OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	31
Effects of farming systems, tillage, and traffic practices on deep drainage and soil salt loads in the Queensland Murray–Darling and Fitzroy Basins using soil chloride	23
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	18
Relationship between elemental content determined	17
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	17
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a δ13C technique	16
Yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions from the use of common urea and controlled-release nitrogen fertiliser in a subtropical paddy rice field	16
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	16
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	15
The spatial and temporal variability and influence factor analysis of soil erosion in a grass farming area: a case study in central China	15
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	12
Variation in wheat yield and soil properties at different landscape positions, nutrient sources, and rates in the tropical cereal-based cropping systems of Ethiopia	11
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	11
Chemical and biological attributes of soil and soybean (Glycine max) yield in integrated systems in the Cerrado of north-east Brazil	10
Soil nematode trophic structure and biochar addition in recently converted boreal lands	10
Soil moisture impacts nitrification from nitrogen fertilisers treated with 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate in acidic soils	10
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments	10
Seeding next to previous year’s crop row (near-row sowing) can increase grain yields on water repellent soils	9
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	9
Diffusive fluxes and water-extractable concentrations of different nitrogen forms in a temperate agricultural soil	9
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	8
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	8
To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	8
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	7
Priming of carbon decomposition in 27 dairy grazed soils after bovine urine additions	7

<i>Corrigendum to</i>: A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	7
Amending soils of different pH to decrease phosphorus losses	7
Organic amendments improved soil properties and native plants’ performance in an Australian degraded land	7
Soil formation, nutrient supply and ecosystem productivity on basaltic lava vs rhyolitic pumice on Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos	7
Subsoiling is the best tillage for fine roots and early-growth of Pinus taeda on clayey Oxisol in the subtropics	7
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	7
Mineralogical control on physically protected soil organic matter in a neotropical moist forest	7
Influence of	7
Soil carbon, organic matter fractions, and soil physical quality under different sugarcane harvesting systems in north-east Brazil	7
Spatial variability of mineral surface area and carbon sequestration potential at the farm scale – a case study	6
Influence of no-till cover crop management on soil thermal properties	6
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	6
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	6
Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data	6
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	6
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	6
Bacterial succession in an abandoned circum-neutral opencast coal mine in India	6
Combining multiple methods for automated soil delineation: from traditional to digital	6
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	6
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	6
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	5
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	5
Soil nitrous oxide emissions in a maize (	5
Carbon and nitrogen stocks and organic matter fractions in the topsoil of traditional and agrisilvicultural systems in the Southeast of Brazil	5
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	5
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	5
Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	5
Carbon (δ	5
Digital soil mapping in Australia. Can it achieve its goals?	5
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	5
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	5
A simple incubation test for determining soil dispersion and gypsum rates	4
Impact of green manure crop species on rhizosphere soil phosphorus	4
Dissolved organic carbon from the forest floor with different decomposition rates in a rainforest in south-eastern Brazil	4
Copper speciation and mobility in glyphosate co-contaminated soils: a microcosm and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study	4
Sunlight can have a stronger influence than air temperature on soil solarisation: observational evidence from Australia	4
Responses of soil nutrients and microbial activity to the mill-mud application in a compaction-affected sugarcane field	4
Effects of wetting and drying alternation on the shear properties of root-loess composites	4
Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	4
Conservation agriculture improves soil physical properties and crop productivity: a long-term study in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	4
Review of soil erosion modelling involving water with field applications	4
The fate of urea	4
Effects of full inversion tillage during pasture renewal on soil and plant cadmium concentrations: a case study in New Zealand	4
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	4
Plantation tree growth responses to P, N, K and minor and trace elements on low fertility savanna soils	4
Long-term dairy manure application in a no-tillage system: crop yield and soil fertility	4
The effect of grazing management and legumes on soil organic carbon stocks in pastoral systems relevant to the Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme: a critical review	4
Responses to controlled release potassium fertilisers in agriculture following phosphate mining	3
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	3
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	3

Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	3
Spatial variability of soil carbon across a hillslope restoration planting in New Zealand	3
Impact of litter quality on the stability and storage of soil carbon in flooded wetlands	3
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	3
Using maize to evaluate the Mohammadi–Khataar (M–K) model as a salinity weighting function (	3
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	3
Transformation of soil phosphorus fractions: the role of time and fertilisation	3
Disaggregation of conventional soil maps: a review	3
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	3
Mineralogy, elemental composition, and organic matter prediction of wetland soils in the Cerrado biome, Brazil	3
Does the carbon skeleton of biochar contribute to soil phosphate sorption? A case study from paddy soils with woody biochar amendment	3
Celebrating 60 years of	3
Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	3
Forms of inorganic phosphorus in carbonatic soils in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	3
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	3
Comparison of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and ICP analysis results for measuring Pb and Zn in soil	2
Ammonia volatilisation losses from urea applied to acidic cropping soils is regulated by pH buffering capacity	2
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	2
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	2
Modified fungal diversity in dense clay subsoils after deep-banding organic substrate	2
Feammox in the Yellow River Delta wetlands is weak	2
Effect in soil and rhizosphere microbiota of Brachiaria inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense: a pilot trial in two Oxisol types	2
Changes of soil carbon along a topo-climatic gradient in rangelands of Iran: insights from 14C mean residence time and δ13C	2
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	2
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	2
No-tillage promotes C accumulation in soil and a slight increase in yield stability and profitability of rice in subtropical lowland ecosystems	2
Effect of irrigation on soil physical properties on temperate pastoral farms: a regional New Zealand study	2
Chemical and mineralogical factors affecting the kinetics of acid drainage in different geomaterials	2
Nitrogen and phosphorus leaching losses under cropping and zone-specific variable-rate irrigation	2
Impacts of long-term rice-based organic farming on fractions and forms of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	2
Comparison of soil analytical methods for estimating plant-available potassium in highly weathered soils	2
Initial effect of shifting from traditional to no-tillage on runoff retention and sediment reduction under rainfall simulation	2
Organic carbon and short-range order minerals responsible for cementation of the spodic horizon (ortstein): a new proposal of chemical extractions in undisturbed samples	2
Influences of grassland to cropland conversion on select soil properties, microbiome and agricultural emissions	2
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	2
A review on the bioweathering and bioremediation of asbestos containing waste materials in soils	2
Continental-scale measurements of soil pyrogenic carbon in Europe	2
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	2
Estimating the attainable soil organic carbon deficit in the soil fine fraction to inform feasible storage targets and de-risk carbon farming decisions	2
Characterization of soil organic carbon at profile scale in two forest soils under pine and holm oak	2
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	2
Atterberg limits of baseball infield soils containing over-size particles, Part II: effects of sand angularity and uniformity	2
Soil microbial biomass and oxy-hydroxides contribute to aggregate stability and size distribution under different land uses in the Central Andes	2
Short-term effects of rice straw biochar on hydraulic properties and aggregate stability of an Acrisol	2