OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 37. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	170
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	147
Short note	130
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	108
Patch establishment of the summer annual saltwort plant (Salsola inermis Forssk.) increases N cycling rates and soil nitrous oxide emissions in Israel’s Negev Desert	90
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	88
Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards	80
Changes in species abundances with short-term and long-term nitrogen addition are mediated by stoichiometric homeostasis	77
Host genotype-specific rhizosphere protists associate soil-borne viral disease resistance in wheat	77
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect root morphology locally but not systemically through altering nutrient- and phytohormone-related gene expressions at low soil P level	75
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	73
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	67
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	64
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	60
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	59
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	56
Tree species richness and arbuscular mycorrhizal tree fraction of leaf litter increase carbon and nitrogen retention in soil with macroaggregate and glomalin accrual	49
Correction to: Intraspecific variations in activities of four classes of fine root phosphatases in Quercus serrata, a dominant deciduous oak, occurring across a wide soil phosphorus gradient in Japan	49
Phosphorus deficiency promotes root morphological and biochemical changes to enhance phosphorus uptake in Phyllostachys edulis seedlings	47
Intercropped alfalfa and spring wheat reduces soil alkali-salinity in the arid area of northwestern China	44
Effect of plastic film and hemp canvas mulching on soil properties, microbial diversity and lettuce yield	44
Mixing overstory tree- and understory fern-derived dissolved organic carbon produces non-additive effects on biodegradation in subtropical forests of southern China	42
Soil microbial diversity plays an important role in resisting and restoring degraded ecosystems	42
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	41
Poly-γ-glutamic acid could enhance the salt resistance of maize by collectively increasing the osmotic, ion, and oxidative stresses resistance and enriching the salt-tolerant PGPBs in rhizosphere soil	41

Interspecific competition alters water use patterns of coexisting plants in a desert ecosystem	41
Carbon and nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism in Quercus aquifolioides forest ecosystems along a precipitation gradient on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	41
Responses of mycorrhizal colonization to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in fourteen woody and herbaceous species: the roles of hypodermal passage cells and penetration points	40
Pigeon pea biochar addition in tropical Arenosol under maize increases gross nitrification rate without an effect on nitrous oxide emission	40
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	39
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	39
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	38
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	38
Examining litter and soil characteristics impact on decomposer communities, detritivores and carbon accumulation in the Mediterranean area	37
From plant to soil: Quantitative changes in pine and juniper extractive compounds at different transformation stages	37
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	37
Effect of different digestates derived from anaerobic co-digestion of olive mill solid waste (omsw) and various microalgae as fertilizers for the cultivation of ryegrass	37