OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition is 31. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Potassium-Nitrogen Ratio Improved Cotton Yield by Regulating Antioxidant Metabolism Under a New Cropping Model for the Yangtze River Valley of China	101
Phosphorus Fertigation Conferred Lodging Tolerance and Improved Grain Quality in Chenopodium quinoa via Enhanced Root Proliferation and Stalk Strength	79
Does Saline Water Irrigation Influence Soil Carbon Pools and Nutrient Distribution in Soil under Seed Spices?	78
Root Proliferation into Patches of Different Nitrogen forms: A 17-Plant Species Study	73
The Impact of Lignite and Wheat Straw Biochar Application on Structural Traits of Pot-Grown Nitraria Schoberi L. and Soil Properties	73
Citric Acid Effect on the Abundance, Size and Composition of Water-Dispersible Soil Colloids and Its Relationship to Soil Phosphorus Desorption: A Case Study	68
Silicate Fertilization in Sugarcane: Silicon Availability, Uptake, and Recovery Index Over Two Consecutive Cycles	61
Superabsorbent Polymer Reduces β-ODAP Content in Grass Pea by Improving Soil Water Status and Plant Drought Tolerance	58
Bioaugmentation of a Biobed Packing Material with an iprodione-degrading Bacterial Consortium Enhances the Dissipation of Iprodione and Mitigates Adverse Effects on the Microbiota	57
Rubber Plantation Age Affects Soil Aggregate Stability, Organic Carbon, and Nitrogen Distribution in Hainan Island, China	55
The Effects of Sterilisation on Abiotic Soil Properties and the Challenge this Poses to Untangling the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Soil Variables on Plant Growth	55
Growth and Transcriptional Regulation of Camellia sinensis Planted in Understory Mode Revealed by Transcriptomic, Metagenomic, and Machine-Vision Analyses	53
Minimizing Phosphorus Mining through Optimum Phosphorus Fertilization in Maize	52
Unveiling into Genetic Architecture of Transgenerational Stress Memory via Promoting Drought Tolerance in Barley	52
Seasonal Dynamic of NO3− and K+ in a Citrus Crop Irrigated by Different Water Qualities	50
Botanicals as Phyto-nematicides Against Root-knot Disease Caused by the Root-knot Nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) via Promoting growth, Yield, and Biochemical Performance of Cabbage Crop	47
Impact of Thirty-Four Years of Fertilization and Manuring on Soil Nutrients Availability, Yield and Quality of Crops in Indo-Gangetic Plains	44
Role of Silicon in Counteracting Cadmium Stress in Pea Plants (Pisum sativum L.): Insights Into Cadmium Binding Mechanisms and Pectin Methylesterase Activity	44
Soil Total Nitrogen Mediated the Impact of Climatic Factors on Urban Soil Organic Matter Under Different Land Uses	43
Mixing with Schima Superba Enhanced Soil Fertility and Simplified Soil Microbial Community of Eucalyptus Urophylla Forests	42
Soil Carbon Fractions under Vetiver Grass in Australia and Ethiopia Relative to other Land Uses	41
Mangrove (Avicennia marina) Conservation Contributed to a Higher Carbon Sequestration Rate at Protected Sites Compared to Overgrazed Mangrove Forests	40
Raised Bed Planting Pattern Improves Root Growth and Nitrogen use Efficiency of Post-Rice Wheat	36
Nitrogen Acquisition and Allocation Traits in Peanuts with Different Nodulation Efficiency Revealed by the 15N Tracer Analysis	36
Natural Enrichment Patterns and Mechanisms of Heavy Metals in Mid-Holocene Soils of the Southern Loess Plateau	35

Enhancing Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) Resilience: Exploring Salicylic Acid’s Ameliorative Effects under Varied Planting Dates	33
The Application of Orychophragmus violaceus as a Green Manure Relieves Continuous Cropping Obstacles in Peanut Cultivation by Altering the Soil Microbial Community and Functional Gene Abundance	33
Assessing the Impact of Sewage Sludge-Chinese Medicinal Herbal Residues-Biochar Amendment on Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil-Plant Systems	32
Topography Variations Alter the Nitrogen Utilization Strategies of Two Dominant Plant Species in an Alpine Steppe	32
Screening of Potential Legume to be Used as Green Manure in Tropical Areas of Mexico	31
Modification of starch content and its management strategies in plants in response to drought and salinity: current status and future prospects	31
Bentonite Mitigates the Adverse Effects of Drought Stress in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.)	31
Comparative Analysis of Soil Respiration Dynamics and Heterotrophic Respiration Sensitivity to Warming in a Subalpine Coniferous Forest and a Subtropical Evergreen Broadleaf Forest in Southwest China	31