OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 35. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Silicon at the root-oil interface	137
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	127
Triose phosphate utilization determines the Yield-Grain protein trade-off in contrasting rice genotypes under varying light intensities	121
Impact of seasonal precipitation regimes on soil nitrogen transformation in a subtropical forest: Insights from a manipulation experiment	87
Differential phenological responses of plant functional types to the temporal repackaging of precipitation in a semiarid grassland	85
Diagnosis alfalfa salt stress based on UAV multispectral image texture and vegetation index	80
Historic grazing enhances root-foraging plasticity rather than nitrogen absorbability in clonal offspring of Leymus chinensis	75
The role of plant-specific rhizosphere bacterial biomarkers in enhancing soil nutrient cycling in Pb–Zn waste slag	73
The isolation, identification, whole-genome sequencing of Trichoderma brevicompactum TB2 and its effects on plant growth-promotion	69
Inhibition mechanisms of urea combined with nitrification on cadmium uptake by rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings	65
Priming effects by cellulose inputs decrease with warming regardless of the decomposition stages of soil carbon pools	63
Plant encroachment increase multifunctionality in bauxite residue by constructing diverse and stable microbial communities	62
Transformation of fertilizer nitrogen in fluvo-aquic soils with different textures and its influencing factors	60
Role of soil abiotic processes on phosphorus availability and plant responses with a focus on strigolactones in tomato plants	57
Mycorrhizal symbiosis alleviates Mn toxicity and downregulates Mn transporter genes in Eucalyptus tereticornis under contrasting soil phosphorus	55
Contrasting effects of plant-soil feedbacks on growth and morphology of physically-connected daughter and mother ramets in two clonal plants	54
Transpiration response to soil drying and vapor pressure deficit is soil texture specific	53
Light extinction coefficient and radiation use efficiency of saffron (Crocus sativus) in response to manure and zeolite under deficit irrigation	48
Nitrogen niche differentiation and overyielding along a legume proportion gradient in a subtropical grass-legume mixture	46
Bio-inoculant consortium and organic amendment comprising plant bioactive extract increased maize yield by improving soil nutrient availability and mitigating pest damage	43
Microbial phosphorus in loamy, basalt-derived forest soil is altered by plant nutritional status: a root-splitting study	43
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	43
The molecular mechanism for improvement of coastal silt soil by the intercropping model of Suaeda glauca (Bunge) Bunge and Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Pers	42
Commentary on the use of nutrient-coated quantum dots as a means of tracking nutrient uptake by and movement within plants	41
Different tillage and stubble management practices affect root growth and wheat production in a semi-arid area	40

Effect of different decay classes of Eucalyptus stump substrates on microbial resource limitation and carbon-use efficiency	40
Drought and vegetation restoration lead to shifts in soil microbial diversity and co-occurrence networks in California coastal prairie	39
Evaluating water use advantage of wheat/maize relay intercropping under rainfed condition based on same period	38
Rare earth elements (REEs) in soils and plants of Bangka Island (Indonesia) focussing on (hyper)accumulation	38
Microbial diversity loss and wheat genotype-triggered rhizosphere bacterial and protistan diversity constrain soil multifunctionality: Evidence from greenhouse experiment	38
Nanoscale zero-valent iron mitigates arsenic mobilization and accumulation in Sinapis alba grown on a metal(loid)-polluted soil treated with a dunite mining waste-compost amendment	38
Nitrate-uptake restraint in Banksia spp. (Proteaceae) and Melaleuca spp. (Myrtaceae) from a severely phosphorus-impoverished environment	37
Rhizosphere models: their concepts and application to plant-soil ecosystems	37
Activation of ROS signaling molecule by AgNPs: molecular mechanisms in roses under abiotic stress, exploration of stress memory, and impact on root microbiota	36
Belowground bacterial communities and carbon components contribute to soil respiration in a subtropical forest	36
A new methodology to characterize the kinetics of a seed during the imbibition process	35
China’s meadow grasslands: challenges and opportunities	35
Characteristics of broadleaved woody phytoliths and their preservation in soils in the mid-subtropical zone of China	35