OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Soil Science is 25. 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.)

Article	Citations
Climate change impacts on soil salinity in agricultural areas	291
Changes in soil pH and mobility of heavy metals in contaminated soils	77
Effects of plastic mulch and nitrogen fertilizer on the soil microbial community, enzymatic activity and yield performance in a dryland maize cropping system	64
A holistic perspective on soil architecture is needed as a key to soil functions	59
What is a good level of soil organic matter? An index based on organic carbon to clay ratio	53
Machine learning in space and time for modelling soil organic carbon change	51
Revealing pore connectivity across scales and resolutions with X‐ray CT	39
Soil multifunctionality: Synergies and trade‐offs across European climatic zones and land uses	36
The role of biochar particle size and hydrophobicity in improving soil hydraulic properties	35
Bypass and hyperbole in soil research: Worrisome practices critically reviewed through examples	35
The impact of drought and rewetting on N₂O emissions from soil in temperate and Mediterranean climates	34
Soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation: Mineralization kinetics of organic inputs as an overlooked limitation	33
Relations between soil organic carbon content and the pore size distribution for an arable topsoil with large variations in soil properties	33
Functional root trait‐based classification of cover crops to improve soil physical properties	31
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century	31
A review of non‐equilibrium water flow and solute transport in soil macropores: principles, controlling factors and consequences for water quality	31
Wet sieving versus dry crushing: Soil microaggregates reveal different physical structure, bacterial diversity and organic matter composition in a clay gradient	30
European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies	30
Comparing two theories about the nature of soil phosphate	30
Soil organic carbon and clay content as deciding factors for net nitrogen mineralization and cereal yields in boreal mineral soils	29
Perspectives on data‐driven soil research	29
The cost‐effectiveness of reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil organic carbon	27
Influence of soil structure on the spread of Pseudomonas fluorescens in soil at microscale	26
Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators	25
Mapping soil profile depth, bulk density and carbon stock in Scotland using remote sensing and spatial covariates	25

Towards a standardization of soil‐related ecosystem service assessments	25
Inconsistent effects of agricultural practices on soil fungal communities across 12 European long‐term experiments	25