OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoderma is 60. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Balanced fertilization management to protect soil inorganic carbon stocks and reduce soil CO2 emissions	357
Do soil names matter in scientific publications?	338
Variations and controlling factors of soil CO2 release at daytime and nighttime scales in the loess hilly regions of China	182
Soil total phosphorus content is a driver of P forms in continuously flooded paddy soils	156
Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands	152
Evaluating the impact of using digital soil mapping products as input for spatializing a crop model: The case of drainage and maize yield simulated by STICS in the Berambadi catchment (India)	137
Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies	134
The effect of uncertainty in predictions of nutrient concentrations from soil spectra on variable-rate fertilizer applications	113
Applying biochar under topsoil facilitates soil carbon sequestration: A case study in a dryland agricultural system on the Loess Plateau	103
Soil aminopeptidase activities under 145-year crop rotation and fertility practices in the North Central US	97
Soil inorganic carbon distribution, stocks and environmental thresholds along a major climatic gradient	96
Enhanced plant growth in the presence of earthworms correlates with changes in soil microbiota but not nutrient availability	95
Stronger link of nosZI than nosZII to the higher total N2O consumption in anoxic paddy surface soils	93
Factors limiting microbial N2O and CO2 production in a cultivated peatland overlying an acid sulphate subsoil derived from black schist	91
Contribution of root decay process on soil infiltration capacity and soil water replenishment of planted forestland in semi-arid regions	91
Diverse regulations on the accumulation of fungal and bacterial necromass in cropland soils	90
Phosphorus abundance and speciation in acid forest Podzols – Effect of postglacial weathering	89
Rock fragment content alters spatiotemporal patterns of soil water content and temperature: Evidence from a field experiment	87
Changes in soil surface properties under simulated rainfall and the effect of surface roughness on runoff, infiltration and soil loss	86
Global meta-analysis reveals differential effects of climate and litter quality on soil fauna-mediated litter decomposition across size classes	81
Quantifying the influencing factors of the thermal state of permafrost in Northeast China	79
Evaluating soil water and salt transport in response to varied rainfall events and hydrological years under brackish water irrigation in the North China Plain	78
Fragmentation alters the soil water conservation capacity of hillside alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	78
Urban soil properties distinguished by parent material, land use, time since urbanization, and pre-urban geomorphology	77
Soil burrow characterization by 3D image analysis: Prediction of macroinvertebrate groups from biopore size distribution parameters	77

25-years of stewardship programs enhance regenerative outcomes in river delta soils of southwestern British Columbia, Canada	75
Heat pulse probe design optimization using numerical simulation	75
Occurrence and sources of pollutants in the soils of penguin colonies in the South Shetland Islands, North-West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula	75
Livestock trampling regulates the soil carbon exchange by mediating surface roughness and biocrust cover	74
Using soil classification to improve interpretation of biological soil health indicators	73
Estimating soil bacterial abundance and diversity in the Southeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	73
Comment on “Characterizing detachment and transport processes of interrill soil erosion, Geoderma 376 (2020) 114549”	73
Phosphorus solubility changes following additions of bioenergy wastes to an agricultural soil: Implications for crop availability and environmental mobility	73
Soil quality improvement on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau induced by soil hydrothermal changes from 1980s to 2020s	71
Equations for soil freezing characteristics curves based on the thermodynamics principles	70
Faeces traits as unifying predictors of detritivore effects on organic matter turnover	70
Nitrification inhibitors reduce N2O emissions from Mollisols by potentially targeting Nitrosospira cluster 3a and denitrifiers	70
How will permafrost carbon respond to future climate change? A new assessment for future thaw trends of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau	70
Soil erosion models verification in a small catchment for different time windows with changing cropland boundary	67
Rediscovering the edaphic knowledge of smallholder farmers in southern Ecuador	67
Can application of liquid dairy manure onto no-tillage oxisols reduce runoff, sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen losses over 9 years of natural rainfall?	67
Driving factors of variation in fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency in maize cropping systems across China and its microbial mechanism	67
Influences of plant traits on the retention and redistribution of bioavailable nitrogen within the plant-soil system	67
Land use conversion and soil moisture affect the magnitude and pattern of soil-borne N2, NO, and N2O emissions	67
Digital soil mapping of peatland using airborne radiometric data and supervised machine learning – Implication for the assessment of carbon stock	66
The effectiveness of digital soil mapping with temporal variables in modeling soil organic carbon changes	66
Allocation of foliar-P fractions of Alhagi sparsifolia and its relationship with soil-P fractions and soil properties in a hyperarid desert ecosystem	66
Impacts of groundwater storage variability on soil salinization in a semi-arid agricultural plain	65
Redox-driven changes in organic C stabilization and Fe mineral transformations in temperate hydromorphic soils	65
Soil addition improves multifunctionality of degraded grasslands through increasing fungal richness and network complexity	64
Long-term effects of biochar application on rhizobacteria community and winter wheat growth on the Loess Plateau in China	64
Biocrusts: Engineers and architects of surface soil properties, functions, and processes in dryland ecosystems	63
Biochar-based urea increases soil methane uptake in a subtropical forest	63
Seasonal cryogenic processes control supra-permafrost pore water chemistry in two contrasting Cryosols	63
High resolution soil moisture mapping in 3D space and time using machine learning and depth functions	63
Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa	61
Urbanization degree rather than methanotrophic abundance decreases soil CH4 uptake	60
Application of the gleization soil layer to assess centurial drops in shallow groundwater levels across the southeastern coast of China	60
Editorial Board	60
Impact of maize residues decomposition on aggregate turnover	60
Determining carbon storage of a complex peat stratigraphy using non– and minimal-invasive geophysical prospection techniques (Verlorener Bach and Loosbach valleys, southern Germany)	60