OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Soil Biology is 17. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	64
Microbial pathways account for the pH effect on soil N2O production	45
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	44
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	40
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	40
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	38
The combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application reduced soil multifunctionality in Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands, China	35
Spatial heterogeneity of soil quality within a Mediterranean alley cropping agroforestry system: Comparison with a monocropping system	34
Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry indicates that litter quality regulates soil microbial nutrient demand in a Tibetan alpine meadow	34
Corrigendum to “Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 108 (2022) 103382]	31
Effects of single plant functional type loss on microbial community composition and litter decomposition in an alpine timberline ecotone	26
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	26
Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests	23
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	23
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	22
Environmental drivers of earthworm communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps	18
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	17
Roles of plants in controlling the response of soil bacterial community to climate warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	17
Influence of tree residue retention in Mediterranean forest on soil microbial communities responses to frequent warming and drying events	17
Microbial tradeoffs in internal and external use of resources regulated by phosphorus and carbon availability	17