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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	76
Corrigendum to “Carbon and energy utilization in microbial cell extracts from soil” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 124 (2025) 103713]	57
Microbial mechanisms maintaining soil phosphorus stability in Chinese fir plantations under long-term nitrogen addition	40
Foliar application of a Rugulopteryx okamurae extract enhances soil resilience in greenhouse grapevines	33
Soil tillage promotes predatory and phototrophic protists over parasitic protists	32
Regulation of nutrient homeostasis by soil microbial functional differentiation and metabolic limitations under interactive forest type and Stropharia rugosoannulata cultivation	32
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	32
Carbon amendment drives microbial community to favor dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium over denitrification in paddy soil	32
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	30
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	27
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	24
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	24
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	22
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	22
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	21
Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry indicates that litter quality regulates soil microbial nutrient demand in a Tibetan alpine meadow	21
Environmental drivers of earthworm communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps	20
The combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application reduced soil multifunctionality in Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands, China	20
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism under precipitation changes in Ningxia desert steppe of China	20
Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests	20
Land use and soil texture drive shifts in communities of soil biota across natural and anthropogenic tropical ecosystems	20
Evaluating DNA extraction methods for eDNA metabarcoding of soil invertebrate diversity	19
Responses of microarthropods and nematodes to long-term warming in alpine meadows are precipitation-dependent effects	19
Microbial community structure and function in paddy soil as affected by water-saving irrigation mode	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
Ammonia oxidizing bacteria dominate soil nitrification under different fertilization regimes in black soils of northeast China	16
Editorial Board	15
Do earthworm and litter inputs promote decomposition or stabilization of cryoturnated organic matter from melted permafrost?	15
Basaltic rock powder addition increases soil macrofauna but shows limited impact on microbial communities: insights from a temperate field trial	15
Addition of polyester microplastic fibers to soil alters the diversity and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and affects plant growth and nutrition	15
Microbial mechanism of soil organic carbon content under waterlogging and water table fluctuation in drained peat soils	15
Diazotrophic communities shift with organic fertilizer substitution and growth stages in tomato field soil	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
Warmer summers have the potential to affect food security by increasing the prevalence and activity of Actinobacteria	15
Nutrient source, management system and the age of the plantation affect soil biodiversity and chemical properties in raspberry production	15
Interaction between litter quality and soil faunal specialisation participate in driving home-field advantage for cellulose and lignin degradation in mixed-litter decomposition	15
Enhancing soil quality and grain yields through fertilization strategies in integrated crop-livestock system under no-till in Brazilian Cerrado	14
Effects of long-term sugarcane-soybean intercropping coupled with varying levels of nitrogen input on soil legacies: A field experimental study	14
Resilience of root and soil bacteria to drought stress depends on host plant's colonization affinity towards arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi	13
N2O emissions, microbial community composition and genes expressions in soil amended with vermicomposts derived from different feedstocks	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
Short-term effect of changing water regimes on the soil nematode community in rice-duckweed system under water-saving irrigation	13
Microbial soil quality indicators depending on land use and soil type in a semi-arid dryland in Kenya	13
Responses of soil hexapod communities to warming are mediated by microbial carbon and nitrogen in a subarctic grassland	13
Planting Chinese milk vetch with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria inoculation enhances phosphorus turnover by altering the structure of the phoD-harboring bacteria community	13
Patescibacteriota in soil and rhizosphere	13
Short-term plant mixtures alter soil organic carbon components and microbial network characteristics	13
Nocturnal soil-surface behaviour of a giant earthworm in the Black Forest, SW Germany	12
Microbial necromass carbon accumulation in degraded Moso bamboo forests is driven by bacterial r-strategy shift and enhanced carbon use efficiency	12
Synergistic application of biochar with organic fertilizer positively impacts the soil micro-food web in sandy loam soils	12
Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	12
Communities of nematodes, bacteria and fungi differ among soils of different wild cabbage populations	12
Dominance of indirect effects of deer populations on soil biodiversity	12
The expansion of evergreen and deciduous shrubs changed the chemical characteristics and biological community of alpine meadows soil	12
Microbial necromass carbon mediates nonlinear soil carbon response to nitrogen application in the greenhouse vegetable production system	12
Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau	11
Effects of the tropical endogeic earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus on the horizontal dispersal of soil nematodes	11
Differential responses of soil arthropods to the application of biogas slurry and biochar in a coastal poplar plantation	11
The decline of beneficial insects in a fragmented temperate forest landscape: the case of beetles and the green gold in Mexico	11
Contrasting strategies of two Camellia oleifera cultivars in shaping arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities under different phosphorus forms	11
Arginine and methionine increase the enzymatic activity of microbes involved in N and P cycles in arid soil from the Chihuahuan desert	11
Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science	10
Root trenching and stable isotope analysis uncover trophic links of euedaphic collembola species to mycorrhizal mycelium in pine forests	10
Effect of alfalfa-grass mixed culture and inoculation with Azotobacter and Rhizobium on soil biological properties and nutrient transformation activities	10
Increased nitrogen accumulation in mulberry trees due to the secretion of glomalin-related soil protein induced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	10
Mechanisms of furrow-applied biochar in enhancing rhizosphere soil microbiota and metabolites in continuous sesame cropping	10
Two decades of monitoring earthworms in translocated grasslands at Manchester Airport	10
Heterogeneous salinity and nitrogen in the root-zone influences soil water status, rhizosphere bacteria distributions and promotes tomato growth	10
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	10
Dynamics of nitrogen mineralization and nitrogen cycling functional genes in response to soil pore size distribution	10
Changes in peatland soil fauna biomass alter food web structure and function under warming and hydrological changes	10
Isotopic evidence for the effects of earthworm and straw amendment on root carbon uptake of upland rice and maize	10
Substitution of organic fertilizer did not change the dominant role of biochar on bacterial community stability but the soil carbon fractions	10
Editorial Board	9

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on the growth and reproduction of cherry tomato can be persistent to the next generation	9
Early- and late-dry season fires proved less conducive to earthworms than prescribed mid-dry season fire after eight years in the Lamto tropical savannah	9
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in rare earth mining areas: community vulnerability and functional roles in runoff regulation	9
Editorial Board	9
Soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought under organic and conventional farming	9
The effects of agricultural practices on earthworm communities in Estonia	9
Vegetable residues retention: An effective and environment friendly way to handle tomato wastes from greenhouse production	9