OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil is 10. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty	678
Global concentrations of microplastics in soils – a review	215
The influence of training sample size on the accuracy of deep learning models for the prediction of soil properties with near-infrared spectroscopy data	100
Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis	61
Targeting the soil quality and soil health concepts when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal	47
Using constructed soils for green infrastructure – challenges and limitations	46
Impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil structure and soil hydraulic properties	43
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	25
Transformation of <i>n</i>-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	24
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	23
The role of geochemistry in organic carbon stabilization against microbial decomposition in tropical rainforest soils	21
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	18
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	17
The effects of sealing on urban soil carbon and nutrients	17
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	16
Changes in soil physicochemical properties and bacterial communities at different soil depths after long-term straw mulching under a no-till system	16
Inclusion of biochar in a C dynamics model based on observations from an 8-year field experiment	16
Understanding the role of water and tillage erosion from <sup>239+240</sup>Pu tracer measurements using inverse modelling	16
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	15
Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using <sup>239+240</sup>Pu fallout radionuclides	15
Microbial communities and their predictive functional profiles in the arid soil of Saudi Arabia	15
Network complexity of rubber plantations is lower than tropical forests for soil bacteria but not for fungi	15
Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)	15
Obtaining more benefits from crop residues as soil amendments by application as chemically heterogeneous mixtures	15

Mapping soil slaking index and assessing the impact of management in a mixed agricultural landscape	14
Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon	14
Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs	14
Assessing soil salinity dynamics using time-lapse electromagnetic conductivity imaging	14
The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia – an isotopic dilution study	14
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	14
Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin	13
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics	13
An underground, wireless, open-source, low-cost system for monitoring oxygen, temperature, and soil moisture	13
Long-term impact of cover crop and reduced disturbance tillage on soil pore size distribution and soil water storage	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	12
Long-term field experiments in Germany: classification and spatial representation	12
An open Soil Structure Library based on X-ray CT data	12
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	11
Altitude and management affect soil fertility, leaf nutrient status and Xanthomonas wilt prevalence in enset gardens	11
Predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stock in Swedish forests using a group of covariates and site-specific data	11
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	10
Spatial variations, origins, and risk assessments of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in French soils	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 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
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