OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoderma is 57. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Influences of plant traits on the retention and redistribution of bioavailable nitrogen within the plant-soil system	226
Soil erosion models verification in a small catchment for different time windows with changing cropland boundary	213
Effects of legume intercropping and nitrogen application on soil phosphorus availability and leaf nutrient status in subtropical Camellia oleifera plantations	133
Using soil classification to improve interpretation of biological soil health indicators	122
High resolution soil moisture mapping in 3D space and time using machine learning and depth functions	120
Evaluating soil water and salt transport in response to varied rainfall events and hydrological years under brackish water irrigation in the North China Plain	116
Spectroscopic analysis shows crandallite can be a major component of soil phosphorus	111
Subsoiling reduces N2O emissions by altering the relative gas diffusivity, O2 status and microbial communities in grazed pasture soil	110
Biocrusts: Engineers and architects of surface soil properties, functions, and processes in dryland ecosystems	105
Variations and controlling factors of soil CO2 release at daytime and nighttime scales in the loess hilly regions of China	104
Heat pulse probe design optimization using numerical simulation	103
25-years of stewardship programs enhance regenerative outcomes in river delta soils of southwestern British Columbia, Canada	97
How will permafrost carbon respond to future climate change? A new assessment for future thaw trends of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau	95
Quantifying the influencing factors of the thermal state of permafrost in Northeast China	95
Balanced fertilization management to protect soil inorganic carbon stocks and reduce soil CO2 emissions	90
Equations for soil freezing characteristics curves based on the thermodynamics principles	89
The effect of uncertainty in predictions of nutrient concentrations from soil spectra on variable-rate fertilizer applications	89
Coarse carbonate fragments (CCFs) and their contribution to the soil carbon stocks in the northern Great Plains, USA	89
Soil total phosphorus content is a driver of P forms in continuously flooded paddy soils	86
Rock fragment content alters spatiotemporal patterns of soil water content and temperature: Evidence from a field experiment	86
Fragmentation alters the soil water conservation capacity of hillside alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	86
Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies	86
Occurrence and sources of pollutants in the soils of penguin colonies in the South Shetland Islands, North-West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula	85
Do soil names matter in scientific publications?	84
Urban soil properties distinguished by parent material, land use, time since urbanization, and pre-urban geomorphology	83

Long-term effects of biochar application on rhizobacteria community and winter wheat growth on the Loess Plateau in China	83
Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands	83
Nitrification inhibitors reduce N2O emissions from Mollisols by potentially targeting Nitrosospira cluster 3a and denitrifiers	78
Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivo and in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter	75
Spatiotemporal dynamics of global surface and rootzone soil moisture: a comprehensive assessment from dominant factors, impact pathways, and deficit probability	74
The role of weathering and aeolian inputs on clay minerals and geochemistry in Podzols on ophiolitic materials	73
Changes in soil surface properties under simulated rainfall and the effect of surface roughness on runoff, infiltration and soil loss	72
Soil quality improvement on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau induced by soil hydrothermal changes from 1980s to 2020s	71
Global meta-analysis reveals differential effects of climate and litter quality on soil fauna-mediated litter decomposition across size classes	70
Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa	69
Effects of shrub expansion on methane emissions from temperate wetlands and their regulatory mechanisms	69
Livestock trampling regulates the soil carbon exchange by mediating surface roughness and biocrust cover	69
Microbial and plant-derived carbon contributions to particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon in perennial and annual cropping systems	68
Enhanced plant growth in the presence of earthworms correlates with changes in soil microbiota but not nutrient availability	68
Soil inorganic carbon distribution, stocks and environmental thresholds along a major climatic gradient	68
Soil aminopeptidase activities under 145-year crop rotation and fertility practices in the North Central US	67
Digital soil mapping of peatland using airborne radiometric data and supervised machine learning – Implication for the assessment of carbon stock	67
Estimating soil bacterial abundance and diversity in the Southeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	66
Driving factors of variation in fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency in maize cropping systems across China and its microbial mechanism	66
Stronger link of nosZI than nosZII to the higher total N2O consumption in anoxic paddy surface soils	66
Biochar-based urea increases soil methane uptake in a subtropical forest	66
Faeces traits as unifying predictors of detritivore effects on organic matter turnover	66
Soil addition improves multifunctionality of degraded grasslands through increasing fungal richness and network complexity	64
Application of the gleization soil layer to assess centurial drops in shallow groundwater levels across the southeastern coast of China	64
Impacts of groundwater storage variability on soil salinization in a semi-arid agricultural plain	64
Editorial Board	64
Divergent responses of soil plant-derived and microbial-derived C to phosphorus input in a Chinese fir plantation	62
Chinese milk vetch incorporation inhibits nitrification by suppressing comammox Nitrospira in subtropical paddy soils	61
Optimized measurement of frozen soil thermal properties using a heat-pulse sensor	59
Links between environmental conditions and pedogenic phyllosilicates in Podzols in the Tatra Mountains (Poland) – I. Mineralogy	58
High biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in the permafrost layer amplifies carbon emissions under warming	58
Highway to health: Microbial pathways of soil organic carbon accrual in conservation farming systems	58
Driving mechanisms of soil bacterial α and β diversity under long-term nitrogen addition: Subtractive heterogenization based on the environment selection	57
High relief yield strong topography-soil water-vegetation relationships in headwater catchments of southeastern China	57
LimeSoDa: A dataset collection for benchmarking of machine learning regressors in digital soil mapping	57