OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	74
Soil indicators for ecosystem services: a focus on water regulation	56
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	51
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	50
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	49
Soil contamination in arid environments and assessment of remediation applying surface evaporation capacitor model: a case study from the Judean Desert, Israel	47
Comprehensive increase in CO ₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing	43
Prediction of peat properties from transmission mid-infrared spectra	42
Limited effect of organic matter addition on stabilised organic carbon in four tropical arable soils	41
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO ₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	35
Soil erosion in Mediterranean olive groves: a review	33
High-resolution frequency-domain electromagnetic mapping for the hydrological modeling of an orange orchard	32
The potential of reed canary grass and the importance of field heterogeneity for reducing GHG emissions in a rewetting fen peatland	30
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	29
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	28
Portable X-ray fluorescence as a tool for urban soil contamination analysis: accuracy, precision, and practicality	25
Plastic film residues on cropland: monitoring soil contamination through optical remote sensing	25
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	24
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	24
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)	24
Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE	23
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	23
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	22
Organic-matter-mediated leaching of alkalinity in limed acid soils is affected by dissolved organic carbon adsorption and soil structure	21
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	20

Pooled error variance and covariance estimation of sparse in situ soil moisture sensor measurements in agricultural fields in Flanders	20
Terrain is a stronger predictor of peat depth than airborne radiometrics in Norwegian landscapes	20
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	19
Availability of labile carbon controls the temperature-dependent response of soil organic matter decomposition in alpine soils	19
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	19
Drivers of soil C quality and stability: insights from a topsoil dataset at landscape scale in Ontario, Canada	19
Soil health approaches to assess the impacts of no-tillage with agricultural terraces in southern Brazil	18
Soil fungal network complexity and functional roles differ between black truffle plantations and forests	17
Leaching behavior of steelmaking slag fertilizer under repeated wetting and drying conditions simulating upland soil	17
Electrical conductivity measurements as proxies for diffusion-limited microbial activity in soils under controlled laboratory conditions	16
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	16
Mineral-bound organic carbon exposed by hillslope thermokarst terrain: case study in Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic	16
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	16
Weathering without realizing inorganic CO ₂ removal revealed through base cation monitoring	16
A simple model of the turnover of organic carbon in a soil profile: model test, parameter identification and sensitivity	16
Destabilization of buried carbon under changing moisture regimes	16
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	15
Long-term pig manure application increases SOC through aggregate protection and Fe-C associations in a subtropical red soil (Udic Ferralsols)	14
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	14
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	14
What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?	14
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	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
Soil carbon accrual and biopore formation across a plant diversity gradient	13
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	13
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N ₂ O emissions in rice cultivation	12
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	12
Benchmarking soil multifunctionality	12
Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe	12
Improving models to predict holocellulose and Klason lignin contents for peat soil organic matter with mid-infrared spectra	12
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	12