OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil Research 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationship between elemental content determined via portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and traditional acid-digestion-based methods in tropical soils	45
Effects of farming systems, tillage, and traffic practices on deep drainage and soil salt loads in the Queensland Murray–Darling and Fitzroy Basins using soil chloride	25
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	23
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	18
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	18
The spatial and temporal variability and influence factor analysis of soil erosion in a grass farming area: a case study in central China	18
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a d13C technique	18
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	16
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	14
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	13
Soil nematode trophic structure and biochar addition in recently converted boreal lands	12
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	12
Variation in wheat yield and soil properties at different landscape positions, nutrient sources, and rates in the tropical cereal-based cropping systems of Ethiopia	12
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments†	10
Chemical and biological attributes of soil and soybean (Glycine max) yield in integrated systems in the Cerrado of north-east Brazil	9
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	9
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	9
Seeding next to previous year’s crop row (near-row sowing) can increase grain yields on water repellent soils	9
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	9
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	8
Influence of Azospirillum lectins on the antioxidant system response in wheat seedling roots during abiotic stress	8
Soil formation, nutrient supply and ecosystem productivity on basaltic lava vs rhyolitic pumice on Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos	8
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	8
Mineralogical control on physically protected soil organic matter in a neotropical moist forest	8
Organic amendments improved soil properties and native plants’ performance in an Australian degraded land	8

To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	8
Priming of carbon decomposition in 27 dairy grazed soils after bovine urine additions	8
Corrigendum to : A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	7
Combining multiple methods for automated soil delineation: from traditional to digital	7
Subsoiling is the best tillage for fine roots and early-growth of Pinus taeda on clayey Oxisol in the subtropics	7
Soil carbon, organic matter fractions, and soil physical quality under different sugarcane harvesting systems in north-east Brazil	7
Spatial variability of mineral surface area and carbon sequestration potential at the farm scale – a case study	7
Bacterial succession in an abandoned circum-neutral opencast coal mine in India	7
Influence of no-till cover crop management on soil thermal properties	7
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	7
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	6
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	6
Long-term experiments on atrazine adsorption in biochar-amended soils in Brazilian tropical areas	6
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	6
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alleviate pathogenic stress on the invasive weed Alternanthera philoxeroides	6
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	6
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	6
Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data	6
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	5
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	5
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	5
Copper sulfate causes greater toxicity and growth inhibition in grapevine seedlings compared to copper chloride in different vineyard soils	5
Impact of contrasting land-use on soil biodiversity and soil chemical properties in recently cleared forest soils of north-west Cambodia	5
Soil nitrous oxide emissions in a maize (Zea mays L.) crop in response to nitrogen fertilisation	5
Digital soil mapping in Australia. Can it achieve its goals?	5
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	5
Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	5
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	5
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	5
Review of soil erosion modelling involving water with field applications	4
Effects of full inversion tillage during pasture renewal on soil and plant cadmium concentrations: a case study in New Zealand	4
Fate of 15N-labelled urea under cotton and maize as affected by urease and nitrification inhibitors, and application method	4
Plantation tree growth responses to P, N, K and minor and trace elements on low fertility savanna soils	4
Responses of soil nutrients and microbial activity to the mill-mud application in a compaction-affected sugarcane field	4
Copper speciation and mobility in glyphosate co-contaminated soils: a microcosm and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study	4
Sunlight can have a stronger influence than air temperature on soil solarisation: observational evidence from Australia	4
Effects of wetting and drying alternation on the shear properties of root-loess composites	4
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	4
A simple incubation test for determining soil dispersion and gypsum rates	4
The effect of grazing management and legumes on soil organic carbon stocks in pastoral systems relevant to the Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme: a critical review	4
The fate of urea 15N in a subtropical rain-fed maize system: influence of organic amendments	4
Impact of green manure crop species on rhizosphere soil phosphorus	4
Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	4
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	3
Variable-rate nitrogen fertilisation to improve silage maize yield and crude protein using APSIM modelling	3
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	3
Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	3
Spatial variability of soil carbon across a hillslope restoration planting in New Zealand	3
Does the carbon skeleton of biochar contribute to soil phosphate sorption? A case study from paddy soils with woody biochar amendment	3
Transformation of soil phosphorus fractions: the role of time and fertilisation	3

Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	3
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	3
A review on the bioweathering and bioremediation of asbestos containing waste materials in soils	3
Comparison of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and ICP analysis results for measuring Pb and Zn in soil	3
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in biochar-amended soils: a review	3
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	3
Methane uptake in New Zealand planted forest soils	3
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	3
Humic substance turnover by bacterial decomposers in the maritime Antarctic soil	3
Mineralogy, elemental composition, and organic matter prediction of wetland soils in the Cerrado biome, Brazil	3
Impact of litter quality on the stability and storage of soil carbon in flooded wetlands	3
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	3
Celebrating 60 years of Soil Research: the evolution of an international journal	3
Using maize to evaluate the Mohammadi–Khataar (M–K) model as a salinity weighting function (ωsi) for the integral water capacity	3
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	3
Influences of grassland to cropland conversion on select soil properties, microbiome and agricultural emissions	2
Soil microbial biomass and oxy-hydroxides contribute to aggregate stability and size distribution under different land uses in the Central Andes	2
Continental-scale measurements of soil pyrogenic carbon in Europe	2
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	2
Nitrogen and phosphorus leaching losses under cropping and zone-specific variable-rate irrigation	2
Effect in soil and rhizosphere microbiota of Brachiaria inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense: a pilot trial in two Oxisol types	2
A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	2
Estimating the attainable soil organic carbon deficit in the soil fine fraction to inform feasible storage targets and de-risk carbon farming decisions	2
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	2
Changes of soil carbon along a topo-climatic gradient in rangelands of Iran: insights from 14C mean residence time and δ13C	2
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	2
Ammonia volatilisation losses from urea applied to acidic cropping soils is regulated by pH buffering capacity	2
Estimating soil erodibility for the RUSLE with rainfall simulation in central Queensland, Australia	2
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	2
Tillage and its temporal effects on soil organic matter and microbial characteristics in the semi-arid central South Africa	2
Feammox in the Yellow River Delta wetlands is weak	2
Characterization of soil organic carbon at profile scale in two forest soils under pine and holm oak	2
Atterberg limits of baseball infield soils containing over-size particles, Part II: effects of sand angularity and uniformity	2
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	2
Organic carbon and short-range order minerals responsible for cementation of the spodic horizon (ortstein): a new proposal of chemical extractions in undisturbed samples	2
Modelling and constructing engineered soil for post-mining landforms to create optimal ecological outcomes: application of a computer based Landscape Evolution Model (SSSPAM)	2
No-tillage promotes C accumulation in soil and a slight increase in yield stability and profitability of rice in subtropical lowland ecosystems	2
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	2
Modified fungal diversity in dense clay subsoils after deep-banding organic substrate	2
Machine learning as a useful tool for diagnosis of soil compaction under continuous no-tillage in Brazil	2
Impacts of long-term rice-based organic farming on fractions and forms of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	2
Chemical and mineralogical factors affecting the kinetics of acid drainage in different geomaterials	2
Comparison of soil analytical methods for estimating plant-available potassium in highly weathered soils	2
Effect of irrigation on soil physical properties on temperate pastoral farms: a regional New Zealand study	2