Yakov Kuzyakov

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Review of mechanisms and quantification of priming effects.

  Yakov Kuzyakov;J. K. Friedel;Karl Stahr

  3384
  Citations

• Priming effects : interactions between living and dead organic matter

  Yakov Kuzyakov

  2228
  Citations

• Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Evgenia Blagodatskaya

  1795
  Citations

• Mechanisms of real and apparent priming effects and their dependence on soil microbial biomass and community structure: critical review

  Е. Blagodatskaya;Е. Blagodatskaya;Y. Kuzyakov

  1638
  Citations

• Plant and mycorrhizal regulation of rhizodeposition

  David L. Jones;Angela Hodge;Yakov Kuzyakov

  1547
  Citations

• Sources of CO2 efflux from soil and review of partitioning methods

  Yakov Kuzyakov

  1507
  Citations

• Competition between roots and microorganisms for nitrogen: mechanisms and ecological relevance

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov;Xingliang Xu

  1480
  Citations

• Carbon input by plants into the soil. Review.

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Grzegorz Domanski

  1410
  Citations

• Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Irina Subbotina;Haiqing Chen;Irina Bogomolova

  1387
  Citations

• Biochar stability in soil: meta-analysis of decomposition and priming effects

  Jinyang Wang;Jinyang Wang;Zhengqin Xiong;Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov

  1261
  Citations

• Soil C and N availability determine the priming effect: microbial N mining and stoichiometric decomposition theories

  Ruirui Chen;Ruirui Chen;Mehmet Senbayram;Mehmet Senbayram;Sergey Blagodatsky;Sergey Blagodatsky;Olga Myachina

  1193
  Citations

• Active microorganisms in soil: Critical review of estimation criteria and approaches

  Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Yakov Kuzyakov

  1066
  Citations

• Review: Factors affecting rhizosphere priming effects

  Yakov Kuzyakov

  970
  Citations

• Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions

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  917
  Citations

• Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

  Johanna Pausch;Johanna Pausch;Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov

  903
  Citations

• How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

  Stephen Joseph;Annette L. Cowie;Annette L. Cowie;Lukas Van Zwieten;Lukas Van Zwieten;Nanthi Bolan;Nanthi Bolan

  856
  Citations

• Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems

  Baorong Wang;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Chao Liang;Yang Liu

  798
  Citations

• Time lag between photosynthesis and carbon dioxide efflux from soil: a review of mechanisms and controls

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Olga Gavrichkova

  784
  Citations

• Silicon pools and fluxes in soils and landscapes—a review

  Michael Sommer;Danuta Kaczorek;Yakov Kuzyakov;Jörn Breuer

  764
  Citations

• Biochar stability in soil: Decomposition during eight years and transformation as assessed by compound-specific 14C analysis

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Irina Bogomolova;Bruno Glaser

  693
  Citations

• Photosynthesis controls of rhizosphere respiration and organic matter decomposition

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov;Weixin Cheng

  620
  Citations

• Sugars in soil and sweets for microorganisms: Review of origin, content, composition and fate

  Anna Gunina;Yakov Kuzyakov

  511
  Citations

• Pedogenic carbonates: Forms and formation processes

  Kazem Zamanian;Konstantin Pustovoytov;Yakov Kuzyakov

  504
  Citations

• Rhizosphere size and shape: Temporal dynamics and spatial stationarity

  Yakov Kuzyakov;Bahar S. Razavi;Bahar S. Razavi

  493
  Citations