OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 28. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Low nocturnal temperature changed protected tomato soil bacterial community composition and metabolite characteristics	96
Synergistic biogas slurry–wood vinegar application accelerates cotton stalk degradation in saline soil by modulating bacterial network complexity and organic acid metabolism	58
Manure distribution interacts with soil moisture and nitrate availability in controlling soil N2O emissions	53
Responses of bacterial community composition and diversity to multi-level nitrogen addition at different periods of growing season driven by conditional rare taxa in an alpine meadow	53
How arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant nitrogen acquisition under drought	51
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	51
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	50
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	50
Dual-functional Bacillus amyloliquefaciens mediates autotoxin degradation and pathogen suppression in monocropped foxtail millet	49
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	46
Root organic acid exudation mediates rhizosphere bacteria dynamics during drought–rehydration in Broussonetia papyrifera	45
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	44
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	43
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	40
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	39
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	38
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	38
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	38
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus	35
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss	34
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with contrasting life-history strategies differently affect health-promoting compounds in field-grown tomato by changing arbuscule occurrence and mycorrhizal assemblages i	34
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	33
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	32
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	31
Rhizosphere-competent actinobacteria with ACC deaminase activity mitigate heavy metal stress in corn (Zea mays)	30

The rhizosphere exhibits higher microbial carbon use efficiency compared to bulk soil	30
Dynamic modulation of rhizosphere microbial diversity and function across tobacco growth stages by biochar	30
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	29
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	28
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	28
Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools	28