OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoderma is 58. 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
Phosphorus abundance and speciation in acid forest Podzols – Effect of postglacial weathering	382
Variations and controlling factors of soil CO2 release at daytime and nighttime scales in the loess hilly regions of China	198
Factors limiting microbial N2O and CO2 production in a cultivated peatland overlying an acid sulphate subsoil derived from black schist	171
Stronger link of nosZI than nosZII to the higher total N2O consumption in anoxic paddy surface soils	142
Balanced fertilization management to protect soil inorganic carbon stocks and reduce soil CO2 emissions	115
25-years of stewardship programs enhance regenerative outcomes in river delta soils of southwestern British Columbia, Canada	105
Livestock trampling regulates the soil carbon exchange by mediating surface roughness and biocrust cover	103
Soil erosion models verification in a small catchment for different time windows with changing cropland boundary	103
Rediscovering the edaphic knowledge of smallholder farmers in southern Ecuador	103
Can application of liquid dairy manure onto no-tillage oxisols reduce runoff, sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen losses over 9 years of natural rainfall?	102
Occurrence and sources of pollutants in the soils of penguin colonies in the South Shetland Islands, North-West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula	99
Coarse carbonate fragments (CCFs) and their contribution to the soil carbon stocks in the northern Great Plains, USA	97
Equations for soil freezing characteristics curves based on the thermodynamics principles	97
Nitrification inhibitors reduce N2O emissions from Mollisols by potentially targeting Nitrosospira cluster 3a and denitrifiers	95
Digital soil mapping of peatland using airborne radiometric data and supervised machine learning – Implication for the assessment of carbon stock	91
Rock fragment content alters spatiotemporal patterns of soil water content and temperature: Evidence from a field experiment	88
Influences of plant traits on the retention and redistribution of bioavailable nitrogen within the plant-soil system	86
The effect of uncertainty in predictions of nutrient concentrations from soil spectra on variable-rate fertilizer applications	85
Global meta-analysis reveals differential effects of climate and litter quality on soil fauna-mediated litter decomposition across size classes	85
Soil total phosphorus content is a driver of P forms in continuously flooded paddy soils	82
High resolution soil moisture mapping in 3D space and time using machine learning and depth functions	80
Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies	80
Evaluating the impact of using digital soil mapping products as input for spatializing a crop model: The case of drainage and maize yield simulated by STICS in the Berambadi catchment (India)	80
Using soil classification to improve interpretation of biological soil health indicators	79
Redox-driven changes in organic C stabilization and Fe mineral transformations in temperate hydromorphic soils	78

Fragmentation alters the soil water conservation capacity of hillside alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	78
Soil addition improves multifunctionality of degraded grasslands through increasing fungal richness and network complexity	77
Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands	77
How will permafrost carbon respond to future climate change? A new assessment for future thaw trends of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau	76
Driving factors of variation in fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiency in maize cropping systems across China and its microbial mechanism	75
Soil inorganic carbon distribution, stocks and environmental thresholds along a major climatic gradient	74
Soil quality improvement on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau induced by soil hydrothermal changes from 1980s to 2020s	73
Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa	72
Faeces traits as unifying predictors of detritivore effects on organic matter turnover	71
The effectiveness of digital soil mapping with temporal variables in modeling soil organic carbon changes	71
Heat pulse probe design optimization using numerical simulation	71
Biochar-based urea increases soil methane uptake in a subtropical forest	70
Allocation of foliar-P fractions of Alhagi sparsifolia and its relationship with soil-P fractions and soil properties in a hyperarid desert ecosystem	68
Land use conversion and soil moisture affect the magnitude and pattern of soil-borne N2, NO, and N2O emissions	68
Do soil names matter in scientific publications?	67
Impacts of groundwater storage variability on soil salinization in a semi-arid agricultural plain	67
Long-term effects of biochar application on rhizobacteria community and winter wheat growth on the Loess Plateau in China	66
Urban soil properties distinguished by parent material, land use, time since urbanization, and pre-urban geomorphology	65
Biocrusts: Engineers and architects of surface soil properties, functions, and processes in dryland ecosystems	64
Diverse regulations on the accumulation of fungal and bacterial necromass in cropland soils	64
Enhanced plant growth in the presence of earthworms correlates with changes in soil microbiota but not nutrient availability	63
Soil aminopeptidase activities under 145-year crop rotation and fertility practices in the North Central US	63
Estimating soil bacterial abundance and diversity in the Southeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	62
Quantifying the influencing factors of the thermal state of permafrost in Northeast China	62
Evaluating soil water and salt transport in response to varied rainfall events and hydrological years under brackish water irrigation in the North China Plain	62
Divergent responses of soil plant-derived and microbial-derived C to phosphorus input in a Chinese fir plantation	61
Changes in soil surface properties under simulated rainfall and the effect of surface roughness on runoff, infiltration and soil loss	61
Application of the gleization soil layer to assess centurial drops in shallow groundwater levels across the southeastern coast of China	61
Editorial Board	61
Effects of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon on the Loess Plateau, China using a combined remote sensing and process-based modeling approach	60
Evolution of millennial-scale sandy land’s advance and retreat in the Chinese sand-loess belt since 150 ka	60
Chinese milk vetch incorporation inhibits nitrification by suppressing comammox Nitrospira in subtropical paddy soils	60
Highway to health: Microbial pathways of soil organic carbon accrual in conservation farming systems	59
Energy flow across soil food webs of different ecosystems: Food webs with complex structures support higher energy flux	58
Optimized measurement of frozen soil thermal properties using a heat-pulse sensor	58
Decreasing microbial phosphorus limitation increases soil carbon release	58
Evaluating soil water dynamics and vegetation growth characteristics under different soil depths in semiarid loess areas	58