Margarida Soares

886 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 635 citations indexed

About

Margarida Soares is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Margarida Soares has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 635 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Soil Science and 4 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Margarida Soares's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (3 papers). Margarida Soares is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (3 papers). Margarida Soares collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Germany. Margarida Soares's co-authors include Johannes Rousk, Susanne Wilken, Lars‐Anders Hansson, Mattias K. Ekvall, Pablo Urrutia‐Cordero, Emma S. Kritzberg, Ellen van Donk, Huan Zhang, Ellen Kandeler and Runa S. Boeddinghaus and has published in prestigious journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Journal of Applied Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Margarida Soares

12 papers receiving 630 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry

2019 274 citations Margarida Soares, Johannes Rousk Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Margarida Soares Sweden	10	391	361	193	101	94	12	635
E. E. Atkinson United States	5	435 1.1×	253 0.7×	115 0.6×	252 2.5×	88 0.9×	5	823
Ed K. Hall United States	11	185 0.5×	368 1.0×	219 1.1×	97 1.0×	112 1.2×	22	737
Judith Braun United Kingdom	5	332 0.8×	215 0.6×	85 0.4×	116 1.1×	42 0.4×	7	514
Hideshige Toda Japan	17	248 0.6×	333 0.9×	175 0.9×	156 1.5×	82 0.9×	39	710
Silvia Pajares Mexico	12	216 0.6×	382 1.1×	151 0.8×	107 1.1×	122 1.3×	32	677
Luping Ye China	12	444 1.1×	401 1.1×	110 0.6×	137 1.4×	25 0.3×	21	825
Xuehui Feng China	9	404 1.0×	312 0.9×	95 0.5×	91 0.9×	37 0.4×	10	648
Shannon B. Hagerty United States	6	326 0.8×	371 1.0×	100 0.5×	98 1.0×	35 0.4×	7	568
Danielle Benest France	10	203 0.5×	301 0.8×	198 1.0×	112 1.1×	153 1.6×	16	626
Xiaoli Cheng China	19	865 2.2×	577 1.6×	194 1.0×	218 2.2×	39 0.4×	37	1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Margarida Soares

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Kelly, Julia, Stefan H. Doerr, Johan Ekroos, et al.. (2025). No recovery of soil respiration four years after fire and post-fire management in a Nordic boreal forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110454–110454. 1 indexed citations

Herzog, Simon David, et al.. (2024). Iron as a precursor of aggregation and vector of organic carbon to sediments in a boreal lake. Biogeochemistry. 167(12). 1533–1552. 4 indexed citations

Soares, Margarida, et al.. (2024). Can heavy metal pollution stress reduce microbial carbon-use efficiencies?. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 195. 109458–109458. 12 indexed citations

Soares, Margarida, et al.. (2022). Can heavy metal pollution induce soil bacterial community resistance to antibiotics in boreal forests?. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(2). 237–250. 9 indexed citations

Boeddinghaus, Runa S., Sven Marhan, Heike Haslwimmer, et al.. (2021). The mineralosphere—interactive zone of microbial colonization and carbon use in grassland soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 57(5). 587–601. 11 indexed citations

Soares, Margarida & Johannes Rousk. (2019). Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 131. 195–205. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

Soares, Margarida, et al.. (2019). Testing the dependence of microbial growth and carbon use efficiency on nitrogen availability, pH, and organic matter quality. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 134. 25–35. 122 indexed citations

Kandeler, Ellen, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Karolin Müller, et al.. (2019). The mineralosphere – Succession and physiology of bacteria and fungi colonising pristine minerals in grassland soils under different land-use intensities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 136. 107534–107534. 40 indexed citations

Wilken, Susanne, Margarida Soares, Pablo Urrutia‐Cordero, et al.. (2017). Primary producers or consumers? Increasing phytoplankton bacterivory along a gradient of lake warming and browning. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(S1). 65 indexed citations

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Soares, Margarida, Emma S. Kritzberg, & Johannes Rousk. (2017). Labile carbon ‘primes’ fungal use of nitrogen from submerged leaf litter. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(9). 25 indexed citations

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Urrutia‐Cordero, Pablo, Mattias K. Ekvall, Margarida Soares, et al.. (2017). Phytoplankton diversity loss along a gradient of future warming and brownification in freshwater mesocosms. Freshwater Biology. 62(11). 1869–1878. 59 indexed citations

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Ramos, Jaime A., et al.. (2017). Comparing the foraging strategies of a seabird predator when recovering from a drastic climatic event. Marine Biology. 164(3). 13 indexed citations

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