OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Soil Biology is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	53
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	41
Corrigendum to “Carbon and energy utilization in microbial cell extracts from soil” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 124 (2025) 103713]	39
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	36
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	30
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	28
Evaluating DNA extraction methods for eDNA metabarcoding of soil invertebrate diversity	27
Earthworms shape prokaryotic communities and affect extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural soil	24
Introduction of earthworms into constructed soils has long-lasting effects on primary production	23
The combined nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer application reduced soil multifunctionality in Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands, China	23
Corrigendum to “Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends” [Eur. J. Soil Biol. 108 (2022) 103382]	23
Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry indicates that litter quality regulates soil microbial nutrient demand in a Tibetan alpine meadow	22
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	22
Environmental drivers of earthworm communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps	21
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism under precipitation changes in Ningxia desert steppe of China	19
Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests	19
Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	18
Nutrient source, management system and the age of the plantation affect soil biodiversity and chemical properties in raspberry production	18
Influence of tree residue retention in Mediterranean forest on soil microbial communities responses to frequent warming and drying events	17
Drought and litter quality effects on the contribution of soil fauna to decomposition in a Mediterranean forest	17
Ammonia oxidizing bacteria dominate soil nitrification under different fertilization regimes in black soils of northeast China	16
Diazotrophic communities shift with organic fertilizer substitution and growth stages in tomato field soil	16
Contrasting response of soil N2O release to ammonium, nitrate, and urea addition rates is determined by substrate availability and microbial community abundance and composition	16
Roles of plants in controlling the response of soil bacterial community to climate warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	16
Responses of microarthropods and nematodes to long-term warming in alpine meadows are precipitation-dependent effects	16

Microbial community structure and function in paddy soil as affected by water-saving irrigation mode	16
Do earthworm and litter inputs promote decomposition or stabilization of cryoturnated organic matter from melted permafrost?	15
In-depth insights into carbohydrate-active enzyme genes regarding the disparities in soil organic carbon after 12-year rotational cropping system field study	15
Warmer summers have the potential to affect food security by increasing the prevalence and activity of Actinobacteria	15
Short-term plant mixtures alter soil organic carbon components and microbial network characteristics	14
Microbial mechanism of soil organic carbon content under waterlogging and water table fluctuation in drained peat soils	14
Editorial Board	14
N2O emissions, microbial community composition and genes expressions in soil amended with vermicomposts derived from different feedstocks	14
Addition of polyester microplastic fibers to soil alters the diversity and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and affects plant growth and nutrition	14
Resilience of root and soil bacteria to drought stress depends on host plant's colonization affinity towards arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi	13
The expansion of evergreen and deciduous shrubs changed the chemical characteristics and biological community of alpine meadows soil	13
Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	13
Effects of long-term sugarcane-soybean intercropping coupled with varying levels of nitrogen input on soil legacies: A field experimental study	13
Nutrient supply enhances positive priming of soil organic C under straw amendment and accelerates the incorporation of straw-derived C into organic C pool in paddy soils	13
Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau	13
Planting Chinese milk vetch with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria inoculation enhances phosphorus turnover by altering the structure of the phoD-harboring bacteria community	13
Enhancing soil quality and grain yields through fertilization strategies in integrated crop-livestock system under no-till in Brazilian Cerrado	13
Responses of soil hexapod communities to warming are mediated by microbial carbon and nitrogen in a subarctic grassland	13
Microbial soil quality indicators depending on land use and soil type in a semi-arid dryland in Kenya	13
Arginine and methionine increase the enzymatic activity of microbes involved in N and P cycles in arid soil from the Chihuahuan desert	12
Synergistic application of biochar with organic fertilizer positively impacts the soil micro-food web in sandy loam soils	12
Differential responses of soil arthropods to the application of biogas slurry and biochar in a coastal poplar plantation	12
Microbial necromass carbon mediates nonlinear soil carbon response to nitrogen application in the greenhouse vegetable production system	12
Communities of nematodes, bacteria and fungi differ among soils of different wild cabbage populations	12
Mechanisms of furrow-applied biochar in enhancing rhizosphere soil microbiota and metabolites in continuous sesame cropping	11
Isotopic evidence for the effects of earthworm and straw amendment on root carbon uptake of upland rice and maize	11
Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends”	11
Effects of the tropical endogeic earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus on the horizontal dispersal of soil nematodes	11
Root trenching and stable isotope analysis uncover trophic links of euedaphic collembola species to mycorrhizal mycelium in pine forests	11
Heterogeneous salinity and nitrogen in the root-zone influences soil water status, rhizosphere bacteria distributions and promotes tomato growth	11
Changes in peatland soil fauna biomass alter food web structure and function under warming and hydrological changes	11
Assessing the efficacy of antibiotic treatment to produce earthworms with a suppressed microbiome	11
Coupling amendment of microbial and compound fertilizers increases fungal necromass carbon and soil organic carbon by regulating microbial activity in flue-cured tobacco-planted field	11
Dynamics of nitrogen mineralization and nitrogen cycling functional genes in response to soil pore size distribution	11
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on the growth and reproduction of cherry tomato can be persistent to the next generation	10
Increased nitrogen accumulation in mulberry trees due to the secretion of glomalin-related soil protein induced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	10
Effect of alfalfa-grass mixed culture and inoculation with Azotobacter and Rhizobium on soil biological properties and nutrient transformation activities	10
Soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought under organic and conventional farming	10
Substitution of organic fertilizer did not change the dominant role of biochar on bacterial community stability but the soil carbon fractions	10
Two decades of monitoring earthworms in translocated grasslands at Manchester Airport	10
Editorial Board	10
Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science	10
Tracing controls of autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification in terrestrial soils	9
Bacteria contribute more than fungi to SOC decomposition in a paddy field under long-term free-air CO2 enrichment	9
Editorial Board	9
Interplanting Phoebe bournei modifies soil microbial community characteristics in Cunninghamia lanceolata monocultures	9
Push-pull cropping system positively impacts diversity and abundance of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) as bioindicators of soil health	9
Vegetable residues retention: An effective and environment friendly way to handle tomato wastes from greenhouse production	9
The effects of agricultural practices on earthworm communities in Estonia	9
Stable isotope insights into arthropod food chains and nitrogen cycling in a rehabilitated tailings chronosequence	9

Effects of tree diversity on soil microbial community in a subtropical forest in Southwest China	8
Long-term application of legume green manure improves rhizosphere soil bacterial stability and reduces bulk soil bacterial stability in rice	8
Fate of low molecular weight organics in paddy vs. upland soil: A microbial biomarker approach	8
Long-term nitrogen-addition-induced shifts in the ectomycorrhizal fungal community are associated with changes in fine root traits and soil properties in a mixed Pinus koraiensis forest	8
Microbial synthesis of arylsulfatase depends on the soluble and adsorbed sulfate concentration in soils	8
Soil moisture drives the response of soil microbial nutrient limitation to N and P additions in an Inner Mongolian meadow steppe	8
Leaf litter quantity shapes oribatid mite assemblages five years following forestry interventions in a European deciduous forest	8
Editorial Board	8
Long-term organic fertilizer and biofertilizer application strengthens the associations between soil quality index, network complexity, and walnut yield	8
Effects of N-enriched biochar on ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions, rice yield, and bacterial community diversity in subtropical rice paddy soils	8
How applied reclamation treatments and vegetation type affect on soil fauna in a novel ecosystem developed on a spoil heap of carboniferous rocks	8
Biochar and wood vinegar amendments influence the potential nitrification rate and nitrifier communities in high pH sodic saline soils	8
Pristine and UV-aged polyethylene microplastics’ impact on gut microbiome and reproduction of earthworm Eisenia andrei	8
Responses of nitrification and denitrification in the rhizosphere of mudflat paddy to rice genotype and nitrogen fertilization	8
Differentiation within the Drawida ghilarovi complex (Moniligastridae: Annelida) revealed by multigene transcriptomic dataset analysis	8
Metal-driven bacterial community variation in urban and suburban park soils of Shanghai, China	8
Plant diversity enhanced nematode-based soil quality indices and changed soil nematode community structure in intensively-managed agricultural grasslands	8
Interactive effects of citric acid and mineral fertilization on soil microbial carbon use efficiency in the rhizosphere of two coniferous species	7
Environmental distances are more important than geographic distances for predicting earthworm gut bacterial community composition	7
Management of grassland: A necessary tool to maintain plant and earthworm diversity	7
Non-target effects of pesticide and microbial seed treatments in maize and barley on the resident soil microbiota under conservation agriculture	7
Editorial Board	7
Soil pH controls the structure and diversity of bacterial communities along elevational gradients on Huangshan, China	7
The combined role of plant cover and fire occurrence on soil properties reveals response to wildfire in the Mediterranean basin	7
Seasonal responses of soil microbial biomass C and enzymatic activity comparing no-tillage and integrated crop-livestock systems	7
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Deciphering environmental factors driving soil microbial elevational distribution in the southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	7
Fire alters soil bacterial and fungal communities and intensifies seasonal variation in subtropical forest ecosystem	7
Leaf litter morphological traits, invertebrate body mass and phylogenetic affiliation explain the feeding and feces properties of saprophagous macroarthropods	6
Fire and clipping drive microbial fixation pathways in soil phosphorus and sulfur cycling in China's key karst region	6
Effects of nitrogen addition and warming on nematode ecological indices: A meta-analysis	6
Earthworm burrows affect vertical distribution of springtails in soil	6
Soil texture contributes to shaping comammox Nitrospira communities in rice-wheat rotation soils	6
“Effects of cropping sequences and rotational grazing on diversity, biomass, density and body mass of earthworms”	6
Biocontrol agent amendments shape the soybean rhizosphere in a cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) conducive soil over a two-year field trial	6
Decomposer faecal food web and C sequestration in soil. Can near infrared spectroscopy describe transfers and transformations from fresh organic inputs to protected forms in soil aggregates?	6
Quantifying earthworm soil ingestion from changes in vertical bulk density profiles	6
Effects of ant mounts (Formica exsecta) on subsoil properties, in a heathland	6
Non-additive effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on microbial biomass and residue distribution in a subtropical plantation	6
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NemaRec: A deep learning-based web application for nematode image identification and ecological indices calculation	6
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Earthworms and long-term straw management practices interactively affect soil carbon and nitrogen forms across soil depths	5
Estimating energy costs of earthworm burrowing using calorimetry	5
High-rate pig manure substitution enhances comammox Nitrospira abundance and diversity in the Cinnamomum camphora coppice planting soils	5
Temperature-dependent trade-offs in maternal investments: An experimental test with two closely related soil microarthropods	5
The influences of iron plaque on nitrogen emissions from paddy soils under different water management practices	5
phoD-harboring bacterial community assembly and co-occurrence in soil aggregates during roadside slope restoration	5
Poultry litter biochar soil amendment affects microbial community structures, promotes phosphorus cycling and growth of barley (Hordeum vulgare)	5
One for the road: Aspect-linked temperature variation affects earthworm community structure but not litter decomposition	5
Microbial gene abundance mirrors soil nitrogen mineralization intensity across an age gradient in Chinese-fir plantations	5
Effects of organic amendment on earthworm density and biomass in sugarcane fields with different soil pH	5
Earthworms as soil health indicators in no-tillage agroecosystems	5
Organic fertilisation enhances network complexity among bacteria, fungi, and protists by improving organic matter and phosphorus in acidic agricultural soils	4
Regulation of soil microorganisms and phosphorus cycling genes on soil phosphorus availability in desert steppe under warming and phosphorus input	4
The use of olive mill pomace compost increases the population of certain ground/soil organisms in olive groves	4
The metabolic intermediate of sulfonamides alters soil nitrous oxide emissions	4
Towards a standardization of new functional trait measurements by assessing intraspecific variation: the case of springtail mandibles	4
Responses of grape yield and quality, soil physicochemical and microbial properties to different planting years	4
First assessment of soil mesofauna, microbiota, and humic substances associations in a minesoil revegetated with four grasses in Brazil: An 18-year field study	4
Legacy effects of grazing and nitrogen fertilization on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	4
Ant community composition defines nest mound dynamics across successional stages in desert restoration	4
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the increased P limitation of microbial metabolism after the mixed cultivation of Korean pine and Manchurian walnut in Northeast China	4
Understanding the diversification and functional radiation of Aporrectodea (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) through molecular phylogenetics of its endemic species	4
Long-term different fertilization regimes impact on the fate of root-derived C and microbial community structure in paddy soil	4
Effects of low-density polyethylene microplastics on soil functions and microbial communities across soil depths	4
Back and better: Soil food-web researchers integrate empirical data and develop novel tools	4
Longitudinal distributions of CO2-fixing bacteria in forest soils and their potential associations with soil multifunctionality	4
Stable nitrogen-cycling capacity in relation to fertilization and intercropping in a sub-boreal grassland	4
Effects of precipitation changes on soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial activities in a switchgrass mesocosm experiment	4
Effects of disturbances by plateau pikas on soil microbial communities in an alpine ecosystem of the southeast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China	4
Bacterial and plant community successional pathways in glacier forefields of the Western Himalaya	4
Deciphering the microbial mechanisms underlying glucose induced soil priming effects under low and high nutrient levels	4
Editorial Board	4