OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 25. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	163
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	68
How tree species with contrasting biological nitrification inhibition capacity influence denitrifier activity and abundance? Insights from reciprocal transfers of soil	56
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	49
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	46
Responses of bacterial community composition and diversity to multi-level nitrogen addition at different periods of growing season driven by conditional rare taxa in an alpine meadow	43
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	41
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	41
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with contrasting life-history strategies differently affect health-promoting compounds in field-grown tomato by changing arbuscule occurrence and mycorrhizal assemblages i	39
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	36
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	36
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	36
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	35
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	34
Evidence of endophytic nitrogen fixation as a potential mechanism supporting colonization of non-nodulating pioneer plants on a glacial foreland	34
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss	34
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus	33
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	32
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	30
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	30
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	29
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	29
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	29
Variations in the composition of tea leaves and soil microbial community	27
Rhizosphere-competent actinobacteria with ACC deaminase activity mitigate heavy metal stress in corn (Zea mays)	27

Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest	25
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	25