OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 72. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	393
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	288
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	254
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	235
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	233
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	229
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	227
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	215
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	214
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization	214
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	213
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	199
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	194
Microbial transformation mechanisms of particulate organic carbon to mineral-associated organic carbon at the chemical molecular level: Highlighting the effects of ambient temperature and soil moistur	185
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	185
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	170
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	163
Microsites support microbial sulfate reduction in upland soils	153
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	153
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	152
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	151
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	146
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	145
Editorial Board	142
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	137

Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	135
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	133
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	130
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	130
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	127
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	123
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	120
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	118
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	116
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	115
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	114
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	106
Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry	106
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	106
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	105
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	104
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	104
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality	103
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	103
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine	100
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	100
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	98
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	97
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	97
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	96
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	95
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	95
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	94
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	90
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	89
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	89
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	88
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	87
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	87
Editorial Board	84
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	83
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire	83
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	83
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	82
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	81
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	80
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	80
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	78
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	77
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	73
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils	72
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	72
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	72