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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Short-term legacy effects of feedlot manure amendments on surface soil CO₂ efflux under irrigated silage barley in Southern Alberta	22
Analysis of persistent macroaggregates on the surface of agricultural soils	22
The influence of nitrogen source and stabilization in fertilizer formulations on Western Canadian spring wheat	21
Cropping history allows tracking of C4 cover crop residues by δ¹³C natural abundance	20
Response to side-banded phosphorus and zinc fertilizer for corn grown after canola or soybean in southern Manitoba	20
A self-adjusting parametric model for attenuation characteristics of WUSN signal	19
Effect of prescribed fire on microbial indicators of soil biogeochemistry in a mixed-grass prairie	17
Improving drought tolerance of Opuntia ficus-indica under field using subsurface water retention technology: changes in physiological and biochemical parameters	16
Biochar mitigation of allelopathic effects in three invasive plants: evidence from seed germination trials	16
Crop rotational diversity alters the composition of stabilized soil organic matter compounds in soil physical fractions	15
Variation of soil microbial communities in alpine meadows across different degradation degrees and related environmental drivers in the Sanjiangyuan Region, China	14
Enzyme activity after applying alkaline biosolids to agricultural soil	14
Reduction of raindrop kinetic energy by moss crust on rare earth tailings and its potential impact on soil erosion	14
The exposure of prairie soils to millennia of climate variability and change	12
Predicting soil organic matter and soil moisture content from digital camera images: comparison of regression and machine learning approaches	12
Influence of pulse–wheat crop rotations on aggregate size distribution dynamics in the brown soil zone in southern Alberta, Canada	12
miyo wîcêhtowin “good relations”: reckoning with the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and soil science in Canada	11
Early improvement of soil health under cropping systems including perennial forage crops and dairy cattle slurry in a cool humid climate	11
Improving agricultural productivity of podzolic soils in Schefferville using local amendments and fertilizers	11
Do cover crops on the Canadian prairies affect soil nitrogen cycling?	11
Degree of compaction, aeration, and soil water retention indices of a sugarcane field without soil disturbance after initial tillage	9
Softwood biochar and greenhouse gas emissions: a field study over three growing seasons on a temperate agricultural soil	9
Proposed new soil order — Leptosolic order for Canadian System of Soil Classification	9
Changes of soil test phosphorus and phosphorus fractions with single and blended soil chemical amendments	9
Grazing and fertilizer, compost or manure application effects on a meadow bromegrass pasture on a thick black chernozem I. Productivity and sustainability	9

Integrated agroforestry system affects the dynamics of inorganic phosphorus fractions in the savanna of Brazilian Northeast	8
Predictive soil mapping in the Boreal Plains of Northern Alberta by using multi-temporal remote sensing data and terrain derivatives	8
Proposed revision to Canadian System of Soil Classification: broaden taxonomic criteria for applying LFH horizons to include nonforest soils	8
University farm benefits from a long-term student-generated soil data set	8
Soil nitrogen dynamics in canola agroecosystems of eastern Canada	8
Using an ensemble learning approach in digital soil mapping of soil pH for the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia	8
Soil phosphorus fractions of two contrasting temperate soils receiving application of forest-derived liming by-products	7
Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in southwestern Ontario	7
Co-application of wood biochar and paper mill biosolids affects yield and short-term nitrogen and phosphorus availability in temperate loamy soils	7
Forage mixed planting can effectively improve soil enzyme activity and microbial community structure and diversity in agro-pastoral interlacing arid zone	7
Irrigated crop rotation and phosphorus fertilizer-manure addition impacts on soil water repellency of a clay loam soil in southern Alberta	7
Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N₂O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology	7
Biochar–manure changes soil carbon mineralization in a Gray Luvisol used for agricultural production	7
The fate of dissolved sulfamethoxazole during spring-thaw snowmelt in a field with a history of manure application	7
Soil fungal communities are primarily influenced by vegetation rather than fertilizers and fungicides in a lowbush blueberry production system	7
Comparison of conventional methods with Haney H3A version 4 for available phosphorus and potassium in southern Manitoba soils	6
Ex situ soil respiration assessment using minimally disturbed microcosms and dried–sieved soils; comparison of methods to assess soil health	6
Evaluating the impact of organic amendments on soil erosion dynamics: a comprehensive examination of application methods and timing	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
No differences in soil structure under winter wheat grown in different crop rotational positions	6
Growth and survival of native upland and wetland species in shallow capped thickened tailings: a meso-scale greenhouse study	6
Complementary teaching approaches facilitating interdisciplinary soil science education	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
Evaluating the nitrification inhibition potential of selected botanicals and their non-target effects	5
Crop yields under no-till in Canada: implications for soil organic carbon change	5
Biochemical components of Sphagnum and persistence in peat soil	5
Fluorescent properties of water-extractable organic matter in low-gradient, clay soils offer insight for management and restoration	5
Elevation gradient drives distribution of soil carbon in a semiarid grassland of British Columbia	5
Earthworm distribution around tile drainage in agricultural fields of southwest Quebec, Canada	5
Rationalizing mottling and gleying in the characterization and classification of Canadian soils	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
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
Effects of ferulic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids on Fusarium community structure and abundance in cucumber seedling rhizosphere	5
Use of biochar for alleviating negative impact of salinity stress in corn grown in arid soil	4
The impact of the investment period on soil and plant pollution by cadmium and nickel in Jableh city, in Lattakia Governorate	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
Note of appreciation	4
Slow pyrolysis pine wood-derived biochar reduces nitrous oxide production from surface but not subsurface soil	4
Management zone delineation strategies for phosphorus fertilizer recommendations under a no-till field in Eastern Canada	4
Adoption of beneficial management practices to improve soil health	4
Perennial grain Kernza^® fields have higher particulate organic carbon at depth than annual grain fields	4
Silver toxicity to the earthworm Eisenia fetida is inconsistent in natural and artificial soils amended with wastewater biosolids	4
Spatial dependency and independency of nitrogen in lowbush blueberry commercial fields	4
Chinese pine and ectomycorrhizal symbionts show plasticity in phosphorous absorption and high calcium adaption under different extraradical hyphal growth space	4
Nitrogen mineralization in Canadian agricultural soils: a review of methods for quantifying soil nitrogen mineralization potential and estimating growing season nitrogen mineralization	4
Management impacts on organic carbon under continuous perennial grass, perennial grass-legume mixture, and annual cereals on a thick Black Chernozemic soil	4
Tillage effects on growing season nitrous oxide emissions in Canadian cropland soils	4

Beware of scaling artefacts and implicit model characteristics when fitting soil water release and moisture capacity data	3
Loss of potentially toxic elements to snowmelt runoff from soils amended with alum, gypsum, and Epsom salt	3
Fungal community composition varies spatially in a commercial potato field in response to soil properties and topographic features	3
Revised proposed classification for human modified soils in Canada: Anthroposolic order	3
A proposed Folic subgroup for the Organic Cryosols	3
Aggregate stability after 25 years of organic, conventional, and grassland management	3
Mapping the maximum peat thickness of cultivated organic soils in the southwest plain of Montreal	3
Developing scoring functions based on soil texture to assess agricultural soil health in Quebec, Canada	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
Indicators of soil degradation on a pipeline footprint, Alberta, Canada	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
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
Factors affecting the use of weather station data in predicting surface soil moisture for agricultural applications	3
Effects of increasing soil pH to near-neutral using lime on phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus	3
Conservation tillage: effect on soil properties and crop productivity	3
Gamma radiation for the estimation of mineral soil water content in a boreal forest	3
Leaching of base and metal cations from litter and soils vary in two forest stands with different tree species	3
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	3
Analytical and experimental evaluation of two-layered unsaturated sand bearing capacity	3
Biochar application stabilized the heavy metals in coal mined soil	3
Soil-environment interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in three cold desert plants of Himalaya, India	2
Research on drag reduction mechanism of pneumatic subsoiler and establishment of resistance mathematical model	2
A proposed framework for assigning soil drainage classes to non-redoximorphic soils in the Canadian System of Soil Classification	2
Changes in soil pH and nutrient extractability after co-applying biochar and paper mill biosolids	2
Ferric chloride amendment reduces phosphorus losses from flooded soil monoliths to overlying floodwater	2
Using cultivated organic soil depth to form soil conservation management zones	2
Identifying rotation and tillage practices that maintain or enhance soil carbon and its relation to soil health	2
Aggregate dispersion for soil organic matter fractionation: a case study from Québec, Canada	2
Comparison of agri-environmental phosphorus tests for boreal agricultural and natural Podzols	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
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
Surface flow–interflow-coupled nitrogen loss in gray fluvo-aquic farmland soils in the Anhui Section of the Huaihe River Basin, China	2
Effects of tillage practices on soil organic carbon in non-saline and saline‒alkaline croplands	2
Reducing peat in growing media: impact on nitrogen content, microbial activity, and CO₂ and N₂O emissions	2
Spatial analysis of oil palm growth and soil properties in a plantation in Nigeria	2
Gray Luvisols are polygenetic	2
Review of research studies on nitrous oxide emissions from manure-amended soils in Canada from 1990 to 2023	2
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN PERENNIAL BIOENERGY CROPS ON MARGINAL LAND IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO	2
Predictive mapping of wetland soil types in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region using high-resolution digital elevation model terrain derivatives	2
Note of appreciation	2
Soil thermal properties: influence of no-till cover crops	2
Supplement of biochar and vermicompost amendments in coir and peat growing media improves N management and yields of leafy vegetables	2
Twenty-four years of contrasting cropping systems on a brown chernozem in Southern Alberta: crop yields, soil carbon, and subsoil salinity	2
No tillage and leguminous cover crop improve soil quality in a typical rainfed Mediterranean system	2