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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Soil carbon market-based instrument pilot – the sequestration of soil organic carbon for the purpose of obtaining carbon credits	25
Key properties governing sorption–desorption behaviour of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in saturated and unsaturated soils: a review	23
Effects of conservation and standard tillage on soil physico-chemical properties and overall quality in a semi-arid agrosystem	22
Slow movement of alkali from surface-applied lime warrants the introduction of strategic tillage for rapid amelioration of subsurface acidity in south-western Australia	22
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2	20
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1	18
The extent, significance and amelioration of subsurface acidity in southern New South Wales, Australia	17
Quantifying blue carbon and nitrogen stocks in surface soils of temperate coastal wetlands	15
Soil fertility constraints and management to increase crop yields in the dryland farming systems of Aceh, Indonesia	14
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	14
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of Pampean soils: comparing methods and estimation for surface and deep layers	13
Linking decomposition rates of soil organic amendments to their chemical composition	12
Carbon and nitrogen stocks and organic matter fractions in the topsoil of traditional and agrisilvicultural systems in the Southeast of Brazil	12
Climate smart agricultural practices improve soil quality through organic carbon enrichment and lower greenhouse gas emissions in farms of bread bowl of India	12
Cover crop residue diversity enhances microbial activity and biomass with additive effects on microbial structure	12
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	11
No-till farming: prospects, challenges – productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services	10
Selecting soil properties for assessment of soil aggregation using principal component and clustering analyses	9
Crop yields in no-tillage are severely limited by low availability of P and high acidity of the soil in depth	9
Soil nutrient variation along a shallow catena in Paracou, French Guiana	9
Changes in soil-pores and wheat root geometry due to strategic tillage in a no-tillage cropping system	8
Accelerating soil aggregate formation: a review on microbial processes as the critical step in a post-mining rehabilitation context	8
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	8
Phosphorus status and saturation in soils that drain into the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary of Western Australia	8
Evaluation of the DNDCv.CAN model for simulating greenhouse gas emissions under crop rotations that include winter cover crops	8

Aggregation and dynamics of soil organic matter under different management systems in the Brazilian Cerrado	7
Contrasting agricultural management effects on soil organic carbon dynamics between topsoil and subsoil	7
Conservation agriculture improves soil physical properties and crop productivity: a long-term study in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	7
Altitudinal transects reveal large differences in intact lipid composition among soils	7
Macrofauna communities and their relationship with soil structural quality in different land use systems	7
Carbon (δ	7
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	7
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	6
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	6
Spatiotemporal variability of soil organic carbon for different topographic and land use types in a gully watershed on the Chinese Loess Plateau	6
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	6
Soil carbon stock and biological activity in silvopastoral systems planted with	6
Relationship between earthworm abundance, ecological diversity and soil function in pastures	6
Long-term effects of tillage systems on liming efficiency, soil chemical properties and wheat yield in Southern Brazil	6
Potential for suppression of Rhizoctonia root rot is influenced by nutrient (N and P) and carbon inputs in a highly calcareous coarse-textured topsoil	6
Amending soils of different pH to decrease phosphorus losses	5
Disaggregation of conventional soil maps: a review	5
Salt precipitation and evaporative flux on sandy soil with saline groundwater under different evaporation demand conditions	5
Creating a soil parent material map digitally using a combination of interpretation and statistical techniques	5
Vertical distribution of soil aggregates and associated organic carbon fractions under conventional vegetable- and rice-based tillage operations	5
Conservation agriculture influences crop yield, soil carbon content and nutrient availability in the rice–wheat system of north-west India	5
Evaluation of SPT-N values and internal friction angle correlation using artificial intelligence methods in granular soils	5
Biological soil quality and seasonal variation on enzyme activities under conservation agriculture-based rice–mustard system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	5
Initial effect of shifting from traditional to no-tillage on runoff retention and sediment reduction under rainfall simulation	5
Short-term effects of rice straw biochar on hydraulic properties and aggregate stability of an Acrisol	5
Greenhouse gas emissions and net ecosystem carbon budget from tobacco-planted soil with different organic amendments	5
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments	5
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	5
Effect of long-term crop rotation and fertilisation management on soil humus dynamics in organic and sustainable agricultural management systems	4
Orchard floor management effect on soil free-living nematode communities	4
Soil properties sensitive to degradation caused by increasing intensity of conventional tillage	4
Effect of irrigation on soil physical properties on temperate pastoral farms: a regional New Zealand study	4
Influence of	4
Simulation of maize and soybean yield using DSSAT under long-term conventional and no-till systems	4
Effects of plant invaders on rhizosphere microbial attributes depend on plant identity and growth stage	4
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	4
Benefits from enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilisers in rainfed temperate pastures are seasonally driven	4
Responses of soil nutrients and microbial activity to the mill-mud application in a compaction-affected sugarcane field	4
Chiselling and wheeling on sandy loam long-term no-tillage soil: compressibility and load bearing capacity	4
Influence of no-till cover crop management on soil thermal properties	4
Microbial community composition and activity in paired irrigated and non-irrigated pastures in New Zealand	4
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	4
Impacts of mechanical and chemical factors on the water-holding capacity of polyacrylamide in sand: models and mechanisms	4
Effects of alpine meadow degradation on nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities, and N	4
Carbon and nitrogen in particle-size fractions of organic matter of soils fertilised with surface and injected applications of pig slurry	4
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	4
Effects of different vegetation restoration types on soil hydro-physical properties in the hilly region of the Loess Plateau, China	4
Algebraic model for one-dimensional horizontal water flow with arbitrary initial soil water content	4
Assessing soil quality and their indicators for long-term rice-based cropping systems in hot sub-humid eco-region of India	4
No-tillage promotes C accumulation in soil and a slight increase in yield stability and profitability of rice in subtropical lowland ecosystems	4

Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	4
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	4
Investigating the relationships between soil acidity and phosphorus fractions in high country farmland of New Zealand’s South Island	4
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen in soil physical fractions in woody encroached grassland in South African savannas	4
The Brigalow Catchment Study: VI.	4
Papatuanuku, Earth Mother: indigenous knowledge in 21st century soil management	3
Lowering the water solubility of phosphorus fertilisers impacts leaching, plant growth and residual soil phosphorus	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
Soil microbiome after nine years of fly ash dump spontaneous revegetation	3
Importance of sugarcane straw maintenance to prevent soil organic matter depletion in a Nitisol in the central-southern region of Brazil	3
Effects of biological agents on soil microbiology, enzyme activity and fruit quality of kiwifruit with root rot	3
Impact of long-term conservation agriculture induced changes in soil properties on persistence of pendimethalin under different cropping systems	3
Relationship between elemental content determined	3
Wetland soil carbon storage exceeds uplands in an urban natural area (Florida, USA)	3
Rapid elemental prediction of heterogeneous tropical soils from pXRF data: a comparison of models via linear regressions and machine learning algorithms	3
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	3
Distinguishing functional pools of soil organic matter based on solubility in hot water	3
Mineral–organic associations are enriched in both microbial metabolites and plant residues in a subtropical soil profile under no-tillage and legume cover cropping	3
Monitoring the behaviour of Australian Vertosols in response to the shrink–swell characteristic and cotton picker traffic	3
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	3
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	3
Forms of inorganic phosphorus in carbonatic soils in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	3
Yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions from the use of common urea and controlled-release nitrogen fertiliser in a subtropical paddy rice field	3
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	2
Impact of dung beetle activity on the quality of water percolating through Allophanic soil	2
Measuring soil bulk density from shear wave velocity using piezoelectric sensors	2
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
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff under a rainfall simulator	2
Detecting near-surface Urochloa ruziziensis (Braquiaria grass) effects on soil physical quality through capacity and intensity indicators	2
Impact of drying–rewetting cycles and organic amendments on phosphorus speciation of paddy soil	2
Soil physical properties and soil water tension monitoring by wireless sensor network after reservoir and minimum tillage practices	2
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	2
Soil moisture impacts nitrification from nitrogen fertilisers treated with 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate in acidic soils	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
Biota of subtropical Oxisols under no-tillage with application of liquid cattle manure	2
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a δ13C technique	2
The fate of urea	2
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	2
Vineyard soil microbial community under conventional, sustainable and organic management practices in a Mediterranean climate	2
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	2
Iddingsitisation of olivine and kaolinitisation of biotite in two contrasting tephra-derived soils along the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL)	2
Mobilisation of unavailable phosphorus and improvement of pepper P absorption, fruit yield and quality by the wood rot-fungus	2
Enhancing agriculture recovery of	2
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	2
Does the carbon skeleton of biochar contribute to soil phosphate sorption? A case study from paddy soils with woody biochar amendment	2
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	2
Physical and numerical modelling of infiltration and runoff in unsaturated exposed soil using a rainfall simulator	2
Organic carbon fractions in temperate mangrove and saltmarsh soils	2
Deadwood mass and microclimate affect labile soil carbon and nitrogen under thinning of a naturally regenerated oak forest	2
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	2
Long-term dairy manure application in a no-tillage system: crop yield and soil fertility	2
Ammonia volatilisation losses from urea applied to acidic cropping soils is regulated by pH buffering capacity	2
Coffee plantations can strongly sequester soil organic carbon at high altitudes in Brazil	2
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	2
Nitrous oxide emissions from applied nitrate fertiliser in commercial cherry orchards	2