OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Soil Science is 23. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in soil pH and mobility of heavy metals in contaminated soils	128
A holistic perspective on soil architecture is needed as a key to soil functions	74
European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies	67
The role of biochar particle size and hydrophobicity in improving soil hydraulic properties	51
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century	50
Soil multifunctionality: Synergies and trade‐offs across European climatic zones and land uses	46
Functional root trait‐based classification of cover crops to improve soil physical properties	45
Soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation: Mineralization kinetics of organic inputs as an overlooked limitation	43
Relations between soil organic carbon content and the pore size distribution for an arable topsoil with large variations in soil properties	41
The cost‐effectiveness of reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil organic carbon	40
Long‐term zero‐tillage enhances the protection of soil carbon in tropical agriculture	34
Estimating soil chemical properties by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy: Promise versus reality	32
RUSSELL REVIEW Are plant roots only “in” soil or are they “of” it? Roots, soil formation and function	31
Perspectives on data‐driven soil research	30
Inconsistent effects of agricultural practices on soil fungal communities across 12 European long‐term experiments	29
Effect of soil thickness on rainfall infiltration and runoff generation from karst hillslopes during rainstorms	29
LUCAS Soil Biodiversity and LUCAS Soil Pesticides, new tools for research and policy development	27
How pore structure non‐stationarity compromises flow properties representativity (REV) for soil samples: Pore‐scale modelling and stationarity analysis	27
Potential accumulation of toxic trace elements in soils during enhanced rock weathering	27
Accounting for soil architecture and microbial dynamics in microscale models: Current practices in soil science and the path ahead	26
Sustainable futures over the next decade are rooted in soil science	26
Impact of biochar on nutrient supply, crop yield and microbial respiration on sandy soils of northern Germany	25
Spatiotemporal modelling of soil moisture in an Atlantic forest through machine learning algorithms	24
Out of the dark: Using energy flux to connect above‐ and belowground communities and ecosystem functioning	23