OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty	515
Global concentrations of microplastics in soils – a review	168
The influence of training sample size on the accuracy of deep learning models for the prediction of soil properties with near-infrared spectroscopy data	85
Game theory interpretation of digital soil mapping convolutional neural networks	60
What do we know about how the terrestrial multicellular soil fauna reacts to microplastic?	56
Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis	51
Targeting the soil quality and soil health concepts when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal	41
Oblique geographic coordinates as covariates for digital soil mapping	39
Using constructed soils for green infrastructure – challenges and limitations	36
Impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil structure and soil hydraulic properties	32
Ramped thermal analysis for isolating biologically meaningful soil organic matter fractions with distinct residence times	32
Effects of microplastic and microglass particles on soil microbial community structure in an arable soil (Chernozem)	29
Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa	27
Modeling soil and landscape evolution – the effect of rainfall and land-use change on soil and landscape patterns	21
Polyester microplastic fibers affect soil physical properties and erosion as a function of soil type	20
The role of geochemistry in organic carbon stabilization against microbial decomposition in tropical rainforest soils	19
Transformation of <i>n</i>-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	19
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	17
Switch of fungal to bacterial degradation in natural, drained and rewetted oligotrophic peatlands reflected in <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N and fatty	16
Inclusion of biochar in a C dynamics model based on observations from an 8-year field experiment	15
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	15
Microbial communities and their predictive functional profiles in the arid soil of Saudi Arabia	14
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	13
Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using <sup>239+240</sup>Pu fallout radionuclides	13
Comparing three approaches of spatial disaggregation of legacy soil maps based on the Disaggregation and Harmonisation of Soil Map Units Through Resampled Classification Trees (DSMART) algorithm	13

The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia – an isotopic dilution study	12
Network complexity of rubber plantations is lower than tropical forests for soil bacteria but not for fungi	12
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	12
The effects of sealing on urban soil carbon and nutrients	12
Understanding the role of water and tillage erosion from <sup>239+240</sup>Pu tracer measurements using inverse modelling	12
Assessing soil salinity dynamics using time-lapse electromagnetic conductivity imaging	12
Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs	12
Obtaining more benefits from crop residues as soil amendments by application as chemically heterogeneous mixtures	12
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics	12
Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon	11
Mapping soil slaking index and assessing the impact of management in a mixed agricultural landscape	11
An underground, wireless, open-source, low-cost system for monitoring oxygen, temperature, and soil moisture	11
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	11
Altitude and management affect soil fertility, leaf nutrient status and Xanthomonas wilt prevalence in enset gardens	11
Changes in soil physicochemical properties and bacterial communities at different soil depths after long-term straw mulching under a no-till system	10
Soil environment grouping system based on spectral, climate, and terrain data: a quantitative branch of soil series	10
Long-term field experiments in Germany: classification and spatial representation	10
Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)	10
Complex soil food web enhances the association between N mineralization and soybean yield – a model study from long-term application of a conservation tillage system in a black soil of Northeast China	10
Catchment export of base cations: improved mineral dissolution kinetics influence the role of water transit time	10
Spatial variations, origins, and risk assessments of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in French soils	10
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	10
Development of pedotransfer functions for water retention in tropical mountain soil landscapes: spotlight on parameter tuning in machine learning	10
Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin	9
Predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stock in Swedish forests using a group of covariates and site-specific data	9
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	9
Inducing banana Fusarium wilt disease suppression through soil microbiome reshaping by pineapple–banana rotation combined with biofertilizer application	9
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	8
Soil organic carbon mobility in equatorial podzols: soil column experiments	8
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	8
Nutrient limitations regulate soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical forests: evidence from an ecosystem-scale nutrient manipulation experiment in Uganda	8
Long-term impact of cover crop and reduced disturbance tillage on soil pore size distribution and soil water storage	8
The <sup>15</sup>N gas-flux method to determine N<sub>2</sub> flux: a comparison of different tracer addition approaches	8
Boreal-forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence	8
An open Soil Structure Library based on X-ray CT data	7
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	7
The application of biochar and oyster shell reduced cadmium uptake by crops and modified soil fertility and enzyme activities in contaminated soil	7
Land use impact on carbon mineralization in well aerated soils is mainly explained by variations of particulate organic matter rather than of soil structure	7
Soil nitrogen and water management by winter-killed catch crops	7
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	7
Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19	7
Geogenic organic carbon in terrestrial sediments and its contribution to total soil carbon	7
Are researchers following best storage practices for measuring soil biochemical properties?	7
Assessing soil and land health across two landscapes in eastern Rwanda to inform restoration activities	7
Hydrological soil properties control tree regrowth after forest disturbance in the forest steppe of central Mongolia	6
Variation of soil organic carbon, stable isotopes, and soil quality indicators across an erosion–deposition catena in a historical Spanish olive orchard	6
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	6
Identification of thermal signature and quantification of charcoal in soil using differential scanning calorimetry and benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) markers	6
Soil nutrient contents and stoichiometry within aggregate size classes varied with tea plantation age and soil depth in southern Guangxi in China	6
Added value of geophysics-based soil mapping in agro-ecosystem simulations	6

Content of soil organic carbon and labile fractions depend on local combinations of mineral-phase characteristics	6
Development of a soil biological quality index for soils of semi-arid tropics	6
Estimating soil fungal abundance and diversity at a macroecological scale with deep learning spectrotransfer functions	6
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	6
Disaggregating a regional-extent digital soil map using Bayesian area-to-point regression kriging for farm-scale soil carbon assessment	6
Nitrogen availability determines the long-term impact of land use change on soil carbon stocks in grasslands of southern Ghana	6
Heterotrophic soil respiration and carbon cycling in geochemically distinct African tropical forest soils	6
Delineating the distribution of mineral and peat soils at the landscape scale in northern boreal regions	5
The effect of tillage depth and traffic management on soil properties and root development during two growth stages of winter wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.)	5
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	5
Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil	5
Spatial distribution of argan tree influence on soil properties in southern Morocco	5
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya	5
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	5
Biocrust-linked changes in soil aggregate stability along a climatic gradient in the Chilean Coastal Range	5
Land-use perturbations in ley grassland decouple the degradation of ancient soil organic matter from the storage of newly derived carbon inputs	5
What comes after the Sun? On the integration of soil biogeochemical pre-weathering into microplastic experiments	5