OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil Research is 4. 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
Cover crop residue diversity enhances microbial activity and biomass with additive effects on microbial structure	12
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
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	11
No-till farming: prospects, challenges – productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services	10
Soil nutrient variation along a shallow catena in Paracou, French Guiana	9
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
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
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

Carbon (δ	7
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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