OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Soil Ecology is 44. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of tillage and no-tillage system on culturable fungal communities in the rhizosphere and soil of two spelt cultivars	169
Short-term effects of co-applied biochar and paper mill biosolids on soil microbial communities under field conditions	148
Soil microbiota resilience in a two-decade long-term experiment comparing an organic and a conventional cropping system	130
Organic matter inputs and earthworm inoculation enhance C storage in tropical soils following application of the FBO technology	120
Editorial Board	105
Temperature mediates microbial multitrophic communities assembly and soil-borne fungal pathogens in coastal ecosystems	104
Cover crop mixtures do not assemble markedly distinct soil microbiotas as compared to monocultures in a multilocation field experiment	100
Soil biota response to raised water levels and reduced nutrient inputs in agricultural peat meadows	91
Comammox Nitrospira and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are metabolically active in a subtropical estuarine wetland	88
Assessing the effects of microwave heat disturbance on soil microbial communities in Australian agricultural environments: A microcosm study	83
Deep-rooted winter wheat cover crop promotes subsoil organic carbon storage through improved microbial functional traits	76
Impacts of lime application on soil bacterial microbiome in dryland wheat soil in the Pacific Northwest	72
Returning farmland to forests and grasslands promotes soil quality restoration in Northeast China: Evidence from soil nitrogen cycle	71
Soil sodicity affected the arbuscular mycorrhizal community and its interactions with bacteria in the Western Songnen Plain	71
A cryptically diverse microbial community drives organic matter decomposition in forests	71
Bacterial diversity loss weakens community functional stability	69
Editorial Board	68
Symbiotic soil fungi suppress N2O emissions but facilitate nitrogen remobilization to grains in sandy but not clay soils under organic amendments	66
Rhizospheric microbial community in plant species from the Phaseolus genus	63
Unveiling changes in the rhizosphere bacteriome of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inbred lines linked to their resistance to the soil borne pathogen Verticillium dahliae Kleb	62
Contribution of Suillus variegatus to the ecological restoration of 10-year-old Pinus tabuliformis on the Loess Plateau	60
Effect of value-added organic co-products from four industrial chains on functioning of plant disease suppressive soil and their potentiality to enhance soil quality: A review from the perspective of	58
Niche differentiation shapes the community assembly of fungi associated with evergreen trees in the Horqin desert	57
Relationships of bacterial-feeding nematodes, phosphatase-producing bacteria, phosphatase activity and their effects on soil organic phosphorus mineralization under straw return	57
Too much of a good thing: Evidence of sodium stress in an inland subtropical riparian detrital system	56

Lure and starve: Host root exudates to suppress field populations of cyst nematodes	56
Potential effect of biogas slurry application to mitigate of peak N2O emission without compromising crop yield in North China Plain cropping systems	56
Effects of anthropogenic activities on soil microbial community structure and methane anaerobic oxidation rate in coastal wetlands of Yellow River Delta, China	56
Vermicompost and Azotobacter chroococcum amendment of saline-alkali soil decreases nitrogen loss and increases nitrogen uptake confirmed by ZmNRT1.1B of maize	56
Editorial Board	54
Biochar amendment shifts bacterial keystone taxa regulating soil phosphorus dynamics	53
Root hydraulic redistribution underlies the insensitivity of soil respiration to combined heat and drought	53
Temporal and spatial dynamics and functional metabolism of dark septate endophytes of Gymnocarpos przewalskii Maxim. in Northwest Desert, China	53
Adding ligneous litter to cultivated organic soil changes the soil micro-food web and alters soil nitrogen availability	52
Organic carbon negatively affects the diversity of soil nitrous oxide reducers in Chinese fir plantations at a regional scale	49
Impact of rhizosphere priming on soil organic carbon dynamics: Insights from the perspective of carbon fractions	49
Soil fungal communities associated with chili pepper respond to mineral and organic fertilization and application of the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma harzianum	49
Nitrogen deposition in the middle-aged and mature coniferous forest: Impacts on soil microbial community structure and function	47
Vegetation drives soil microbial metabolic limitation through modifications of soil properties and microbial biomass during desert grassland-shrubland state anthropogenic transition	47
Earthworms increase soil carbon dioxide emissions through changing microbial community structure and activity under high nitrogen addition	47
Effects of nitrogen and water addition on N2O emissions in temperate grasslands, northern China	47
Elevated CO2 alters aggregate‑carbon and microbial community but does not affect total soil organic C in the semi-arid tropics	46
Soil sulfur cycle bacteria and metabolites affected by soil depth and afforestation conditions in high-sulfur coal mining areas	46
Effect of salt-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation on soil bacterial community and ecological function groups in coastal saline land	45
Topographic patterns of soil traits and macro fauna in oriental beech forests in Iran	44
Cessation of manure application diminishes the dissemination potential of antibiotic resistance genes by altering bacterial interaction patterns in soil–lettuce systems	44
Microbial community assembly elucidates differential biotic homogenization in soils caused by agricultural expansion in the Yangtze River estuary	44
Functional diversity and behavioral changes of microbial communities under salt affected soils	44
Tree growth is linked to the diversity of belowground fungal functional guilds across nine Chinese fir plantations in subtropics	44