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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	53
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	36
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	35
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	33
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	33
Comprehensive increase in CO₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude	30
Soil contamination in arid environments and assessment of remediation applying surface evaporation capacitor model: a case study from the Judean Desert, Israel	28
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	27
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	26
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	23
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	23
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	23
The impact of agriculture on tropical mountain soils in the western Peruvian Andes: a pedo-geoarchaeological study of terrace agricultural systems in the Laramate region (14.5° S)	22
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	22
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	21
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	21
Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands)	21
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage	20
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	20
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	20
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	19
Reusing Fe water treatment residual as a soil amendment to improve physical function and flood resilience	18
Pooled error variance and covariance estimation of sparse in situ soil moisture sensor measurements in agricultural fields in Flanders	17
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	17
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	17

Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations	16
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	15
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	14
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	14
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	14
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	14
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	14
Transformation of n-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	14
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	14
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N₂O emissions in rice cultivation	14
Quantification of the effects of long-term straw return on soil organic matter spatiotemporal variation: a case study in a typical black soil region	14
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	14
Soil organic carbon mineralization is controlled by the application dose of exogenous organic matter	13
Improving models to predict holocellulose and Klason lignin contents for peat soil organic matter with mid-infrared spectra	13
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	13
Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (δ¹³C and F¹⁴C)	13
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	13
Organic matters, but inorganic matters too: column examination of elevated mercury sorption on low organic matter aquifer material using concentrations and stable isotope ratios	13
Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils	12
The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment	12
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	12
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	12
Soil nitrogen and water management by winter-killed catch crops	12
The effect of soil moisture content and soil texture on fast in situ pH measurements with two types of robust ion-selective electrodes	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
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	11
Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe	11
Unraveling biogeographical patterns and environmental drivers of soil fungal diversity at the French national scale	11
On the benefits of clustering approaches in digital soil mapping: an application example concerning soil texture regionalization	11
What is the stability of additional organic carbon stored thanks to alternative cropping systems and organic waste product application? A multi-method evaluation	11
Potential of natural language processing for metadata extraction from environmental scientific publications	10
Does soil thinning change soil erodibility? An exploration of long-term erosion feedback systems	10
Identification of thermal signature and quantification of charcoal in soil using differential scanning calorimetry and benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) markers	10
Biochar reduces early-stage mineralization rates of plant residues more in coarse-textured soils than in fine-textured soils – an artificial-soil approach	9
The influence of land use and management on the behaviour and persistence of soil organic carbon in a subtropical Ferralsol	9
The effect of groundwater depth on topsoil organic matter mineralization during a simulated dry summer in northwestern Europe	9
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya	9
Heterotrophic soil respiration and carbon cycling in geochemically distinct African tropical forest soils	8
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine	8
Advancing studies on global biocrust distribution	8
Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term no-till cropping systems in the tropical upland of Cambodia	8
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics	8
Transition to conservation agriculture: how tillage intensity and covering affect soil physical parameters	8
Soil δ¹⁵N is a better indicator of ecosystem nitrogen cycling than plant δ¹⁵N: A global meta-analysis	8
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	8
Network complexity of rubber plantations is lower than tropical forests for soil bacteria but not for fungi	7
Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil	7
Status and influential factors of soil nutrients and acidification in Chinese tea plantations: a meta-analysis	7
Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on soil organic carbon stock in a natural dry tropical area of Cameroon	7
Dissolved carbon flow to particulate organic carbon enhances soil carbon sequestration	7

The six rights of how and when to test for soil C saturation	7
Mixed Signals: interpreting mixing patterns of different soil bioturbation processes through luminescence and numerical modelling	6
Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in juniper–oak savanna: role of vegetation and geology	6
Perspectives on the misconception of levitating soil aggregates	6
On the risks of good intentions and poor evidence – comment on “Back to the future? Conservative grassland management can preserve soil health in the changing landscapes of Uruguay” by Säumel et al. (	6
Impact of crop type on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a rewetted cultivated peatland	6
Land inclination controls CO₂ and N₂O fluxes, but not CH₄ uptake, in a temperate upland forest soil	6
Environmental behaviors of (E) pyriminobac-methyl in agricultural soils	6
Gradual drying of permafrost peat decreases carbon dioxide production in drier peat plateaus but not in wetter fens and bogs	6
Addressing soil data needs and data gaps in catchment-scale environmental modelling: the European perspective	6
Experimental drought and soil amendments affect grassland above- and belowground vegetation but not soil carbon stocks	6
Response of soil nutrients and erodibility to slope aspect in the northern agro-pastoral ecotone, China	5
Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)	5
Pesticide transport through the vadose zone under sugarcane in the Wet Tropics, Australia	5
Gully rehabilitation in southern Ethiopia – value and impacts for farmers	5
Large errors in soil carbon measurements attributed to inconsistent sample processing	5
Spatial distribution of argan tree influence on soil properties in southern Morocco	5
Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity in soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions	5
The role of ecosystem engineers in shaping the diversity and function of arid soil bacterial communities	5
Thermodynamic and hydrological drivers of the soil and bedrock thermal regimes in central Spain	4
Phosphorus dynamics during early soil development in a cold desert: insights from oxygen isotopes in phosphate	4
Mapping land degradation risk due to land susceptibility to dust emission and water erosion	4
Accuracy of regional-to-global soil maps for on-farm decision-making: are soil maps “good enough”?	4
An ensemble estimate of Australian soil organic carbon using machine learning and process-based modelling	4
Estimating soil fungal abundance and diversity at a macroecological scale with deep learning spectrotransfer functions	4
The application of biochar and oyster shell reduced cadmium uptake by crops and modified soil fertility and enzyme activities in contaminated soil	4