OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 36. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	153
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	145
Short note	126
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	103
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	88
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	86
Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards	78
Host genotype-specific rhizosphere protists associate soil-borne viral disease resistance in wheat	76
Changes in species abundances with short-term and long-term nitrogen addition are mediated by stoichiometric homeostasis	74
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect root morphology locally but not systemically through altering nutrient- and phytohormone-related gene expressions at low soil P level	73
Low Si combined with drought causes reduced transpiration in sorghum Lsi1 mutant	70
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	70
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	63
Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	63
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	58
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	56
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	53
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	50
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	47
Diagnosis alfalfa salt stress based on UAV multispectral image texture and vegetation index	46
Different effects of six saponins on the rhizosphere soil microorganisms of Panax notoginseng	46
Intricate Russian dolls relationships between plants, fungi and bacteria	45
Pigeon pea biochar addition in tropical Arenosol under maize increases gross nitrification rate without an effect on nitrous oxide emission	43
Responses of mycorrhizal colonization to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in fourteen woody and herbaceous species: the roles of hypodermal passage cells and penetration points	42
Intraspecific competition hinders drought recovery in a resident but not in its range-expanding congener plant independent of mycorrhizal symbiosis	42

Variations in the traits of fine roots of different orders and their associations with leaf traits in 12 co-occuring plant species in a semiarid inland dune	41
Effect of plastic film and hemp canvas mulching on soil properties, microbial diversity and lettuce yield	41
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	40
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	40
Adaptive response of rare mountain sedge (Carex Ecostata C.B. Clarke) to hyper-cold environments	39
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	39
Mixing overstory tree- and understory fern-derived dissolved organic carbon produces non-additive effects on biodegradation in subtropical forests of southern China	38
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
From plant to soil: Quantitative changes in pine and juniper extractive compounds at different transformation stages	37
Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture	36
ACC deaminase-encoding Pseudomonas putida arrests seed germination: an alternative strategy for grass and weed control	36
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	36
Examining litter and soil characteristics impact on decomposer communities, detritivores and carbon accumulation in the Mediterranean area	36