OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Canadian Journal of Soil Science is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of nitrogen source and stabilization in fertilizer formulations on Western Canadian spring wheat	21
Short-term impacts of winter bale grazing beef cows on forage production and soil nutrient status in the eastern Canadian Prairies	18
Predicting soil nitrogen availability to grain corn in Ontario, Canada	18
Analysis of persistent macroaggregates on the surface of agricultural soils	17
A self-adjusting parametric model for attenuation characteristics of WUSN signal	17
Short-term legacy effects of feedlot manure amendments on surface soil CO₂ efflux under irrigated silage barley in Southern Alberta	17
Bentonite effects on soil physical properties and millet yield components in a semi-arid region in China	16
Combining perennial grass–legume forages and liquid dairy manure contributes to nitrogen accumulation in a clayey soil	15
Cropping history allows tracking of C4 cover crop residues by δ¹³C natural abundance	15
Response to side-banded phosphorus and zinc fertilizer for corn grown after canola or soybean in southern Manitoba	14
Improving drought tolerance of Opuntia ficus-indica under field using subsurface water retention technology: changes in physiological and biochemical parameters	13
Biochar mitigation of allelopathic effects in three invasive plants: evidence from seed germination trials	13
Crop rotational diversity alters the composition of stabilized soil organic matter compounds in soil physical fractions	13
Effect of Prescribed Fire on Microbial Indicators of Soil Biogeochemistry in a Mixed-Grass Prairie	12
Influence of pulse–wheat crop rotations on aggregate size distribution dynamics in the brown soil zone in southern Alberta, Canada	12
Enzyme activity after applying alkaline biosolids to agricultural soil	12
Predicting soil organic matter and soil moisture content from digital camera images: comparison of regression and machine learning approaches	12
The Exposure of Prairie Soils to Millennia of Climate Variability and Change	12
Softwood biochar and greenhouse gas emissions: a field study over three growing seasons on a temperate agricultural soil	11
Variation of soil microbial communities in alpine meadows across different degradation degrees and related environmental drivers in the Sanjiangyuan Region, China	11
Grazing and fertilizer, compost or manure application effects on a meadow bromegrass pasture on a thick black chernozem I. Productivity and sustainability	11
Reduction of raindrop kinetic energy by moss crust on rare earth tailings and its potential impact on soil erosion	11
miyo wîcêhtowin “good relations”: reckoning with the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and soil science in Canada	10
Do cover crops on the Canadian prairies affect soil nitrogen cycling?	10
Proposed new soil order — Leptosolic order for Canadian System of Soil Classification	10

Evaluation and modeling of factors influencing the depth of mixing layer in which soil solute releasing from soil to surface runoff	9
Using an ensemble learning approach in digital soil mapping of soil pH for the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia	9
Influence of a one-time biosolids application on elemental and nutrient concentrations on mine tailings	9
Degree of compaction, aeration, and soil water retention indices of a sugarcane field without soil disturbance after initial tillage	9
Spatial variation of nitrous oxide fluxes during growing and non-growing seasons at a location subjected to seasonally frozen soils	9
Pedological trends and implications for forest productivity in a Holocene soil chronosequence, Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada	9
University farm benefits from a long-term student-generated soil data set	8
Phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus in high-legacy phosphorus soils in southern British Columbia, Canada	8
Changes of soil test phosphorus and phosphorus fractions with single and blended soil chemical amendments	8
The fate of dissolved sulfamethoxazole during spring-thaw snowmelt in a field with a history of manure application	8
Soil nitrogen dynamics in canola agroecosystems of eastern Canada	7
Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N₂O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology	7
Soil conditions in the “donga” soils in subhumid zone in West Africa	7
Co-application of wood biochar and paper mill biosolids affects yield and short-term nitrogen and phosphorus availability in temperate loamy soils	7
Nitrogen and phosphorus distribution in plant, soil, and leachate as affected by liquid hog manure and chemical fertilizers	7
Integrated agroforestry system affects the dynamics of inorganic phosphorus fractions in the savanna of Brazilian Northeast	7
Proposed revision to Canadian System of Soil Classification: broaden taxonomic criteria for applying LFH horizons to include nonforest soils	7
Predictive soil mapping in the Boreal Plains of Northern Alberta by using multi-temporal remote sensing data and terrain derivatives	7
Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in southwestern Ontario	7
Forage mixed planting can effectively improve soil enzyme activity and microbial community structure and diversity in agro-pastoral interlacing arid zone	7
Biochar–manure changes soil carbon mineralization in a Gray Luvisol used for agricultural production	6
Response of soil nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification to milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) application in a paddy field	6
Determination of emamectin benzoate residues in topsoil and surface water of crop production areas in Thailand	6
Irrigated crop rotation and phosphorus fertilizer-manure addition impacts on soil water repellency of a clay loam soil in southern Alberta	6
Complementary teaching approaches facilitating interdisciplinary soil science education	6
Comparison of conventional methods with Haney H3A version 4 for available phosphorus and potassium in southern Manitoba soils	6
Wheat straw and biochar effect on soil carbon fractions, enzyme activities, and nutrients in a tobacco field	6
No differences in soil structure under winter wheat grown in different crop rotational positions	6
Impact of manure and biochar additions on annual crop growth, nutrient uptake, and fate of ¹⁵N-labelled fertilizer in two contrasting temperate prairie soils after four years	6
Crop yields under no-till in Canada: implications for soil organic carbon change	5
Antagonistic effect of copper and zinc in fertilization of spring wheat under low soil phosphorus conditions	5
Soil responses to inclusion of corn, soybean, and cover crops under rainfed conditions in the northern Great Plains	5
Better recognition of limnic materials at the great group and subgroup levels of the Organic Order of the Canadian System of Soil Classification	5
Antibiotic use in commercial broiler chicken farming and its consequential resistance development in root colonizing bacteria of carrot grown in manure-applied soils in a middle-income country	5
Elevation gradient drives distribution of soil carbon in a semiarid grassland of British Columbia	5
Rationalizing mottling and gleying in the characterization and classification of Canadian soils	5
Biochemical components of Sphagnum and persistence in peat soil	5
Earthworm distribution around tile drainage in agricultural fields of southwest Quebec, Canada	5
Growth and survival of native upland and wetland species in shallow capped thickened tailings: a meso-scale greenhouse study	5
Ex situ soil respiration assessment using minimally disturbed microcosms and dried–sieved soils; comparison of methods to assess soil health	5
Evaluating the nitrification inhibition potential of selected botanicals and their non-target effects	5
Effects of ferulic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids on Fusarium community structure and abundance in cucumber seedling rhizosphere	4
Adoption of beneficial management practices to improve soil health	4
Chinese pine and ectomycorrhizal symbionts show plasticity in phosphorous absorption and high calcium adaption under different extraradical hyphal growth space	4
The impact of the investment period on soil and plant pollution by cadmium and nickel in Jableh city, in Lattakia Governorate	4
Accumulation of straw-derived carbon and changes in soil humic acid structural characteristics during corn straw decomposition	4
Management impacts on organic carbon under continuous perennial grass, perennial grass-legume mixture, and annual cereals on a thick Black Chernozemic soil	4
Fungal community composition varies spatially in a commercial potato field in response to soil properties and topographic features	4
Spatial dependency and independency of nitrogen in lowbush blueberry commercial fields	4
Perennial grain Kernza^® fields have higher particulate organic carbon at depth than annual grain fields	4

Tillage effects on growing season nitrous oxide emissions in Canadian cropland soils	4
Slow pyrolysis pine wood-derived biochar reduces nitrous oxide production from surface but not subsurface soil	4
Effects of increasing soil pH to near-neutral using lime on phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus	4
Influence of crested wheatgrass on soil water repellency in comparison to native grass mix and annual spring wheat cropping	4
Loss of potentially toxic elements to snowmelt runoff from soils amended with alum, gypsum, and Epsom salt	4
Use of biochar for alleviating negative impact of salinity stress in corn grown in arid soil	4
Management zone delineation strategies for phosphorus fertilizer recommendations under a no-till field in Eastern Canada	4
Soil Mehlich-3-extractable elements as affected by the addition of biochars to a clay soil co-amended with or without a compost	4
Silver toxicity to the earthworm Eisenia fetida is inconsistent in natural and artificial soils amended with wastewater biosolids	4
Note of appreciation	4
Conservation tillage: effect on soil properties and crop productivity	4
Revised proposed classification for human modified soils in Canada: Anthroposolic order	3
Landscape position, sampling time, and tillage, but not legume species, affect labile carbon and nitrogen fractions in a 4-yr-old rejuvenated grazed pasture	3
Mapping the maximum peat thickness of cultivated organic soils in the southwest plain of Montreal	3
Cultivatable bacterial community in water from Lai Nullah contaminated with household sewage and industrial waste is more diverse and populated compared with nonpolluted water	3
Aggregate stability after 25 years of organic, conventional, and grassland management	3
Proposed changes to the soil family taxon within the Canadian System of Soil Classification	3
Litter quality mediated the effect of nitrogen addition and precipitation reduction on the release and immobilization of plant litter nitrogen and phosphorus	3
Beware of scaling artefacts and implicit model characteristics when fitting soil water release and moisture capacity data	3
Leaching of base and metal cations from litter and soils vary in two forest stands with different tree species	3
A proposed Folic subgroup for the Organic Cryosols	3
Indicators of soil degradation on a pipeline footprint, Alberta, Canada	3
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	3
Gamma radiation for the estimation of mineral soil water content in a boreal forest	3
Buried wood effects on macronutrient supply and microbial activity and metabolic potential in different oil sands reclamation soils in northern Alberta	3
Effect of saline–alkaline stresses on the interspecific competition between Aegilops tauschii and Triticum aestivum	3
Factors affecting the use of weather station data in predicting surface soil moisture for agricultural applications	3
Developing scoring functions based on soil texture to assess agricultural soil health in Quebec, Canada	3
Biochar application stabilized the heavy metals in coal mined soil	3
Analytical and experimental evaluation of two-layered unsaturated sand bearing capacity	3
Soil temperature and water contents among vertical tillage, strip tillage, and chisel plowing in the Upper Great Plains	3
Correction: Soil organic carbon content: decreases partly attributed to dilution by increased depth of cultivation in southern Ontario	2
Differential response by seedlings of three sub-boreal conifer species to high- and low-carbon wood ash amendment	2
Spatial analysis of oil palm growth and soil properties in a plantation in Nigeria	2
Note of appreciation	2
Multifrequency electromagnetic induction soil moisture characterization under different land uses in western Newfoundland	2
Comparison of agri-environmental phosphorus tests for boreal agricultural and natural Podzols	2
Ferric chloride amendment reduces phosphorus losses from flooded soil monoliths to overlying floodwater	2
Review of research studies on nitrous oxide emissions from manure-amended soils in Canada from 1990 to 2023	2
A proposed framework for assigning soil drainage classes to non-redoximorphic soils in the Canadian System of Soil Classification	2
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN PERENNIAL BIOENERGY CROPS ON MARGINAL LAND IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO	2
Reducing peat in growing media: impact on nitrogen content, microbial activity, and CO₂ and N₂O emissions	2
Spatial dependency of soil chemicals in production systems in the anthropogenic dark earth	2
Establishment and experiment of a pressure-bearing subsidence model of layered soil in forest region	2
Spatiotemporal variability of soil physical properties and water, salt, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents for farm level	2
Using cultivated organic soil depth to form soil conservation management zones	2
Surface flow–interflow-coupled nitrogen loss in gray fluvo-aquic farmland soils in the Anhui Section of the Huaihe River Basin, China	2
No tillage and leguminous cover crop improve soil quality in a typical rainfed Mediterranean system	2
Research on drag reduction mechanism of pneumatic subsoiler and establishment of resistance mathematical model	2
Changes in soil pH and nutrient extractability after co-applying biochar and paper mill biosolids	2
A soil health scoring framework for arable cropping systems in Saskatchewan, Canada	2
Growth and nutrient uptake of haloxylon and atriplex as affected by mycorrhizal symbiosis under combined drought and salinity stresses	2
Impacts of soil, water source, and agro-climatic conditions on exchangeable sodium in rice-cultivated lowland soils of Sri Lanka	2
Nitrous oxide production and nitrogen transformations in a soil amended with biosolids	2
Effect of basalt fiber and carbon fiber on the evolution of water evaporation and cracking characteristics of silt soil	2
Identifying rotation and tillage practices that maintain or enhance soil carbon and its relation to soil health	2
Soil thermal properties: influence of no-till cover crops	2
Gray Luvisols are polygenetic	2
Predictive mapping of wetland soil types in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region using high-resolution digital elevation model terrain derivatives	2
Refinement of the carbon to loss on ignition relationship in forest soils	2
Effect of long-term cropping systems on soil hydrophobicity of a clay loam soil under dryland conditions in southern Alberta	2
Twenty-four years of contrasting cropping systems on a brown chernozem in Southern Alberta: crop yields, soil carbon, and subsoil salinity	2
Supplement of biochar and vermicompost amendments in coir and peat growing media improves N management and yields of leafy vegetables	2