OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Canadian Journal of Soil Science is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of nitrogen source and stabilization in fertilizer formulations on Western Canadian spring wheat	27
Spatial prediction and mapping of soil salinity using machine learning and remote sensing covariates	27
Response to side-banded phosphorus and zinc fertilizer for corn grown after canola or soybean in southern Manitoba	25
A self-adjusting parametric model for attenuation characteristics of WUSN signal	23
Cropping history allows tracking of C4 cover crop residues by δ¹³C natural abundance	23
Effect of prescribed fire on microbial indicators of soil biogeochemistry in a mixed-grass prairie	19
Note of appreciation	19
Improving drought tolerance of Opuntia ficus-indica under field using subsurface water retention technology: changes in physiological and biochemical parameters	16
Crop rotational diversity alters the composition of stabilized soil organic matter compounds in soil physical fractions	16
Reduction of raindrop kinetic energy by moss crust on rare earth tailings and its potential impact on soil erosion	16
Soil organic carbon response to interannual precipitation and potential evapotranspiration variability	15
Variation of soil microbial communities in alpine meadows across different degradation degrees and related environmental drivers in the Sanjiangyuan Region, China	13
Enzyme activity after applying alkaline biosolids to agricultural soil	12
Influence of pulse–wheat crop rotations on aggregate size distribution dynamics in the brown soil zone in southern Alberta, Canada	12
The exposure of prairie soils to millennia of climate variability and change	11
Predicting soil organic matter and soil moisture content from digital camera images: comparison of regression and machine learning approaches	11
Improving agricultural productivity of podzolic soils in Schefferville using local amendments and fertilizers	10
Fertilizer and crop management practices to reduce phosphorus transport in snowmelt runoff from surface drained agricultural watersheds in the Prairie Pothole Region	10
Do cover crops on the Canadian prairies affect soil nitrogen cycling?	9
Early improvement of soil health under cropping systems including perennial forage crops and dairy cattle slurry in a cool humid climate	9
Proposed new soil order — Leptosolic order for Canadian System of Soil Classification	9
miyo wîcêhtowin “good relations”: reckoning with the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and soil science in Canada	9
Grazing and fertilizer, compost or manure application effects on a meadow bromegrass pasture on a thick black chernozem I. Productivity and sustainability	9
Changes of soil test phosphorus and phosphorus fractions with single and blended soil chemical amendments	8
Using an ensemble learning approach in digital soil mapping of soil pH for the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia	8

University farm benefits from a long-term student-generated soil data set	8
Degree of compaction, aeration, and soil water retention indices of a sugarcane field without soil disturbance after initial tillage	8
Predictive soil mapping in the Boreal Plains of Northern Alberta by using multi-temporal remote sensing data and terrain derivatives	7
Proposed revision to Canadian System of Soil Classification: broaden taxonomic criteria for applying LFH horizons to include nonforest soils	7
Growth and survival of native upland and wetland species in shallow capped thickened tailings: a meso-scale greenhouse study	7
Forage mixed planting can effectively improve soil enzyme activity and microbial community structure and diversity in agro-pastoral interlacing arid zone	7
Integrated agroforestry system affects the dynamics of inorganic phosphorus fractions in the savanna of Brazilian Northeast	7
The fate of dissolved sulfamethoxazole during spring-thaw snowmelt in a field with a history of manure application	7
Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N₂O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology	7
Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in southwestern Ontario	7
Soil phosphorus fractions of two contrasting temperate acidic soils receiving forest-derived liming by-products	7
Black plastic tarps as overwinter soil cover influence soil nitrogen and soil water content on farms in British Columbia	7
Soil fungal communities are primarily influenced by vegetation rather than fertilizers and fungicides in a lowbush blueberry production system	7
Response of soil nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification to milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) application in a paddy field	7
No differences in soil structure under winter wheat grown in different crop rotational positions	6
Elevation gradient drives distribution of soil carbon in a semiarid grassland of British Columbia	6
Optimizing nitrogen management for sustainable peanut production on subtropical sloping red soils	6
Antagonistic effect of copper and zinc in fertilization of spring wheat under low soil phosphorus conditions	6
Determination of emamectin benzoate residues in topsoil and surface water of crop production areas in Thailand	6
Ex situ soil respiration assessment using minimally disturbed microcosms and dried–sieved soils; comparison of methods to assess soil health	6
Comparison of conventional methods with Haney H3A version 4 for available phosphorus and potassium in southern Manitoba soils	6
Can biochar change the effect of soil hydrophobicity on soil pores distribution and soil water characteristic curve?	5
Biochemical components of Sphagnum and persistence in peat soil	5
The impact of the investment period on soil and plant pollution by cadmium and nickel in Jableh city, in Lattakia Governorate	5
Spatial dependency and independency of nitrogen in lowbush blueberry commercial fields	5
Earthworm distribution around tile drainage in agricultural fields of southwest Quebec, Canada	5
Better recognition of limnic materials at the great group and subgroup levels of the Organic Order of the Canadian System of Soil Classification	5
Fluorescent properties of water-extractable organic matter in low-gradient, clay soils offer insight for management and restoration	5
Chinese pine and ectomycorrhizal symbionts show plasticity in phosphorous absorption and high calcium adaption under different extraradical hyphal growth space	5
Soil responses to inclusion of corn, soybean, and cover crops under rainfed conditions in the northern Great Plains	5
Evaluating the impact of organic amendments on soil erosion dynamics: a comprehensive examination of application methods and timing	5
Rationalizing mottling and gleying in the characterization and classification of Canadian soils	5
Crop yields under no-till in Canada: implications for soil organic carbon change	5
Loss of potentially toxic elements to snowmelt runoff from soils amended with alum, gypsum, and Epsom salt	4
Nitrogen mineralization in Canadian agricultural soils: a review of methods for quantifying soil nitrogen mineralization potential and estimating growing season nitrogen mineralization	4
Perennial grain Kernza^® fields have higher particulate organic carbon at depth than annual grain fields	4
Soil carbon fractions and carbon management index after 26 years of continuous organic and mineral fertilization	4
Beware of scaling artefacts and implicit model characteristics when fitting soil water release and moisture capacity data	4
Adoption of beneficial management practices to improve soil health	4
Note of appreciation	4
Management impacts on organic carbon under continuous perennial grass, perennial grass-legume mixture, and annual cereals on a thick Black Chernozemic soil	4
Indicators of soil degradation on a pipeline footprint, Alberta, Canada	4
Tillage effects on growing season nitrous oxide emissions in Canadian cropland soils	4
Management zone delineation strategies for phosphorus fertilizer recommendations under a no-till field in Eastern Canada	4
Silver toxicity to the earthworm Eisenia fetida is inconsistent in natural and artificial soils amended with wastewater biosolids	4
Effects of increasing soil pH to near-neutral using lime on phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus	4
Fungal community composition varies spatially in a commercial potato field in response to soil properties and topographic features	3
Revised proposed classification for human modified soils in Canada: Anthroposolic order	3
Soil threats in post-conflict Raqqa Post-Conflict Soil Degradation in Raqqa, Syria: An Overlooked Threat to Food Security	3
A proposed Folic subgroup for the Organic Cryosols	3

Mapping the maximum peat thickness of cultivated organic soils in the southwest plain of Montreal	3
Analytical and experimental evaluation of two-layered unsaturated sand bearing capacity	3
A proposed framework for assigning soil drainage classes to non-redoximorphic soils in the Canadian System of Soil Classification	3
Soil organic carbon stocks in a forest and an adjacent cultivated land in southern Ontario	3
Conservation tillage: effect on soil properties and crop productivity	3
Gamma radiation for the estimation of mineral soil water content in a boreal forest	3
Blended soil amendment effects on phosphorus loss from manured soils under simulated snowmelt flooding	3
Biochar application stabilized the heavy metals in coal mined soil	3
A simple definition of soil science	3
Developing scoring functions based on soil texture to assess agricultural soil health in Quebec, Canada	3
Effect of saline–alkaline stresses on the interspecific competition between Aegilops tauschii and Triticum aestivum	3
Leaching of base and metal cations from litter and soils vary in two forest stands with different tree species	3
Buried wood effects on macronutrient supply and microbial activity and metabolic potential in different oil sands reclamation soils in northern Alberta	3
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	3
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN PERENNIAL BIOENERGY CROPS ON MARGINAL LAND IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO	3
Crop rotations combined with nitrogen fertilizer management reduce greenhouse gas emissions during potato phase without impacting potato yield	2
Growth and nutrient uptake of haloxylon and atriplex as affected by mycorrhizal symbiosis under combined drought and salinity stresses	2
Spatial analysis of oil palm growth and soil properties in a plantation in Nigeria	2
Soil–environment interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in three cold desert plants of Himalaya, India	2
Gray Luvisols are polygenetic	2
Note of appreciation	2
Differential response by seedlings of three sub-boreal conifer species to high- and low-carbon wood ash amendment	2
Reducing labile phosphorus in liquid swine manure with chemical amendments and storage time	2
Effects of tillage practices on soil organic carbon in non-saline and saline‒alkaline croplands	2
Aggregate dispersion for soil organic matter fractionation: a case study from Québec, Canada	2
Ammonium-based fertilizers alter pH and cation concentrations in agricultural soils of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec	2
Refinement of the carbon to loss on ignition relationship in forest soils	2
Twenty-four years of contrasting cropping systems on a brown chernozem in Southern Alberta: crop yields, soil carbon, and subsoil salinity	2
Effect of basalt fiber and carbon fiber on the evolution of water evaporation and cracking characteristics of silt soil	2
Identifying rotation and tillage practices that maintain or enhance soil carbon and its relation to soil health	2
No tillage and leguminous cover crop improve soil quality in a typical rainfed Mediterranean system	2
Spatiotemporal variability of soil physical properties and water, salt, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents for farm level	2
Ferric chloride amendment reduces phosphorus losses from flooded soil monoliths to overlying floodwater	2
Comparison of agri-environmental phosphorus tests for boreal agricultural and natural Podzols	2
Review of research studies on nitrous oxide emissions from manure-amended soils in Canada from 1990 to 2023	2
Predictive mapping of wetland soil types in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region using high-resolution digital elevation model terrain derivatives	2
Using cultivated organic soil depth to form soil conservation management zones	2
Correction: Soil organic carbon content: decreases partly attributed to dilution by increased depth of cultivation in southern Ontario	2
Soil thermal properties: influence of no-till cover crops	2