Soil Science Society of America Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Soil Science Society of America Journal 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cover crop impacts on soil physical properties: A review117
A review and meta‐analysis of the agricultural potential of struvite as a phosphorus fertilizer77
The processes of preferential flow in the unsaturated zone71
Salinity: Electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids63
The soil health assessment protocol and evaluation applied to soil organic carbon55
Nitrous oxide emissions and nitrogen use efficiency in wheat: Nitrogen fertilization timing and formulation, soil nitrogen, and weather effects45
Portable X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry analysis of soils44
Soil health recovery after grassland reestablishment on cropland: The effects of time and topographic position35
Mitigating evaporation and desiccation cracks in soil with the sustainable material biochar32
Field‐scale apparent soil electrical conductivity32
Carbon‐sensitive pedotransfer functions for plant available water30
Can cover crops improve soil ecosystem services in water‐limited environments? A review30
X‐ray computed tomography–measured soil pore parameters as influenced by crop rotations and cover crops29
Expanding perspectives of soil nitrification to include ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and comammox bacteria29
Ammonia volatilization, nitrous oxide emissions, and corn yields as influenced by nitrogen placement and enhanced efficiency fertilizers28
Nitrogen mineralization from organic materials and fertilizers: Predicting N release27
Cover crops and carbon sequestration: Lessons from U.S. studies27
A comparison between fatty acid methyl ester profiling methods (PLFA and EL‐FAME) as soil health indicators26
Crop rotation enhances soybean yields and soil health indicators25
Intensification of no‐till agricultural systems: An opportunity for carbon sequestration25
Aligning science and policy of regenerative agriculture24
Gas permeability and water retention of a repacked silty sand amended with different particle sizes of peanut shell biochar24
Soil structure recovery following compaction: Short‐term evolution of soil physical properties in a loamy soil19
Comparison of soil health metrics for a Cecil soil in the North Carolina Piedmont18
Towards diverse representation and inclusion in soil science in the United States18
Selecting soil hydraulic properties as indicators of soil health: Measurement response to management and site characteristics18
Predicting hysteresis loops of the soil water characteristic curve from initial drying18
Characterizing the pore size distribution of a chloride silt soil during freeze–thaw processes via nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry18
What do relationships between extractable metals and soil organic carbon concentrations mean?17
Grinding and spectra replication often improves mid‐DRIFTS predictions of soil properties17
Accessible, affordable, fine‐scale estimates of soil carbon for sustainable management in sub‐Saharan Africa16
Predicting soil moisture content over partially vegetation covered surfaces from hyperspectral data with deep learning16
Legume silvopastoral systems enhance soil organic matter quality in a subhumid tropical environment15
Evaluation of SLAKES, a smartphone application for quantifying aggregate stability, in high‐clay soils15
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis on microbial diversity and enzyme activities in the rhizosphere soil of Artemisia annua15
Fine grinding is needed to maintain the high accuracy of mid‐infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for soil property estimation15
Soil quality indices as affected by long‐term burning, irrigation, tillage, and fertility management15
Advances in the heat‐pulse technique: Improvements in measuring soil thermal properties15
Biomass crops as a soil amendment in cultivated histosols: Can we reach carbon equilibrium?15
Diverse rotations impact microbial processes, seasonality and overall nitrous oxide emissions from soils14
Ecosystem dynamics of crop–pasture rotations in a fifty‐year field experiment in southern South America: Century model and field results14
Positive associations of soil organic matter and crop yields across a regional network of working farms14
Iron monosulfide identification: Field techniques to provide evidence of reducing conditions in soils14
Interactions between water flow and microplastics in silt loam and loamy sand13
Evaluation of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on the soil pore structure of alpine meadows using X‐ray computed tomography13
Evaluation of a microplate spectrophotometer for soil organic carbon determination in south‐central Idaho13
Enriching organic carbon bioavailability can mitigate soil acidification induced by nitrogen fertilization in croplands through microbial nitrogen immobilization13
Deficit irrigation drives maize root distribution and soil microbial communities with implications for soil carbon dynamics13
Long‐term effect of tillage and straw retention in conservation agriculture systems on soil carbon storage13
Soil organic carbon sequestration calculated from depth distribution13
Effect of soil texture on nitrogen mineralization from organic fertilizers in four common southeastern soils12
Optimizing acquisition parameters in diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy of soils12
Efficiency of fall versus spring applied urea‐based fertilizers treated with urease and nitrification inhibitors I. Ammonia volatilization and mitigation by NBPT12
Characteristics of nitrogen and phosphorus loss in runoff from Quercus acutissima Carr. and Robinia pseudoacacia L. under simulated rainfall12
Elevational gradients and distributions of aggregate associated organic carbon and nitrogen and stability in alpine forest ecosystems12
Soil development and mineral transformations along a one‐million‐year chronosequence on the Galápagos Islands12
Mapping of soil organic carbon using machine learning models: Combination of optical and radar remote sensing data12
Field‐scale digital soil mapping of clay: Combining different proximal sensed data and comparing various statistical models12
Bio‐tillage improves soil physical properties and maize growth in a compacted Vertisol by cover crops12
Halotolerant rhizobacterial consortium confers salt tolerance to maize under naturally salt‐affected soil12
Intensive agricultural management‐induced subsurface accumulation of labile phosphorus in Midwestern agricultural soils dominated by tile lines12
Minimum dataset and metadata guidelines for soil‐test correlation and calibration research12
Gas‐Diffusivity based characterization of aggregated agricultural soils11
Hydrochar, digestate, and process water impacts on a soil's microbial community, processes, and metal bioavailability11
Relating four‐day soil respiration to corn nitrogen fertilizer needs across 49 U.S. Midwest fields11
Estimating cation exchange capacity from agronomic soil tests: Comparing Mehlich‐3 and ammonium acetate sum of cations11
Evaluating three calibration transfer methods for predictions of soil properties using mid‐infrared spectroscopy11
A hybrid approach for predictive soil property mapping using conventional soil survey data11
Residual effects of compaction on the subsoil pore system—A functional perspective11
Carryover effects of silicon‐rich amendments in rice paddies11
Agroecosystem management responses to Haney soil health test in the southeastern United States11
Digital soil science and beyond11
Laboratory studies on the effect of adsorbed microbial extracellular polymeric substances on the acidity of selected variable‐charge soils11
Microcharacteristics of soil pores after raindrop action11
Effects of land use, tillage management, and crop diversification on soil physical quality in Cerrado agricultural systems11
Estimating soil organic carbon and pH in Jilin Province using Landsat and ancillary data11
A regional soil classification framework to improve soil health diagnosis and management10
Do soil health tests match farmer experience? Assessing biological, physical, and chemical indicators in the Upper Midwest United States10
The effects of dryland cropping system intensity on soil function and associated changes in macrofauna communities10
Relationships of on‐farm soil health scores with corn and soybean yield in the midwestern United States10
Residue decomposition and priming of soil organic carbon following different NPK fertilizer histories10
Total extractable phosphorus in flooded soil as affected by struvite and other fertilizer‐phosphorus sources10
Soil sample timing, nitrogen fertilization, and incubation length influence anaerobic potentially mineralizable nitrogen10
Soil water and nitrogen dynamics from interaction of irrigation and fertilization management practices in a greenhouse vegetable rotation10
Efficiency of fall versus spring applied urea‐based fertilizers treated with urease and nitrification inhibitors II. Crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency10
A modeling framework to quantify the effects of compaction on soil water retention and infiltration10
Soil nitrification response to dairy digestate and inorganic ammonium sources depends on soil pH and nitrifier abundances10
Stand ages adjust fluctuating patterns of soil respiration and decrease temperature sensitivity after revegetation10
Source and formulation matter: New insights into phosphorus fertilizer fate and transport in mildly calcareous soils10
Soil health assessment after 40 years of conservation and conventional tillage management in Southeastern Coastal Plain soils10
Robustness of visible near‐infrared and mid‐infrared spectroscopic models to changes in the quantity and quality of crop residues in soil10
Development and application of the Hydric Soil Technical Standard10
Soil‐test biological activity with the flush of CO2: VIII. Soil type and management diversity10
Compost applications increase bacterial community diversity in the apple rhizosphere9
Soil mean‐weight diameter and stability index under contrasting tillage systems for cotton production in North Carolina9
Cover crop grazing impacts on soil properties and crop yields under irrigated no‐till corn–soybean management9
Phosphorus adsorption characteristics in forested and managed podzolic soils9
Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on soil inorganic carbon in coastal wetlands in China9
Continuous in situ soil nitrate sensors: The importance of high‐resolution measurements across time and a comparison with salt extraction‐based methods9
Binding and adsorption energy of Cd in soils and its environmental implication for Cd bioavailability9
Dissolved organic carbon chemical composition controls the rate of CO2 release from rewetted soil9
Experimental study of hydraulic characteristics on headcut erosion and erosional response in the tableland and gully regions of China9
Automated soil particle‐size analysis using time of flight distance ranging sensor9
Long‐term effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on soil aggregate stability and aggregate‐associated carbon and nitrogen in the North China Plain9
Surface‐soil carbon stocks greater under well‐managed grazed pasture than row crops9
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure following different grazing intensities in an alpine grassland9
Estimating thermal conductivity of frozen soils from air‐filled porosity9
Soil organic carbon sequestration when converting a rainfed cropping system to irrigated corn under different tillage systems and N fertilizer rates9
Enhancing the mechanical and hydraulic properties of coarse quartz sand using a water‐soluble hydrogel based on bacterial alginate for novel application in agricultural contexts9
Space and time‐resolved monitoring of phosphorus release from a fertilizer pellet and its mobility in soil using microdialysis and X‐ray computed tomography9
Anisotropy of subsoil pore characteristics and hydraulic conductivity as affected by compaction and cover crop treatments8
Impacts of corn stover removal on carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions8
Biochar and compost amendment impacts on soil water and pore size distribution of a loamy sand soil8
Enantioselective environmental behavior of the chiral fungicide mandipropamid in four types of Chinese soil8
Wind effects on soil thermal properties measured by the dual‐probe heat pulse method8
Net global warming potential and greenhouse gas intensity8
Can permanganate oxidizable carbon predict soil function responses to soil organic matter management?8
Undergraduate degrees that train students for soil science careers at universities in the USA and its territories8
New model for estimating geometric tortuosity of variably saturated porous media using 3D synchrotron microcomputed tomography imaging8
Faster carbon turnover in topsoil with straw addition is less beneficial to carbon sequestration than subsoil and mixed soil8
Soil mass and volume affect soil‐test biological activity estimates8
Do soil carbon sequestration and soil fertility increase by including a gramineous cover crop in continuous soybean?8
Coupled water flow, heat transport, and solute transport in a seasonally frozen rangeland soil8
Thermo–time domain reflectometry method: Advances in monitoring in situ soil bulk density8
Variation in soil‐test‐based phosphorus and potassium rate recommendations across the southern USA7
Long‐term effects of lime and phosphogypsum on soil carbon and nitrogen and physical attributes under tropical no‐till7
Split application of nutrients improve growth and yield of Huanglongbing‐affected citrus trees7
Soil carbon sequestration potential and the identification of hotspots in the eastern Corn Belt of the United States7
Soil properties and biochemical composition of ground‐dwelling bee nests in agricultural settings7
Root‐zone enrichment of carbon, nitrogen, and soil‐test biological activity under cotton systems in North Carolina7
Understanding soil water effects on nitrogen release from controlled‐release fertilizers7
Bulk density, particle density, and porosity of two species of Sphagnum: Variability in measurement techniques and spatial distribution7
Prediction of multiple soil fertility parameters using VisNIR spectroscopy and PXRF spectrometry7
Field measurements of soil cracks7
Parameterization of two‐dimensional approaches in HYDRUS‐2D: Part 1. Simulating water flow dynamics at the field scale7
Nitrification inhibitor reduces the inhibitory effect of N‐(n‐butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) on the hydrolysis of urea7
Experimental investigation on water release and gas emission of evapotranspirative capillary barrier landfill covers7
Effects of amendments and microtopography on created tidal freshwater wetland soil morphology and carbon7
Short‐term effects of bioenergy cropping on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a Florida Ultisol7
Gas diffusion characteristics of agricultural soils from South Greenland7
The effects of soil solarization and application of a Trichoderma biocontrol agent on soil fungal and prokaryotic communities7
Quantitative assessment of plant‐available silicon extraction methods in rice paddy soils under different management7
Visible and near‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy analysis of soils7
Water management effect on soil oxidation, greenhouse gas emissions, and nitrogen leaching in drained peat soils7
Rapid bulk density measurement using mobile device photogrammetry7
In‐situ probe spacing calibration improves the heat pulse method for measuring soil heat capacity and water content7
Fertilizer source and placement influence ammonia volatilization losses from water‐seeded rice systems7
Nutrient limitations for overstory and understory plants during Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China7
Localized alteration of ferrihydrite natural organic matter coprecipitates following reaction with Fe(II)7
Advances in thermo‐time domain reflectometry technique: Measuring ice content in partially frozen soils7
Agricultural peatlands conservation: How does the addition of plant biomass and copper affect soil fertility?7
Phytodesalination and chemical and organic conditioners to recover the chemical properties of saline‐sodic soil6
Optimization of measuring procedure of farmland soils using laser‐induced breakdown spectroscopy6
Soil‐gas diffusivity and soil‐moisture effects on N2O emissions from repacked pasture soils6
Implications of crop residue removal on soil physical properties: A review6
Evaluating buffer methods for determining lime requirement on acidified agricultural soils of the Palouse6
Contrasting carbon and nitrogen responses to tillage at different soil depths: An observation after 40‐year of tillage management6
Comparing biological methods for soil health assessments: EL‐FAME, enzyme activities, and qPCR6
Soil aggregate‐associated organic carbon and nitrogen response to long‐term no‐till crop rotation, cover crop, and manure application6
Modeling the kinetics of competitive sorption and desorption of Zn(II), Ni(II), and Pb(II) in an acidic soil: Stirred‐flow experiments6
A new model for soil water vapor sorption isotherms considering adsorption and condensation6
Less efficient residue‐derived soil organic carbon formation under no‐till irrigated corn6
Slope‐scale spatial variability of fractal dimension of soil particle size distribution at multiple depths6
Land management effects on wet aggregate stability and carbon content6
Hydro‐physical soil properties as influenced by short and long‐term integrated crop–livestock agroecosystems6
Combining Vis–NIR spectroscopy and advanced statistical analysis for estimation of soil chemical properties relevant for forest road construction6
Water repellency prediction in high‐organic Greenlandic soils: Comparing vis–NIRS to pedotransfer functions6
Impact of nitrogen management and tillage practices on nitrous oxide emissions from rainfed corn6
An approximate semi‐analytical model of sediment and nutrient transport on slopes under rainfall conditions6
Cover crop monocultures and mixtures affect soil health indicators and crop yield in the southeast United States6
Role of sulfur mineralization and fertilizer source in corn and soybean production systems6
Untangling soil‐weather drivers of daily N2O emissions and fertilizer management mitigation strategies in no‐till corn6
Quantification of physical soil crust thickness and its effects on runoff and sediment yield6
Parameterization of two‐dimensional approaches in HYDRUS‐2D: Part 2. Solute transport at the field and column scale6
Trichoderma asperellumalters fungal community composition in saline–alkaline soil maize rhizospheres6
Developing and evaluating national soil moisture percentile maps6
Improving the spatial prediction accuracy of soil alkaline hydrolyzable nitrogen using GWPCA‐GWRK6
Conservation tillage supports soil macrofauna communities, infiltration, and farm profits in an irrigated maize‐based cropping system of Colorado6
Numerical soil classification supports soil identification by citizen scientists using limited, simple soil observations6
Quantitative stable isotope probing with H218O to measure taxon‐specific microbial growth6
Sediment and soil organic carbon loss during continuous extreme scouring events on the Loess Plateau6
Improved Beerkan run methodology to assess water impact effects on infiltration and hydraulic properties of a loam soil under conventional‐ and no‐tillage6
Continuous cropping of soybean induced a more fluctuating fungal network and intensive pathogenic fungal interactions in a Mollisol of Northeast China6
Defining relative yield for soil test correlation and calibration trials in the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool5
Sensitivity and variability of soil health indicators in a California cropping system5
Influence of mechanized timber harvesting on soil compaction in northern hardwood forests5
Soil gypsum determination5
Spatial and fractal characterization of soil hydraulic properties along a catena5
Soil biogeochemistry of the capillary fringe in laboratory mesocosms with contrasting soil textures5
Isothermal titration calorimetry as a useful tool to examine adsorption mechanisms of phosphate on gibbsite at various solution conditions5
Microbial biomass in forest soils under altered moisture conditions: A review5
Selection of elite Bradyrhizobium strains by biometric techniques for inoculation in cowpea5
Long‐term rice cultivation promoted microbial mineralization of organic P in a black soil5
Biochar amendment did not influence the growth of two tree plantations on nutrient‐depleted Ultisols in the south Ecuadorian Amazon region5
Brackish groundwater and reverse osmosis concentrate influence soil physical and thermal properties and pecan evapotranspiration5
Machine learning models for predicting soil particle size fractions from routine soil analyses in Quebec5
Forced and natural gas movement in dry sand – Barrel experiments and models5
Compost inputs, cropping system, and rotation phase drive aggregate‐associated carbon5
Biogeographic distribution patterns and assembly processes of nirS‐type and nirK‐type denitrifiers across the black soil zone in Northeast China5
Macro and microscopic visual imaging tools to investigate metal reducing bacteria in soils5
Relating indicators to soil health functions in conventional and organic Mediterranean cropping systems5
Soil hydraulic model parameters and methodology as affected by sodium salt solutions5
Estimating specific surface area: Incorporating the effect of surface roughness and probing molecule size5
Predicting soil organic matter nitrogen mineralization5
Evaluating the effectiveness of the phosphorus sorption index for estimating maximum phosphorus sorption capacity5
Effect of swine manure on soil health properties: A systematic review5
Manganese‐coated IRIS to document reducing soil conditions5
Soil organic matter, texture, and drying temperature effects on water content5
Application methods influence biochar–fertilizer interactive effects on soil nitrogen dynamics5
Application of infinite line source and cylindrical‐perfect‐conductors theories to heat pulse measurements with large sensors5
Soil infiltration and conservative solute transport characteristics with different viscosity of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose5
A novel method to inverse the water retention curves with consideration of volume change during centrifuge testing5
Nitrogen requirements of first‐year small grains after alfalfa5
Distribution of soil nutrients and enzyme activities in different aggregates under two sieving methods5
Empirical relationships between environmental factors and soil organic carbon produce comparable prediction accuracy to machine learning5
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on improvement of degraded landscape soil in an ionized rare earth mining area, subtropical China5
Influence of environmental conditions on extracellular and intracellular antibiotic resistance genes in manure‐amended soil: A microcosm study5
A preliminary assessment of the space‐for‐time substitution method in soil carbon change prediction5
Does harvesting cover crops eliminate the benefits of cover crops? Insights after three years5
Responses of β‐glucosidase, permanganate oxidizable carbon, and fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis to conservation practices4
Assessing the impact of organic versus conventional agricultural management on soil hydraulic properties in a long‐term experiment4
Soil physical and hydrological properties as affected by a five‐year history of poultry litter applied to a cotton–corn–soybean rotation system4
Identification of phosphorus index improvements through model comparisons across topographic regions in a small agricultural watershed in Vermont (USA)4
Greenhouse gas emissions under winter wheat‐based organic and conventional crop productions4
A database of soil physical properties for the Kansas Mesonet4
Time in a bottle: Use of soil archives for understanding long‐term soil change4
Does deadwood moisture vary jointly with surface soil water content?4
Aggregate stability in rainfall‐induced soil physical crusts on the Loess Plateau, Northwest China4
Carbon dioxide flush as a soil health indicator related to soil properties and crop yields4
Diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy estimates for soil properties using multiple partitions: Effects of the range of contents, sample size, and algorithms4
Apparent kinetic properties of soil phosphomonoesterase and β‐glucosidase are disparately influenced by pH4
Soil water retention curve inflection point: Insight into soil structure from percolation theory4
Root‐zone soil organic carbon enrichment is sensitive to land management across soil types and regions4
Response of surface soil nutrients and organic carbon fractions to tillage erosion vs. water erosion in an agricultural landscape4
Soil‐test biological activity associates with soil aggregation characteristics under different land uses in North Carolina4
Managing soil nutrient buildup by rotating crops and fertilizers following repeated poultry litter applications4
Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions after 19 years of farming systems research in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina4
Thermally induced changes in solubility and speciation of lead and iron minerals in a contaminated soil4
Magnetic susceptibility in the prediction of soil attributes in southern Brazil4
Effects of increasing water activity on the relationship between water vapor sorption and clay content4
Approximate analytical solution and parameter estimation for one‐dimensional horizontal absorption based on the van Genuchten–Mualem model4
Warming rather than elevated CO2 shifts the rhizobacterial community composition in four maize‐growing soils4
Physical characterization of glacial rock flours from fjord deposits in South Greenland–Toward soil amendment4
Assessing the effectiveness of agricultural conservation practices in maintaining soil organic carbon under contrasting agroecosystems and a changing climate4
Influence of oxytetracycline on boron adsorption at the hematite–water interface: A macroscopic and in situ ATR–FTIR study4
Linking water vapor sorption to water repellency in soils with high organic carbon contents4
New insights into the origin and evolution of glossic features in coarse‐textured soils in northern lower Michigan (USA)4
Evaluation of Mehlich‐3 for determination of cation exchange capacity in Kansas soils4
Cropping system management responses to Cornell and Alabama soil health assessment methods in the southeastern United States4
Advances in heat‐pulse methods: Measuring soil water evaporation with sensible heat balance4
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