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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Microsites support microbial sulfate reduction in upland soils	432
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	266
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	265
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	245
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	237
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	237
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	216
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	195
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	180
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	180
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	176
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	168
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	168
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	161
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	160
Microbial lifestyles driven by C: N stoichiometric imbalance govern responses of carbon metabolism to nitrogen addition	160
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	156
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	151
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	145
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization	142
Editorial Board	132
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	130
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	130
Soil compartment-specific bacterial communities and nitrogen cycling responses to warming magnitude in subarctic grasslands with contrasting thermal histories	130
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	130

Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine	129
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	128
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	126
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	124
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	117
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	117
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	117
Theoretical approach to calculate carbon use efficiency of cellulose turnover in soil systems, exemplified at calorespirometric data from artificial soil under various environmental conditions	116
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	110
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality	108
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	108
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	107
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	105
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	104
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	101
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	96
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	96
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	93
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	92
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	92
Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry	92
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	92
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	90
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	89
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	87
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	85
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	84
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	81
The efficacy of root exudate-driven mineral-associated organic matter destabilization is significantly altered by the presence of soil matrix	80
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	80
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	80
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	79
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	78
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	77
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	77
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	76
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire	75
Editorial Board	75
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	75
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	75
Soil pore heterogeneity mediates microbial response and recovery following an extreme wetting event across contrasting land uses	74
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	74
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	74
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	74
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	73
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	73
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	72
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	72
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	72