OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Soil Ecology is 45. 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
Organic fertilization improves activities of phosphomonoesters hydrolase in rhizosphere to facilitate phosphorus acquisition in cucumber and accumulates organic phosphorus in soil	225
Microbial community assembly elucidates differential biotic homogenization in soils caused by agricultural expansion in the Yangtze River estuary	224
Temperature mediates microbial multitrophic communities assembly and soil-borne fungal pathogens in coastal ecosystems	181
Editorial Board	170
Effects of controlled release potassium chloride application on rhizosphere bacterial community and metabolites under reduced irrigation volume	143
Editorial Board	116
Editorial Board	116
Enhancing the immobilization efficiency of mercapto-palygorskite on soil Cd through earthworm addition: Cd fractions, soil aggregates, and bacterial community	114
Bacterial diversity loss weakens community functional stability	101
Rhizospheric microbial community in plant species from the Phaseolus genus	98
Do neighbours matter? Soil mycobiome and mycorrhizal colonization of Ulmus laevis seedlings grown in the vicinity of arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal trees	97
Co-existence of Glomus versiforme and nitrile butadiene rubber has an antagonistic effect on soil greenhouse gas emissions	90
Effect of salt-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation on soil bacterial community and ecological function groups in coastal saline land	78
Soil microbiota resilience in a two-decade long-term experiment comparing an organic and a conventional cropping system	78
Tree growth is linked to the diversity of belowground fungal functional guilds across nine Chinese fir plantations in subtropics	78
Influence of distillery sewage sludge application placement methods on microbial community functions in sorghum rhizosphere: Focus on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling	78
Organic matter inputs and earthworm inoculation enhance C storage in tropical soils following application of the FBO technology	76
Potential effect of biogas slurry application to mitigate of peak N2O emission without compromising crop yield in North China Plain cropping systems	73
One-time application of struvites, ashes and superphosphate had no major impact on the microbial phosphorus mobilization capabilities over 15-months in a grassland field trial	72
Effects of anthropogenic activities on soil microbial community structure and methane anaerobic oxidation rate in coastal wetlands of Yellow River Delta, China	69
Deep-rooted winter wheat cover crop promotes subsoil organic carbon storage through improved microbial functional traits	69
Experimental warming in boreal peatlands alters oribatid mite community composition and body size through peat drying	67
Bacillus velezensis HAB-2 enhances rubber tree seedling growth and induces resistance to foliar diseases	66
Composition and activity of soil microbial communities in native and non-native vegetation of southern California	65
Fungal-based soil food webs, not local plant nor abiotic properties, are most affected by rhizome-derived secondary metabolites of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica)	61

Topographic patterns of soil traits and macro fauna in oriental beech forests in Iran	61
Comparison of Lycium barbarum and Chenopodium glaucum litter decomposition reveals differential impacts on fusarium abundance and microbial community structure under field conditions	61
Cessation of manure application diminishes the dissemination potential of antibiotic resistance genes by altering bacterial interaction patterns in soil–lettuce systems	60
Niche differentiation shapes the community assembly of fungi associated with evergreen trees in the Horqin desert	60
Straw-mediated CH4 production via distinct methanogenic pathways in two paddy soils	59
Earthworms increase soil carbon dioxide emissions through changing microbial community structure and activity under high nitrogen addition	59
Winter cover crops alter nematode community composition and soil health dynamics in corn-soybean systems	59
Unveiling changes in the rhizosphere bacteriome of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inbred lines linked to their resistance to the soil borne pathogen Verticillium dahliae Kleb	58
Soil sodicity affected the arbuscular mycorrhizal community and its interactions with bacteria in the Western Songnen Plain	57
Effects of allelochemical 4-vinyl guaiacol and pathogen co-treatment on the physiological characteristics and soil microbial community structure in the Lanzhou lily	57
Organic carbon negatively affects the diversity of soil nitrous oxide reducers in Chinese fir plantations at a regional scale	56
Functional diversity and behavioral changes of microbial communities under salt affected soils	55
Interaction effects and legacy effects of multiple environmental stressors on rice growth and the rhizosphere microbiome	53
Combined pot experiments and subsequent DNA-SIP incubations reveal a core microbiota involved in modulating crop nitrogen uptake derived from soil	53
Niche-conserved bacterial consortia enhanced maize agro-physiological performance and soil biological P-related traits under low-P conditions	51
Elevated CO2 alters aggregate‑carbon and microbial community but does not affect total soil organic C in the semi-arid tropics	50
Confounding effects of bioturbation on the bait-lamina test: Mitigating the “terrible table manners” of earthworms	48
Deciphering the mechanisms through which arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis reduces nitrogen losses in agroecosystems	47
Adding ligneous litter to cultivated organic soil changes the soil micro-food web and alters soil nitrogen availability	47
Returning farmland to forests and grasslands promotes soil quality restoration in Northeast China: Evidence from soil nitrogen cycle	46
Impact of organic amendments on carbon stability and carbon use efficiency in acidic and alkaline soils	45
Comammox Nitrospira and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are metabolically active in a subtropical estuarine wetland	45
Distinct interaction between management history and nitrogen source drive microbial nitrogen processes in soil	45