OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 75. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	325
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	253
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	249
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	219
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	201
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization	199
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	197
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	191
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	188
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	185
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	179
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	170
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	170
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	163
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	161
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	159
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	157
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	153
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	151
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	149
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	147
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	142
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	137
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	134
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	129

Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	129
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	127
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	124
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	122
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	118
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	116
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	113
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	113
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	112
Editorial Board	108
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	105
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	103
Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry	102
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	101
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	100
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	99
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	95
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	95
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine	94
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	94
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	93
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	92
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality	92
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	92
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	90
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	89
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	88
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	88
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	87
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	86
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	86
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	84
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	84
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	84
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils	83
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	83
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources	81
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	81
Editorial Board	81
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	80
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	80
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	80
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	79
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	78
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic	77
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	76
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	75
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	75
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire	75
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	75