OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pedosphere 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Biodiversity, current developments and potential biotechnological applications of phosphorus-solubilizing and -mobilizing microbes: A review	149
Transport of cadmium from soil to grain in cereal crops: A review	120
An overview on biochar production, its implications, and mechanisms of biochar-induced amelioration of soil and plant characteristics	90
Environmental risks for application of iron and steel slags in soils in China: A review	89
Hydrogen cyanide production by soil bacteria: Biological control of pests and promotion of plant growth in sustainable agriculture	87
Strategies to mitigate the adverse effect of drought stress on crop plants—influences of soil bacteria: A review	87
Advances in fungal-assisted phytoremediation of heavy metals: A review	83
Potential of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria-plant interactions in mitigating salt stress for sustainable agriculture: A review	71
Actinobacteria-enhanced plant growth, nutrient acquisition, and crop protection: Advances in soil, plant, and microbial multifactorial interactions	70
Effects of long-term fertilization with different substitution ratios of organic fertilizer on paddy soil	57
Synthesis of an eco-friendly nanocomposite fertilizer for common bean based on carbon nanoparticles from agricultural waste biochar	49
A review of cadmium sorption mechanisms on soil mineral surfaces revealed from synchrotron-based X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy: Implications for soil remediation	48
Efficiency of KOH-modified rice straw-derived biochar for reducing cadmium mobility, bioaccessibility and bioavailability risk index in red soil	47
Microplastics in soil: Impacts and microbial diversity and degradation	44
Humic substances: Structure, function and benefits for agroecosystems—a review	44
Recent advances in the chemistry of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizers in soil: A review	42
Rhizosphere microbiomes can regulate plant drought tolerance	40
Bacterial communities in paddy soils changed by milk vetch as green manure: A study conducted across six provinces in South China	37
Potassium sources, microorganisms and plant nutrition: Challenges and future research directions	36
Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on the molecular responses of maize under drought and heat stresses: A review	35
Soil phosphorus availability and rice phosphorus uptake in paddy fields under various agronomic practices	34
Biosurfactant-assisted phytoremediation of potentially toxic elements in soil: Green technology for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	34
Effect of sewage sludge and sugarcane bagasse biochar on soil properties and sugar beet production	31
Multi-scale processes influencing global carbon storage and land-carbon-climate nexus: A critical review	31
Plant- and microbe-assisted biochar amendment technology for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation in saline-sodic soils: A review	30

Nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with biochar-manure mixtures	30
Soil protists: An untapped microbial resource of agriculture and environmental importance	29
Adsorption of emerging sodium p-perfluorous nonenoxybenzene sulfonate (OBS) onto soils: Kinetics, isotherms and mechanisms	28
Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil amendments to remediation of a heavy metal-contaminated soil using sweet sorghum	28