OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pedosphere is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toxicity of cadmium and its competition with mineral nutrients for uptake by plants: A review	229
Biodiversity, current developments and potential biotechnological applications of phosphorus-solubilizing and -mobilizing microbes: A review	113
Transport of cadmium from soil to grain in cereal crops: A review	97
Environmental risks for application of iron and steel slags in soils in China: A review	74
Are humic substances soil microbial residues or unique synthesized compounds? A perspective on their distinctiveness	70
Advances in fungal-assisted phytoremediation of heavy metals: A review	69
Strategies to mitigate the adverse effect of drought stress on crop plants—influences of soil bacteria: A review	68
An overview on biochar production, its implications, and mechanisms of biochar-induced amelioration of soil and plant characteristics	67
Hydrogen cyanide production by soil bacteria: Biological control of pests and promotion of plant growth in sustainable agriculture	61
Impact of a biochar or a biochar-compost mixture on water relation, nutrient uptake and photosynthesis of Phragmites karka	60
Contribution of microbial phytases to the improvement of plant growth and nutrition: A review	56
Potential of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria-plant interactions in mitigating salt stress for sustainable agriculture: A review	55
Effects of long-term fertilizer applications on peanut yield and quality and plant and soil heavy metal accumulation	53
Optimization and modeling of glyphosate biodegradation by a novel Comamonas odontotermitis P2 through response surface methodology	53
Co-incorporation of rice straw and leguminous green manure can increase soil available nitrogen (N) and reduce carbon and N losses: An incubation study	49
Human and ecological risks of metals in soils under different land-use types in an urban environment of Bangladesh	48
Short-term effects of biochar and gypsum on soil hydraulic properties and sodicity in a saline-alkali soil	45
Actinobacteria-enhanced plant growth, nutrient acquisition, and crop protection: Advances in soil, plant, and microbial multifactorial interactions	44
A review of cadmium sorption mechanisms on soil mineral surfaces revealed from synchrotron-based X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy: Implications for soil remediation	41
Efficiency of KOH-modified rice straw-derived biochar for reducing cadmium mobility, bioaccessibility and bioavailability risk index in red soil	40
Effects of long-term fertilization with different substitution ratios of organic fertilizer on paddy soil	39
Synthesis of an eco-friendly nanocomposite fertilizer for common bean based on carbon nanoparticles from agricultural waste biochar	39
Microplastics in soil: Impacts and microbial diversity and degradation	35
Rhizosphere microbiomes can regulate plant drought tolerance	32
Responses of soil microbial communities and functions associated with organic carbon mineralization to nitrogen addition in a Tibetan grassland	31

Bacterial communities in paddy soils changed by milk vetch as green manure: A study conducted across six provinces in South China	31
Long-time precipitation reduction and nitrogen deposition increase alter soil nitrogen dynamic by influencing soil bacterial communities and functional groups	30
Nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with biochar-manure mixtures	28
Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on the molecular responses of maize under drought and heat stresses: A review	28
Soil phosphorus availability and rice phosphorus uptake in paddy fields under various agronomic practices	28
Biosurfactant-assisted phytoremediation of potentially toxic elements in soil: Green technology for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	28
Potassium sources, microorganisms and plant nutrition: Challenges and future research directions	27
Phosphorus release from vivianite and hydroxyapatite by organic and inorganic compounds	26
Intercropping of Sonchus asper and Vicia faba affects plant cadmium accumulation and root responses	26
Effect of sewage sludge and sugarcane bagasse biochar on soil properties and sugar beet production	25
Effect of environmental C/N ratio on activities of lignin-degrading enzymes produced by Phanerochaete chrysosporium	25
Silicon-mediated genotoxic alterations in Brassica juncea under arsenic stress: A comparative study of biochemical and molecular markers	25
Soil protists: An untapped microbial resource of agriculture and environmental importance	24
Accumulation and potential sources of heavy metals in soils of the Hetao area, Inner Mongolia, China	24
Plant- and microbe-assisted biochar amendment technology for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation in saline-sodic soils: A review	23
Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil amendments to remediation of a heavy metal-contaminated soil using sweet sorghum	23
Adsorption of emerging sodium p-perfluorous nonenoxybenzene sulfonate (OBS) onto soils: Kinetics, isotherms and mechanisms	22
Diversity and versatile functions of metallothioneins produced by plants: A review	22
Interactive effects of elevation and land use on soil bacterial communities in the Tibetan Plateau	21
Multi-scale processes influencing global carbon storage and land-carbon-climate nexus: A critical review	20
Increased phosphorus availability to corn resulting from the simultaneous applications of phosphate rock, calcareous rock, and biochar to an acid sandy soil	20
Effect of biochar applied with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on soil microbial community composition and nitrogen utilization in tomato	20
Long-term fertilization and residue return affect soil stoichiometry characteristics and labile soil organic matter fractions	20
Effect of organic amendment amount on soil nematode community structure and metabolic footprints in soybean phase of a soybean-maize rotation on Mollisols	20
Co-inoculation of indigenous Pseudomonas oryzihabitans and Bradyrhizobium sp. modulates the growth, symbiotic efficacy, nutrient acquisition, and grain yield of soybean	20
Decreased nitrous oxide emissions associated with functional microbial genes under bio-organic fertilizer application in vegetable fields	19
Autochthonous halotolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria promote bacoside A yield of Bacopa monnieri (L.) Nash and phytoextraction of salt-affected soil	19
A review on phorate persistence, toxicity and remediation by bacterial communities	19
Effects of the nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin and the plant growth regulator gibberellic acid on yield-scale nitrous oxide emission in maize fields under hot climatic conditions	18
Humic substances: Structure, function and benefits for agroecosystems—a review	18
Seed priming with Pseudomonas putida isolated from rhizosphere triggers innate resistance against Fusarium wilt in tomato through pathogenesis-related protein activation and phenylpropanoid pathway	18
How do greenhouse gas emissions vary with biofertilizer type and soil temperature and moisture in a tropical grassland?	18
Simulating soil erodibility in southeastern China using a sequential Gaussian algorithm	18
Earthworm biomass and population structure are negatively associated with changes in organic residue nitrogen concentration during vermicomposting	17
Responses of soil nematode community to monoculture or mixed culture of a grass and a legume forage species in China	17
Earthworm regulation of nitrogen pools and dynamics and marker genes of nitrogen cycling: A meta-analysis	17
Soil particle size range correction for improved calibration relationship between the laser-diffraction method and sieve-pipette method	17
Determining the optimum range of soil Olsen P for high P use efficiency, crop yield, and soil fertility in three typical cropland soils	17
Combined effects of soil texture and machine operating trail gradient on changes in forest soil physical properties during ground-based skidding	17
Impacts of silver nanoparticles on enzymatic activities, nitrifying bacteria, and nitrogen transformation in soil amended with ammonium and nitrate	17
Rice straw recycling: A sustainable approach for ensuring environmental quality and economic security	17
Priming effect and its regulating factors for fast and slow soil organic carbon pools: A meta-analysis	16
Halophile plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria induce salt tolerance traits in wheat seedlings (Triticum aestivum L.)	16
Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition varies with biochar application and soil type	16
Soil organic carbon and phosphorus availability regulate abundance of culturable phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in paddy fields	16
Partial organic fertilizer substitution promotes soil multifunctionality by increasing microbial community diversity and complexity	16
Effects of substituting chemical fertilizers with manure on rice yield and soil labile nitrogen in paddy fields of China: A meta-analysis	15
Comparison of potential potassium leaching associated with organic and inorganic potassium sources in different arable soils in China	14
Information extraction and dynamic evaluation of soil salinization with a remote sensing method in a typical county on the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China	14
Impacts of wetting-drying cycles on short-term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in Amynthas earthworm casts	14

Soil properties, grassland management, and landscape diversity drive the assembly of earthworm communities in temperate grasslands	14
Soil aggregation and aggregate-associated organic carbon under typical natural halophyte communities in arid saline areas of Northwest China	14
Downed logs improve soil properties in old-growth temperate forests of northern Iran	14
Effect of soil pore size distribution on plant-available water and least limiting water range as soil physical quality indicators	14
Recent advances in the chemistry of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizers in soil: A review	14
Agronomic evaluation of Herbaspirillum seropedicae strain ZAE94 as an inoculant to improve maize yield in Brazil	14
Effects of the nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin and tillage practices on yield-scaled nitrous oxide emission from a maize field in Iran	14
Impact of living mulch on soil C:N:P stoichiometry in orchards across China: A meta-analysis examining climatic, edaphic, and biotic dependency	14
Enhanced N2O emission rate in field soil undergoing conventional intensive fertilization is attributed to the shifts of denitrifying guilds	13
Yield-scaled nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen-fertilized croplands in China: A meta-analysis of contrasting mitigation scenarios	13
Microbial remediation of a pentachloronitrobenzene-contaminated soil under Panax notoginseng: A field experiment	13
Air-drying changes the distribution of Hedley phosphorus pools in forest soils	13
Sensitivity analysis of the SWAP (Soil-Water-Atmosphere-Plant) model under different nitrogen applications and root distributions in saline soils	13
Elevated carbon dioxide stimulates nitrous oxide emission in agricultural soils: A global meta-analysis	13
Effectiveness of plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Pantoea sp. BRM17 in enhancing canola growth on phosphogypsum-amended soil	12
Impacts of land use and salinization on soil inorganic and organic carbon in the middle-lower Yellow River Delta	12
Rice productivity and profitability with slow-release urea containing organic-inorganic matrix materials	12
Modelling soil erodibility in mountain rangelands of southern Kyrgyzstan	12
Estimating rice paddy areas in China using multi-temporal cloud-free normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) imagery based on change detection	12
Characterization of extracellular phosphatase activities in periphytic biofilm from paddy field	12
Difficult-to-culture bacteria in the rhizosphere: The underexplored signature microbial groups	12
Distribution characteristics and diversities of cbb and coxL genes in paddy soil profiles from southern China	11
Optimizing the use of open chambers to measure ammonia volatilization in field plots amended with urea	11
Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization levels on photosynthesized carbon allocation in a temperate spring wheat and soil system	11
Short-term biochar effect on soil physicochemical and microbiological properties of a degraded alpine grassland	11
A simple and easy method to measure ammonia volatilization: Accuracy under field conditions	11
Alkaline hydrolyzable nitrogen and properties that dictate its distribution in paddy soil profiles	11
Estimating soil ammonium adsorption using pedotransfer functions in an irrigation district of the North China Plain	11
Soil organic matter content and chemical composition under two rotation management systems in a Mediterranean climate	11
Effects of porous clay ceramic rates on aeration porosity characteristics in a structurally degraded soil under greenhouse vegetable production	11
Cropping leads to loss of soil organic matter: How can we prevent it?	11
Characteristics of greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddy fields in South Korea under climate change scenario RCP-8.5 using the DNDC model	10
Soil texture affects the conversion factor of electrical conductivity from 1:5 soil-water to saturated paste extracts	10
Root cell walls and phytochelatins in low-cadmium cultivar of Brassica parachinensis	10
Driving factors of soluble organic nitrogen dynamics in paddy soils: Structure equation modeling analysis	10
Combined application of a straw layer and flue gas desulphurization gypsum to reduce soil salinity and alkalinity	10
Effectiveness of dicyandiamide as a nitrification inhibitor in biochar-amended soil	10
Effect of calcium silicate on nutrient use of lowland rice and greenhouse gas emission from a paddy soil under alternating wetting and drying	10
Phosphorus accumulation and leaching risk of greenhouse vegetable soils in Southeast China	10
Chemical oxidation of arsenic in the environment and its application in remediation: A mini review	10
Stabilization of chromium(VI) by hydroxysulfate green rust in chromium(VI)-contaminated soils	10
Arabidopsis under ammonium over-supply: Characteristics of ammonium toxicity in relation to the activity of ammonium transporters	10
Effects of different continuous fertilizer managements on soil total nitrogen stocks in China: A meta-analysis	10
Soil property mapping by combining spatial distance information into the Soil Land Inference Model (SoLIM)	10
Effects of deep placement of fertilizer on periphytic biofilm development and nitrogen cycling in paddy systems	10
Soil chronosequence and biosequence on old lake sediments of the Burdur Lake in Turkey	10