OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil Research is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	86
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	31
Evaluation of soil factors related to available silicon in agricultural soils of Western Australia	27
The spatial and temporal variability and influence factor analysis of soil erosion in a grass farming area: a case study in central China	19
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a d13C technique	19
The effects of tillage practices on the soil organic carbon content and the CO2 distribution in the maize canopy in saline‒alkali cropland areas	14
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	13
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	11
Soil nematode trophic structure and biochar addition in recently converted boreal lands	11
Agricultural intensification and soil health modulation in an agrobiodiversity hotspot of the Eastern Ghats Region, South Asia using spatial indices	11
Chemical and biological attributes of soil and soybean (Glycine max) yield in integrated systems in the Cerrado of north-east Brazil	10
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	10
To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	10
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	10
Influence of different maize straw return amounts on the stability and carbon and nitrogen content of water-stable aggregates in Black Soils: based on redundancy analysis	9
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	9
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	8
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	7
Organic amendments improved soil properties and native plants’ performance in an Australian degraded land	7
Subsoiling is the best tillage for fine roots and early-growth of Pinus taeda on clayey Oxisol in the subtropics	7
Impact of soil physical and chemical properties on residual diuron toxicity against canola seedlings	7
Sowing crops into dry water-repellent soils can increase the severity of repellency and reduce crop performance	7
Bacterial succession in an abandoned circum-neutral opencast coal mine in India	7
Mineralogical control on physically protected soil organic matter in a neotropical moist forest	7

Corrigendum to : A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	6
Long-term experiments on atrazine adsorption in biochar-amended soils in Brazilian tropical areas	6
Mitigating nitrate leaching using dicyandiamide and acidified ammonium sulfate solid digestate in Western Australian sandy soil	6
Soil carbon, organic matter fractions, and soil physical quality under different sugarcane harvesting systems in north-east Brazil	6
Management of a saline–sodic Chromic Luvisol using different biochars	6
Spatial variability of mineral surface area and carbon sequestration potential at the farm scale – a case study	6
A pragmatic approach for national-scale resampling of soil organic carbon monitoring sites	6
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	5
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	5
Digital soil mapping in the Eastern Amazon: algorithm performance and classification uncertainty in hydromorphic and well-drained landscapes	5
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	5
Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data	5
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	5
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	5
Occurrence and environmental pathways of erionite in soil: a review	5
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alleviate pathogenic stress on the invasive weed Alternanthera philoxeroides	5
Contrasting roles of labile and inert carbon inputs in regulating soil phosphorus pools in acidic paddy soils: roles mediated by acid phosphatase activity and phoC-harboring bacterial communities	4
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	4
Sunlight can have a stronger influence than air temperature on soil solarisation: observational evidence from Australia	4
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	4
Copper sulfate causes greater toxicity and growth inhibition in grapevine seedlings compared to copper chloride in different vineyard soils	4
Designing and configuring monitoring sites to fulfill Australia’s national soil monitoring objectives	4
Review of soil erosion modelling involving water with field applications	4
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	4
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	4
Impact of contrasting land-use on soil biodiversity and soil chemical properties in recently cleared forest soils of north-west Cambodia	4
Nitrogen fertilization induces microbial carbon limitation in subtropical soils: new evidence from microbial necromass decomposition	3
Nitrogen pools in páramo soils under green onion cropping: vertical distribution, prediction, and management implications	3
Ecological functions of soil microbes in climate regulation and soil processes	3
Use of vector method to evaluate the effect of land use and soil parent material on aggregate stability in the red soil zone of southern China	3
Impact of green manure crop species on rhizosphere soil phosphorus	3
Trace metal contamination and health risk assessment in irrigated soils: seasonal dynamics and multivariate insights from a tropical ecosystem	3
A simple incubation test for determining soil dispersion and gypsum rates	3
Fate of 15N-labelled urea under cotton and maize as affected by urease and nitrification inhibitors, and application method	3
Dynamics of soil active organic carbon fractions during Salix cupularis shrub restoration in alpine grasslands of northwestern Sichuan	3
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	3
Characterizing three-dimensional soil hydraulic properties and water flow in the thick unsaturated zone of Yungang Grottoes	3
Effects of wetting and drying alternation on the shear properties of root-loess composites	3
Effects of full inversion tillage during pasture renewal on soil and plant cadmium concentrations: a case study in New Zealand	3
Plantation tree growth responses to P, N, K and minor and trace elements on low fertility savanna soils	3
Comparison of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and ICP analysis results for measuring Pb and Zn in soil	2
Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	2
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in biochar-amended soils: a review	2
Feeding and defecation of earthworms alters phosphorus forms and resource allocation to enzyme production in an arable Andisol	2
Celebrating 60 years of Soil Research: the evolution of an international journal	2
Humic substance turnover by bacterial decomposers in the maritime Antarctic soil	2
Influence of biocrust islands on organic carbon changes along the soil profile in Sejzi Plain, Iran	2
Hardsetting in sandy soils: a review	2
Soil re-engineering in Western Australia, Part I: a novel approach for rapid and lasting improvement of soil physical and chemical properties	2

Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	2
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	2
Effects of continuous cropping on microbial−metabolite interactions in the rhizosphere soil of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants	2
Spatial variability of soil carbon across a hillslope restoration planting in New Zealand	2
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	2
Mineralogy, elemental composition, and organic matter prediction of wetland soils in the Cerrado biome, Brazil	2
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	2
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	2
A review on the bioweathering and bioremediation of asbestos containing waste materials in soils	2
Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	2
Methane uptake in New Zealand planted forest soils	2
The roles of iron and manganese oxides in controlling trace element retention in soils across a range of parent materials	2
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	2
The long-term application of compost and biogas residue fertilizers enhances soil qualities in rambutan orchards	2
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	2
Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	2
Land-use-induced variability in soil profile carbon and carbon-associated nutrient pools in the Eastern Himalayan region	2
Ammonia volatilisation losses from urea applied to acidic cropping soils is regulated by pH buffering capacity	2
Variable-rate nitrogen fertilisation to improve silage maize yield and crude protein using APSIM modelling	2
Chemical and mineralogical factors affecting the kinetics of acid drainage in different geomaterials	1
Numerical modelling of soil–landscape relationships using diversity indices and conditional probability: a case study from an Iranian arid region	1
An experiential account with recommendations for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of a farm-scale soil moisture sensing and mapping system	1
Nitrogen and phosphorus leaching losses under cropping and zone-specific variable-rate irrigation	1
Spatial co-occurrence of soil organic carbon density and plant organic carbon density in wetlands of the Yellow River, Henan Province, China	1
Modified fungal diversity in dense clay subsoils after deep-banding organic substrate	1
Can the long-term impacts of zero tillage and residue retention increase soil legacy phosphorus availability under a maize–mustard system in an Inceptisol?	1
Feammox in the Yellow River Delta wetlands is weak	1
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	1
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	1
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	1
Characterization of soil organic carbon at profile scale in two forest soils under pine and holm oak	1
A pragmatic workflow towards the generation of pXRF datasets for large-scale soil monitoring programs	1
Biosolids for soil, not soil for biosolids?	1
WEPP interrill erodibility for clay soils in the crop lands of Northern NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia	1
Estimating the attainable soil organic carbon deficit in the soil fine fraction to inform feasible storage targets and de-risk carbon farming decisions	1
Atterberg limits of baseball infield soils containing over-size particles, Part II: effects of sand angularity and uniformity	1
Comparison of soil analytical methods for estimating plant-available potassium in highly weathered soils	1
Mulch quality regulates soil fertility and microbial communities during a crop cycle	1
Modelling and constructing engineered soil for post-mining landforms to create optimal ecological outcomes: application of a computer based Landscape Evolution Model (SSSPAM)	1
Impacts of long-term rice-based organic farming on fractions and forms of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	1
Changes of soil carbon along a topo-climatic gradient in rangelands of Iran: insights from 14C mean residence time and δ13C	1
Prioritising interventions for the reduction of erosion in classical gullies: a modelling study	1
Alleviating soil degradation caused by green bean continuous cropping: application of combined amendments	1
Soil capacity to biomass production in sandy loam soils following cover crop farming systems in tropical conditions in the Northeast region of Brazil	1
Machine learning as a useful tool for diagnosis of soil compaction under continuous no-tillage in Brazil	1
Mechanisms driving spatial and temporal changes in soil organic carbon stocks in saline soils in a typical county of the western Songnen Plain, northeast China	1
Effect in soil and rhizosphere microbiota of Brachiaria inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense: a pilot trial in two Oxisol types	1
Mixed strain validation reveals dual pathways of heterotrophic ammonia-oxidizers in maize post-drought recovery	1
Estimating soil erodibility for the RUSLE with rainfall simulation in central Queensland, Australia	1
Organic carbon and short-range order minerals responsible for cementation of the spodic horizon (ortstein): a new proposal of chemical extractions in undisturbed samples	1
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	1