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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	71
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	27
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a d13C technique	23
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	23
Evaluation of soil factors related to available silicon in agricultural soils of Western Australia	18
The spatial and temporal variability and influence factor analysis of soil erosion in a grass farming area: a case study in central China	17
The effects of tillage practices on the soil organic carbon content and the CO2 distribution in the maize canopy in saline‒alkali cropland areas	13
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	11
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments†	11
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	11
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
Agricultural intensification and soil health modulation in an agrobiodiversity hotspot of the Eastern Ghats Region, South Asia using spatial indices	11
Soil nematode trophic structure and biochar addition in recently converted boreal lands	11
To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	10
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	10
Chemical and biological attributes of soil and soybean (Glycine max) yield in integrated systems in the Cerrado of north-east Brazil	10
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	10
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	10
Organic amendments improved soil properties and native plants’ performance in an Australian degraded land	9
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	9
Mineralogical control on physically protected soil organic matter in a neotropical moist forest	9
Impact of soil physical and chemical properties on residual diuron toxicity against canola seedlings	8
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	8
Sowing crops into dry water-repellent soils can increase the severity of repellency and reduce crop performance	8
Corrigendum to : A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	7

Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data	7
Combining multiple methods for automated soil delineation: from traditional to digital	7
Subsoiling is the best tillage for fine roots and early-growth of Pinus taeda on clayey Oxisol in the subtropics	7
Soil carbon, organic matter fractions, and soil physical quality under different sugarcane harvesting systems in north-east Brazil	7
Bacterial succession in an abandoned circum-neutral opencast coal mine in India	7
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	7
Mitigating nitrate leaching using dicyandiamide and acidified ammonium sulfate solid digestate in Western Australian sandy soil	6
Spatial variability of mineral surface area and carbon sequestration potential at the farm scale – a case study	6
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	6
Management of a saline–sodic Chromic Luvisol using different biochars	6
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	6
Long-term experiments on atrazine adsorption in biochar-amended soils in Brazilian tropical areas	6
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	5
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	5
Digital soil mapping in the Eastern Amazon: algorithm performance and classification uncertainty in hydromorphic and well-drained landscapes	5
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	5
Soil nitrous oxide emissions in a maize (Zea mays L.) crop in response to nitrogen fertilisation	5
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	5
Occurrence and environmental pathways of erionite in soil: a review	5
Digital soil mapping in Australia. Can it achieve its goals?	5
Copper sulfate causes greater toxicity and growth inhibition in grapevine seedlings compared to copper chloride in different vineyard soils	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alleviate pathogenic stress on the invasive weed Alternanthera philoxeroides	5
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	5
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	4
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	4
Copper speciation and mobility in glyphosate co-contaminated soils: a microcosm and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study	4
Review of soil erosion modelling involving water with field applications	4
Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	4
Sunlight can have a stronger influence than air temperature on soil solarisation: observational evidence from Australia	4
Impact of contrasting land-use on soil biodiversity and soil chemical properties in recently cleared forest soils of north-west Cambodia	4
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	4
Designing and configuring monitoring sites to fulfill Australia’s national soil monitoring objectives	4
Nitrogen fertilization induces microbial carbon limitation in subtropical soils: new evidence from microbial necromass decomposition	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
Nitrogen pools in páramo soils under green onion cropping: vertical distribution, prediction, and management implications	3
Trace metal contamination and health risk assessment in irrigated soils: seasonal dynamics and multivariate insights from a tropical ecosystem	3
Use of vector method to evaluate the effect of land use and soil parent material on aggregate stability in the red soil zone of southern China	3
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	3
The long-term application of compost and biogas residue fertilizers enhances soil qualities in rambutan orchards	3
Fate of 15N-labelled urea under cotton and maize as affected by urease and nitrification inhibitors, and application method	3
Effects of full inversion tillage during pasture renewal on soil and plant cadmium concentrations: a case study in New Zealand	3
Plantation tree growth responses to P, N, K and minor and trace elements on low fertility savanna soils	3
Feeding and defecation of earthworms alters phosphorus forms and resource allocation to enzyme production in an arable Andisol	3
Methane uptake in New Zealand planted forest soils	3
Ecological functions of soil microbes in climate regulation and soil processes	3
Characterizing three-dimensional soil hydraulic properties and water flow in the thick unsaturated zone of Yungang Grottoes	3
Impact of green manure crop species on rhizosphere soil phosphorus	3
A simple incubation test for determining soil dispersion and gypsum rates	3
Dynamics of soil active organic carbon fractions during Salix cupularis shrub restoration in alpine grasslands of northwestern Sichuan	3
Transformation of soil phosphorus fractions: the role of time and fertilisation	3

Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	3
Effects of wetting and drying alternation on the shear properties of root-loess composites	3
Spatial variability of soil carbon across a hillslope restoration planting in New Zealand	2
Celebrating 60 years of Soil Research: the evolution of an international journal	2
Mineralogy, elemental composition, and organic matter prediction of wetland soils in the Cerrado biome, Brazil	2
Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	2
A review on the bioweathering and bioremediation of asbestos containing waste materials in soils	2
Land-use-induced variability in soil profile carbon and carbon-associated nutrient pools in the Eastern Himalayan region	2
Variable-rate nitrogen fertilisation to improve silage maize yield and crude protein using APSIM modelling	2
Humic substance turnover by bacterial decomposers in the maritime Antarctic soil	2
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in biochar-amended soils: a review	2
Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	2
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	2
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	2
Soil re-engineering in Western Australia, Part I: a novel approach for rapid and lasting improvement of soil physical and chemical properties	2
Comparison of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and ICP analysis results for measuring Pb and Zn in soil	2
Hardsetting in sandy soils: a review	2
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	2
Effects of continuous cropping on microbial−metabolite interactions in the rhizosphere soil of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants	2
The roles of iron and manganese oxides in controlling trace element retention in soils across a range of parent materials	2
Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	2
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	2
Ammonia volatilisation losses from urea applied to acidic cropping soils is regulated by pH buffering capacity	2
No-tillage promotes C accumulation in soil and a slight increase in yield stability and profitability of rice in subtropical lowland ecosystems	2
Alleviating soil degradation caused by green bean continuous cropping: application of combined amendments	1
An experiential account with recommendations for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of a farm-scale soil moisture sensing and mapping system	1
Nitrogen and phosphorus leaching losses under cropping and zone-specific variable-rate irrigation	1
Characterization of soil organic carbon at profile scale in two forest soils under pine and holm oak	1
Biosolids for soil, not soil for biosolids?	1
Fertilisation with P, N and S requires additional Zn for healthy plantation tree growth on low fertility savanna soils	1
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	1
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	1
Mulch quality regulates soil fertility and microbial communities during a crop cycle	1
Can the long-term impacts of zero tillage and residue retention increase soil legacy phosphorus availability under a maize–mustard system in an Inceptisol?	1
Polymer-coated urea applied at one-time mechanical topdressing increases nitrogen use efficiency and rice yield in the cold area	1
Numerical modelling of soil–landscape relationships using diversity indices and conditional probability: a case study from an Iranian arid region	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
WEPP interrill erodibility for clay soils in the crop lands of Northern NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia	1
Estimating the attainable soil organic carbon deficit in the soil fine fraction to inform feasible storage targets and de-risk carbon farming decisions	1
Chemical and mineralogical factors affecting the kinetics of acid drainage in different geomaterials	1
Feammox in the Yellow River Delta wetlands is weak	1
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	1
Changes of soil carbon along a topo-climatic gradient in rangelands of Iran: insights from 14C mean residence time and δ13C	1
Comparison of soil analytical methods for estimating plant-available potassium in highly weathered soils	1
Influence of biocrust islands on organic carbon changes along the soil profile in Sejzi Plain, Iran	1
Effect in soil and rhizosphere microbiota of Brachiaria inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense: a pilot trial in two Oxisol types	1
A pragmatic workflow towards the generation of pXRF datasets for large-scale soil monitoring programs	1
Prioritising interventions for the reduction of erosion in classical gullies: a modelling study	1
Machine learning as a useful tool for diagnosis of soil compaction under continuous no-tillage in Brazil	1
Estimating soil erodibility for the RUSLE with rainfall simulation in central Queensland, Australia	1
Impacts of long-term rice-based organic farming on fractions and forms of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	1
Atterberg limits of baseball infield soils containing over-size particles, Part II: effects of sand angularity and uniformity	1
Mixed strain validation reveals dual pathways of heterotrophic ammonia-oxidizers in maize post-drought recovery	1
Organic carbon and short-range order minerals responsible for cementation of the spodic horizon (ortstein): a new proposal of chemical extractions in undisturbed samples	1
Modelling and constructing engineered soil for post-mining landforms to create optimal ecological outcomes: application of a computer based Landscape Evolution Model (SSSPAM)	1
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	1
Modified fungal diversity in dense clay subsoils after deep-banding organic substrate	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