OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pedosphere is 8. 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
Strategies to mitigate the adverse effect of drought stress on crop plants—influences of soil bacteria: A review	87
Hydrogen cyanide production by soil bacteria: Biological control of pests and promotion of plant growth in sustainable agriculture	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
Humic substances: Structure, function and benefits for agroecosystems—a review	44
Microplastics in soil: Impacts and microbial diversity and degradation	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
Biosurfactant-assisted phytoremediation of potentially toxic elements in soil: Green technology for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	34
Soil phosphorus availability and rice phosphorus uptake in paddy fields under various agronomic practices	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
Nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with biochar-manure mixtures	30

Plant- and microbe-assisted biochar amendment technology for petroleum hydrocarbon remediation in saline-sodic soils: A review	30
Soil protists: An untapped microbial resource of agriculture and environmental importance	29
Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil amendments to remediation of a heavy metal-contaminated soil using sweet sorghum	28
Adsorption of emerging sodium p-perfluorous nonenoxybenzene sulfonate (OBS) onto soils: Kinetics, isotherms and mechanisms	28
Partial organic fertilizer substitution promotes soil multifunctionality by increasing microbial community diversity and complexity	27
Effect of biochar applied with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on soil microbial community composition and nitrogen utilization in tomato	26
Rice straw recycling: A sustainable approach for ensuring environmental quality and economic security	25
Articulating beneficial rhizobacteria-mediated plant defenses through induced systemic resistance: A review	24
A review on phorate persistence, toxicity and remediation by bacterial communities	24
Co-inoculation of indigenous Pseudomonas oryzihabitans and Bradyrhizobium sp. modulates the growth, symbiotic efficacy, nutrient acquisition, and grain yield of soybean	24
Determining the optimum range of soil Olsen P for high P use efficiency, crop yield, and soil fertility in three typical cropland soils	24
Increased phosphorus availability to corn resulting from the simultaneous applications of phosphate rock, calcareous rock, and biochar to an acid sandy soil	22
Earthworm biomass and population structure are negatively associated with changes in organic residue nitrogen concentration during vermicomposting	22
Soil properties, grassland management, and landscape diversity drive the assembly of earthworm communities in temperate grasslands	21
Interactive effects of elevation and land use on soil bacterial communities in the Tibetan Plateau	21
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	21
Effects of substituting chemical fertilizers with manure on rice yield and soil labile nitrogen in paddy fields of China: A meta-analysis	21
Decreased nitrous oxide emissions associated with functional microbial genes under bio-organic fertilizer application in vegetable fields	21
Earthworm regulation of nitrogen pools and dynamics and marker genes of nitrogen cycling: A meta-analysis	19
Simulating soil erodibility in southeastern China using a sequential Gaussian algorithm	19
Priming effect and its regulating factors for fast and slow soil organic carbon pools: A meta-analysis	18
Impacts of silver nanoparticles on enzymatic activities, nitrifying bacteria, and nitrogen transformation in soil amended with ammonium and nitrate	18
Yield-scaled nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen-fertilized croplands in China: A meta-analysis of contrasting mitigation scenarios	18
Responses of soil nematode community to monoculture or mixed culture of a grass and a legume forage species in China	18
Chemical oxidation of arsenic in the environment and its application in remediation: A mini review	18
Difficult-to-culture bacteria in the rhizosphere: The underexplored signature microbial groups	17
Improvement of phosphorus uptake, phosphorus use efficiency, and grain yield of upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to phosphate-solubilizing bacteria blended with phosphorus fertilizer	17
Soil particle size range correction for improved calibration relationship between the laser-diffraction method and sieve-pipette method	17
Role of beneficial microbial gene pool in mitigating salt/nutrient stress of plants in saline soils through underground phytostimulating signalling molecules	16
Comparison of potential potassium leaching associated with organic and inorganic potassium sources in different arable soils in China	16
Sensitivity analysis of the SWAP (Soil-Water-Atmosphere-Plant) model under different nitrogen applications and root distributions in saline soils	15
Characterization of extracellular phosphatase activities in periphytic biofilm from paddy field	15
Impacts of wetting-drying cycles on short-term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in Amynthas earthworm casts	15
Effects of soil amendments, foliar sprayings of silicon and selenium and their combinations on the reduction of cadmium accumulation in rice	15
Effects of deep placement of fertilizer on periphytic biofilm development and nitrogen cycling in paddy systems	15
Effects of the nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin and tillage practices on yield-scaled nitrous oxide emission from a maize field in Iran	15
Soil texture affects the conversion factor of electrical conductivity from 1:5 soil-water to saturated paste extracts	15
Elevated carbon dioxide stimulates nitrous oxide emission in agricultural soils: A global meta-analysis	15
Agronomic evaluation of Herbaspirillum seropedicae strain ZAE94 as an inoculant to improve maize yield in Brazil	14
Magnesium-fortified phosphate fertilizers improve nutrient uptake and plant growth without reducing phosphorus availability	14
Effects of different continuous fertilizer managements on soil total nitrogen stocks in China: A meta-analysis	14
Sorption and desorption characteristics of sulfamethazine in three different soils before and after removal of organic matter	14
Enhanced N2O emission rate in field soil undergoing conventional intensive fertilization is attributed to the shifts of denitrifying guilds	14
Silicon and plant nutrition—dynamics, mechanisms of transport and role of silicon solubilizer microbiomes in sustainable agriculture: A review	14
Cropping leads to loss of soil organic matter: How can we prevent it?	14
A simple and easy method to measure ammonia volatilization: Accuracy under field conditions	13
Impacts of land use and salinization on soil inorganic and organic carbon in the middle-lower Yellow River Delta	13
Rice productivity and profitability with slow-release urea containing organic-inorganic matrix materials	13
Effect of long-term fertilization on bacterial communities in wheat endosphere	13
Effects of porous clay ceramic rates on aeration porosity characteristics in a structurally degraded soil under greenhouse vegetable production	13

Methanotrophy-driven accumulation of organic carbon in four paddy soils of Bangladesh	12
Estimating soil ammonium adsorption using pedotransfer functions in an irrigation district of the North China Plain	12
Advancement of noble metallic nanoparticles in agriculture: A promising future	12
Soil property mapping by combining spatial distance information into the Soil Land Inference Model (SoLIM)	12
Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization levels on photosynthesized carbon allocation in a temperate spring wheat and soil system	12
Short-term biochar effect on soil physicochemical and microbiological properties of a degraded alpine grassland	12
Distribution characteristics and diversities of cbb and coxL genes in paddy soil profiles from southern China	12
Prospecting microbial biofilms as climate smart strategies for improving plant and soil health: A review	12
Phosphorus accumulation and leaching risk of greenhouse vegetable soils in Southeast China	12
Effects of silver nanoparticle size, concentration and coating on soil quality as indicated by arylsulfatase and sulfite oxidase activities	12
Integrated rice management simultaneously improves rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency in various paddy fields	12
Long-term manure application increased soil organic carbon and nitrogen mineralization through accumulation of unprotected and physically protected carbon fractions	12
Effects of warming, wetting and nitrogen addition on substrate-induced respiration and temperature sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration in a temperate forest soil	12
Optimizing the use of open chambers to measure ammonia volatilization in field plots amended with urea	11
Driving factors of soluble organic nitrogen dynamics in paddy soils: Structure equation modeling analysis	11
Stabilization of chromium(VI) by hydroxysulfate green rust in chromium(VI)-contaminated soils	11
Soil organic matter content and chemical composition under two rotation management systems in a Mediterranean climate	11
Reduced tillage with residue retention improves soil labile carbon pools and carbon lability and management indices in a seven-year trial with wheat-mung bean-rice rotation	11
Using pXRF and vis-NIR spectra for predicting properties of soils developed in loess	11
Estimating rice paddy areas in China using multi-temporal cloud-free normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) imagery based on change detection	11
Molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to acid soils: A review	11
In situ stabilization of arsenic in soil with organoclay, organozeolite, birnessite, goethite and lanthanum-doped magnetic biochar	11
Characteristics of greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddy fields in South Korea under climate change scenario RCP-8.5 using the DNDC model	11
Optimization of nitrogen fertilizer rate under integrated rice management in a hilly area of Southwest China	10
Carbon and water footprints of major crop production in India	10
Soil chronosequence and biosequence on old lake sediments of the Burdur Lake in Turkey	10
Biochar for future and futuristic biochar	10
Carbon potentials of different biochars derived from municipal solid waste in a saline soil	10
Root exclusion methods for partitioning of soil respiration: Review and methodological considerations	10
Impact of drilling waste pollution on land cover in a high subarctic forest-tundra zone	10
Specific ion effect of H+ on variably charged soil colloid aggregation	10
Elevated atmospheric CO2 reduces CH4 and N2O emissions under two contrasting rice cultivars from a subtropical paddy field in China	10
Insight into modified biochars and their immobilizing effects on heavy metal(loid)s in contaminated soils: Mechanisms and influencing factors	10
Role of methylotrophic bacteria in managing abiotic stresses for enhancing agricultural production	10
Nitrogen fertilization degrades soil aggregation by increasing ammonium ions and decreasing biological binding agents on a Vertisol after 12 years	9
Low soil C:N ratio results in accumulation and leaching of nitrite and nitrate in agricultural soils under heavy rainfall	9
Hand-feel soil texture observations to evaluate the accuracy of digital soil maps for local prediction of soil particle size distribution: A case study in Central France	9
Assessment of compost and three biochars associated with Ailanthus altissima (Miller) Swingle for lead and arsenic stabilization in a post-mining Technosol	9
Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from croplands and pasturelands — climate-smart agriculture	9
Phenotypic variations of wheat cultivars from the North China Plain in response to cadmium stress and associated single nucleotide polymorphisms identified by a genome-wide association study	9
Earthworm contributions to soil nitrogen supply in corn-soybean agroecosystems in Quebec, Canada	9
Earthworm populations are stable in temperate agricultural soils receiving wood-based biochar	9
Effects of global change and human disturbance on soil carbon cycling in boreal forest: A review	9
Fertilization practices affect biological nitrogen fixation by modulating diazotrophic communities in an acidic soil in southern China	9
Behavior and respiration responses of the earthworm Eisenia fetida to soil arsenite pollution	8
Key variable for simulating critical nitrogen dilution curve of wheat: Leaf area ratio-driven approach	8
Coupled effects of pH and kaolinite colloids on antibiotic transport in porous media	8
Chemical and spectroscopic characteristics of humic acid from a clay loam soil in Ontario after 52 years of consistent fertilization and crop rotation	8
Main environmental drivers of abundance, diversity and community structure of comammox Nitrospira in paddy soils	8
Efficiency of soil-applied 67Zn-enriched fertiliser across three consecutive crops	8
Carbon mineralization in subtropical alluvial arable soils amended with sugarcane bagasse and rice husk biochars	8
Effect of P fertilizer reduction regime on soil Olsen-P, root Fe-plaque P, and rice P uptake in rice-wheat rotation paddy fields	8
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for salinity stress: Anti-stress role and mechanisms	8
Comparison of sampling designs for calibrating digital soil maps at multiple depths	8
Using diffusive gradients in thin films technique for in-situ measurement of labile phosphorus around Oryza sativa L. roots in flooded paddy soils	8
The frontier of microplastics and nanoplastics: Soil health and carbon neutrality	8
Nondestructive estimation of bok choy nitrogen status with an active canopy sensor in comparison to a chlorophyll meter	8
Improving inherent soil productivity underpins agricultural sustainability	8
Agronomic performances of biodegradable and non-biodegradable plastic film mulching on a maize cropping system in the semi-arid Loess Plateau	8
Organo-mineral complexes in soil colloids: Implications for carbon storage in saline-alkaline paddy soils from an eight-year field experiment	8