OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Soil Biology is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Earthworms in past and present agricultural landscapes of Hebridean Scotland	49
Contrasting effects of long term phosphorus fertilization on glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP)	41
The expansion of evergreen and deciduous shrubs changed the chemical characteristics and biological community of alpine meadows soil	39
Effects of rumen microorganisms on straw returning to soil at different depths	39
Responses of soil hexapod communities to warming are mediated by microbial carbon and nitrogen in a subarctic grassland	36
Editorial Board	34
Effects of precipitation changes on soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial activities in a switchgrass mesocosm experiment	32
Abundant rather than rare fungi perform a vital role in maintaining the growth of continuous cropped cut chrysanthemum	32
Stable nitrogen-cycling capacity in relation to fertilization and intercropping in a sub-boreal grassland	29
Occurrence of added nitrogen interaction affected by nitrogen stabilizer and glucose additions in an Alfisol	28
Effects of disturbances by plateau pikas on soil microbial communities in an alpine ecosystem of the southeast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China	28
Editorial Board	28
A meta-analysis to compare the sensitivities of earthworms and enchytraeids to different stressors	27
The use of olive mill pomace compost increases the population of certain ground/soil organisms in olive groves	27
Responses of soil microbial biomass C:N:P stoichiometry to increased precipitation and nitrogen deposition in temperate shrublands	26
Differentiation within the Drawida ghilarovi complex (Moniligastridae: Annelida) revealed by multigene transcriptomic dataset analysis	26
Microbial synthesis of arylsulfatase depends on the soluble and adsorbed sulfate concentration in soils	21
Plant diversity enhanced nematode-based soil quality indices and changed soil nematode community structure in intensively-managed agricultural grasslands	21
Effects of tree diversity on soil microbial community in a subtropical forest in Southwest China	18
Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau	17
Effects of salinity on microbial utilization of straw carbon and microbial residues retention in newly reclaimed coastal soil	16
Fate of low molecular weight organics in paddy vs. upland soil: A microbial biomarker approach	15
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the increased P limitation of microbial metabolism after the mixed cultivation of Korean pine and Manchurian walnut in Northeast China	15
Microbial pathways account for the pH effect on soil N2O production	15
Warming reduces soil CO2 emissions but enhances soil N2O emissions: A long-term soil transplantation experiment	14

Soil microbial biomass and community structure in response to agricultural use of deserts across northern China	13
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	12
Nutrient cycling and microbial responses to termite and earthworm activity in soils amended with woody residues in the Sudano-Sahel	12
Synergistic application of biochar with organic fertilizer positively impacts the soil micro-food web in sandy loam soils	12
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	11
Gut content metabarcoding and citizen science reveal the earthworm prey of the exotic terrestrial flatworm, Obama nungara	11
Responses of nitrification and denitrification in the rhizosphere of mudflat paddy to rice genotype and nitrogen fertilization	10
Effects of N-enriched biochar on ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions, rice yield, and bacterial community diversity in subtropical rice paddy soils	10
Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	10
Understanding the diversification and functional radiation of Aporrectodea (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) through molecular phylogenetics of its endemic species	10
Communities of nematodes, bacteria and fungi differ among soils of different wild cabbage populations	10
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	10
Potential effect of nitrate applied during flood period on N2O emissions during subsequent drainage in a paddy soil	9
Metal-driven bacterial community variation in urban and suburban park soils of Shanghai, China	9
Impact of N-fertilization and peanut shell biochar on soil microbial community structure and enzyme activities in a Typic Haplustoll under different management practices	9
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	9
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	9
Dominance of archaeal ammonia-oxidizers in soil nitrification across different soil types and fertilities in North China plain	8
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	8
Editorial Board	8
Terpenes and fungal biomass in the nest mounds of Formica aquilonia wood ants	8
Editorial Board	8
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Responses of crop yields, soil enzymatic activities, and microbial communities to different long-term organic materials applied with chemical fertilizer in purple soil	8
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	8
Asymmetric environmental selection on intraspecific body size in Collembola communities along an elevational gradient in northern Japan	8
Editorial Board	8
Differential responses of soil arthropods to the application of biogas slurry and biochar in a coastal poplar plantation	7
Homogeneous earthworm communities in Southern Ontario	7
Soil moisture drives the response of soil microbial nutrient limitation to N and P additions in an Inner Mongolian meadow steppe	7
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	7
Arginine and methionine increase the enzymatic activity of microbes involved in N and P cycles in arid soil from the Chihuahuan desert	7
Earthworms impact the availability of Si to plants in northern Vietnamese paddy fields	7
Soil biota community structure and litter traits of grape vine plantation and natural ecosystem from Southern Brazil	7
Effect of land use and seasonality on nematode faunal structure and ecosystem functions in the Caatinga dry forest	7
How applied reclamation treatments and vegetation type affect on soil fauna in a novel ecosystem developed on a spoil heap of carboniferous rocks	7
Long-term impacts of organic and conventional farming on the soil microbiome in boreal arable soil	7
Accumulation of microbial necromass carbon and its contribution to soil organic carbon in artificial grasslands of various vegetation types	7
Composite organic amendment boosts soil remediation and Cd detoxification to rape under different nitrogen level	7
A practical approach to constructing a knowledge graph for soil ecological research	7
Plantation conversion of Eucalyptus promotes soil microbial necromass C accumulation	7
Earthworm burrow number and vertical distribution are affected by the crop sequence of a grass-clover rotation system	7
Key drivers of soil arthropod community shift across a subalpine forest series vary greatly with litter and topsoil layers	6
Aggregate-related changes in living microbial biomass and microbial necromass associated with different fertilization patterns of greenhouse vegetable soils	6
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	6
Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science	6
Variations of activity and community structure of nitrite-driven anaerobic methanotrophs in soils between native and invasive species in China's coastal wetlands	6
Abundant denitrifying taxa rather than rare taxa responded more sensitively to temperature change in acidic paddy soils	6
Long-term organic fertilizer and biofertilizer application strengthens the associations between soil quality index, network complexity, and walnut yield	6
Soil pH controls the structure and diversity of bacterial communities along elevational gradients on Huangshan, China	6

Editorial Board	6
Effects of single plant functional type loss on microbial community composition and litter decomposition in an alpine timberline ecotone	6
Food web structure and energy flux dynamics, but not taxonomic richness, influence microbial ecosystem functions in a Sphagnum-dominated peatland	6
Assessing the efficacy of antibiotic treatment to produce earthworms with a suppressed microbiome	6
Root trenching and stable isotope analysis uncover trophic links of euedaphic collembola species to mycorrhizal mycelium in pine forests	6
Two aspects of earthworm bioturbation: Crop residue burial by foraging and surface casting in no-till management	6
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	6
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	6