OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pedosphere is 8. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of lignite amendment on carbon and nitrogen mineralization from raw and composted manure during incubation with soil	161
Promise and pitfalls of modeling grassland soil moisture in a free-air CO2 enrichment experiment (BioCON) using the SHAW model	133
Biochar amendment affected soil nitrogen transformation and nitrous oxide emissions: A 15N tracer study	98
Effect of long-term fertilization on bacterial communities in wheat endosphere	92
Effect of sulfur fertilizers applied at agronomic rates on cadmium availability in agricultural soils: insights from a batch experiment	90
Impact of drilling waste pollution on land cover in a high subarctic forest-tundra zone	87
Recycling of isabgol (Plantago ovata Forsk.) straw biomass and mineral powder with bio-inoculants as an effective soil amendment for isabgol cultivation	87
Geostatistical modelling and mapping of nematode-based soil ecological quality indices in a polluted nature reserve	86
Remediation of Pb- and Cd-contaminated clayey soil via magnetic-enhanced washing	72
Occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the estuarine sediments of the Taihu Lake and their associated toxic effects on aquatic organisms	58
Accessing global soil raster images and equal-area splines to estimate soil organic carbon stocks on the regional scale	55
Trade-off evaluation using carbon dioxide equivalent and hazard index of a paddy soil with application of organic liquid fertilizer	53
Agronomic strategies to reduce the arsenic content in rice in environments conducive to high arsenic in grains from Argentina	52
Carbon nanomaterial addition changes soil nematode community in a tall fescue mesocosm	48
Application of washing agents for moderately and severely arsenic-contaminated soil: Types, mechanisms, factors and comparative analysis	44
Soil chronosequence and biosequence on old lake sediments of the Burdur Lake in Turkey	42
Impacts of silver nanoparticles on enzymatic activities, nitrifying bacteria, and nitrogen transformation in soil amended with ammonium and nitrate	42
Reclamation of oil-induced soil hydrophobicity in the hyper-arid Evrona Nature Reserve, southern Israel	38
Impacts of land use and salinization on soil inorganic and organic carbon in the middle-lower Yellow River Delta	38
A conceptual framework and an empirical test of complementarity and facilitation with respect to phosphorus uptake by plant species mixtures	37
Spectral indices measured with proximal sensing using canopy reflectance sensor, chlorophyll meter and leaf color chart for in-season grain yield prediction of basmati rice	37
Adsorption and desorption characteristics of Cd, Cu and Pb in different soil aggregates through soil profile under single and ternary systems	34
Effect of P fertilizer reduction regime on soil Olsen-P, root Fe-plaque P, and rice P uptake in rice-wheat rotation paddy fields	32
Biofumigation effects of brassicaceous cover crops on soil health in cucurbit agroecosystems in Hawaii, USA	32
Net ecosystem carbon exchange for Bermuda grass growing in mesocosms as affected by irrigation frequency	31

Microbiological mechanism of lignin- and humus-derived small molecules addition promoting straw conversion into soil organic matter in sodic soil	31
Sorption and desorption characteristics of sulfamethazine in three different soils before and after removal of organic matter	30
Five-year controlled-release/stable nitrogen fertilization reduced field nitrogen loss without increasing carbon dioxide emissions in a vegetable rotation system	30
Sustainable remediation of cadmium-contaminated soils: capture by Fe3O4/polyaniline and removal by magnetic separation	30
Comparing the Soil Conservation Service model with new machine learning algorithms for predicting cumulative infiltration in semi-arid regions	28
Long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization modulates methane uptake and microbial community dynamics in subtropical forest soils	27
Short-term biochar effect on soil physicochemical and microbiological properties of a degraded alpine grassland	27
Difficult-to-culture bacteria in the rhizosphere: The underexplored signature microbial groups	27
Effects of substituting chemical fertilizers with manure on rice yield and soil labile nitrogen in paddy fields of China: A meta-analysis	26
In situ stabilization of arsenic in soil with organoclay, organozeolite, birnessite, goethite and lanthanum-doped magnetic biochar	24
Complementary effect of zoo compost with mineral nitrogen fertilisation increases wheat yield and nutrition in a low-nutrient soil	24
Magnesium-fortified phosphate fertilizers improve nutrient uptake and plant growth without reducing phosphorus availability	24
Numerical analysis of thermo-water-vapor-carbon coupling in a permafrost region: a case study in the Beiluhe area of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	22
Stabilization of chromium(VI) by hydroxysulfate green rust in chromium(VI)-contaminated soils	21
Phenotypic variations of wheat cultivars from the North China Plain in response to cadmium stress and associated single nucleotide polymorphisms identified by a genome-wide association study	21
Synthesis of an eco-friendly nanocomposite fertilizer for common bean based on carbon nanoparticles from agricultural waste biochar	21
Biodiversity, current developments and potential biotechnological applications of phosphorus-solubilizing and -mobilizing microbes: A review	20
Research progress on synthetic pyrethroid biodegradation: Current status, pathways, mechanisms, and enzyme enhancement strategies	19
Brackish water irrigation-induced recruitment of specific consortium determines microbial resistance that facilitates crop yield in a field experiment	19
15N tracers and microbial analyses reveal in situ N2O sources in contrasting water regimes of a drained peatland forest	19
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on zinc uptake, translocation and accumulation in winter wheat during whole plant growth stages	18
Disentangling the contributions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil multifunctionality	18
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi regulate plant mineral nutrient uptake and partitioning in iron ore tailings undergoing eco-engineered pedogenesis	18
Influence of soil physicochemical properties, particle size fractions and mineralogy on the leaching potentials of arsenic and antimony in abandoned mine soils	18
Improving inherent soil productivity underpins agricultural sustainability	17
Occurrence of dark septate endophytes in Phragmites australis in the Baiyang Lake and their resistance to Cd stress	17
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for salinity stress: Anti-stress role and mechanisms	16
Zokor activity promotes soil water infiltration in the Mu Us sandy land of northern Shaanxi, China	16
Heavy metals potentially drive co-selection of antibiotic resistance genes by shifting soil bacterial communities in paddy soils along the middle and lower Yangtze River	16
Biochar for future and futuristic biochar	16
Wheat morphological and biochemical responses to copper oxide nanoparticles in two soils	16
Changes in soil free-living diazotrophic community and co-occurrence patterns along desert wetland degradation gradient in the Mu Us Desert, northern China	16
Preface: Special issue on soil ecology and sustainability for celebrating the 70th anniversary of ISSCAS	16
Assessment of SoilGrids data for soil erosion estimation at watershed scale: A case study in northern Thailand	15
Fertilization practices affect biological nitrogen fixation by modulating diazotrophic communities in an acidic soil in southern China	15
Partial organic fertilizer substitution promotes soil multifunctionality by increasing microbial community diversity and complexity	15
Responses of nitrogen cycling and related microorganisms to brackish wetlands formed by evapotranspiration	14
Silicon and plant nutrition—dynamics, mechanisms of transport and role of silicon solubilizer microbiomes in sustainable agriculture: A review	14
Coupled effects of pH and kaolinite colloids on antibiotic transport in porous media	14
Five-year warming does not change soil organic carbon stock but alters its chemical composition in an alpine peatland	14
Change of pore water near the freezing front during soil freezing: Migration and mechanisms	14
Effects of nanofertilizer and nano-plant hormone on soil chemical properties and microbial community in two different soil types	14
Biophotoelectrochemistry: An emerging frontier for channeling photoelectric effect into darkness zone of soils and sediments	14
Chemical speciation of copper and manganese in solution of a copper-contaminated soil and young grapevine growth with amendment application	13
The necessity to expand mycorrhizal boundaries: Including the fungal endophytes that possess key mycorrhizal criteria	13
Rhizosphere microbes influence wogonoside accumulation in perennial Scutellaria baicalensis	13
Effect of synergistic urea by nitrification inhibitor coated with resin on wheat growth and soil nitrogen supply	13
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from five contrasting rice production systems in the tropics	13
Application of controlled-release urea increases maize N uptake, environmental benefits and economic returns via optimizing temporal and spatial distributions of soil mineral N	13
Role of methylotrophic bacteria in managing abiotic stresses for enhancing agricultural production	13

Cropping leads to loss of soil organic matter: How can we prevent it?	12
Integrated agronomic practice management decreases soil carbon emission and increases environmental ecological benefits of summer maize	12
Bioaugmentation of a novel bacterial consortium in cotton-planted soil for lambda-cyhalothrin degradation	12
Nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin does not affect yield-scaled nitrous oxide emissions in a tropical grassland	12
Integrated analysis of changes in soil microbiota and metabolites following long-term fertilization in a subtropical maize-wheat agroecosystem	12
Organic-inorganic fertilization promotes paddy soil macroaggregate organic carbon accumulation associated with key bacterial populations in subtropical China	12
Microplastics as carriers of antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soils: A call for research	12
Impacts of geography, climate, soil properties and vegetation characteristics on soil C:N:P stoichiometry across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	12
Influence of pyrolysis temperature on rice straw biochar properties and corresponding effects on dynamic changes in bispyribac-sodium adsorption and leaching behavior in soil	12
Fe(II) oxidation after microbial Fe(III) reduction does not cause Cd release	12
Social insects behind the microgranular structure of Ferralsols: Consequences for their physical fertility when cultivated	12
Key variable for simulating critical nitrogen dilution curve of wheat: Leaf area ratio-driven approach	11
Estimating soil ammonium adsorption using pedotransfer functions in an irrigation district of the North China Plain	11
Global sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of the VIP ecosystem model with an expanded soil nitrogen module for winter wheat-summer maize rotation system in the North China Plain	11
Effect of indaziflam on microbial activity and nitrogen cycling processes in an orchard soil	11
Effect of biochar applied with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on soil microbial community composition and nitrogen utilization in tomato	11
Soil particle size range correction for improved calibration relationship between the laser-diffraction method and sieve-pipette method	11
Agricultural and environmental challenges in agroecosystems	11
Nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with biochar-manure mixtures	11
Effects of silver nanoparticle size, concentration and coating on soil quality as indicated by arylsulfatase and sulfite oxidase activities	11
Biochar and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) application improves pH, water-holding characteristics of desert soils and enhances Microcoleus vaginatus growth: The implication in combating desertification	10
Effects of deep placement of fertilizer on periphytic biofilm development and nitrogen cycling in paddy systems	10
Coupling and decoupling of soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium stocks along a 6000 km northeast-southwest temperature gradient in China	10
Similar response of ureolytic microflora to chemical fertilizer in soil aggregates across five farmlands	10
Enduring legacy of coal mining on the fungal community in a High Arctic soil after five decades	10
Impacts of wetting-drying cycles on short-term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in Amynthas earthworm casts	10
Earthworm biomass and population structure are negatively associated with changes in organic residue nitrogen concentration during vermicomposting	10
Carbon mineralization in subtropical alluvial arable soils amended with sugarcane bagasse and rice husk biochars	10
Mechanism of biochar decomposition mediated by bacteria shifts the molecular structure of soil organic matter to high molecular aromatic components	10
Promotion of the symbiotic interaction between phagotrophic protists and beneficial bacteria, mediated via a balancing of soil nutrients, reduces the incidence of watermelon Fusarium wilt	10
Effects of the nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin and tillage practices on yield-scaled nitrous oxide emission from a maize field in Iran	10
Snow removal promotes microbial-mediated organic carbon stabilization within aggregates in northeast peatland of China	10
Co-inoculation of indigenous Pseudomonas oryzihabitans and Bradyrhizobium sp. modulates the growth, symbiotic efficacy, nutrient acquisition, and grain yield of soybean	10
Proximal sensor-enhanced soil mapping in complex soil-landscape areas of Brazil	9
Elevated carbon dioxide stimulates nitrous oxide emission in agricultural soils: A global meta-analysis	9
Nitrapyrin effectiveness in reducing nitrous oxide emissions decreases at low doses of urea in an Andosol	9
Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from grain culture soils	9
Using pXRF and vis-NIR spectra for predicting properties of soils developed in loess	9
Prediction of lead in agricultural soils: An integrated approach using machine learning, terrain attributes and reflectance spectra	9
Straw management and fertilization improve soil aggregate stability by inducing biological binding agents and specific keystone genera	8
Variability in pattern and hydrogen isotope composition (δ2H) of long-chain n-alkanes of surface soils and its relations to climate and vegetation characteristics: A meta-analysis	8
Simulating soil erodibility in southeastern China using a sequential Gaussian algorithm	8
Methanotrophy-driven accumulation of organic carbon in four paddy soils of Bangladesh	8
Global patterns of phosphorus transformation in relation to latitude, temperature and precipitation	8
Some advances in important research on soil in a changing world	8
Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization levels on photosynthesized carbon allocation in a temperate spring wheat and soil system	8
Long-term (42 years) effect of thinning on soil CO2 emission in a mixed broadleaved-Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) forest in Northeast China	8
Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on soil water retention curve and tensile strength	8
Efficiency-enhancing methods for predicting nitrogen mineralization characteristics in paddy soils using soil properties and rapid soil extraction	8
Evaluation of immobilizing agents as soil quality conditioners in addition to their metal(loid) immobilizing effect	8
Chemical oxidation of arsenic in the environment and its application in remediation: A mini review	8
Strategies to mitigate the adverse effect of drought stress on crop plants—influences of soil bacteria: A review	8
Development of a new index for automated mapping of ratoon rice areas using time-series normalized difference vegetation index imagery	8