OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant and Soil is 38. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	197
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	147
Short note	122
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	99
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	91
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	85
Changes in species abundances with short-term and long-term nitrogen addition are mediated by stoichiometric homeostasis	83
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	81
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	81
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	80
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	71
Phosphorus deficiency promotes root morphological and biochemical changes to enhance phosphorus uptake in Phyllostachys edulis seedlings	66
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	63
Pigeon pea biochar addition in tropical Arenosol under maize increases gross nitrification rate without an effect on nitrous oxide emission	58
Responses of mycorrhizal colonization to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in fourteen woody and herbaceous species: the roles of hypodermal passage cells and penetration points	57
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	54
From plant to soil: Quantitative changes in pine and juniper extractive compounds at different transformation stages	52
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	51
ACC deaminase-encoding Pseudomonas putida arrests seed germination: an alternative strategy for grass and weed control	47
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	46
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	46
Diagnosis alfalfa salt stress based on UAV multispectral image texture and vegetation index	45
Iron dynamics and isotope fractionation in soil and rice during 2000 years of rice cultivation	45
Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture	45
Long-term bare fallow soil reveals the temperature sensitivity of priming effect of the relatively stabilized soil organic matter	44

A global synthesis of plant-plant interaction investigations: current knowledge and future directions	44
First report of ectomycorrhizae in Prunus serotina in the exotic range	44
Genetic resources for enhancing drought tolerance from National Genebank collection of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) in India	43
Commentary on the use of nutrient-coated quantum dots as a means of tracking nutrient uptake by and movement within plants	43
Blue carbon dynamics across a salt marsh-seagrass ecotone in a cool-temperate estuary	42
Editorial: Belowground adaptation of plants to climate change	40
Pasture productivity benefits from strategic urease and nitrification inhibitor use are limited in rainfed temperate dairy pastures of southern Australia	40
Carbon and nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism in Quercus aquifolioides forest ecosystems along a precipitation gradient on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	40
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus promote Flaveria bidentis invasion success by inhibiting the growth of native species under different soil nutrient levels	39
Short-term thinning effects on saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal soil fungal communities in a Pinus halepensis common garden	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
Biochar alters the morphology of plant roots to enable optimized and reduced nitrogen fertilizer applications	38
Different tillage and stubble management practices affect root growth and wheat production in a semi-arid area	38