OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Soil Biology is 7. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in soil bacterial community and enzyme activity under five years straw returning in paddy soil	46
Changes of acid and alkaline phosphatase activities in long-term chemical fertilization are driven by the similar soil properties and associated microbial community composition in acidic soil	40
Glomalin related protein and C16:1ω5 PLFA associated with AM fungi as potential signatures for assessing the soil C sequestration under contrasting soil management practices	37
Long-term impacts of organic and conventional farming on the soil microbiome in boreal arable soil	37
Response of soil bacterial communities to the application of the herbicides imazethapyr and flumyzin	36
Soil enzymes activity: Effect of climate smart agriculture on rhizosphere and bulk soil under cereal based systems of north-west India	35
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation improve essential oil and physiological parameters and nutritional values of Thymus daenensis Celak and Thymus vulgaris L. under normal and drought stress cond	33
Bacterial communities drive the resistance of soil multifunctionality to land-use change in karst soils	32
Biochar interaction with chemical fertilizer regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and the abundance of key C-cycling-related bacteria in rhizosphere soil	32
Impacts of simulated nitrogen deposition on soil enzyme activity in a northern temperate forest ecosystem depend on the form and level of added nitrogen	32
Spatial heterogeneity of soil quality within a Mediterranean alley cropping agroforestry system: Comparison with a monocropping system	31
Biochar and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stimulate rice root growth strategy and soil nutrient availability	28
Soil organic C and total N as well as microbial biomass C and N affect aggregate stability in a chronosequence of Chinese fir plantations	27
Microbial pathways account for the pH effect on soil N2O production	27
Impact of N-fertilization and peanut shell biochar on soil microbial community structure and enzyme activities in a Typic Haplustoll under different management practices	26
Improved tomato yield and quality by altering soil physicochemical properties and nitrification processes in the combined use of organic-inorganic fertilizers	26
Changes in soil biochemical properties following application of bentonite as a soil amendment	26
Aggregate-related changes in living microbial biomass and microbial necromass associated with different fertilization patterns of greenhouse vegetable soils	25
Divergent effects of drought and nitrogen deposition on microbial and arthropod soil communities in a Mediterranean forest	24
Long-term mineral fertilizer substitution by organic fertilizer and the effect on the abundance and community structure of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in paddy soil of south China	24
Composition, predicted functions, and co-occurrence networks of fungal and bacterial communities_ Links to soil organic carbon under long-term fertilization in a rice-wheat cropping system	23
Precipitation exerts a strong inﬂuence on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi community and network complexity in a semiarid steppe ecosystem	22
Application of spent mushroom substrate suppresses Fusarium wilt in cucumber and alters the composition of the microbial community of the cucumber rhizosphere	21
Runoff and soil loss from small plots of erosion-prone marl soil inoculated with bacteria and cyanobacteria under real conditions	21
Eight years of manure fertilization favor copiotrophic traits in paddy soil microbiomes	20

Contribution of environmental factors on the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil	20
Effects of addition of nitrogen-enriched biochar on bacteria and fungi community structure and C, N, P, and Fe stoichiometry in subtropical paddy soils	19
Responses of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea to short-term warming and nitrogen input in a semi-arid grassland on the Loess Plateau	17
Differences in the rhizosphere effects among trees, shrubs and herbs in three subtropical plantations and their seasonal variations	17
Multiple dimensions of soil food-web research: History and prospects	16
Effects of salinity on microbial utilization of straw carbon and microbial residues retention in newly reclaimed coastal soil	16
Contrasting effects of cover crops on earthworms: Results from field monitoring and laboratory experiments on growth, reproduction and food choice	16
Effects of experimental warming, precipitation increase and their interaction on AM fungal community in an alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	16
Biochar can reduce N2O production potential from rhizosphere of fertilized agricultural soils by suppressing bacterial denitrification	16
Soil enzyme activities under the impact of long-term pollution from mining-metallurgical copper production	15
Effect of land use and seasonality on nematode faunal structure and ecosystem functions in the Caatinga dry forest	15
Crust cover and prior soil moisture status affect the response of soil microbial community and function to extreme rain events in an arid area	15
Effects of root exudate stoichiometry on CO2 emission from paddy soil	15
Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen predict large-scale distribution of soil fungal communities in temperate and alpine shrub ecosystems	14
The impact of cropping system, tillage and season on shaping soil fungal community in a long-term field trial	14
Tracing controls of autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification in terrestrial soils	13
Contrasting effects of long term phosphorus fertilization on glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP)	13
Microbial tradeoffs in internal and external use of resources regulated by phosphorus and carbon availability	13
Soil fungi are more sensitive than bacteria to short-term plant interactions of Picea asperata and Abies faxoniana	13
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics affected by litter and nitrogen addition in a grassland soil: Role of fungi	13
Effects of N addition and clipping on above and belowground plant biomass, soil microbial community structure, and function in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	12
Ammonia oxidizing bacteria dominate soil nitrification under different fertilization regimes in black soils of northeast China	12
Prokaryotic community assembly after 40 years of soda solonetz restoration by natural grassland and reclaimed farmland	12
Drainage class and soil phosphorus availability shape microbial communities in Irish grasslands	12
Effects of rumen microorganisms on straw returning to soil at different depths	11
Response of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea abundance and activity to land use changes in agricultural systems of the Central Andes	11
Spatial and temporal variations of the community structure and abundance of Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens-like archaea in paddy soils	11
Saprotrophic fungi buffer the adverse effects of soil acidification on the soil nutrient supply ability of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations	10
Responses of crop yields, soil enzymatic activities, and microbial communities to different long-term organic materials applied with chemical fertilizer in purple soil	10
Earthworm communities are supported by perennial bioenergy cropping systems	10
A practical approach to constructing a knowledge graph for soil ecological research	10
Microbial communities in soil macro-aggregates with less connected networks respire less across successional and geographic gradients	9
Varying interactive effects of climate, soil properties, and gross nitrogen dynamics on biomass production between the topsoil and the subsoil in natural grassland ecosystems	9
Litter chemical quality and bacterial community structure influenced decomposition in acidic forest soil	9
Varying microbial utilization of straw-derived carbon with different long-term fertilization regimes explored by DNA stable-isotope probing	9
A comparative study of the fauna associated with nest mounds of native and introduced populations of the red wood ant Formica paralugubris	9
Changes in soil quality, bacterial community and anti-pepper Phytophthora disease ability after combined application of straw and multifunctional composite bacterial strains	9
Nutrient cycling and microbial responses to termite and earthworm activity in soils amended with woody residues in the Sudano-Sahel	9
The formation of protected SOM facilitated by labile C input via artificial roots	8
Straw amendment and soil tillage alter soil organic carbon chemical composition and are associated with microbial community structure	8
Key drivers of soil arthropod community shift across a subalpine forest series vary greatly with litter and topsoil layers	8
Long-term nitrogen-addition-induced shifts in the ectomycorrhizal fungal community are associated with changes in fine root traits and soil properties in a mixed Pinus koraiensis forest	8
Responses of soil insect communities to alpine wetland degradation on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	8
Soil microbial community structure is unaltered by grazing intensity and plant species richness in a temperate grassland steppe in northern China	8
Land use and mineral fertilization influence soil microbial biomass and residues: A case study of a Chinese Mollisol	8
Microbial assembly adapted to low-P soils in three subtropical forests by increasing the maximum rate of substrate conversion of acid phosphatases but not by decreasing the half-saturation constant	8
Effect of subtilisin, a protease from Bacillus sp., on soil biochemical parameters and microbial biodiversity	8
Contrasting response of soil N2O release to ammonium, nitrate, and urea addition rates is determined by substrate availability and microbial community abundance and composition	7
Water content and communities of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria affect elemental sulfur oxidation in silty and sandy loam soils	7
Biodiversity in mosaic communities: Soil microbial diversity associates with plant functional groups relating to soil available phosphorus in Tibetan alpine meadow	7

Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	7
Dramatic shifts in fungal communities following application of hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth L.) in upland of Ultisol	7
Response of soil bacterial communities to organic carbon input under soil freeze-thaw in forest ecosystems	7
Effects of N-enriched biochar on ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions, rice yield, and bacterial community diversity in subtropical rice paddy soils	7
Contrasting phylogeographic patterns of earthworms (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) on near-shore mediterranean islands	7
Changes in alpine grassland type drive niche differentiation of nitrifying communities on the Qinghai‒Tibetan Plateau	7
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on the growth and reproduction of cherry tomato can be persistent to the next generation	7
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	7