OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 71. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	631
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	292
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	227
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	224
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	202
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	191
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	181
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	177
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	173
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	171
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	165
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	163
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	152
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	151
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	148
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	148
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	148
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	143
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	143
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	139
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	136
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	133
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	126
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	124
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	118

Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	117
Editorial Board	115
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	115
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	113
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	109
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	108
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	107
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	105
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	102
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	99
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	96
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	96
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	94
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	93
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	91
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	91
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	90
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	89
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	87
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	86
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	86
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	85
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	85
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	85
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	84
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	82
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	82
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	82
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	82
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	82
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	81
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	81
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	80
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	80
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	78
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources	77
Editorial Board	77
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	76
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	76
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	76
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model	76
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region	74
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	74
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	74
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	72
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	72
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores	71
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	71