OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pedosphere is 29. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reclamation of oil-induced soil hydrophobicity in the hyper-arid Evrona Nature Reserve, southern Israel	167
Sustainable remediation of cadmium-contaminated soils: capture by Fe3O4/polyaniline and removal by magnetic separation	134
Brackish water irrigation-induced recruitment of specific consortium determines microbial resistance that facilitates crop yield in a field experiment	130
Complementary effect of zoo compost with mineral nitrogen fertilisation increases wheat yield and nutrition in a low-nutrient soil	129
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi regulate plant mineral nutrient uptake and partitioning in iron ore tailings undergoing eco-engineered pedogenesis	98
Effects of nanofertilizer and nano-plant hormone on soil chemical properties and microbial community in two different soil types	96
Research progress on synthetic pyrethroid biodegradation: Current status, pathways, mechanisms, and enzyme enhancement strategies	87
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from five contrasting rice production systems in the tropics	71
Integrated agronomic practice management decreases soil carbon emission and increases environmental ecological benefits of summer maize	61
A conceptual framework and an empirical test of complementarity and facilitation with respect to phosphorus uptake by plant species mixtures	58
Cropping leads to loss of soil organic matter: How can we prevent it?	57
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for salinity stress: Anti-stress role and mechanisms	53
Short-term biochar effect on soil physicochemical and microbiological properties of a degraded alpine grassland	53
Impacts of land use and salinization on soil inorganic and organic carbon in the middle-lower Yellow River Delta	51
Social insects behind the microgranular structure of Ferralsols: Consequences for their physical fertility when cultivated	50
Effect of lignite amendment on carbon and nitrogen mineralization from raw and composted manure during incubation with soil	48
Phosphorus cycling genes, enzyme activities and microbial communities shift based on green manure residues and soil environment	46
Wheat morphological and biochemical responses to copper oxide nanoparticles in two soils	45
Effects of substituting chemical fertilizers with manure on rice yield and soil labile nitrogen in paddy fields of China: A meta-analysis	43
Effect of sulfur fertilizers applied at agronomic rates on cadmium availability in agricultural soils: insights from a batch experiment	42
Reclamation and vegetation effects on labile and stable soil organic carbon fractions in spoil heaps of coal mining waste	41
Change of pore water near the freezing front during soil freezing: Migration and mechanisms	41
Structure, variation and assembly processes of bacterial communities in different root-associated niches of tomato under periodic drought and nitrogen addition	37
Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on soil water retention curve and tensile strength	37
Simulating soil erodibility in southeastern China using a sequential Gaussian algorithm	36

Straw return strengthened straw C assimilating bacterial diversity and interaction, especially in soil small macroaggregates and microaggregates	34
Effects of microtopographic modification on soil labile organic carbon fractions and enzyme activities in urban restored wetlands	33
Variability in pattern and hydrogen isotope composition (δ2H) of long-chain n-alkanes of surface soils and its relations to climate and vegetation characteristics: A meta-analysis	33
Pedotransfer functions for predicting bulk density of coastal soils in East China	31