| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Soil health and sustainability: managing the biotic component of soil quality | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 1,207 |
| 2 | A framework for soil food web diagnostics: extension of the nematode faunal analysis concept | Applied Soil Ecology | 2001 | 1,064 |
| 3 | Phosphate solubilizing bacteria from subtropical soil and their tricalcium phosphate solubilizing abilities | Applied Soil Ecology | 2006 | 1,015 |
| 4 | Functional diversity of nematodes | Applied Soil Ecology | 1998 | 903 |
| 5 | Rhizosphere carbon flow in trees, in comparison with annual plants: the importance of root exudation and its impact on microbial activity and nutrient availability | Applied Soil Ecology | 1997 | 845 |
| 6 | Agricultural intensification, soil biodiversity and agroecosystem function | Applied Soil Ecology | 1997 | 535 |
| 7 | Soil invertebrates as ecosystem engineers: Intended and accidental effects on soil and feedback loops | Applied Soil Ecology | 2006 | 516 |
| 8 | The role of biochar and biochar-compost in improving soil quality and crop performance: A review | Applied Soil Ecology | 2017 | 487 |
| 9 | Organic and synthetic fertility amendments influence soil microbial, physical and chemical properties on organic and conventional farms | Applied Soil Ecology | 2002 | 470 |
| 10 | In search of biological indicators for soil health and disease suppression | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 439 |
| 11 | The effect of plant growth promoting bacteria on growth and nutrient uptake of maize in two different soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 426 |
| 12 | Mechanisms of nematode suppression by organic soil amendments—A review | Applied Soil Ecology | 2010 | 424 |
| 13 | Impact of soil health management practices on soilborne pathogens, nematodes and root diseases of vegetable crops | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 401 |
| 14 | Methods for assessing the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 391 |
| 15 | Influence of microbial populations and residue quality on aggregate stability | Applied Soil Ecology | 2001 | 382 |
| 16 | Alleviation of drought stress in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by co-inoculation with Paenibacillus polymyxa and Rhizobium tropici | Applied Soil Ecology | 2008 | 379 |
| 17 | Opening the black box of soil microbial diversity | Applied Soil Ecology | 1999 | 375 |
| 18 | Bacterial-mediated drought tolerance: Current and future prospects | Applied Soil Ecology | 2016 | 363 |
| 19 | Effect of inoculation with plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) on amelioration of saline stress in maize (Zea mays) | Applied Soil Ecology | 2012 | 362 |
| 20 | Priming effects in Chernozem induced by glucose and N in relation to microbial growth strategies | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 355 |
| 21 | Effects of acute gamma irradiation on chemical, physical and biological properties of soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 2003 | 352 |
| 22 | High throughput phospholipid fatty acid analysis of soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 2012 | 339 |
| 23 | Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques | Applied Soil Ecology | 2004 | 331 |
| 24 | Biochar soil amendment increased bacterial but decreased fungal gene abundance with shifts in community structure in a slightly acid rice paddy from Southwest China | Applied Soil Ecology | 2013 | 324 |
| 25 | Microbial biomass and activity in salt affected soils under arid conditions | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 320 |
| 26 | Nitrous oxide emission by nitrification and denitrification in different soil types and at different soil moisture contents and temperatures | Applied Soil Ecology | 1996 | 319 |
| 27 | Endophytic communities of rhizobacteria and the strategies required to create yield enhancing associations with crops | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 318 |
| 28 | Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other microbial inoculants (Azospirillum, Pseudomonas, Trichoderma) and their effects on microbial population and enzyme activities in the rhizosphere of maize plants | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 314 |
| 29 | Use of commercial bio-inoculants to increase agricultural production through improved phosphrous acquisition | Applied Soil Ecology | 2015 | 305 |
| 30 | Diversity of microorganisms from forest soils differently polluted with heavy metals | Applied Soil Ecology | 2013 | 304 |
| 31 | Isolation and characterization of new plant growth-promoting bacterial endophytes | Applied Soil Ecology | 2012 | 299 |
| 32 | Changes in soil enzymes related to C and N cycle and in soil C and N content under prolonged warming and drought in a Mediterranean shrubland | Applied Soil Ecology | 2008 | 298 |
| 33 | Enzyme activities as affected by soil properties and land use in a tropical watershed | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 297 |
| 34 | Influence of tillage, residue management, and crop rotation on soil microbial biomass and catabolic diversity | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 288 |
| 35 | Inoculation of zinc solubilizing Bacillus aryabhattai strains for improved growth, mobilization and biofortification of zinc in soybean and wheat cultivated in Vertisols of central India | Applied Soil Ecology | 2014 | 286 |
| 36 | Effects of organic–inorganic compound fertilizer with reduced chemical fertilizer application on crop yields, soil biological activity and bacterial community structure in a rice–wheat cropping system | Applied Soil Ecology | 2016 | 286 |
| 37 | Structural and functional succession in the nematode fauna of a soil food web | Applied Soil Ecology | 2003 | 285 |
| 38 | Phylogenetic diversity of bacterial communities differing in degree of proximity of Lolium perenne and Trifolium repens roots | Applied Soil Ecology | 1999 | 279 |
| 39 | Surface and subsurface microbial biomass, community structure and metabolic activity as a function of soil depth and season | Applied Soil Ecology | 2002 | 279 |
| 40 | Application of fresh and composted organic wastes modifies structure, size and activity of soil microbial community under semiarid climate | Applied Soil Ecology | 2008 | 279 |
| 41 | Effects of organic versus conventional management on chemical and biological parameters in agricultural soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 2006 | 273 |
| 42 | Isolation and identification of potassium-solubilizing bacteria from tobacco rhizospheric soil and their effect on tobacco plants | Applied Soil Ecology | 2014 | 273 |
| 43 | Microbial performance in soils along a salinity gradient under acidic conditions | Applied Soil Ecology | 2003 | 263 |
| 44 | Material derived from hydrothermal carbonization: Effects on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhiza | Applied Soil Ecology | 2010 | 262 |
| 45 | Nitrogen fertilizer rate affects root exudation, the rhizosphere microbiome and nitrogen-use-efficiency of maize | Applied Soil Ecology | 2016 | 257 |
| 46 | Influence of grass species and soil type on rhizosphere microbial community structure in grassland soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 2007 | 244 |
| 47 | Comparisons of metal accumulation and excretion kinetics in earthworms (Eisenia fetida) exposed to contaminated field and laboratory soils | Applied Soil Ecology | 1999 | 243 |
| 48 | Microbial mineralization of biochar and wheat straw mixture in soil: A short-term study | Applied Soil Ecology | 2011 | 240 |
| 49 | Pathogens in livestock waste, their potential for movement through soil and environmental pollution | Applied Soil Ecology | 1995 | 238 |
| 50 | Which species? What kind of diversity? Which ecosystem function? Some problems in studies of relations between biodiversity and ecosystem function | Applied Soil Ecology | 1998 | 237 |
