OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil Research 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	23
Creating a soil parent material map digitally using a combination of interpretation and statistical techniques	22
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	21
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	20
Physical properties and organic carbon in no-tilled agricultural systems in silty Pampas soils of Argentina	16
Evaluation of the DNDCv.CAN model for simulating greenhouse gas emissions under crop rotations that include winter cover crops	16
Benefits from enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilisers in rainfed temperate pastures are seasonally driven	15
Initial effect of shifting from traditional to no-tillage on runoff retention and sediment reduction under rainfall simulation	15
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	15
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	13
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a δ13C technique	12
Salt dynamics, leaching requirements, and leaching fractions during irrigation of a halophyte with different saline waters	11
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	10
Occurrence of veterinary antibiotics in arable soil with different fertilisation modes: a field study	10
The Brigalow Catchment Study: VI.	10
Relationship between elemental content determined	10
Dissolved organic carbon from the forest floor with different decomposition rates in a rainforest in south-eastern Brazil	9
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	9
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	8
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	8
Macrofauna communities and their relationship with soil structural quality in different land use systems	8
Understanding extractable metal species relationships with phosphorus sorption and organic carbon in soils	8
Crop yields in no-tillage are severely limited by low availability of P and high acidity of the soil in depth	7
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	7
Mineral–organic associations are enriched in both microbial metabolites and plant residues in a subtropical soil profile under no-tillage and legume cover cropping	7

Biota of subtropical Oxisols under no-tillage with application of liquid cattle manure	7
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	6
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	6
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1	6
No-till farming: prospects, challenges – productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services	6
Response to soil compaction of the electrical resistivity tomography, induced polarisation, and electromagnetic induction methods: a case study in Belgium	6
Soil carbon stock and biological activity in silvopastoral systems planted with	6
Accelerating soil aggregate formation: a review on microbial processes as the critical step in a post-mining rehabilitation context	6
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	5
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	5
Does the carbon skeleton of biochar contribute to soil phosphate sorption? A case study from paddy soils with woody biochar amendment	5
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Local patterns of edaphic mesofauna distribution in the arid Patagonian steppe, Argentina	5
Responses to controlled release potassium fertilisers in agriculture following phosphate mining	5
Gypsum form and rate can affect soil physicochemical properties and crop productivity in soils of low electrical conductivity that have been enriched by sodium due to supplementary irrigation	5
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	5
Using maize to evaluate the Mohammadi–Khataar (M–K) model as a salinity weighting function (	5
Characterization of soil organic carbon at profile scale in two forest soils under pine and holm oak	5
Corrigendum to: WEPP interrill erodibility for clay soils in the crop lands of Northern NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia	5
The spatial and temporal variability and influence factor analysis of soil erosion in a grass farming area: a case study in central China	5
Transformation of soil phosphorus fractions: the role of time and fertilisation	5
Chemical and mineralogical factors affecting the kinetics of acid drainage in different geomaterials	4
Biological soil quality and seasonal variation on enzyme activities under conservation agriculture-based rice–mustard system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	4
Impacts of long-term rice-based organic farming on fractions and forms of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	4
Complexity of clay minerals and its effects on silicon dynamics in hypersaline coastal wetland soils, Brazil	4
Extractant efficacy in assessing bioavailable phosphorus in tropical soils fertilised with alternative sources and cultivated with maize	4
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	4
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	4
Soil phosphorus and biomass carbon co-determine plantation soil organic carbon density: a case study in western Beijing, China	4
Atterberg limits of baseball infield soils containing over-size particles, Part II: effects of sand angularity and uniformity	4
Availability of phosphorus and nitrogen from modified mono-ammonium phosphate (MAP) fertiliser compounds	4
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	4
Effect in soil and rhizosphere microbiota of Brachiaria inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense: a pilot trial in two Oxisol types	4
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	4
Comparison of soil analytical methods for estimating plant-available potassium in highly weathered soils	4
Soil organic matter in a stressed world	4
Estimating the attainable soil organic carbon deficit in the soil fine fraction to inform feasible storage targets and de-risk carbon farming decisions	4
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	4
Modified fungal diversity in dense clay subsoils after deep-banding organic substrate	4
Yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions from the use of common urea and controlled-release nitrogen fertiliser in a subtropical paddy rice field	4
Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	4
Climate smart agricultural practices improve soil quality through organic carbon enrichment and lower greenhouse gas emissions in farms of bread bowl of India	4
Annual NO and N	4
Evaluation of SPT-N values and internal friction angle correlation using artificial intelligence methods in granular soils	3
Soil moisture impacts nitrification from nitrogen fertilisers treated with 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate in acidic soils	3
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	3
Effects of alpine meadow degradation on nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities, and N	3
Digital soil mapping in Australia. Can it achieve its goals?	3
Machine learning as a useful tool for diagnosis of soil compaction under continuous no-tillage in Brazil	3
Celebrating 60 years of	3
WEPP interrill erodibility for clay soils in the crop lands of Northern NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia	3

Carbon and nitrogen in particle-size fractions of organic matter of soils fertilised with surface and injected applications of pig slurry	3
Seeding next to previous year’s crop row (near-row sowing) can increase grain yields on water repellent soils	3
Tillage and its temporal effects on soil organic matter and microbial characteristics in the semi-arid central South Africa	3
A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	3
Redesigning the soil Tea Bag Index methodology for school and citizen science in Australia	3
Soil nematode trophic structure and biochar addition in recently converted boreal lands	2
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments	2
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	2
Spatial variability of soil carbon across a hillslope restoration planting in New Zealand	2
Diversity and function of soil microorganisms in response to paddy–upland rotation system in sustainable restoration of saline-sodic soils	2
Diffusive fluxes and water-extractable concentrations of different nitrogen forms in a temperate agricultural soil	2
Disaggregation of conventional soil maps: a review	2
Effects of gypsum, irrigation and tillage on a sodic Yellow Kandosol at Carnarvon, Western Australia	2
Impact of litter quality on the stability and storage of soil carbon in flooded wetlands	2
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	2
Long-term effects of tillage systems on liming efficiency, soil chemical properties and wheat yield in Southern Brazil	2
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	2
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	2
Nitrogen and phosphorus leaching losses under cropping and zone-specific variable-rate irrigation	2
Salt precipitation and evaporative flux on sandy soil with saline groundwater under different evaporation demand conditions	2
Carbon and nitrogen stocks and organic matter fractions in the topsoil of traditional and agrisilvicultural systems in the Southeast of Brazil	2
Labile soil carbon and nitrogen fractions under short and long-term integrated crop–livestock agroecosystems	2
An experiential account with recommendations for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of a farm-scale soil moisture sensing and mapping system	2
Variation in wheat yield and soil properties at different landscape positions, nutrient sources, and rates in the tropical cereal-based cropping systems of Ethiopia	2
Quantifying blue carbon and nitrogen stocks in surface soils of temperate coastal wetlands	2
Effects of biological agents on soil microbiology, enzyme activity and fruit quality of kiwifruit with root rot	2
Enhancing agriculture recovery of	2
Chemical and biological attributes of soil and soybean (Glycine max) yield in integrated systems in the Cerrado of north-east Brazil	2
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	2
Soil nitrous oxide emissions in a maize (	2
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	2
Analysis of soil erosion dynamics and its driving factors in the Qilian Mountains of Qingdong	2
Structural and hydraulic responses of humid tropical soils to lime and organic residue amendments	2
Rapid elemental prediction of heterogeneous tropical soils from pXRF data: a comparison of models via linear regressions and machine learning algorithms	1
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	1
Coffee plantations can strongly sequester soil organic carbon at high altitudes in Brazil	1
Influence of the physical properties of pumice and biochar amendments on the soil’s mobile and immobile water: implications for use in saline environments	1
Impact of drying–rewetting cycles and organic amendments on phosphorus speciation of paddy soil	1
Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	1
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	1
Soil capacity to biomass production in sandy loam soils following cover crop farming systems in tropical conditions in the Northeast region of Brazil	1
Two years of nitrogen addition altered soil microbial community structure and function in a desert steppe of northern China	1
Carbon (δ	1
Soil microbiome after nine years of fly ash dump spontaneous revegetation	1
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	1
Simulation of maize and soybean yield using DSSAT under long-term conventional and no-till systems	1
Forms of inorganic phosphorus in carbonatic soils in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	1
Aggregation and dynamics of soil organic matter under different management systems in the Brazilian Cerrado	1
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	1
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	1
Copper speciation and mobility in glyphosate co-contaminated soils: a microcosm and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study	1
Priming of carbon decomposition in 27 dairy grazed soils after bovine urine additions	1
Soil formation, nutrient supply and ecosystem productivity on basaltic lava vs rhyolitic pumice on Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos	1
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	1
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	1
Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	1
Spatial and temporal distribution and environmental determinants of freeze-thaw erosion intensity in Qiangtang grasslands, China	1
To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	1
Mobilisation of unavailable phosphorus and improvement of pepper P absorption, fruit yield and quality by the wood rot-fungus	1
Conversion of soil water retention and conductivity parameters from van Genuchten–Mualem to Groenevelt and Grant model	1
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	1
Conservation agriculture improves soil physical properties and crop productivity: a long-term study in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	1
Phosphorus status and saturation in soils that drain into the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary of Western Australia	1
Cover crop residue diversity enhances microbial activity and biomass with additive effects on microbial structure	1
Mechanisms driving spatial and temporal changes in soil organic carbon stocks in saline soils in a typical county of the western Songnen Plain, northeast China	1
Microbial community diversity and enzyme activity varies in response to long-term fertilisation in a continuous potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cropping system	1
Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	1