OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoderma is 58. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Coarse carbonate fragments (CCFs) and their contribution to the soil carbon stocks in the northern Great Plains, USA	233
Heat pulse probe design optimization using numerical simulation	216
Spectroscopic analysis shows crandallite can be a major component of soil phosphorus	135
Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies	126
Fragmentation alters the soil water conservation capacity of hillside alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	124
Soil total phosphorus content is a driver of P forms in continuously flooded paddy soils	116
Occurrence and sources of pollutants in the soils of penguin colonies in the South Shetland Islands, North-West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula	113
Do soil names matter in scientific publications?	112
Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands	107
Equations for soil freezing characteristics curves based on the thermodynamics principles	106
How will permafrost carbon respond to future climate change? A new assessment for future thaw trends of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau	105
Nitrification inhibitors reduce N2O emissions from Mollisols by potentially targeting Nitrosospira cluster 3a and denitrifiers	103
Digital soil mapping of peatland using airborne radiometric data and supervised machine learning – Implication for the assessment of carbon stock	101
Variations and controlling factors of soil CO2 release at daytime and nighttime scales in the loess hilly regions of China	100
High resolution soil moisture mapping in 3D space and time using machine learning and depth functions	97
25-years of stewardship programs enhance regenerative outcomes in river delta soils of southwestern British Columbia, Canada	97
The effect of uncertainty in predictions of nutrient concentrations from soil spectra on variable-rate fertilizer applications	94
Long-term effects of biochar application on rhizobacteria community and winter wheat growth on the Loess Plateau in China	91
Evaluating soil water and salt transport in response to varied rainfall events and hydrological years under brackish water irrigation in the North China Plain	90
Soil inorganic carbon distribution, stocks and environmental thresholds along a major climatic gradient	90
Influences of plant traits on the retention and redistribution of bioavailable nitrogen within the plant-soil system	88
Enhanced plant growth in the presence of earthworms correlates with changes in soil microbiota but not nutrient availability	88
Driving factors of variation in fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency in maize cropping systems across China and its microbial mechanism	88
Estimating soil bacterial abundance and diversity in the Southeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	87
Faeces traits as unifying predictors of detritivore effects on organic matter turnover	86

Stronger link of nosZI than nosZII to the higher total N2O consumption in anoxic paddy surface soils	86
The role of weathering and aeolian inputs on clay minerals and geochemistry in Podzols on ophiolitic materials	85
Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivo and in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter	77
Spatiotemporal dynamics of global surface and rootzone soil moisture: a comprehensive assessment from dominant factors, impact pathways, and deficit probability	76
Global meta-analysis reveals differential effects of climate and litter quality on soil fauna-mediated litter decomposition across size classes	76
Soil quality improvement on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau induced by soil hydrothermal changes from 1980s to 2020s	75
Effects of shrub expansion on methane emissions from temperate wetlands and their regulatory mechanisms	75
Livestock trampling regulates the soil carbon exchange by mediating surface roughness and biocrust cover	74
Soil erosion models verification in a small catchment for different time windows with changing cropland boundary	73
Effects of legume intercropping and nitrogen application on soil phosphorus availability and leaf nutrient status in subtropical Camellia oleifera plantations	73
Using soil classification to improve interpretation of biological soil health indicators	71
Biochar-based urea increases soil methane uptake in a subtropical forest	71
Biocrusts: Engineers and architects of surface soil properties, functions, and processes in dryland ecosystems	70
Impacts of groundwater storage variability on soil salinization in a semi-arid agricultural plain	70
Microbial and plant-derived carbon contributions to particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon in perennial and annual cropping systems	70
AIC formulae in soil spectroscopy	69
Subsoiling reduces N2O emissions by altering the relative gas diffusivity, O2 status and microbial communities in grazed pasture soil	68
Changes in soil surface properties under simulated rainfall and the effect of surface roughness on runoff, infiltration and soil loss	68
Soil addition improves multifunctionality of degraded grasslands through increasing fungal richness and network complexity	68
Soil aminopeptidase activities under 145-year crop rotation and fertility practices in the North Central US	67
Balanced fertilization management to protect soil inorganic carbon stocks and reduce soil CO2 emissions	67
Rock fragment content alters spatiotemporal patterns of soil water content and temperature: Evidence from a field experiment	66
Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa	66
Quantifying the influencing factors of the thermal state of permafrost in Northeast China	65
Divergent responses of soil plant-derived and microbial-derived C to phosphorus input in a Chinese fir plantation	64
Editorial Board	64
Optimized measurement of frozen soil thermal properties using a heat-pulse sensor	61
Links between environmental conditions and pedogenic phyllosilicates in Podzols in the Tatra Mountains (Poland) – I. Mineralogy	60
LimeSoDa: A dataset collection for benchmarking of machine learning regressors in digital soil mapping	60
High biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in the permafrost layer amplifies carbon emissions under warming	60
Multiscale evaluations of global, national and regional digital soil mapping products in France	59
Spatial patterns of soil organic carbon stocks and its controls in Chinese grassland ecosystems	59
Soil pore dynamics and infiltration characteristics as affected by cultivation duration for Mollisol in northeast China	59
Impact of maize residues decomposition on aggregate turnover	58
In situ soil moisture and thermal properties estimated using a dual-probe heat-pulse	58
Forest ecosystems create pedogenic patchworks through woody debris, trees, and disturbance	58