OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 24. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress	125
Estimation of baseline levels of bacterial community tolerance to Cr, Ni, Pb, and Zn in unpolluted soils, a background for PICT (pollution-induced community tolerance) determination	61
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	58
The priming effect dynamics are driven by microbial activation and growth and constrained by the relative availability of input C and soil N	54
Inhibitory effect of high nitrate on N2O reduction is offset by long moist spells in heavily N loaded arable soils	47
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports	41
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	41
Temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration of soils amended with pine and oak litters is affected by tree growing CO2	41
Cover crops offset recalcitrant soil organic carbon losses under plastic-film mulching by altering microbial functional genes	39
Biochar application reduces residual napropamide in the rhizosphere and improves soil microbial diversity	38
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	36
Biochar amendment increases the abundance and alters the community composition of diazotrophs in a double rice cropping system	34
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	34
Correction to: Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	32
Plant sexual variation modulates rhizospheric nutrient processes through the soil microbiome response to drought and rewetting in Populus cathayana	30
The active role of comammox Nitrospira in nitrification in acidic orchard soils revealed by DNA-SIP	30
Interaction between water, crop residue and fertilization management on the source-differentiated nitrogen uptake by rice	29
A new incubation system to simultaneously measure N2 as well as N2O and CO2 fluxes from plant-soil mesocosms	27
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	27
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	26
Time between two partial rewetting events influences the respiration flush and microbial growth after the final rewetting	26
Simulated heat wave events increase CO2 and N2O emissions from cropland and forest soils in an incubation experiment	26
Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions after abandonment of agriculture	25
Amplitude and frequency of wetting and drying cycles drive N2 and N2O emissions from a subtropical pasture	24
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	24

Climate warming in an alpine meadow: differential responses of soil faunal vs. microbial effects on litter decomposition	24
Use of untargeted metabolomics to analyse changes in extractable soil organic matter in response to long-term fertilisation	24