OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 70. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	400
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	298
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	267
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	242
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	239
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	236
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	225
Microsites support microbial sulfate reduction in upland soils	223
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	223
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	217
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	210
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	197
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	193
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization	190
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	176
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	168
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	159
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	158
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	153
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	152
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	150
Editorial Board	146
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	144
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	138
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	136

Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry	135
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	134
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	129
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	124
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	121
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	120
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	120
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine	117
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	113
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	112
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	111
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality	108
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	108
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	105
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	104
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	103
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	103
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	102
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	102
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	102
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	102
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	99
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	94
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	91
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	91
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	91
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	90
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	89
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	88
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	85
Editorial Board	84
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	84
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire	84
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	84
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	83
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	80
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	79
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils	74
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	73
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	72
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	72
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	71
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	71
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	71
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	70
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	70
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	70
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	70