OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geoderma Regional is 5. 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
Soils and sustainable development goals of the United Nations: An International Union of Soil Sciences perspective	165
Soil priorities in the European Union	54
Spatial prediction of soil aggregate stability and soil organic carbon in aggregate fractions using machine learning algorithms and environmental variables	49
Spatial characteristics of ecological and health risks of toxic heavy metal pollution from road dust in the Black Sea coast of Turkey	47
Digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in Western Ghats, South India	36
Digital soil mapping and assessment for Australia and beyond: A propitious future	36
Comparison of PLS and SVM models for soil organic matter and particle size using vis-NIR spectral libraries	36
Soil organic matter qualification with FTIR spectroscopy under different soil types in Estonia	26
Predicting carbon and nitrogen by visible near-infrared (Vis-NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy in soils of Northeast Brazil	26
Operationalising digital soil mapping – Lessons from Australia	26
Application of VIS-NIR spectroscopy for estimation of soil organic carbon using different spectral preprocessing techniques and multivariate methods in the middle Indo-Gangetic plains of India	26
Quantification of some intrinsic soil properties using proximal sensing in arid lands: Application of Vis-NIR, MIR, and pXRF spectroscopy	24
Assessment of the soil fertility status in Benin (West Africa) – Digital soil mapping using machine learning	23
Deterministic and geostatistical models for predicting soil organic carbon in a 60 ha farm on Inceptisol in Varanasi, India	21
Machine learning based soil maps for a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland	21
Agronomic, economic, and environmental assessment of site-specific fertilizer management of Brazilian sugarcane fields	21
Digital mapping of soil classes using spatial extrapolation with imbalanced data	21
Salinity intrusion prediction using remote sensing and machine learning in data-limited regions: A case study in Vietnam's Mekong Delta	19
Density of soil observations in digital soil mapping: A study in the Mayenne region, France	19
Soil properties changes after seven years of ground mounted photovoltaic panels in Central Italy coastal area	17
Digital mapping for soil texture class prediction in northwestern Türkiye by different machine learning algorithms	16
Assessment of heavy metal concentrations and behavior in cultivated soils under humid-subhumid environmental condition of the Black Sea region	16
Estimation and mapping of surface soil properties in the Caucasus Mountains, Azerbaijan using high-resolution remote sensing data	15
Effects of straw incorporation and straw-burning on aggregate stability and soil organic carbon in a clay soil of Bangladesh	14
Effects of different sources and spatial resolutions of environmental covariates on predicting soil organic carbon using machine learning in a semi-arid region of Iran	14

Evaluation of Vis-NIR preprocessing combined with PLS regression for estimation soil organic carbon, cation exchange capacity and clay from eastern Croatia	14
Soil organic carbon (SOC) prediction in Australian sugarcane fields using Vis–NIR spectroscopy with different model setting approaches	14
A bibliometric analysis of soil research in Brazil 1989–2018	14
Micronutrients prediction via pXRF spectrometry in Brazil: Influence of weathering degree	14
Estimating organic carbon stocks of mineral soils in Denmark: Impact of bulk density and content of rock fragments	14
Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions and physical attributes affected by soil acidity amendments under no-till on Oxisol in Brazil	13
Proximal sensing applied to soil texture prediction and mapping in Brazil	13
On the impact of grassland management on soil carbon stocks: a worldwide meta-analysis	13
Exchangeable aluminium and acidity in Acrisols and Ferralsols of the north-west highlands of Cameroon	13
Soil quality assessment using erosion-sensitive indices and fuzzy membership under different cropping systems on a Ferralsol in Brazil	13
Impacts of national scale digital soil mapping programs in France	13
Evaluation of RUSLE and spatial assessment of agricultural soil erosion in Finland	13
Soil organic carbon stocks and stability of organic matter in permafrost-affected soils of Yamal region, Russian Arctic	12
Impact of anthropogenic pollution on soil properties in and around a town in Eastern India	12
Rare earth elements in tropical soils, Cameroon soils (Central Africa)	12
Mapping soil aggregate stability using digital soil mapping: A case study of Ruiru reservoir catchment, Kenya	12
Mapping soil organic carbon stocks in Tunisian topsoils	12
Long-term monitoring of soil quality and trace elements to evaluate land use effects and temporal change in the Wellington region, New Zealand	12
Inversion of soil pH during the dry and wet seasons in the Yinbei region of Ningxia, China, based on multi-source remote sensing data	12
Tropical soil order and suborder prediction combining optical and X-ray approaches	12
Comparison of long-term effects of biochar application on soil organic carbon and its fractions in two ecological sites in karst regions	12
C:N:P stoichiometry associated with biochar in forest soils at historical charcoal production sites in Poland	11
National soil organic carbon map of agricultural lands in Nepal	11
Geochemistry of soils of a deep pedon in the Okavango Delta, NW Botswana: Implications for pedogenesis in semi-arid regions	11
UAV-based vegetation monitoring for assessing the impact of soil loss in olive orchards in Brazil	11
Converting cropland to plantation decreases soil organic carbon stock and liable fractions in the fertile alluvial plain of eastern China	10
Carbon stocks of soils under forest in the Komi Republic of Russia	10
Improving the soil physical properties and relationships between soil properties in arable soils of contrasting texture enhancement using biochar substrates: Case study in Slovakia	10
Relationships among soil factors and greenhouse gas emissions from furrow-irrigated Rice in the mid-southern, USA	10
Assessing land suitability for rainfed paddy rice production in Zambia	10
Changes in soil organic matter fractions induced by cropland and pasture expansion in Brazil's new agricultural frontier	10
Identifying opportunities to improve digital soil mapping in India: A systematic review	10
Prediction of soil hydraulic properties using VIS-NIR spectral data in semi- arid region of Northern Karnataka Plateau	9
Digital soil mapping of Italy to map derived soil profiles with neural networks	9
Rapid land use prediction via portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) data on the dried lakebed of Avlan Lake in Turkey	9
Combining different pre-processing and multivariate methods for prediction of soil organic matter by near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in Southern Brazil	9
Soil order knowledge as a driver in soil properties estimation from Vis-NIR spectral data – Case study from northern Karnataka (India)	9
Biochar soil amendment as carbon farming practice in a Mediterranean environment	9
Hot desert soils—Global distribution and unique characteristics	9
Local soil knowledge, sustainable agriculture and soil conservation in Central Vietnam	8
The persistence and efficacy of nitrification inhibitors to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from New Zealand pasture soils amended with urine	8
Soil erodibility prediction by Vis-NIR spectra and environmental covariates coupled with GIS, regression and PLSR in a watershed scale, Iran	8
Tillage recommendation for commercial forest production: Should tillage be based on soil penetrability, bulk density or more complex, integrative properties?	8
Spatial-temporal change of soil organic carbon in Anhui Province of East China	8
Soil lead distribution in Chicago, USA	8
Recovering of soil organic matter and associated C and N pools on regenerated forest ecosystems at different tree species influence on post-fire and reclaimed mine sites	8
Possible futures of soil-mapping in France	8
Land use and soil types affect macropore network, organic carbon and nutrient retention, Lithuania	8
Acid sulfate soils on the west coast of Sri Lanka: A review	8
Spatial distribution of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in surface soil across the Pearl River Delta area, South China	7

Mapping soil properties at multiple depths from disaggregated legacy soil maps in the Brittany region, France	7
“Cropland characteristics and extent of soil loss by rill and gully erosion in smallholder farms in the KIVU highlands, D.R. Congo”	7
Space-time monitoring of soil organic carbon content across a semi-arid region of Australia	7
Medium-term transformation of Chernozems under broadleaf forests in the temperate climate of south-east Poland	7
How vegetation patches drive soil development and organic matter formation on polar islands	7
Effect of topography on spatiotemporal patterns of soil moisture in a mountainous region of Northwest China	7
Nitrous oxide emissions in maize on mollisols in the Pampas of Argentina	7
Soil parent material prediction through satellite multispectral analysis on a regional scale at the Western Paulista Plateau, Brazil	7
Influence of auxiliary soil variables to improve PXRF-based soil fertility evaluation in India	7
Bioclimatic variables as important spatial predictors of soil hydraulic properties across Australia's agricultural region	7
Spectroscopic characteristics of humic acids extracted from soils under different integrated agricultural production systems in tropical regions	7
Spatial prediction of soil properties for the Busia area, Kenya using legacy soil data	7
Comparison of long-term field-measured and RUSLE-based modelled soil loss in Switzerland	7
Soil organic matter and clay predictions by laboratory spectroscopy: Data spatial correlation	7
Efficacy of three nitrification inhibitors to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from pig slurry and mineral fertilizers applied to spring barley and winter wheat in Denmark	7
Cross-system legacy data applied to digital soil mapping: A case study of Second National Soil Survey data in China	7
Possible policies and actions to protect the soil cultural and natural heritage of Europe	6
Effects of climate and land-use on physicochemical properties of gneiss-derived soils in tropical drylands: Evidence from northeastern Brazil	6
Evaluation of machine learning algorithms in the prediction of hydraulic conductivity and soil moisture at the Brazilian Savannah	6
Cohesive character in Alfisols, Ultisol and Oxisols in northeast of Brazil: Relationship with tensile strength and particle size	6
Rehabilitating open-cut coal mine spoil for a pasture system in south east Queensland, Australia: Abiotic soil properties compared with unmined land through time	6
Environmental and pedological factors influencing organic carbon storage in Italian forest soils	6
Land-use change affects carbon storage and lability in tropical soil of India	6
Data accuracy and method validation of chemical soil properties in long-term experiments: Standard operating procedures for a non-certified soil laboratory in Latin America	6
Digital mapping of soil organic carbon hotspots in nature conservation areas in the region of Flanders, Belgium	6
Prediction of soil organic matter content by combining data from Nix ProTM color sensor and portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in tropical soils	6
Partial least square regression based machine learning models for soil organic carbon prediction using visible–near infrared spectroscopy	6
Assessing the effect of arable management practices on carbon storage and fractions after 24 years in boreal conditions of Finland	6
A soil spectral library of New Zealand	6
Predicting soil carbon stock in remote areas of the Central Amazon region using machine learning techniques	6
Controlling factors of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity in Taihang Mountain Region, northern China	5
Control of regional climate on carbon and nitrogen turnover and their stable isotopic compositions in Indian soils	5
Soil erosion rates evaluation via 137Cs and RUSLE modeling in the Sigilil watershed (northeastern Tunisia)	5
Mapping soil corrosivity in an Australian arid environment and comparing corrosion rates of exclusion fence netting with different zinc coatings	5
Proximal sensor data fusion for Brazilian soil properties prediction: Exchangeable/available macronutrients, aluminum, and potential acidity	5
Predicting soil organic carbon stocks in different layers of forest soils in the Czech Republic	5
Applying RUSLE for soil erosion estimation in Romania under current and future climate scenarios	5
Empirical approach for developing production environment soil health benchmarks	5
Soil organic matter characterisation using alkali and water extraction, and its relation to soil properties	5
Fractions, stability, and influencing factors of soil organic carbon under different land-use in sodic soils	5
Pedotransfer functions for cation exchange capacity estimation in highly weathered soils of the tropical highlands of NW Cameroon	5
Soil research, management, and policy priorities in Chile	5
Soil water repellency characteristic curve of Spolic Technosols from the region of Maritsa-Iztok coal mine in Bulgaria	5
Litter decomposition and soil organic carbon stabilization in a Kastanozem of Saskatchewan, Canada	5
Evaluation of simple and multivariate linear regression models for exchangeable base cation conversion between seven measurement techniques on South African soils	5
Acid sulfate soils decrease surface water quality in coastal area of West Malaysia: Quo Vadis?	5
Introducing a map of soil base cation concentration, an ecologically relevant GIS-layer for Amazonian forests	5
Modelling of soil depth and hydraulic properties at regional level using environmental covariates- A case study in India	5
Geochemical and mineralogical composition of the 2018 volcanic deposits of Mt. Anak Krakatau	5
Microbial activity effect on aggregate stability after residue addition in a Mollisol and a Vertisol in the Pampas, Argentina	5
Mapping of tank silt application using Sentinel-2 images over the Berambadi catchment (India)	5
Soil chemical properties and crop response to gypsum and limestone on a coarse-textured Ultisol under no-till in the Brazilian Pampa biome	5