Soil Science Society of America Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Soil Science Society of America Journal is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Sustaining organic matter in forest soils: What we have learned and what is left71
Estimating bacterial breakthrough behaviors based on bacterial retention profiles in porous media52
Soil organic carbon changes in a Carolina Bay wetland 15 years after restoration49
Comparing impacts of corn residue removal and amelioration practices on soil properties after 3, 6, and 10 years44
Changes in soil profile organic carbon and hydro‐physical properties as impacted by long‐term manure and inorganic fertilizer rates under a corn–soybean rotation system41
Assessing the utility of Munsell soil color in building and evaluating spectral models for soil clay content prediction36
Mineral changes in the rhizospheres of conifer plantations for a weathered subtropical soil35
Soil carbon and aggregate stability are positively related and increased under combined soil amendment, tillage, and cover cropping practices32
Effects of conservation practices on rainfed maize yield, furrow water infiltration, and soil moisture for surface sealing loam soils in the Yazoo‐Mississippi Delta32
Soil fragmentation properties as influenced by induced compaction in Asian clayey hydragric anthrosols conditions28
Untangling soil‐weather drivers of daily N2O emissions and fertilizer management mitigation strategies in no‐till corn26
Distribution of potassium, calcium, and magnesium ions from potassium fertilizers in columns of orchard soils25
Calibration set optimization and library transfer for soil carbon estimation using soil spectroscopy—A review23
Soil, forage, and weed attributes following tillage in grazed no‐tillage triticale pasture23
Evaluating consistency across multiple NeoSpectra (compact Fourier transform near‐infrared) spectrometers for estimating common soil properties23
Understanding evaporation from salinized soils in Xinjiang: Impact of sodium adsorption ratio, salt type, and concentrations22
Soil degradation mobilizes soil nutrients placing Canadian Prairie wetlands at risk22
A portable low‐cost incubation chamber for real‐time characterization of soil respiration21
Soil carbon sequestration potential in subtropical grasslands estimated by DayCent‐CABBI21
Carbon and nutrient release from anaerobic digestate solids applied as a soil amendment20
Erratum to: Effects of maize residue and biochar applications on soil δ13C and organic carbon sources in a subtropical paddy rice ecosystem20
Cover cropping with reduced nitrogen fertilization rate enhances soil carbon but not nitrogen in the malt barley–pea rotation19
Role of sulfur mineralization and fertilizer source in corn and soybean production systems19
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Estimates of soil taxonomic change due to near‐surface permafrost loss in Alaska18
Mean‐weight diameter of aggregation as affected by initial screen size of two fine‐textured soils17
No‐till marginally mitigates the impact of harvesting corn stover on soil microbial parameters17
How does soil organic matter affect potato productivity on sandy soil?17
Can surface‐applied biochar improve soil health and plant performance in a perennial cool‐season grass forage system?17
Analysis of soil erosion changes and influencing factors based on the CSLE model and GeoDector in Dongjiang River Basin of China16
Cover crops and poultry litter impact on soil structural stability in dryland soybean production in southeastern United States16
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Nitrogen mineralization from soil organic matter under field conditions in California soils14
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Toxicity of antimony in 18 soils of China evaluated by soil dehydrogenase activity14
Base cations release in soils along the 127‐year Hailuogou glacial retreat chronosequence14
A new mathematical solution of convection‐dispersion equation to describe solute transport in heterogeneous soils14
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Water repellency prediction in high‐organic Greenlandic soils: Comparing vis–NIRS to pedotransfer functions13
Phosphorus adsorption, availability, and potential loss characteristics in an Ultisol‐derived paddy soil chronosequence, using a stirred‐flow chamber study13
Stock change accounting overestimates the potential climate benefit of soil carbon storage13
Effects of grazing, rotation, and tillage on surface runoff in a heavy textured Uruguayan soil13
Thanks to our 2022 reviewers13
Establishing a standard protocol for soil texture analysis using the laser diffraction technique12
Drainage gradient versus seasonal cycles: Differential response of microbial community composition to variations in soil moisture12
Revisiting laboratory methods for measuring soil water retention curves12
Soybean planting date affects the relationships between soil test values and grain yield12
How soil carbon fractions relate to soil properties and crop yields in dryland cropping systems?11
Evolution of topsoil structure after compaction with a lightweight autonomous field robot11
Long‐term effect of tillage and straw retention in conservation agriculture systems on soil carbon storage11
Can silvopasture with arboreal legumes increase root mass at deeper soil layers and improve soil aggregation?11
Constraints and management By K. C. ManoramaThampatti, CRC Press. 2022. pp. 172. ISBN: 978103238897711
A simple method to determine the reactivity of calcium carbonate in soils11
Contrasting soil management systems had limited effects on soil health and crop yields in a North Central US Mollisol11
Approximate analytical solution of a soil water movement equation under different ponding radii on the basis of numerical simulation11
Soil total carbon and nitrogen as indicators of rice response to supplemental fertilizer nitrogen11
Variability of soil thermal diffusivity in three Iowa fields11
Comparison of soil Mehlich‐3 phosphorus quantified by colorimetry and inductively coupled plasma: A case study for temperate agroecosystems11
Parameterization of two‐dimensional approaches in HYDRUS‐2D: Part 1. Simulating water flow dynamics at the field scale11
What do relationships between extractable metals and soil organic carbon concentrations mean?11
Enriching organic carbon bioavailability can mitigate soil acidification induced by nitrogen fertilization in croplands through microbial nitrogen immobilization11
Dynamics of soil aggregate‐associated carbon as influenced by simulated tillage and runoff11
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Phytin recovered from grain distillation can serve as a phosphorus fertilizer for maize and soybean10
Decades of coffee plantation alters soil methane uptake and soil organic carbon pools in China10
Cover crop grazing impacts on soil properties and crop yields under irrigated no‐till corn–soybean management10
On being a forest soil scientist—Reflections at the 14th North American Forest Soils Conference10
New model for estimating geometric tortuosity of variably saturated porous media using 3D synchrotron microcomputed tomography imaging10
Physical characterization of glacial rock flours from fjord deposits in South Greenland–Toward soil amendment10
Maize–common bean intercropping effects on nitrogen fixation, nutrient uptake, and soil properties in southern Ethiopia10
Note on the unparallel vertical distribution of nitrate and sulfate in Mollisols10
A retrospective look at the North American Forest Soils Conferences from 1958 to 202310
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Management zone‐based estimation of positive and negative nitrous oxide flux in organic corn fields9
Temporal variability in organic amendment impacts on hydro‐physical properties of sandy agricultural soils9
Soil chemical properties affecting grain yield and oil content of crambe biofuel crop9
Isotopic evaluation of in‐season Y Drop applications for corn production9
Temporal variability in soil organic matter accretion rates in coastal deltaic wetlands under changing depositional environments9
Shrinkage analysis of repacked soil samples enables quantifying the soil's potential physical quality9
Response of soil health indicators to long‐term dairy manure in a semiarid irrigated cropping system9
An identified agronomic interpretation for potassium permanganate oxidizable carbon9
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Precipitation influences pre‐sidedress soil nitrate thresholds for corn production9
Zinc in ammoniated phosphate fertilizers: Solid‐phase speciation, solubility, and use of barrier coatings to enhance zinc availability9
Unlocking the diversity and plant‐growth promoting potential of the bulk soil bacteria associated with the Saharan tree Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana8
Microbial community shifts in pearl millet root zone soils with Guiera senegalensis intercropping along a rainfall and soil type gradient in the Sahel8
Change in soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus after timber harvesting in northern hardwood forests8
Surface‐soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization under cropland, grassland, and woodland in Virginia8
Soil change after planting longleaf pine on agricultural lands: Revisiting a chronosequence study after 23 years8
Texture and organic matter associations with soil functional properties in crop and conservation land uses in North Carolina8
Soil organic matter prediction with benchtop and implement‐mounted optical reflectance sensing approaches8
N2O consumption, uptake, and microbial reduction processes in flooded sandy loamy paddy soils8
Can permanganate oxidizable carbon predict soil function responses to soil organic matter management?8
Exploring mid‐infrared spectral transfer functions for the prediction of multiple soil properties using a global dataset8
Funneliformis mosseae–induced changes of rhizosphere microbial community structure enhance Capsicum annuum L. plant growth and fruit yield8
Distinct soil health indicators are associated with variation in maize yield and tile drain nitrate losses8
Soil carbon increase from crop roots and amendments still present twelve years later8
Carbon stocks in Mid‐Atlantic tidal marshes8
Correction to “Evaluation of tissue phosphorus concentrations as diagnostic tool for phosphorus nutrition in corn”8
Comparison of Cornell sprinkle infiltrometer and double‐ring infiltrometer methods for measuring steady infiltration rate8
Interactions between water flow and microplastics in silt loam and loamy sand7
Erratum to: Long‐term manure application effects on nutrients and selected enzymes involved in their cycling7
Accumulation of soil phosphorus within closed depressions of a drained agricultural watershed7
Influence of vegetation type on silicon content in different subtropical soils7
Hyperspectral response and monitoring study of soil moisture content based on the optimized spectral index7
Mechanistic insights into the role of biochar C:N ratios in modulating greenhouse gas emissions and soil organic carbon fractions in contrasting soil types7
Nutrient transformations based on sampling scheme and cropping system following subsurface‐banded poultry litter7
No‐till impacts on soil organic carbon and soil quality in the Lower Mississippi River basin: Implications for sustainable management7
Prediction of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural fields with and without cover crops7
Measuring shrinkage of expansive soils using a novel automated high‐frequency setup7
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Evaluation of nonhazardous lime requirement estimation methods for Oregon soils7
Putting the soil health principles to the test in Iowa7
In search of a sound scientific basis for quantification of soil precompression stress7
Pore structure alteration in a reclaimed saline–sodic soil identified by multiscale X‐ray tomography6
Bio‐tillage improves soil physical properties and maize growth in a compacted Vertisol by cover crops6
CO2 flux and carbon dynamics in soil and respired CO2 in a semi‐arid region of western India6
Novel slow‐release fertilizer promotes nitrogen circularity while increasing soil organic carbon6
2021 SSSA Award Recipients6
The IRIS Imager: A freeware program for quantification of paint removal on IRIS films6
Improving methods for evaluating potassium availability in vineyard soils6
Review of The Living Soil Handbook: The No‐Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening. JesseFrost. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. 2021. pp. 274. ISBN: 97816450202646
Potential interference of organic acids and ferrous iron in the interpretation of Fe and Mn indicators of reduction in soil6
Erratum to: Near‐Surface Soil Property Responses to Forage Production in a Semiarid Region6
High salinity prolongs water processes required for soil structure stability during drying–wetting cycles6
Combined effect of biochar, cover crop residues, and manure on greenhouse gas emissions: Insights from 60‐day soil incubations6
Issue Information6
Evaluating the occurrence and spatial patterns of soil water repellency in the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon6
Faster carbon turnover in topsoil with straw addition is less beneficial to carbon sequestration than subsoil and mixed soil6
Tripartite interactions among free‐living, N‐fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and plants: Mutualistic benefits and community response to co‐inoculation6
Evaluation of tillage effect on maize production using a modified least limiting water range approach6
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Land‐use effects on soil organic matter and related soil properties in a mixed agricultural–forest landscape of central Wisconsin, USA6
Soil nutrient release and microbial changes after burning of masticated fuels6
Fractionation and transport of compost‐derived dissolved organic matter fractions in saturated red soil and black soil columns6
Predicting spatiotemporal changes of surface soil organic carbon in China6
Factors affecting potassium retention in sandy soils6
The combined addition of citric and aromatic organic acids to an acid soil prolongs phosphorus availability6
Advances in making Mn oxide‐coated sands6
Sand is the unifying textural component influencing surface‐soil carbon and nitrogen fractions across undisturbed land uses in North Carolina5
Trees for soil organic carbon storage in a temperate organic agroforestry system5
Predicting nitrogen mineralization from dairy manure and broadleaf residue in a semiarid cropping system5
Spatially explicit heteroskedastic modeling for the Soil Health Assessment Protocol and Evaluation version 1.0S5
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Application and evaluation of a subaqueous soil‐landscape conceptual model in the West River subestuary, Maryland5
Nitrogen source affects in‐season nitrogen availability more than nitrification inhibitor and herbicide in a fine‐textured soil5
Drill‐seeding rice reduces global warming potential but increases nitrogen loss potential compared to water‐seeding5
Advances in technology for using Indicator of Reduction in Soils (IRIS) to quantify porewater sulfide levels in the coastal zone5
2023 SSSA award recipients5
Publisher's Report 2022: Soil Science Society of America Journal5
Predicting the extent of andic soils across western Haleakalā, Maui5
Agricultural and municipal organic waste amendments to increase soil organic carbon: How much, how often, and to what end?5
Soil nitrogen cycling under contrasting management systems in Amazon Coffea canephora agroecosystems5
Visual evaluation of soil structure is a reliable method to detect changes in the soil quality of Colombian Amazon pasturelands5
Organic cropping systems enhance soil health indicators in a Mollisol of the US Corn Belt5
Coupling effects of enhanced efficiency fertilizers and nitrogen timing on groundwater quality and maize yield in northeast Nebraska5
Nitrogen source regulates soil nitrification and nitrogen losses more than nitrification inhibitor and herbicide: A laboratory evaluation5
Availability of dissolved organic carbon drives differences in microbial nitrogen‐cycling processes between two sites with cover crops interseeded into corn5
Changes in soil test phosphorus and soil cations following application of sewage sludge ash and other recycled phosphorus fertilizers5
2021 SSSA Fellows5
Eastern red cedar effects on carbon sequestration and soil quality in the Great Plains5
Beneficial effects persist 5 years after liming acid forest soils in West Virginia5
Effect of swine manure on soil health properties: A systematic review5
Parameterization of two‐dimensional approaches in HYDRUS‐2D: Part 2. Solute transport at the field and column scale4
Evaluation of passive flux samplers with different orifice sizes to measure ammonia volatilization losses4
Recipients of 2023 SSSA Editor's Citation for Excellence named4
Mapping soil depth in southern pampas Argentina using ancillary data and statistical learning4
Nature versus nurture: Quantifying the effects of management, region, and hillslope position on soil health indicators in an on‐farm survey in Minnesota4
Root‐dependent recovery of pore system functionality of compacted subsoil: A field case study with bio‐subsoilers in Denmark4
Seed coating with fungicide causes a beneficial shift in root‐associated microbiomes of mature soybean4
Impact of three irrigation scheduling tools on irrigation and alfalfa productivity under center pivots4
Response of surface soil nutrients and organic carbon fractions to tillage erosion vs. water erosion in an agricultural landscape4
Soil organic carbon fractionation in sandy soils in the semiarid grasslands and forested areas of Nebraska Sandhills4
Microbial biomass in forest soils under altered moisture conditions: A review4
Spatial variability of denitrification enzyme activity and actual denitrification emissions on Missouri claypan soils4
Water table effect on phosphorus solubility in biosolids‐amended soils4
Spectral signatures of soil horizons and soil orders from Wisconsin4
Soil nitrogen dynamics on a saline‐alkali sunflower land under arid region in Western Inner Mongolia4
Conservation systems influence on soil properties in pumpkin production4
Recipients of 2021 SSSA Editor's Citation for Excellence Named4
Can one‐time calibration of measured soil hydraulic input parameters yield appropriate simulations of RZWQM2?4
Leaching characteristics of electrochemically precipitated struvite compared to other common phosphorus fertilizers in differing soils4
A spreadsheet for determining critical soil test values using the modified arcsine‐log calibration curve4
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Elimination of microplastic from soil by pyrolysis and potential hazard analysis: Effects of pyrolysis temperature and holding time4
The role of conservation agriculture on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing carbon sequestration in soils4
Land management effects on wet aggregate stability and carbon content4
Understanding the role of pig manure, rice straw, and calcium carbonate on the cadmium pollution in soil–wheat system4
Implications of crop residue removal on soil physical properties: A review4
Can fine sediment addition promote carbon stabilization in coastal wetland soils? A laboratory experiment4
Groundwater input drives large variance in soil manganese concentration and reactivity in a forested headwater catchment4
A new hydraulic barrier with the gradient distribution of fixed net negative charges4
SSSA Yearly Reports4
Estimating cation exchange capacity from hygroscopic water content change4
Partial recovery of microbial function in restored coastal marshes of Oregon, USA4
Soil amendments alter tree growth and wood decay after forest thinning4
Quantification of physical soil crust thickness and its effects on runoff and sediment yield4
Weed encroachment affects soil organic carbon stock in bermudagrass pastures4
DTPA‐extractable zinc threshold for wheat grain yield response to zinc fertilization in Mollisols4
Predicting rootzone soil moisture from surface observations in cropland using an exponential filter4
Halotolerant rhizobacterial consortium confers salt tolerance to maize under naturally salt‐affected soil4
Long‐term 4R nitrogen management in dryland wheat–fallow systems4
Rhizosphere‐driven alteration of cadmium bioavailability under Cd stress4
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A novel method incorporating large rock fragments for improved soil bulk density and carbon stock estimation4
Prediction, mapping, and implication for better soil organic carbon management in Ethiopia4
Foliar micronutrient applications enhance growth and yield of huanglongbing (HLB)‐affected sweet orange4
Comparison of laser diffractometry and pipetting methods for particle size determination: A pilot study on the implications of result discrepancies on soil classification4
Minimum dataset and metadata guidelines for soil‐test correlation and calibration research4
Nitrous oxide emissions as affected by nitrogen rates in irrigated sugar beet4
Soil‐vegetation interplay in a Holocene toposequence at Torres del Paine National Park, southern Andes, Chile4
Mineralogical differences between seam and prism material in loess‐derived fragipans in western Kentucky4
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Transferability of a large mid‐infrared soil spectral library between two Fourier‐transform infrared spectrometers4
Role of biochar made from low‐value woody forest residues in ecological sustainability and carbon neutrality4
Postfire extracellular enzyme activity in a temperate montane forest4
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Monolith soil core sampling to develop nitrate testing protocol for manure injection4
Relationships among soil test potassium forms influenced by clay mineralogy3
Measuring soil particle density using water pycnometer: Influencing factors, errors, and correction3
Positive associations of soil organic matter and crop yields across a regional network of working farms3
Assessing cropping system effects on carbon footprint on the Canadian prairies3
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Root‐zone enrichment of carbon, nitrogen, and soil‐test biological activity under cotton systems in North Carolina3
Multinational prediction of soil organic carbon and texture via proximal sensors3
Speciation and bioavailability of metals in soil under different land use from a coal mine area in Bijie, southwest of China3
Soil health responses of circular grass buffer strips in center‐pivot irrigated agriculture3
The case for static range nitrogen management in Idaho sugarbeet production3
Measuring soil carbon stocks with greater simplicity, accuracy, and repeatability3
Surface‐soil carbon stocks greater under well‐managed grazed pasture than row crops3
Assessing the influence of cover crop on soil water dynamics using soil moisture measurements and hydrus‐1D simulations3
Soil aggregate‐associated organic carbon and nitrogen response to long‐term no‐till crop rotation, cover crop, and manure application3
Carbon sequestration efficiency in red paddy soil originating from different parent materials in Jiangxi, China3
An improved method for measuring wetting front advancing velocity3
Thanks to Reviewers, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 20213
Surface soil physical properties and stability: Determined by biological soil crust type and driven by aridity in the desert regions of Northwest China3
Thanks to our 2023 reviewers3
Correction to “Biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in boreal peatland forest is affected by water table, labile carbon, and nitrogen availability but not forest harvesting alone”3
A short history of astropedology3
Utility of in situ ion‐exchange membranes to assess nutrient availability, productivity, and fertilizer response of coastal Douglas‐fir of the Pacific Northwest3
Effects of soil compost load on water‐extractable organic matter content and its UV‐ and fluorescence‐based compositional characteristics3
Influence of soil test phosphorus level and leaching volume on phosphorus leaching3
Identification of plant soil water and soil aeration corequisites: A management tool3
Pb2+ adsorption on functionalized biochar nanoparticles: Insights from nanoparticle characterization and kinetic‐isotherm analysis3
Temperature effects on sorption of dissolved organic matter on ferrihydrite under dynamic flow and batch conditions3
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Integration of pelleted biosolids with cover crops for improving soil properties3
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Soil health responses to cover crop functional group and richness in semiarid Montana3
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