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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	958
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	75
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	48
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	40
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	31
Comprehensive increase in CO₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude	31
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	28
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	27
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	26
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	25
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	23
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	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)	23
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	21
Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands)	20
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	20
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage	20
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	20
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	20
Reusing Fe water treatment residual as a soil amendment to improve physical function and flood resilience	19
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	19
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	18
Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations	17
Geogenic organic carbon in terrestrial sediments and its contribution to total soil carbon	17
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	17

Nonlinear turnover rates of soil carbon following cultivation of native grasslands and subsequent afforestation of croplands	16
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	16
Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using ^239+240Pu fallout radionuclides	16
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	16
Transformation of n-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	15
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	15
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	14
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	13
Quantification of the effects of long-term straw return on soil organic matter spatiotemporal variation: a case study in a typical black soil region	13
Oxygen isotope exchange between water and carbon dioxide in soils is controlled by pH, nitrate and microbial biomass through links to carbonic anhydrase activity	13
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	13
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	13
Improving models to predict holocellulose and Klason lignin contents for peat soil organic matter with mid-infrared spectra	12
Soil organic carbon mineralization is controlled by the application dose of exogenous organic matter	12
Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (δ¹³C and F¹⁴C)	12
Soil nitrogen and water management by winter-killed catch crops	12
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	12
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N₂O emissions in rice cultivation	12
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	12
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	12
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	12
Organic matters, but inorganic matters too: column examination of elevated mercury sorption on low organic matter aquifer material using concentrations and stable isotope ratios	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
The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment	11
Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils	11
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	11
Spatial variations, origins, and risk assessments of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in French soils	11
On the benefits of clustering approaches in digital soil mapping: an application example concerning soil texture regionalization	10
What is the stability of additional organic carbon stored thanks to alternative cropping systems and organic waste product application? A multi-method evaluation	10
The effect of soil moisture content and soil texture on fast in situ pH measurements with two types of robust ion-selective electrodes	10
Unraveling biogeographical patterns and environmental drivers of soil fungal diversity at the French national scale	10
Does soil thinning change soil erodibility? An exploration of long-term erosion feedback systems	10
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	10
The effect of groundwater depth on topsoil organic matter mineralization during a simulated dry summer in northwestern Europe	9
Land use impact on carbon mineralization in well aerated soils is mainly explained by variations of particulate organic matter rather than of soil structure	9
Soil δ¹⁵N is a better indicator of ecosystem nitrogen cycling than plant δ¹⁵N: A global meta-analysis	9
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics	9
Potential of natural language processing for metadata extraction from environmental scientific publications	9
Identification of thermal signature and quantification of charcoal in soil using differential scanning calorimetry and benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) markers	9
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
Predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stock in Swedish forests using a group of covariates and site-specific data	8
Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term no-till cropping systems in the tropical upland of Cambodia	8
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine	8
Heterotrophic soil respiration and carbon cycling in geochemically distinct African tropical forest soils	8
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	8
Transition to conservation agriculture: how tillage intensity and covering affect soil physical parameters	8
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya	8
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
Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil	7
Network complexity of rubber plantations is lower than tropical forests for soil bacteria but not for fungi	7
Advancing studies on global biocrust distribution	7
Environmental behaviors of (E) pyriminobac-methyl in agricultural soils	7
Added value of geophysics-based soil mapping in agro-ecosystem simulations	6
Addressing soil data needs and data gaps in catchment-scale environmental modelling: the European perspective	6
The six rights of how and when to test for soil C saturation	6
Perspectives on the misconception of levitating soil aggregates	6
The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia – an isotopic dilution study	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
Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in juniper–oak savanna: role of vegetation and geology	6
Mixed Signals: interpreting mixing patterns of different soil bioturbation processes through luminescence and numerical modelling	5
Spatial distribution of argan tree influence on soil properties in southern Morocco	5
Impact of crop type on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a rewetted cultivated peatland	5
Pesticide transport through the vadose zone under sugarcane in the Wet Tropics, Australia	5
The role of ecosystem engineers in shaping the diversity and function of arid soil bacterial communities	5
Gully rehabilitation in southern Ethiopia – value and impacts for farmers	5
Land inclination controls CO₂ and N₂O fluxes, but not CH₄ uptake, in a temperate upland forest soil	5
Large errors in soil carbon measurements attributed to inconsistent sample processing	5
Experimental drought and soil amendments affect grassland above- and belowground vegetation but not soil carbon stocks	5
Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)	5
Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity in soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions	4
The application of biochar and oyster shell reduced cadmium uptake by crops and modified soil fertility and enzyme activities in contaminated soil	4
Accuracy of regional-to-global soil maps for on-farm decision-making: are soil maps “good enough”?	4
Estimating soil fungal abundance and diversity at a macroecological scale with deep learning spectrotransfer functions	4
Mapping land degradation risk due to land susceptibility to dust emission and water erosion	4
Response of soil nutrients and erodibility to slope aspect in the northern agro-pastoral ecotone, China	4
Aluminous clay and pedogenic Fe oxides modulate aggregation and related carbon contents in soils of the humid tropics	4
Earthworm-invaded boreal forest soils harbour distinct microbial communities	4