorial Board	76
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	75
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	75
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	75
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	74
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	74
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model	74
Shedding light on the functional role of the Ignavibacteria in Italian rice field soil: A meta-genomic/transcriptomic analysis	73
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	73
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores	72