OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil 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
SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty	711
Global concentrations of microplastics in soils – a review	216
The influence of training sample size on the accuracy of deep learning models for the prediction of soil properties with near-infrared spectroscopy data	101
Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis	62
Impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil structure and soil hydraulic properties	45
Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa	36
Polyester microplastic fibers affect soil physical properties and erosion as a function of soil type	26
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	25
Transformation of <i>n</i>-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	24
The role of geochemistry in organic carbon stabilization against microbial decomposition in tropical rainforest soils	21
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	18
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	18
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	17
The effects of sealing on urban soil carbon and nutrients	17
Changes in soil physicochemical properties and bacterial communities at different soil depths after long-term straw mulching under a no-till system	17
Network complexity of rubber plantations is lower than tropical forests for soil bacteria but not for fungi	16
Understanding the role of water and tillage erosion from <sup>239+240</sup>Pu tracer measurements using inverse modelling	16
Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon	16
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	16
Inclusion of biochar in a C dynamics model based on observations from an 8-year field experiment	16
Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using <sup>239+240</sup>Pu fallout radionuclides	15
Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs	15
Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)	15
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	14
Mapping soil slaking index and assessing the impact of management in a mixed agricultural landscape	14

The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia – an isotopic dilution study	14
An underground, wireless, open-source, low-cost system for monitoring oxygen, temperature, and soil moisture	13
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics	13
Long-term impact of cover crop and reduced disturbance tillage on soil pore size distribution and soil water storage	13
Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin	13
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	13
Predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stock in Swedish forests using a group of covariates and site-specific data	12
An open Soil Structure Library based on X-ray CT data	12
Long-term field experiments in Germany: classification and spatial representation	12
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	12
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	11
Land use impact on carbon mineralization in well aerated soils is mainly explained by variations of particulate organic matter rather than of soil structure	11
Altitude and management affect soil fertility, leaf nutrient status and Xanthomonas wilt prevalence in enset gardens	11
Soil nitrogen and water management by winter-killed catch crops	10
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	10
The application of biochar and oyster shell reduced cadmium uptake by crops and modified soil fertility and enzyme activities in contaminated soil	10
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	10
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	10
Spatial variations, origins, and risk assessments of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in French soils	10
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	10
Delineating the distribution of mineral and peat soils at the landscape scale in northern boreal regions	10
Soil nutrient contents and stoichiometry within aggregate size classes varied with tea plantation age and soil depth in southern Guangxi in China	9
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	9
Nutrient limitations regulate soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical forests: evidence from an ecosystem-scale nutrient manipulation experiment in Uganda	9
Biocrust-linked changes in soil aggregate stability along a climatic gradient in the Chilean Coastal Range	9
Inducing banana Fusarium wilt disease suppression through soil microbiome reshaping by pineapple–banana rotation combined with biofertilizer application	9
Estimating soil fungal abundance and diversity at a macroecological scale with deep learning spectrotransfer functions	8
Are researchers following best storage practices for measuring soil biochemical properties?	8
Nitrogen availability determines the long-term impact of land use change on soil carbon stocks in grasslands of southern Ghana	8
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya	8
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	8
Soil organic carbon mobility in equatorial podzols: soil column experiments	8
Identification of thermal signature and quantification of charcoal in soil using differential scanning calorimetry and benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) markers	8
Heterotrophic soil respiration and carbon cycling in geochemically distinct African tropical forest soils	8
Geogenic organic carbon in terrestrial sediments and its contribution to total soil carbon	8
Assessing soil and land health across two landscapes in eastern Rwanda to inform restoration activities	8
Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19	8
Spatial distribution of argan tree influence on soil properties in southern Morocco	7
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	7
Does soil thinning change soil erodibility? An exploration of long-term erosion feedback systems	7
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage	7
Content of soil organic carbon and labile fractions depend on local combinations of mineral-phase characteristics	7
Hydrological soil properties control tree regrowth after forest disturbance in the forest steppe of central Mongolia	7
The higher relative concentration of K⁺ to Na⁺ in saline water improves soil hydraulic conductivity, salt-leaching efficiency and structural stability	7
Transition to conservation agriculture: how tillage intensity and covering affect soil physical parameters	7
Biochar alters hydraulic conductivity and impacts nutrient leaching in two agricultural soils	6
Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil	6
Quantifying soil carbon in temperate peatlands using a mid-IR soil spectral library	6
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.)	6
Research and management challenges following soil and landscape decontamination at the onset of the reopening of the Difficult-to-Return Zone, Fukushima (Japan)	6

Estimation of soil properties with mid-infrared soil spectroscopy across yam production landscapes in West Africa	6
Added value of geophysics-based soil mapping in agro-ecosystem simulations	6
Application of the governance disruptions framework to German agricultural soil policy	6
What comes after the Sun? On the integration of soil biogeochemical pre-weathering into microplastic experiments	5
Elemental stoichiometry and Rock-Eval® thermal stability of organic matter in French topsoils	5
Effective hydraulic properties of 3D virtual stony soils identified by inverse modeling	5
Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (<i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C and F<	5
Quantification of the effects of long-term straw return on soil organic matter spatiotemporal variation: a case study in a typical black soil region	5
Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on soil organic carbon stock in a natural dry tropical area of Cameroon	5
Particulate macronutrient exports from tropical African montane catchments point to the impoverishment of agricultural soils	5
Modelling the effect of catena position and hydrology on soil chemical weathering	4
Oxygen isotope exchange between water and carbon dioxide in soils is controlled by pH, nitrate and microbial biomass through links to carbonic anhydrase activity	4
Nonlinear turnover rates of soil carbon following cultivation of native grasslands and subsequent afforestation of croplands	4
Aluminous clay and pedogenic Fe oxides modulate aggregation and related carbon contents in soils of the humid tropics	4
Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands)	4
Soil depth as a driver of microbial and carbon dynamics in a planted forest (Pinus radiata) pumice soil	4
Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests	4
Significant soil degradation is associated with intensive vegetable cropping in a subtropical area: a case study in southwestern China	4
Spatial variability in heavy metal concentration in urban pavement joints – a case study	4
Sensitivity of source sediment fingerprinting to tracer selection methods	4
Modelling of long-term Zn, Cu, Cd and Pb dynamics from soils fertilised with organic amendments	4