OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Soil Biology is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Soil tillage promotes predatory and phototrophic protists over parasitic protists	70
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	57
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	40
Corrigendum to “Carbon and energy utilization in microbial cell extracts from soil” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 124 (2025) 103713]	31
Regulation of nutrient homeostasis by soil microbial functional differentiation and metabolic limitations under interactive forest type and Stropharia rugosoannulata cultivation	31
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	30
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	30
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	30
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	30
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	27
The combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application reduced soil multifunctionality in Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands, China	26
Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry indicates that litter quality regulates soil microbial nutrient demand in a Tibetan alpine meadow	25
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	24
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	23
Land use and soil texture drive shifts in communities of soil biota across natural and anthropogenic tropical ecosystems	23
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism under precipitation changes in Ningxia desert steppe of China	22
Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests	21
Environmental drivers of earthworm communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps	21
Microbial community structure and function in paddy soil as affected by water-saving irrigation mode	20
Responses of microarthropods and nematodes to long-term warming in alpine meadows are precipitation-dependent effects	20
Evaluating DNA extraction methods for eDNA metabarcoding of soil invertebrate diversity	20