OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Soil Science is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Short-term impacts of winter bale grazing beef cows on forage production and soil nutrient status in the eastern Canadian Prairies	20
Analysis of persistent macroaggregates on the surface of agricultural soils	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	15
Predicting soil nitrogen availability to grain corn in Ontario, Canada	15
Cropping history allows tracking of C4 cover crop residues by δ¹³C natural abundance	14
Biochar mitigation of allelopathic effects in three invasive plants: evidence from seed germination trials	14
Response to side-banded phosphorus and zinc fertilizer for corn grown after canola or soybean in southern Manitoba	14
Improving drought tolerance ofOpuntia ficus-indicaunder field using subsurface water retention technology: changes in physiological and biochemical parameters	13
Crop rotational diversity alters the composition of stabilized soil organic matter compounds in soil physical fractions	13
A self-adjusting parametric model for attenuation characteristics of WUSN signal	13
Amalgamation and harmonization of soil survey reports into a multi-purpose database	12
Combining perennial grass–legume forages and liquid dairy manure contributes to nitrogen accumulation in a clayey soil	12
Influence of pulse–wheat crop rotations on aggregate size distribution dynamics in the brown soil zone in southern Alberta, Canada	11
Enzyme activity after applying alkaline biosolids to 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
Predicting soil organic matter and soil moisture content from digital camera images: comparison of regression and machine learning approaches	11
Proposed new soil order — Leptosolic order for Canadian System of Soil Classification	10
Reduction of raindrop kinetic energy by moss crust on rare earth tailings and its potential impact on soil erosion	10
Influence of feedlot manure on reactive phosphorus in rainfall runoff during the transition from continuous to legacy phases	10
Softwood biochar and greenhouse gas emissions: a field study over three growing seasons on a temperate agricultural soil	10
Pedological trends and implications for forest productivity in a Holocene soil chronosequence, Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada	9
Do cover crops on the Canadian prairies affect soil nitrogen cycling?	9
Substituting vetch and chicory for rye in a cover crop mixture enhanced nutrient release	9
miyo wîcêhtowin “good relations”: reckoning with the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and soil science in Canada	9

Spatial variation of nitrous oxide fluxes during growing and non-growing seasons at a location subjected to seasonally frozen soils	9
Influence of a one-time biosolids application on elemental and nutrient concentrations on mine tailings	9
Grazing and fertilizer, compost or manure application effects on a meadow bromegrass pasture on a thick black chernozem I. Productivity and sustainability	9
Evaluation and modeling of factors influencing the depth of mixing layer in which soil solute releasing from soil to surface runoff	9
Phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus in high-legacy phosphorus soils in southern British Columbia, Canada	8
Using an ensemble learning approach in digital soil mapping of soil pH for the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia	8
Soil water dynamics over 12 seasons on irrigated dry bean–potato–wheat–sugar beet rotations	8
University farm benefits from a long-term student-generated soil data set	8
Degree of compaction, aeration, and soil water retention indices of a sugarcane field without soil disturbance after initial tillage	8
Nitrogen and phosphorus distribution in plant, soil, and leachate as affected by liquid hog manure and chemical fertilizers	7
Soil nitrogen dynamics in canola agroecosystems of eastern Canada	7
Co-application of wood biochar and paper mill biosolids affects yield and short-term nitrogen and phosphorus availability in temperate loamy soils	7
Ratio of non-growing season to growing season N₂O emissions in Canadian croplands: an update to national inventory methodology	6
Kinetics and thermodynamics of urea hydrolysis in the presence of urease and nitrification inhibitors	6
Proposed revision to Canadian System of Soil Classification: broaden taxonomic criteria for applying LFH horizons to include nonforest soils	6
Irrigated crop rotation and phosphorus fertilizer-manure addition impacts on soil water repellency of a clay loam soil in southern Alberta	6
Predictive soil mapping in the Boreal Plains of Northern Alberta by using multi-temporal remote sensing data and terrain derivatives	6
Integrated agroforestry system affects the dynamics of inorganic phosphorus fractions in the savanna of Brazilian Northeast	6
Biochar–manure changes soil carbon mineralization in a Gray Luvisol used for agricultural production	6
Soil conditions in the “donga” soils in subhumid zone in West Africa	6
The fate of dissolved sulfamethoxazole during spring-thaw snowmelt in a field with a history of manure application	6
Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in southwestern Ontario	6
Response of soil nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification to milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) application in a paddy field	5
Antagonistic effect of copper and zinc in fertilization of spring wheat under low soil phosphorus conditions	5
Comparison of conventional methods with Haney H3A version 4 for available phosphorus and potassium in southern Manitoba soils	5
Growth and survival of native upland and wetland species in shallow capped thickened tailings: a meso-scale greenhouse study	5
Evaluating the nitrification inhibition potential of selected botanicals and their non-target effects	5
Elevation gradient drives distribution of soil carbon in a semiarid grassland of British Columbia	5
Forage mixed planting can effectively improve soil enzyme activity and microbial community structure and diversity in agro-pastoral interlacing arid zone	5
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	5
Wheat straw and biochar effect on soil carbon fractions, enzyme activities, and nutrients in a tobacco field	5
Earthworm distribution around tile drainage in agricultural fields of southwest Quebec, Canada	5
Complementary teaching approaches facilitating interdisciplinary soil science education	5
Effects of ionized brackish water and polyacrylamide application on infiltration characteristics and improving water retention and reducing soil salinity	5
Determination of emamectin benzoate residues in topsoil and surface water of crop production areas in Thailand	5
No differences in soil structure under winter wheat grown in different crop rotational positions	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
Ex situ soil respiration assessment using minimally disturbed microcosms and dried–sieved soils; comparison of methods to assess soil health	5
Effects of increasing soil pH to near-neutral using lime on phosphorus saturation index and water-extractable phosphorus	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
Effects of ferulic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids on Fusarium community structure and abundance in cucumber seedling rhizosphere	4
Biochemical components ofSphagnumand persistence in peat soil	4
Crop yields under no-till in Canada: implications for soil organic carbon change	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
Chinese pine and ectomycorrhizal symbionts show plasticity in phosphorous absorption and high calcium adaption under different extraradical hyphal growth space	4
Use of biochar for alleviating negative impact of salinity stress in corn grown in arid soil	4
Spatial dependency and independency of nitrogen in lowbush blueberry commercial fields	4
Soil responses to inclusion of corn, soybean, and cover crops under rainfed conditions in the northern Great Plains	4
The impact of the investment period on soil and plant pollution by cadmium and nickel in Jableh city, in Lattakia Governorate	4

Adoption of beneficial management practices to improve soil health	4
Management zone delineation strategies for phosphorus fertilizer recommendations under a no-till field in Eastern Canada	4
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	4
Rationalizing mottling and gleying in the characterization and classification of Canadian soils	4
Slow pyrolysis pine wood-derived biochar reduces nitrous oxide production from surface but not subsurface soil	4