OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 67. 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
Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: Spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils	610
Microbial carbon use efficiency of mineral-associated organic matter is related to its desorbability	448
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles	419
Comparing plant litter molecular diversity assessed from proximate analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy	220
Tree species-dependent effects of urbanization and plant invasion on deadwood biota and decomposition rates	211
Contributions of microbial necromass and plant lignin to soil organic carbon stock in a paddy field under simulated conditions of long-term elevated CO2 and warming	178
Cropping system modulates the effect of spring drought on ammonia-oxidizing communities	174
Termite bioturbation: Fungal versus non-fungal building strategies lead to different soil sheeting stability	157
Tree species richness increases spatial variation but not overall wood decomposition	156
Editorial Board	150
Obituary	142
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Termite graveyards. Hidden geochemical patches?	113
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Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 2021	111
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Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	109

Dual isotopic (33P and 18O) tracing and solution 31P NMR spectroscopy to reveal organic phosphorus synthesis in organic soil horizons	107
Nitrogen addition slows litter decomposition accompanied by accelerated manganese release: A five-year experiment in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest	107
Oxygen gas derived oxygen does not affect the accuracy of 18O-labelled water approach for microbial carbon use efficiency	106
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	104
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics	104
Increasing plant species diversity enhances microbial necromass carbon content but does not alter its contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a subtropical forest	100
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization	99
Evidence for a genetic basis in functional trait tradeoffs with microbial growth rate but not growth yield	96
Pasture-crop rotations modulate the soil and rhizosphere microbiota and preserve soil structure supporting oat cultivation in the Pampa biome	96
Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities	95
The path less taken: Long-term N additions slow leaf litter decomposition and favor the physical transfer pathway of soil organic matter formation	90
Response of soil organic carbon decomposition to intensified water variability co-determined by the microbial community and aggregate changes in a temperate grassland soil of northern China	90
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil	89
Normalizing time in terms of space: What drives the fate of spring thaw-released nitrogen in a sloping Arctic landscape?	89
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	88
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	88
Earthworms as conveyors of mycorrhizal fungi in soils	84
Amino acid isotopes in functional assemblages of Collembola reveal the influence of vertical resource heterogeneity and root energy supply on trophic interactions in soil food webs	84
Depth-dependent driver of global soil carbon turnover times	83
A pulse of simulated root exudation alters the composition and temporal dynamics of microbial metabolites in its immediate vicinity	82
A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency	81
Revegetation promotes soil mineral-associated organic carbon sequestration and soil carbon stability in the Tengger Desert, northern China	79
Ephemeral microbial responses to pulses of bioavailable carbon in oxic and anoxic salt marsh soils	77
Soil nutrient conditions alter viral lifestyle strategy and potential function in phosphorous and nitrogen metabolisms	76
Stabilized microbial necromass in soil is more strongly coupled with microbial diversity than the bioavailability of plant inputs	76
Litter mixture effects on nitrogen dynamics during decomposition predominantly vary among biomes but little with litter identity, diversity and soil fauna	76
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach	75
Susceptibility of new soil organic carbon to mineralization during dry-wet cycling in soils from contrasting ends of a precipitation gradient	75
Differential effects of soil trophic networks on microbial decomposition activity in mountain ecosystems	74
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions	74
Adaptation of soil micro-food web to elemental limitation: evidence from the forest-steppe ecotone	73
Top-down effects on biological soil crust function	72
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	72
Will a legacy of enhanced resource availability accelerate the soil microbial response to future climate change?	72
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Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification	70
Mitigating generative AI inaccuracies in soil biology	69
Testing microbial models with data from a 14C glucose tracer experiment	69
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra	69
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem	68
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	68
Short-term soil fungal community dynamics following fire in mediterranean climate-type banksia woodlands	67
Investigating drivers of free-living diazotroph activity in paddy soils across China	67
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	67