OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Soil Biology is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	53
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	41
Corrigendum to “Carbon and energy utilization in microbial cell extracts from soil” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 124 (2025) 103713]	39
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	36
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	30
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	28
Evaluating DNA extraction methods for eDNA metabarcoding of soil invertebrate diversity	27
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	24
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	23
The combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application reduced soil multifunctionality in Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands, China	23
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]	23
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	22
Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry indicates that litter quality regulates soil microbial nutrient demand in a Tibetan alpine meadow	22
Environmental drivers of earthworm communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps	21
Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests	19
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism under precipitation changes in Ningxia desert steppe of China	19
Nutrient source, management system and the age of the plantation affect soil biodiversity and chemical properties in raspberry production	18
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	18
Influence of tree residue retention in Mediterranean forest on soil microbial communities responses to frequent warming and drying events	17
Drought and litter quality effects on the contribution of soil fauna to decomposition in a Mediterranean forest	17
Responses of microarthropods and nematodes to long-term warming in alpine meadows are precipitation-dependent effects	16
Microbial community structure and function in paddy soil as affected by water-saving irrigation mode	16
Ammonia oxidizing bacteria dominate soil nitrification under different fertilization regimes in black soils of northeast China	16
Diazotrophic communities shift with organic fertilizer substitution and growth stages in tomato field soil	16
Contrasting response of soil N2O release to ammonium, nitrate, and urea addition rates is determined by substrate availability and microbial community abundance and composition	16

Roles of plants in controlling the response of soil bacterial community to climate warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	16
Warmer summers have the potential to affect food security by increasing the prevalence and activity of Actinobacteria	15
Do earthworm and litter inputs promote decomposition or stabilization of cryoturnated organic matter from melted permafrost?	15
In-depth insights into carbohydrate-active enzyme genes regarding the disparities in soil organic carbon after 12-year rotational cropping system field study	15
Short-term plant mixtures alter soil organic carbon components and microbial network characteristics	14
Microbial mechanism of soil organic carbon content under waterlogging and water table fluctuation in drained peat soils	14
Editorial Board	14
N2O emissions, microbial community composition and genes expressions in soil amended with vermicomposts derived from different feedstocks	14
Addition of polyester microplastic fibers to soil alters the diversity and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and affects plant growth and nutrition	14
Microbial soil quality indicators depending on land use and soil type in a semi-arid dryland in Kenya	13
Resilience of root and soil bacteria to drought stress depends on host plant's colonization affinity towards arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi	13
The expansion of evergreen and deciduous shrubs changed the chemical characteristics and biological community of alpine meadows soil	13
Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	13
Effects of long-term sugarcane-soybean intercropping coupled with varying levels of nitrogen input on soil legacies: A field experimental study	13
Nutrient supply enhances positive priming of soil organic C under straw amendment and accelerates the incorporation of straw-derived C into organic C pool in paddy soils	13
Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau	13
Planting Chinese milk vetch with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria inoculation enhances phosphorus turnover by altering the structure of the phoD-harboring bacteria community	13
Enhancing soil quality and grain yields through fertilization strategies in integrated crop-livestock system under no-till in Brazilian Cerrado	13
Responses of soil hexapod communities to warming are mediated by microbial carbon and nitrogen in a subarctic grassland	13
Communities of nematodes, bacteria and fungi differ among soils of different wild cabbage populations	12
Arginine and methionine increase the enzymatic activity of microbes involved in N and P cycles in arid soil from the Chihuahuan desert	12
Synergistic application of biochar with organic fertilizer positively impacts the soil micro-food web in sandy loam soils	12
Differential responses of soil arthropods to the application of biogas slurry and biochar in a coastal poplar plantation	12
Microbial necromass carbon mediates nonlinear soil carbon response to nitrogen application in the greenhouse vegetable production system	12
Changes in peatland soil fauna biomass alter food web structure and function under warming and hydrological changes	11
Assessing the efficacy of antibiotic treatment to produce earthworms with a suppressed microbiome	11
Coupling amendment of microbial and compound fertilizers increases fungal necromass carbon and soil organic carbon by regulating microbial activity in flue-cured tobacco-planted field	11
Dynamics of nitrogen mineralization and nitrogen cycling functional genes in response to soil pore size distribution	11
Mechanisms of furrow-applied biochar in enhancing rhizosphere soil microbiota and metabolites in continuous sesame cropping	11
Isotopic evidence for the effects of earthworm and straw amendment on root carbon uptake of upland rice and maize	11
Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends”	11
Effects of the tropical endogeic earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus on the horizontal dispersal of soil nematodes	11
Root trenching and stable isotope analysis uncover trophic links of euedaphic collembola species to mycorrhizal mycelium in pine forests	11
Heterogeneous salinity and nitrogen in the root-zone influences soil water status, rhizosphere bacteria distributions and promotes tomato growth	11
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on the growth and reproduction of cherry tomato can be persistent to the next generation	10
Increased nitrogen accumulation in mulberry trees due to the secretion of glomalin-related soil protein induced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	10
Effect of alfalfa-grass mixed culture and inoculation with Azotobacter and Rhizobium on soil biological properties and nutrient transformation activities	10
Soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought under organic and conventional farming	10
Substitution of organic fertilizer did not change the dominant role of biochar on bacterial community stability but the soil carbon fractions	10
Two decades of monitoring earthworms in translocated grasslands at Manchester Airport	10
Editorial Board	10
Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science	10
Tracing controls of autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification in terrestrial soils	9
Bacteria contribute more than fungi to SOC decomposition in a paddy field under long-term free-air CO2 enrichment	9
Editorial Board	9
Interplanting Phoebe bournei modifies soil microbial community characteristics in Cunninghamia lanceolata monocultures	9
Push-pull cropping system positively impacts diversity and abundance of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) as bioindicators of soil health	9
Vegetable residues retention: An effective and environment friendly way to handle tomato wastes from greenhouse production	9
The effects of agricultural practices on earthworm communities in Estonia	9
Stable isotope insights into arthropod food chains and nitrogen cycling in a rehabilitated tailings chronosequence	9