OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Soil Biology is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Warming reduces soil CO2 emissions but enhances soil N2O emissions: A long-term soil transplantation experiment	62
The expansion of evergreen and deciduous shrubs changed the chemical characteristics and biological community of alpine meadows soil	44
Responses of soil hexapod communities to warming are mediated by microbial carbon and nitrogen in a subarctic grassland	39
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Stable nitrogen-cycling capacity in relation to fertilization and intercropping in a sub-boreal grassland	37
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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	34
A meta-analysis to compare the sensitivities of earthworms and enchytraeids to different stressors	32
Two distinct ecological behaviours within anecic earthworm species in temperate climates	31
Microbial synthesis of arylsulfatase depends on the soluble and adsorbed sulfate concentration in soils	30
Responses of soil microbial biomass C:N:P stoichiometry to increased precipitation and nitrogen deposition in temperate shrublands	26
Legacy effects of grazing and nitrogen fertilization on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	24
Effects of disturbances by plateau pikas on soil microbial communities in an alpine ecosystem of the southeast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China	23
Soil microbial biomass and community structure in response to agricultural use of deserts across northern China	22
Effects of tree diversity on soil microbial community in a subtropical forest in Southwest China	22
soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating nutrient fluxes through food webs	18
Effects of precipitation changes on soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial activities in a switchgrass mesocosm experiment	17
Earthworms in past and present agricultural landscapes of Hebridean Scotland	16
Altitudinal variation in soil nematode communities in an alpine mountain region of the eastern Tibetan plateau	15
Responses of nitrification and denitrification in the rhizosphere of mudflat paddy to rice genotype and nitrogen fertilization	15
Abundant rather than rare fungi perform a vital role in maintaining the growth of continuous cropped cut chrysanthemum	15
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	15
Fate of low molecular weight organics in paddy vs. upland soil: A microbial biomarker approach	14
The use of olive mill pomace compost increases the population of certain ground/soil organisms in olive groves	14
Synergistic application of biochar with organic fertilizer positively impacts the soil micro-food web in sandy loam soils	13

Effects of rumen microorganisms on straw returning to soil at different depths	13
Understanding the diversification and functional radiation of Aporrectodea (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae) through molecular phylogenetics of its endemic species	12
Soil acidification and ammonia-oxidizing archaeal abundance dominate the contrasting responses of soil N2O emissions to NH4+ and NO3− enrichment in a subtropical plantation	12
Nutrient cycling and microbial responses to termite and earthworm activity in soils amended with woody residues in the Sudano-Sahel	12
Effects of salinity on microbial utilization of straw carbon and microbial residues retention in newly reclaimed coastal soil	11
Effects of N-enriched biochar on ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions, rice yield, and bacterial community diversity in subtropical rice paddy soils	11
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	11
Communities of nematodes, bacteria and fungi differ among soils of different wild cabbage populations	11
Contrasting effects of long term phosphorus fertilization on glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP)	10
Gut content metabarcoding and citizen science reveal the earthworm prey of the exotic terrestrial flatworm, Obama nungara	10
Differentiation within the Drawida ghilarovi complex (Moniligastridae: Annelida) revealed by multigene transcriptomic dataset analysis	10
Impact of N-fertilization and peanut shell biochar on soil microbial community structure and enzyme activities in a Typic Haplustoll under different management practices	10
Microbial pathways account for the pH effect on soil N2O production	10
Plant diversity enhanced nematode-based soil quality indices and changed soil nematode community structure in intensively-managed agricultural grasslands	10
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Long-term impacts of organic and conventional farming on the soil microbiome in boreal arable soil	9
Accumulation of microbial necromass carbon and its contribution to soil organic carbon in artificial grasslands of various vegetation types	9
Terpenes and fungal biomass in the nest mounds of Formica aquilonia wood ants	9
Metal-driven bacterial community variation in urban and suburban park soils of Shanghai, China	9
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Arginine and methionine increase the enzymatic activity of microbes involved in N and P cycles in arid soil from the Chihuahuan desert	9
Earthworms impact the availability of Si to plants in northern Vietnamese paddy fields	8
Responses of crop yields, soil enzymatic activities, and microbial communities to different long-term organic materials applied with chemical fertilizer in purple soil	8
Asymmetric environmental selection on intraspecific body size in Collembola communities along an elevational gradient in northern Japan	8
Dominance of archaeal ammonia-oxidizers in soil nitrification across different soil types and fertilities in North China plain	8
Soil moisture drives the response of soil microbial nutrient limitation to N and P additions in an Inner Mongolian meadow steppe	8
Tree species replacement from birch to spruce affects eukaryome in boreal forest soil	8
Homogeneous earthworm communities in Southern Ontario	8
Differential responses of soil arthropods to the application of biogas slurry and biochar in a coastal poplar plantation	7
Differences in succession of bacterial communities during co-cultivation of corn straw with different soils	7
Spatial and temporal variations of the community structure and abundance of Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens-like archaea in paddy soils	7
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Long-term organic fertilizer and biofertilizer application strengthens the associations between soil quality index, network complexity, and walnut yield	7
Soil biota community structure and litter traits of grape vine plantation and natural ecosystem from Southern Brazil	7
Dead bamboo culms promote litter mass, carbon and nitrogen loss, but do not modulate the effect of soil fauna on litter decomposition	7
Non-target effects of pesticide and microbial seed treatments in maize and barley on the resident soil microbiota under conservation agriculture	7
Deciphering environmental factors driving soil microbial elevational distribution in the southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	7
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	7
How applied reclamation treatments and vegetation type affect on soil fauna in a novel ecosystem developed on a spoil heap of carboniferous rocks	7
Composite organic amendment boosts soil remediation and Cd detoxification to rape under different nitrogen level	7
A practical approach to constructing a knowledge graph for soil ecological research	7
Varying microbial utilization of straw-derived carbon with different long-term fertilization regimes explored by DNA stable-isotope probing	7
Two decades of monitoring earthworms in translocated grasslands at Manchester Airport	7
Plantation conversion of Eucalyptus promotes soil microbial necromass C accumulation	7
Rhizosphere microbial community changes due to weed-weed competition	6
Effects of N addition and clipping on above and belowground plant biomass, soil microbial community structure, and function in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	6
Regional-scale biogeographical patterns of soil extracellular enzyme activities across eight Chinese fir plantation locations	6
Relationships between physico-chemical, biological and functional approaches for soil quality assessment. A case study along a gradient of disturbance	6
Differentiated impacts of the feeding-habits of three ant species on carbon mineralization in tropical forest soils	6

Tracking earthworm fluxes at the interface between tree rows and crop habitats in a Mediterranean alley cropping field	6
Continuous measurement of red wood ant (Formica rufa) outdoor behaviour using passive acoustic monitoring	6
Varying interactive effects of climate, soil properties, and gross nitrogen dynamics on biomass production between the topsoil and the subsoil in natural grassland ecosystems	6
Soil organic C and total N as well as microbial biomass C and N affect aggregate stability in a chronosequence of Chinese fir plantations	6
Spatial heterogeneity of soil quality within a Mediterranean alley cropping agroforestry system: Comparison with a monocropping system	6
Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science	6
Aboveground antagonists mitigate belowground plant–antagonist interactions but not affect plant–mutualist interactions	6
Fire alters soil bacterial and fungal communities and intensifies seasonal variation in subtropical forest ecosystem	6
Warming affects soil metabolome: The case study of Icelandic grasslands	6
Seasonal responses of soil microbial biomass C and enzymatic activity comparing no-tillage and integrated crop-livestock systems	6