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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Short Note: Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization	212
Alleviation of chilling stress by supplementation of brassinosteroid and silicon in Solanum lycopersicum L.	155
Short note	128
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	104
Shoot facilitation contributes more than root facilitation to plant size inequality under environmental stress: theoretical insights from a two-layer zone-of-influence model	93
Combined metal treatments cause marked changes in the ionomic patterns in Szarvasi-1 energy grass shoot biomass	90
Structure and assembly of fungal communities in the phyllosphere and endosphere of healthy and diseased faba bean plants	86
Genetic identification and characterization of two novel loci for grain arsenic concentration in tetraploid wheat at various field environments	84
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	81
Phosphorus deficiency promotes root morphological and biochemical changes to enhance phosphorus uptake in Phyllostachys edulis seedlings	76
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	70
Root characteristics explain greater water use efficiency and drought tolerance in invasive Compositae plants	64
Mechanical responses of Chrysopogon zizanioides roots under cyclic loading conditions	61
Soil aggregate stability of forest islands and adjacent ecosystems in West Africa	60
Suppression of tomato bacterial wilt by anaerobic soil disinfestation and associations with production of antagonistic compounds	58
Rhizosphere-induced shift in the composition of bacterial community favors mineralization of crop residue nitrogen	55
The salt bladder is essential for Atriplex canescens in response to salinity by regulating the ion homeostasis and water balance	53
Nitrogen addition decreases root exudation of four temperate tree species seedlings, independent of the applied nitrogen form	52
Layered manure enhances root development via soil hydrothermal optimization in ridge tillage	48
Pigeon pea biochar addition in tropical Arenosol under maize increases gross nitrification rate without an effect on nitrous oxide emission	47
Responses of mycorrhizal colonization to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in fourteen woody and herbaceous species: the roles of hypodermal passage cells and penetration points	47
Exploring options for increasing maize yields and grain Zn concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa	46
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	45
Evaluation of nitrous oxide emission by soybean inoculated with Bradyrhizobium strains commonly used as inoculants in South America	45
Correction to: Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differ between species in nival environments	45

From plant to soil: Quantitative changes in pine and juniper extractive compounds at different transformation stages	45
Long-term fertilization effects on soil biotic communities are mediated by plant diversity in a Tibetan alpine meadow	45
Plant-soil relations of selenium, molybdenum and vanadium in the Richmond District of Central Queensland, Australia	44
Conifer and broadleaf trees show a strong co-evolution with rhizosphere diazotrophic microbiome	43
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect root morphology locally but not systemically through altering nutrient- and phytohormone-related gene expressions at low soil P level	42
Correction to: Organic Matter DYnamic model (OMDY) predicts the wood debris decomposition of ten Mediterranean species	42
Host genotype-specific rhizosphere protists associate soil-borne viral disease resistance in wheat	41
Genetic resources for enhancing drought tolerance from National Genebank collection of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) in India	41
Development and evaluation of barley mini-core collection for salinity tolerance and identification of novel haplotypic variants for HvRAF	41
Direct and indirect impacts of fine root functional traits on decomposition and N loss	40
Nitrous oxide emissions after struvite application in relation to soil P status	39
Lift-off velocity of diaspores during secondary wind dispersal varies with particle size of the underlying surface matrix	39
ACC deaminase-encoding Pseudomonas putida arrests seed germination: an alternative strategy for grass and weed control	39
First report of ectomycorrhizae in Prunus serotina in the exotic range	38
Mycorrhizal networks promote interspecific facilitation in P uptake by a maize/faba bean mixture	38
Long-term bare fallow soil reveals the temperature sensitivity of priming effect of the relatively stabilized soil organic matter	38
Diagnosis alfalfa salt stress based on UAV multispectral image texture and vegetation index	38
A global synthesis of plant-plant interaction investigations: current knowledge and future directions	38
Iron dynamics and isotope fractionation in soil and rice during 2000 years of rice cultivation	38