OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 27. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Everything you must know about Azospirillum and its impact on agriculture and beyond	137
C:N:P stoichiometry regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and concomitant shifts in microbial community composition in paddy soil	111
Phospholipid fatty acids in soil—drawbacks and future prospects	81
Diversity and co-occurrence network modularization of bacterial communities determine soil fertility and crop yields in arid fertigation agroecosystems	49
Long-term manuring increases microbial carbon use efficiency and mitigates priming effect via alleviated soil acidification and resource limitation	45
Divergent mineralization of hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic substrates and their priming effect in soils depending on their preferential utilization by bacteria and fungi	38
Polyamine-producing actinobacteria enhance biomass production and seed yield in Salicornia bigelovii	38
Biological nitrification inhibition in maize—isolation and identification of hydrophobic inhibitors from root exudates	38
Microbial carbon-use efficiency and straw-induced priming effect within soil aggregates are regulated by tillage history and balanced nutrient supply	34
Nutrient recovery from anaerobic digestion of food waste: impacts of digestate on plant growth and rhizosphere bacterial community composition and potential function in ryegrass	34
Carbon investment into mobilization of mineral and organic phosphorus by arbuscular mycorrhiza	34
Greenhouse gas emissions and soil bacterial community as affected by biochar amendments after periodic mineral fertilizer applications	33
Depth distribution of soil organic matter and burrowing activity of earthworms—mesocosm study using X-ray tomography and luminophores	33
Rare microbial taxa rather than phoD gene abundance determine hotspots of alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity in the karst rhizosphere soil	32
Designing a multi-species inoculant of phosphate rock-solubilizing bacteria compatible with arbuscular mycorrhizae for plant growth promotion in low-P soil amended with PR	32
Effects of drying/rewetting on soil aggregate dynamics and implications for organic matter turnover	31
Reduced nitrification by biochar and/or nitrification inhibitor is closely linked with the abundance of comammox Nitrospira in a highly acidic sugarcane soil	31
Catch crop diversity increases rhizosphere carbon input and soil microbial biomass	30
Wheat straw and its biochar differently affect soil properties and field-based greenhouse gas emission in a Chernozemic soil	30
Biochar co-application mitigated the stimulation of organic amendments on soil respiration by decreasing microbial activities in an infertile soil	29
Plant growth–promoting bacteria improve maize growth through reshaping the rhizobacterial community in low-nitrogen and low-phosphorus soil	29
Revisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures	29
Application of N2-fixing Paenibacillus triticisoli BJ-18 changes the compositions and functions of the bacterial, diazotrophic, and fungal microbiomes in the rhizosphere and root/shoot endosphere of w	28
Disclosure of exact protocols of fermentation, identity of microorganisms within consortia, formation of advanced consortia with microbe-based products	28
Hyphosphere microbiome of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a realm of unknowns	27

Soil microbial biomass phosphorus can serve as an index to reflect soil phosphorus fertility	27
Litter-inhabiting fungi show high level of specialization towards biopolymers composing plant and fungal biomass	27