OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Soil Ecology is 48. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of tillage and no-tillage system on culturable fungal communities in the rhizosphere and soil of two spelt cultivars	183
Organic matter inputs and earthworm inoculation enhance C storage in tropical soils following application of the FBO technology	160
Editorial Board	128
Temperature mediates microbial multitrophic communities assembly and soil-borne fungal pathogens in coastal ecosystems	116
Cover crop mixtures do not assemble markedly distinct soil microbiotas as compared to monocultures in a multilocation field experiment	111
Soil biota response to raised water levels and reduced nutrient inputs in agricultural peat meadows	108
Deep-rooted winter wheat cover crop promotes subsoil organic carbon storage through improved microbial functional traits	106
Returning farmland to forests and grasslands promotes soil quality restoration in Northeast China: Evidence from soil nitrogen cycle	96
Composition and activity of soil microbial communities in native and non-native vegetation of southern California	95
Insights into soil carbon metabolism and carbon sequestration capacity under organic fertilizer substitution model	82
Rhizosphere priming mechanisms on soil organic carbon decomposition differ among exudate components and are regulated by mycorrhizal type: Insights from a temperate forest in northeast China	81
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reshape the stability and complexity of micro-food webs in the shrubland soils of a dryland ecosystem	80
Effects of allelochemical 4-vinyl guaiacol and pathogen co-treatment on the physiological characteristics and soil microbial community structure in the Lanzhou lily	78
Short-term effects of co-applied biochar and paper mill biosolids on soil microbial communities under field conditions	76
Impact of plant litter decomposition on soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality	75
Editorial Board	73
Biological soil conditioner with reduced rates of chemical fertilization improves soil functionality and enhances rice production in vegetable-rice rotation	67
Soil fungal communities associated with chili pepper respond to mineral and organic fertilization and application of the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma harzianum	66
Impacts of lime application on soil bacterial microbiome in dryland wheat soil in the Pacific Northwest	66
Effect of salt-tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation on soil bacterial community and ecological function groups in coastal saline land	65
Root hydraulic redistribution underlies the insensitivity of soil respiration to combined heat and drought	65
Comammox Nitrospira and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are metabolically active in a subtropical estuarine wetland	65
Functional diversity and behavioral changes of microbial communities under salt affected soils	65
Vegetation drives soil microbial metabolic limitation through modifications of soil properties and microbial biomass during desert grassland-shrubland state anthropogenic transition	62
Effects of nitrogen and water addition on N2O emissions in temperate grasslands, northern China	61

Microbial community assembly elucidates differential biotic homogenization in soils caused by agricultural expansion in the Yangtze River estuary	61
Cessation of manure application diminishes the dissemination potential of antibiotic resistance genes by altering bacterial interaction patterns in soil–lettuce systems	60
Soil sodicity affected the arbuscular mycorrhizal community and its interactions with bacteria in the Western Songnen Plain	58
Earthworms increase soil carbon dioxide emissions through changing microbial community structure and activity under high nitrogen addition	58
Tree growth is linked to the diversity of belowground fungal functional guilds across nine Chinese fir plantations in subtropics	58
Adding ligneous litter to cultivated organic soil changes the soil micro-food web and alters soil nitrogen availability	57
Nitrogen deposition in the middle-aged and mature coniferous forest: Impacts on soil microbial community structure and function	56
Influence of distillery sewage sludge application placement methods on microbial community functions in sorghum rhizosphere: Focus on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling	54
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	53
Contribution of Suillus variegatus to the ecological restoration of 10-year-old Pinus tabuliformis on the Loess Plateau	52
Vermicompost and Azotobacter chroococcum amendment of saline-alkali soil decreases nitrogen loss and increases nitrogen uptake confirmed by ZmNRT1.1B of maize	52
Niche differentiation shapes the community assembly of fungi associated with evergreen trees in the Horqin desert	52
Effects of anthropogenic activities on soil microbial community structure and methane anaerobic oxidation rate in coastal wetlands of Yellow River Delta, China	51
Editorial Board	51
Potential effect of biogas slurry application to mitigate of peak N2O emission without compromising crop yield in North China Plain cropping systems	51
Temporal and spatial dynamics and functional metabolism of dark septate endophytes of Gymnocarpos przewalskii Maxim. in Northwest Desert, China	50
Soil microbiota resilience in a two-decade long-term experiment comparing an organic and a conventional cropping system	50
Symbiotic soil fungi suppress N2O emissions but facilitate nitrogen remobilization to grains in sandy but not clay soils under organic amendments	49
Topographic patterns of soil traits and macro fauna in oriental beech forests in Iran	49
Effects of controlled release potassium chloride application on rhizosphere bacterial community and metabolites under reduced irrigation volume	49
One-time application of struvites, ashes and superphosphate had no major impact on the microbial phosphorus mobilization capabilities over 15-months in a grassland field trial	48
Co-existence of Glomus versiforme and nitrile butadiene rubber has an antagonistic effect on soil greenhouse gas emissions	48
Farm management and shade tree species influence coffee soil microbiomes in Central and South America	48
Enhancing the immobilization efficiency of mercapto-palygorskite on soil Cd through earthworm addition: Cd fractions, soil aggregates, and bacterial community	48