OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 12. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	150
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	69
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	64
How tree species with contrasting biological nitrification inhibition capacity influence denitrifier activity and abundance? Insights from reciprocal transfers of soil	63
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	50
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	49
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	48
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	45
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus	44
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	43
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	40
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	39
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	38
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	36
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	36
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	33
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	32
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	32
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	32
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	31
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	31
Biochar co-application mitigated the stimulation of organic amendments on soil respiration by decreasing microbial activities in an infertile soil	31
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	29
Variations in the composition of tea leaves and soil microbial community	29

Rhizosphere-competent actinobacteria with ACC deaminase activity mitigate heavy metal stress in corn (Zea mays)	28
Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest	27
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	27
Liming enhances the abundance and stability of nitrogen-cycling microbes: the buffering effect of long-term lime application	25
Modified universal buffer does not necessarily maintain soil enzyme assay pH	25
Mycorrhizal symbiosis balances rootstock-mediated growth-defence tradeoffs	24
Bacterial necromass determines the response of mineral-associated organic matter to elevated CO2	23
Microorganisms regulate soil phosphorus fractions in response to low nocturnal temperature by altering the abundance and composition of the pqqC gene rather than that of the phoD gene	23
Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools	23
Phosphorus (P) mobilisation from inorganic and organic P sources depends on P-acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica	23
Organic fertilization strengthens multiple internal pathways for soil mineral nitrogen production: evidence from the meta-analysis of long-term field trials	22
Temporal dynamics of total and active prokaryotic communities in two Mediterranean orchard soils treated with solid anaerobic digestate or managed under no-tillage	22
Nitrogen uptake and reallocation from roots drive the regrowth of a dominant plant in temperate grassland after low defoliation	22
Nitrate supply increases the resistance of cucumber to Fusarium wilt disease by regulating root exudation	22
Interactive effects of plant litter chemistry and organic/inorganic forms of nitrogen addition on Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) soil respiration	21
Soil contribution to the cobalamin (vitamin B12) supply of terrestrial organisms	21
Mineral N suppressed priming effect while increasing microbial C use efficiency and N2O production in sandy soils under long-term conservation management	21
Restoration of degraded alpine grasslands alters plant–microbial competition for nitrogen	20
Converting acidic forests to managed plantations reduces soil nitrogen loss by inhibiting autotrophic nitrification while inducing nitrate immobilization in the tropics	20
Competition for S-containing amino acids between rhizosphere microorganisms and plant roots: the role of cysteine in plant S acquisition	20
Hybrid pathways of denitrification drive N2O but not N2 emissions from an acid-sulphate sugarcane soil	20
Activity of anaerobic methane oxidation driven by different electron acceptors and the relative microbiome in paddy fields across various rice growth periods and soil layers	19
Functional redundant soil fauna and microbial groups and processes were fairly resistant to drought in an agroecosystem	19
Biochar accelerates soil organic carbon mineralization via rhizodeposit-activated Actinobacteria	19
Elevational patterns of microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical mountain forest	19
Impact of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on resident soil and root mycobiomes in beech forests	18
Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	18
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports	18
Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems	18
Land use types affect soil microbial NO3− immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape	17
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	17
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	16
Spotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?	16
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress	16
Increasing phosphorus availability reduces priming effect by facilitating microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest soil	16
Investigating protistan predators and bacteria within soil microbiomes in agricultural ecosystems under organic and chemical fertilizer applications	16
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant	16
A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	16
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	16
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland	15
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils	15
Greenhouse growth bioassay confirms soil nitrogen availability indicated by the flush of CO2	15
Hysteretic response of N2O reductase activity to soil pH variations after application of lime to an acidic agricultural soil	14
Nitrogen additions increase soil microbial nitrate- rather than ammonium- immobilization	14
Nitrous oxide fluxes, their sources, and soil microbial communities depend more on carbon availability than long- and short-term phosphorus addition	14
Root exudation of contrasting drought-stressed pearl millet genotypes conveys varying biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) activity	14
Fixation of CO2 by soil fungi: contribution to organic carbon pool and destination of fixed carbon products	14
Effects of organic mulching on soil aggregates, main microbial groups, and enzyme activity in Chinese hickory plantation	14
Response of acetochlor degradation and bacterial community in black soil to the application of vermicompost	14
Effect of no-till followed by crop diversification on the soil microbiome in a boreal short cereal rotation	14

Pyrolysis temperature affects biochar suitability as an alternative rhizobial carrier	14
N2O production is influenced by the abundance of nitrite-reducers and N2O-reducers in casts produced by a large variety of tropical earthworm species	13
Steering microbiomes by organic amendments towards climate-smart agricultural soils	13
Extraction optimisation to measure viral abundance in red soils	13
Soil bacterial and fungal communities beneath different forest types differentially and promptly respond to non-catastrophic typhoon disturbance	13
Harnessing key bacteria from suppressive soil to mitigate banana Panama disease	13
Two-phase processes characterize the turnover of high molecular weight dissolved organic nitrogen in soil	13
Cover crops in citrus orchards impact soil nutrient cycling and the soil microbiome after three years but effects are site-specific	13
Repeated drying and rewetting cycles accelerate bacterial growth recovery after rewetting	13
Grazing exclusion increases soil organic C through microbial necromass of root-derived C as traced by 13C labelling photosynthate	13
Effect of agricultural management system (“cash crop”, “livestock” and “climate optimized”) on nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions	13
Top-down gene upregulation and not microbial community diversity in explaining local-scale litter decomposition	13
A hitchhiker’s guide: estimates of microbial biomass and microbial gene abundance in soil	12
Lysimeter-based full fertilizer 15N balances corroborate direct dinitrogen emission measurements using the 15N gas flow method	12
Soil pH differently affects N2O emissions from soils amended with chemical fertilizer and manure by modifying nitrification and denitrification in wheat-maize rotation system	12
Spent mushroom substrate as a substitute for chemical fertilizer changes N-cycling genes and reduces N2O emission in different textured soils	12
Effect of biodegradable plastics on greenhouse gas emission and paddy rice growth under flooding conditions	12
Unlocking Zn biofortification: leveraging high-Zn wheat and rhizospheric microbiome interactions in high-pH soils	12
High additions of nitrogen affect plant species-specific differences in the composition of main microbial groups and the uptake of rhizodeposited carbon in a grassland soil	12
Rhizosphere bacteriome assemblage following initial fluctuations is delayed with nitrogen additions in tomato seedlings	12
Effect of biochar and DMPP application alone or in combination on nitrous oxide emissions differed by soil types	12