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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Soil biodiversity and biogeochemical function in managed ecosystems	25
Changes in soil humus composition and humic acid structural characteristics under different corn straw returning modes	22
No-tillage furrow opener performance: a review of tool geometry, settings and interactions with soil and crop residue	19
Soil carbon market-based instrument pilot – the sequestration of soil organic carbon for the purpose of obtaining carbon credits	19
Integration of vis-NIR and pXRF spectroscopy for rapid measurement of soil lead concentrations	17
Linking phosphorus sorption and magnetic susceptibility in clays and tropical soils	16
Measurements and simulations of compaction effects on the least limiting water range of a no-till Oxisol	16
Soils of the Brazilian Coastal Plains biome: prediction of chemical attributes via portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry and robust prediction models	15
Crop rotational diversity impacts soil physical and hydrological properties under long-term no- and conventional-till soils	15
Slow movement of alkali from surface-applied lime warrants the introduction of strategic tillage for rapid amelioration of subsurface acidity in south-western Australia	15
Measurements and APSIM modelling of soil C and N dynamics	14
Warming and nitrogen deposition accelerate soil phosphorus cycling in a temperate meadow ecosystem	13
Effects of conservation and standard tillage on soil physico-chemical properties and overall quality in a semi-arid agrosystem	13
Challenges and opportunities for grain farming on sandy soils of semi-arid south and south-eastern Australia	12
The extent, significance and amelioration of subsurface acidity in southern New South Wales, Australia	12
Effects of crop residues composts on the fractions and forms of organic carbon and nitrogen in subtropical Indian conditions	12
Soil fertility constraints and management to increase crop yields in the dryland farming systems of Aceh, Indonesia	11
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2	11
Impact of continuous organic manuring on mechanisms and processes of the stabilisation of soil organic C under rice–wheat cropping system	10
Soil biochemical activities after the application of pyroligneous acid to soil	10
Dynamics of phosphorus fractions in soils treated with dairy manure	10
Crop residue ashes reduce leaching, persistence and bioavailability of sulfosulfuron and pretilachlor used in the succeeding crop	10
Insights, implications and challenges of studying local soil knowledge for sustainable land use: a critical review	10
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1	10
Feasibility of handheld mid-infrared spectroscopy to predict particle size distribution: influence of soil field condition and utilisation of existing spectral libraries	9

Depletion, accumulation and availability of soil phosphorus in the Askov long-term field experiment	9
Analysis of the structure of bacterial and fungal communities in disease suppressive and disease conducive tobacco-planting soils in China	9
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of Pampean soils: comparing methods and estimation for surface and deep layers	9
Sowing maize as a rotation crop in irrigated cotton cropping systems in a Vertosol: effects on soil properties, greenhouse gas emissions, black root rot incidence, cotton lint yield and fibre quality	9
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	9
Climate smart agricultural practices improve soil quality through organic carbon enrichment and lower greenhouse gas emissions in farms of bread bowl of India	8
Key properties governing sorption–desorption behaviour of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in saturated and unsaturated soils: a review	8
Linking decomposition rates of soil organic amendments to their chemical composition	8
Medium-term impact of tillage and residue retention on soil physical and biological properties in dry-seeded rice–wheat system in north-west India	8
Evaluation of the DNDCv.CAN model for simulating greenhouse gas emissions under crop rotations that include winter cover crops	8
Phosphorus status and saturation in soils that drain into the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary of Western Australia	7
Podzolisation affects the spatial allocation and chemical composition of soil organic matter fractions	7
Soil type, bulk density and drainage effects on relative gas diffusivity and N2O emissions	7
Spectroscopic techniques applied to discriminate soils for forensic purposes	7
Soil nutrient variation along a shallow catena in Paracou, French Guiana	7
Managing soil health and crop productivity in potato: a challenging test system	7
Soil structure characteristics, functional properties and consistency limits response to corn cob biochar particle size and application rates in a 36-month pot experiment	7
Selecting soil properties for assessment of soil aggregation using principal component and clustering analyses	6
Quantifying blue carbon and nitrogen stocks in surface soils of temperate coastal wetlands	6
Changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen after 47 years with different tillage, stubble and fertiliser management in a Vertisol of north-eastern Australia	6
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	6
Aggregation and dynamics of soil organic matter under different management systems in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Exchangeable cation effects on hot water extractable carbon and nitrogen in agricultural soils	6
Spatiotemporal variability of soil organic carbon for different topographic and land use types in a gully watershed on the Chinese Loess Plateau	6
Do elevated CO2 and temperature affect organic nitrogen fractions and enzyme activities in soil under rice crop?	6
Biochar augmentation improves ectomycorrhizal colonisation, plant growth and soil fertility	6
Change and spatial variability of soil organic matter humification after long-term tillage and olive mill wastewater application in arid regions	6
Changes in soil-pores and wheat root geometry due to strategic tillage in a no-tillage cropping system	6
Targeting changes in soil porosity through modification of compost size and application rate	6
A simple approach to estimate coastal soil salinity using digital camera images	5
Carbon sequestration and selected hydraulic characteristics under conservation agriculture and traditional tillage practices in Malawi	5
Physiological characterisation of coprophilous fungal isolates that behave as plant root associates	5
Cover crop residue diversity enhances microbial activity and biomass with additive effects on microbial structure	5
Macrofauna communities and their relationship with soil structural quality in different land use systems	5
The Brigalow Catchment Study: V*. Clearing and burning brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) in Queensland, Australia, temporarily increases surface soil fertility prior to nutrient decline under cropping or	5
Carbon stability in a texture contrast soil in response to depth and long-term phosphorus fertilisation of grazed pasture	5
Crop yields in no-tillage are severely limited by low availability of P and high acidity of the soil in depth	4
Deep tillage and irrigation impacts on soil water balance and water productivity of direct-seeded rice–wheat cropping system in north-west India	4
Chiselling and wheeling on sandy loam long-term no-tillage soil: compressibility and load bearing capacity	4
Nitrous oxide emission factor from cattle urine and dung in native grassland of the Pampa biome, South Brazil	4
Nitrogen and phosphorus availability affect wheat carbon allocation pathways: rhizodeposition and mycorrhizal symbiosis	4
Long-term effects of tillage systems on liming efficiency, soil chemical properties and wheat yield in Southern Brazil	4
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen in soil physical fractions in woody encroached grassland in South African savannas	4
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	4
Accelerating soil aggregate formation: a review on microbial processes as the critical step in a post-mining rehabilitation context	4
Summer irrigation of pasture enhances the transfer and short-term storage of soil organic carbon in the particulate and mineral-associated organic matter fractions	4
Conservation agriculture improves soil physical properties and crop productivity: a long-term study in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	4
Greenhouse gas emissions and net ecosystem carbon budget from tobacco-planted soil with different organic amendments	4
Altitudinal transects reveal large differences in intact lipid composition among soils	4
Creating a soil parent material map digitally using a combination of interpretation and statistical techniques	4

Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	4
Potential for suppression of Rhizoctonia root rot is influenced by nutrient (N and P) and carbon inputs in a highly calcareous coarse-textured topsoil	4
Vertical distribution of soil aggregates and associated organic carbon fractions under conventional vegetable- and rice-based tillage operations	4
Algebraic model for one-dimensional horizontal water flow with arbitrary initial soil water content	4
Partitioning of total soil respiration into root, rhizosphere and basal-soil CO2 fluxes in contrasting rice production systems	4
Variations of belowground C and N cycling between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal forests across China	4
Biological soil quality and seasonal variation on enzyme activities under conservation agriculture-based rice–mustard system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	4
Contrasting agricultural management effects on soil organic carbon dynamics between topsoil and subsoil	4
Distribution of subsoil microbial activity and biomass under Australian rotational cotton as influenced by system, crop status and season	3
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	3
Investigating the relationships between soil acidity and phosphorus fractions in high country farmland of New Zealand’s South Island	3
Distinguishing functional pools of soil organic matter based on solubility in hot water	3
Sulfate sorption measured by a buffering index over a range of properties of soils from south Western Australia	3
Initial effect of shifting from traditional to no-tillage on runoff retention and sediment reduction under rainfall simulation	3
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	3
Influence of no-till cover crop management on soil thermal properties	3
Short-term effects of rice straw biochar on hydraulic properties and aggregate stability of an Acrisol	3
How roots of Picea abies and Fraxinus excelsior plantations contribute to soil strength and slope stability: evidence from a study case in the Hyrcanian Forest, Iran	3
Effects of the root morphological characteristics of different herbaceous species on soil shear strength and soil anti-scourability in the dry-hot valley region of South-western China	3
Aggregation index, carbon, nitrogen, and natural abundance of 13C and 15N in soil aggregates and bulk soil cultivated with onion under crop successions and rotations	3
Effects of plant invaders on rhizosphere microbial attributes depend on plant identity and growth stage	3
Estimating soil organic carbon redistribution in three major river basins of China based on erosion processes	3
Salt precipitation and evaporative flux on sandy soil with saline groundwater under different evaporation demand conditions	3
Surface-positioned double-ring to improve traditional infiltrometer for measuring soil infiltration	3
Relationship between elemental content determined	3
Impact of long-term conservation agriculture induced changes in soil properties on persistence of pendimethalin under different cropping systems	3
Relationship between earthworm abundance, ecological diversity and soil function in pastures	3
A new approach for studying vertical infiltration	3
The interactive effects of soil disturbance and residue quality on soil nitrogen mineralisation in a tropical sandy soil	3
Carbon and nitrogen stocks and organic matter fractions in the topsoil of traditional and agrisilvicultural systems in the Southeast of Brazil	3
Simulation of maize and soybean yield using DSSAT under long-term conventional and no-till systems	3
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments	3
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	3
Variations in soil fungal communities after continuous fertiliser treatment under the ridge and furrow rainfall harvesting system in a semiarid region of China	3
Influence of dung pats on soil physical quality mediated by earthworms: from dung deposition to decay and beyond	3
A multivariate method for matching soil classification systems, with an Australian example	3
Orchard floor management effect on soil free-living nematode communities	3
Assessing soil quality and their indicators for long-term rice-based cropping systems in hot sub-humid eco-region of India	3
Amending soils of different pH to decrease phosphorus losses	3
Carbon (δ	3
Glasshouse study of a sprayable, degradable polymer to reduce water use in cotton establishment	2
Carbon and nitrogen in particle-size fractions of organic matter of soils fertilised with surface and injected applications of pig slurry	2
Yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions from the use of common urea and controlled-release nitrogen fertiliser in a subtropical paddy rice field	2
Labile soil carbon fractions as indicators of soil quality improvement under short-term grassland set-aside	2
Organic carbon fractions in temperate mangrove and saltmarsh soils	2
Benefits from enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilisers in rainfed temperate pastures are seasonally driven	2
Influences of grassland to cropland conversion on select soil properties, microbiome and agricultural emissions	2
Vineyard soil microbial community under conventional, sustainable and organic management practices in a Mediterranean climate	2
Recent trends in soil fertility across the farms of East Gippsland	2
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	2
Soil microbiome after nine years of fly ash dump spontaneous revegetation	2
Litter decomposition in wet and dry ecosystems of the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Effects of biological agents on soil microbiology, enzyme activity and fruit quality of kiwifruit with root rot	2
No-till farming: prospects, challenges – productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services	2
The Brigalow Catchment Study: VI.	2
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	2
Deadwood mass and microclimate affect labile soil carbon and nitrogen under thinning of a naturally regenerated oak forest	2
Papatuanuku, Earth Mother: indigenous knowledge in 21st century soil management	2
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	2
Detecting near-surface Urochloa ruziziensis (Braquiaria grass) effects on soil physical quality through capacity and intensity indicators	2
Conservation agriculture influences crop yield, soil carbon content and nutrient availability in the rice–wheat system of north-west India	2
Impact of drying–rewetting cycles and organic amendments on phosphorus speciation of paddy soil	2
Disaggregation of conventional soil maps: a review	2
Effects of alpine meadow degradation on nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities, and N	2
Nitrous oxide emissions from applied nitrate fertiliser in commercial cherry orchards	2
Impact of dung beetle activity on the quality of water percolating through Allophanic soil	2
Mineral–organic associations are enriched in both microbial metabolites and plant residues in a subtropical soil profile under no-tillage and legume cover cropping	2
Spatial distribution of soil microbial activity and soil properties associated with	2
Sheep grazing to control weeds enhances soil carbon, not nitrogen	2
Measuring soil bulk density from shear wave velocity using piezoelectric sensors	2
Effects of different vegetation restoration types on soil hydro-physical properties in the hilly region of the Loess Plateau, China	2
Long-term dairy manure application in a no-tillage system: crop yield and soil fertility	2
No-tillage promotes C accumulation in soil and a slight increase in yield stability and profitability of rice in subtropical lowland ecosystems	2
Iddingsitisation of olivine and kaolinitisation of biotite in two contrasting tephra-derived soils along the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL)	2