OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biogeochemistry is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Rapid denitrification of nitrate-contaminated groundwater in a low-gradient blackwater stream valley	102
Estimating phytoplankton stoichiometry from routinely collected monitoring data	100
Decomposing the novel decomposer-sphere concept: decomposition byproducts can shape surrounding communities through space and time	52
Freezing–thawing cycles affect organic matter decomposition in periglacial maritime Antarctic soils	47
Organic matter cycling in a model restored wetland receiving complex effluent	42
Extreme drought conditions increase variability of nitrate through a stream network, with limited influence on the spatial patterns of stream phosphate	41
Isoetid mediated radial oxygen loss prevents iron reduction and the related mobilisation of ammonium and methane: an experimental approach	31
DOM in the long arc of environmental science: looking back and thinking ahead	30
In-situ N2:Ar ratios describe the balance between nitrogen fixation and denitrification in shallow eutrophic experimental lakes	28
Plant community effects on soil moisture and nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem	26
Fingerprinting the elemental composition and chemodiversity of vegetation leachates: consequences for dissolved organic matter dynamics in Arctic environments	26
Decoupling of silica, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in a meromictic subalpine lake (Lake Iseo, Italy)	25
C:N:P stoichiometry in six distinct habitats of a glacier terminus in the source area of the Yangtze River	25
Effects of tree pollen on throughfall element fluxes in European forests	24
High initial soil organic matter level combined with aboveground plant residues increased microbial carbon use efficiency but accelerated soil priming effect	23
The use of stable carbon isotopes to decipher global change effects on soil organic carbon: present status, limitations, and future prospects	22
The need for knowledge transfer and communication among stakeholders in the voluntary carbon market	22
Landscape controls on total mercury and methylmercury export from small boreal forest catchments	21
Optical properties of dissolved organic matter in throughfall and stemflow vary across tree species and season in a temperate headwater forest	20
Element stoichiometry and nutrient limitation in bog plant and lichen species	20
Vegetation and hydrology stratification as proxies to estimate methane emission from tidal marshes	20
Quantifying erosion rates and weathering pathways that maximize soil organic carbon storage	19
Changes in soil iron biogeochemistry in response to mangrove dieback	19
Impact of ecosystem water balance and soil parent material on silicon dynamics: insights from three long-term chronosequences	18
Coarse woody debris accelerates the decomposition of deadwood inputs across temperate forest	18

Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal watersheds	18
Patterns in riverine carbon, nutrient and suspended solids export to the Eastern James Bay: links to climate, hydrology and landscape	17
Nitrogen fixation facilitates stream microbial mat biomass across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica	17
Changes in organic matter properties and carbon chemical stability in surface soils associated with changing vegetation communities in permafrost peatlands	17
Characterisation of riverine dissolved organic matter using a complementary suite of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods	16
Storms and pH of dam releases affect downstream phosphorus cycling in an arid regulated river	16
Temporal patterns in sediment, carbon, and nutrient burial in ponds associated with changing agricultural tillage	16
Spatial and temporal patterns of urea content in a eutrophic stream continuum on the Northern Great Plains	16
Predicting high resolution total phosphorus concentrations for soils of the Upper Mississippi River Basin using machine learning	16
Artificial ponds as hotspots of nitrogen removal in agricultural watershed	16
Increased interactions between iron oxides and organic carbon under acid deposition drive large increases in soil organic carbon in a tropical forest in southern China	15
Nitrogen fixation associated with epiphytes on the seagrass Zostera marina in a temperate lagoon with moderate to high nitrogen loads	15
Further investigations into the use of tree rings as archives of atmospheric mercury concentrations	15
Ice cover and thaw events influence nitrogen partitioning and concentration in two shallow eutrophic lakes	15
Iron overload consequences for submerged plants stoichiometry, homeostasis and performance	15
Effectiveness of phosphorus control under extreme heatwaves: implications for sediment nutrient releases and greenhouse gas emissions	15
Surprising relationships between soil pH and microbial biomass and activity in a northern hardwood forest	15
Impacts of storm disturbance and the role of the Feammox process in high nutrient riparian sediments	15
Spatial and temporal patterns of benthic nutrient cycling define the extensive role of internal loading in an agriculturally influenced oxbow lake	15
Correction to: Rapid denitrification of nitrate-contaminated groundwater in a low-gradient blackwater stream valley	15
Mycorrhizal type affects forest nitrogen availability, independent of organic matter quality	14
The role of clay content and mineral surface area for soil organic carbon storage in an arable toposequence	14
Layered structure significantly inhibits CO2 transfer through the depositional profile: as simulated by well-mixed vs. interlaid soil columns	14
Rock weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale	14
Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate	14
Biological nitrogen fixation and nifH gene abundance in deadwood of 13 different tree species	13
Integrated isotope and microbiome analysis indicates dominance of denitrification in N2O production after rewetting of drained fen peat	13
Phosphorus availability and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi limit soil C cycling and influence plant responses to elevated CO2 conditions	13
Long-term nitrogen fertilization impacts plant-microbial interactions differently in arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees	13
Acidification alters sediment nitrogen source-sink dynamics in eelgrass (Zostera marina (L.)) beds	13
Nitrogen fixation across the aquascape: current perspectives, future priorities	13
Biogeochemical constraints on climate change mitigation through regenerative farming	13
Expanding the scope of biogeochemical research to accelerate atmospheric carbon capture	13
Soil mineral fraction influences the bacterial abundance: evidence from a mineral and plant materials incubation study	13
Soil science in the time of climate mitigation	12
Using fixed-potential electrodes to quantify iron and manganese redox cycling in upland soils	12
Active methane processing microbes and the disproportionate role of NC10 phylum in methane mitigation in Amazonian floodplains	12
Microbial responses to soil cooling might explain increases in microbial biomass in winter	12
Biosignatures of in situ carbon cycling driven by physical isolation and sedimentary methanogenesis within the anoxic basin of perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee, Antarctica	12
Isotopic evidence for sources of dissolved carbon and the role of organic matter respiration in the Fraser River basin, Canada	12
Nitrogen-bedrock interactions regulate multi-element nutrient limitation and sustainability in forests	12
Soil nitrogen availability in a temperate forest exhibits large variability at sub-tree spatial scales	12
Inorganic carbon removal from alkaline soils: an underappreciated influence on soil organic carbon measurements in an elevated CO2 experiment	12
Patterns and controls of aboveground litter inputs to temperate forests	12
Supplemental precipitation accelerates decay but only in photodegraded litter and implications that sunlight promotes leaching loss	12
Mycorrhizal type determines root–microbial responses to nitrogen fertilization and recovery	12
The biogeochemical redox paradox: how can we make a foundational concept more predictive of biogeochemical state changes?	12
Response of biomass, hydrology and biogeochemistry to alternative approaches of cutting a northern forest: model comparisons	12
Bark controls tree branch-leached dissolved organic matter production and bioavailability in a subtropical forest	12
Dynamic and allocation of recently assimilated carbon in Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and birch (Betula platyphylla) in a temperate forest	12

Diameter-associated dynamics of multiple metallic elements during the root decomposition of two dominant subalpine trees in southwestern China	11
Incorporation of fine root detritus into forest soil organic matter	11
Surface soil organic carbon sequestration under post agricultural grasslands offset by net loss at depth	11
Benthic diatoms modify riverine silicon export to a marine zone in a hypertidal estuarine environment	11
Publisher Correction	10
Effects of geological conditions and atmospheric deposition on soil biogeochemical properties in Japanese forested ecosystems revealed by Sr isotope analysis	10
Correction to: Seasonal measurements of the nitrogenous osmolyte glycine betaine in marine temperate coastal waters	10
Soil type modifies the impacts of warming and snow exclusion on leachate carbon and nutrient losses	10
Foliar chemical composition and respiration rates of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and American beech (Fagus grandifolia) trees across a gradient of soil acidification	10
Temperature affects the ratio of ethylene produced to N2-fixed more than immediate release of fixed N in streams	9
Herbivores influence biogeochemical processes by altering litter quality and quantity in a subarctic wetland	9
Atmospheric deposition and precipitation are important predictors of inorganic nitrogen export to streams from forest and grassland watersheds: a large-scale data synthesis	9
Extracellular enzyme ratios reveal locality and horizon-specific carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus limitations in Arctic permafrost soils	9
Contributions of Fe(III) to UV–Vis absorbance in river water: a case study on the Connecticut River and argument for the systematic tandem measurement of Fe(III) and CDOM	9
Riparian seasonal water quality and greenhouse gas dynamics following stream restoration	9
Nitrogen wet deposition stoichiometry: the role of organic nitrogen, seasonality, and snow	9
Experimental flooding shifts carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus pool distribution and microbial activity	9
Soil greenhouse gas fluxes in floodplain forests of the Danube National Park: effects of flooding and soil microclimate	9
Silicon concentrations and stoichiometry in two agricultural watersheds: implications for management and downstream water quality	9
Sensitivity of river catchments to discharge-controlled dissolved carbon export: a study of eight catchments in southern Patagonia	8
Divergent roles of iron and aluminum in sediment organic matter association at the terrestrial–aquatic interface	8
Geochemical, sedimentological and microbial diversity in two thermokarst lakes of far Eastern Siberia	8
Temperature and carbon availability interact to enhance nitrous oxide production via denitrification in alluvial plain river sediments	8
Transitions in nitrogen and organic matter form and concentration correspond to bacterial population dynamics in a hypoxic urban estuary	8
Influence of contrasting redox conditions on iron (oxyhydr)oxide transformation and associated phosphate sorption	8
Small rain events during drought alter sediment dissolved organic carbon leaching and respiration in intermittent stream sediments	8
Contribution of invasive bivalves (Dreissena spp.) to element distribution: phase interaction, regional and seasonal comparison in a large shallow lake	8
Factors controlling the net ecosystem production of cryoconite on Western Himalayan glaciers	8
Correction to: Extracellular enzyme ratios reveal locality and horizon-specific carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus limitations in Arctic permafrost soils	8
Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) exchange flux from soil-vegetation to atmosphere at a meadow steppe	8
Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions	8
Grassland management regimes regulate soil phosphorus fractions and conversion between phosphorus pools in semiarid steppe ecosystems	8
Neotropical ostracode oxygen and carbon isotope signatures: implications for calcification conditions	8
Increased soil-derived N2O production following a simulated fall-freeze–thaw cycle: effects of fall urea addition, soil moisture, and history of manure applications	7
The southwestern South Atlantic continental shelf biogeochemical divide	7
Experimentally simulated sea level rise destabilizes carbon-mineral associations in temperate tidal marsh soil	7
Seasonal measurements of the nitrogenous osmolyte glycine betaine in marine temperate coastal waters	7
Removing 10 cm of degraded peat mitigates unwanted effects of peatland rewetting: a mesocosm study	7
Insight in molecular degradation patterns and co-metabolism during rose waste co-composting	7
A soil matrix capacity index to predict mineral-associated but not particulate organic carbon across a range of climate and soil pH	7
Biogeochemical feedbacks may amplify ongoing and future ocean deoxygenation: a case study from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone	7
Publisher Correction to: Influence of Three Gorges Dam and drought on particulate organic carbon flux and its source in the lower Yangtze River	7
Molecular tracers for characterization and distribution of organic matter in a freshwater lake system from the Lesser Himalaya	7
Microscale heterogeneity controls macroscopic soil heterotrophic respiration by regulating resource availability and environmental stress	7
Assessing thermal acclimation of soil microbial respiration using macromolecular rate theory	7
Past anthropogenic activities offset dissolved inorganic phosphorus retention in the Mississippi River basin	7
Post-fire soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) across global ecosystems: a review	7
Decomposition of carbon adsorbed on iron (III)-treated clays and their effect on the stability of soil organic carbon and external carbon inputs	7
Association between soil organic carbon and calcium in acidic grassland soils from Point Reyes National Seashore, CA	7