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

Article	Citations
In situ carbon and nitrogen turnover dynamics in topsoils: a climate warming simulation study in an alpine ecosystem	53
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	24
Mineralisation and nitrification of biuret and urea nitrogen in two New Zealand forest soils	20
Degradation of conventional, biodegradable and oxo-degradable microplastics in a soil using a d13C technique	19
Evaluation of soil factors related to available silicon in agricultural soils of Western Australia	19
Relationship between elemental content determined via portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and traditional acid-digestion-based methods in tropical soils	18
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	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
Soil organic matter fractions under different land uses and soil classes in the Brazilian semi-arid region	14
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments†	13
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
Determining the depth and rate of soil movement down the soil profile using an environmental tracer: a hillslope scale assessment	10
Variation in wheat yield and soil properties at different landscape positions, nutrient sources, and rates in the tropical cereal-based cropping systems of Ethiopia	10
Soil aluminum saturation threshold for subtropical crops in no-tillage system	9
Investigating phosphate-adsorption behaviour on a real ferrallitic-ferritic soil using a pluralistic approach under non-controlled conditions	9
Agronomic soil tests can be used to estimate dissolved reactive phosphorus loss	9
To B and not B2 – the Australian soil horizon system: history and review	9
Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data	8
Spatial variability of mineral surface area and carbon sequestration potential at the farm scale – a case study	8
Corrigendum to : A method for soil management assessment in an unreplicated commercial field	8
Mineralogical control on physically protected soil organic matter in a neotropical moist forest	8
Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration	8
Combining multiple methods for automated soil delineation: from traditional to digital	8

Organic amendments improved soil properties and native plants’ performance in an Australian degraded land	8
Bacterial succession in an abandoned circum-neutral opencast coal mine in India	8
Soil carbon, organic matter fractions, and soil physical quality under different sugarcane harvesting systems in north-east Brazil	7
Influence of no-till cover crop management on soil thermal properties	7
Subsoiling is the best tillage for fine roots and early-growth of Pinus taeda on clayey Oxisol in the subtropics	7
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	7
Long-term experiments on atrazine adsorption in biochar-amended soils in Brazilian tropical areas	7
Vertical distribution of edaphic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in two artificial forests planted on temperate grasslands	6
Sensitivity of organic matter mineralisation to water availability: role of solute diffusivity and the ‘Birch effect’	6
Evaluating effects of physical soil and water conservation measures using farmers’ perception and soil analysis in southern Ethiopia	6
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alleviate pathogenic stress on the invasive weed Alternanthera philoxeroides	6
Long-term effects of olive mill waste waters spreading on the soil rhizospheric properties of olive trees grown under Mediterranean arid climate	6
The impact of irrigation duration on crop N uptake, lint yield and internal NUE in cotton using standard urea	6
Biosolids amendment effects on nitrogen cycling gene expression by the soil prokaryotic community as revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis	6
Occurrence and environmental pathways of erionite in soil: a review	6
Digital soil mapping in Australia. Can it achieve its goals?	5
Hot water extractable carbon in whole soil and particle-size fractions isolated from soils under contrasting land-use treatments	5
Soil nitrous oxide emissions in a maize (Zea mays L.) crop in response to nitrogen fertilisation	5
State and trend of surface soil organic carbon stocks and associated nutrients in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga	5
Copper sulfate causes greater toxicity and growth inhibition in grapevine seedlings compared to copper chloride in different vineyard soils	5
Microbiological indicators as sensitive indicators in the assessment of areas contaminated by heavy metals	5
Designing and configuring monitoring sites to fulfill Australia’s national soil monitoring objectives	5
A comparison of the threshold concentrations of DCD, DMPP and nitrapyrin to reduce urinary nitrogen nitrification rates on pasture soils – a laboratory study	4
Nitrogen fertilization induces microbial C limitation in subtropical soils: New evidence from microbial necromass decomposition	4
Copper speciation and mobility in glyphosate co-contaminated soils: a microcosm and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study	4
Impact of green manure crop species on rhizosphere soil phosphorus	4
Fate of 15N-labelled urea under cotton and maize as affected by urease and nitrification inhibitors, and application method	4
Revised emission factors for estimating direct nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen inputs in Australia’s agricultural production systems: a meta-analysis	4
Sunlight can have a stronger influence than air temperature on soil solarisation: observational evidence from Australia	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
Effects of full inversion tillage during pasture renewal on soil and plant cadmium concentrations: a case study in New Zealand	4
Plantation tree growth responses to P, N, K and minor and trace elements on low fertility savanna soils	4
Impact of contrasting land-use on soil biodiversity and soil chemical properties in recently cleared forest soils of north-west Cambodia	4
Review of soil erosion modelling involving water with field applications	4
Characterizing three-dimensional soil hydraulic properties and water flow in the thick unsaturated zone of Yungang Grottoes	4
A simple incubation test for determining soil dispersion and gypsum rates	4
Trace metal contamination and health risk assessment in irrigated soils: Seasonal dynamics and multivariate insights from a tropical ecosystem	4
Using maize to evaluate the Mohammadi–Khataar (M–K) model as a salinity weighting function (ωsi) for the integral water capacity	3
Nutrient distribution and cycling along a forest chronosequence following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape	3
Soil properties and environmental factors across different altitudes influence biodiversity of root endophytic fungi in the orchid Bletilla sinensis	3
Alpine meadow degradation decreases soil P availability by altering phoD-harbouring bacterial diversity	3
Humic substance turnover by bacterial decomposers in the maritime Antarctic soil	3
Celebrating 60 years of Soil Research: the evolution of an international journal	3
Transformation of soil phosphorus fractions: the role of time and fertilisation	3
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in biochar-amended soils: a review	3
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	3
Proximal and remote sensing – what makes the best farm digital soil maps?	3
Understanding and quantifying whole soil-profile organic carbon transfer using an environmental tracer	3
Effects of wetting and drying alternation on the shear properties of root-loess composites	3
Methane uptake in New Zealand planted forest soils	3

Soil origin impacts Acacia longifolia above and belowground development: water and nutrition as players	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
Research on acidification and changes in mineral element concentrations in ferralsols from long-term tea plantations in Guizhou Province, China	3
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
Nitrogen dynamics in alpine soils of south-eastern Australia	2
Modelling nitrous oxide emissions: comparing algorithms in six widely used agro-ecological models	2
Changes of soil carbon along a topo-climatic gradient in rangelands of Iran: insights from 14C mean residence time and δ13C	2
Mineralogy, elemental composition, and organic matter prediction of wetland soils in the Cerrado biome, Brazil	2
Land-use-induced variability in soil profile carbon and carbon-associated nutrient pools in the Eastern Himalayan region	2
Influences of grassland to cropland conversion on select soil properties, microbiome and agricultural emissions	2
Feammox in the Yellow River Delta wetlands is weak	2
Soil microbial biomass and oxy-hydroxides contribute to aggregate stability and size distribution under different land uses in the Central Andes	2
Comparison of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and ICP analysis results for measuring Pb and Zn in soil	2
Estimating soil erodibility for the RUSLE with rainfall simulation in central Queensland, Australia	2
Continental-scale measurements of soil pyrogenic carbon in Europe	2
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	2
Soil and fertiliser nitrogen performance indicators for irrigated cotton in Australia	2
Mulch quality regulates soil fertility and microbial communities during a crop cycle	2
Modelling and constructing engineered soil for post-mining landforms to create optimal ecological outcomes: application of a computer based Landscape Evolution Model (SSSPAM)	2
Using environmental tracers to understand soil organic carbon and soil erosion on a steep slope hillslope in south-east Australia	2
Variable-rate nitrogen fertilisation to improve silage maize yield and crude protein using APSIM modelling	2
Pesticide extraction from soil into runoff in North American and Australian croplands	2
Sensitivity analysis of soil parameters in the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)	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
A review on the bioweathering and bioremediation of asbestos containing waste materials in soils	2
Effect of irrigation on soil physical properties on temperate pastoral farms: a regional New Zealand study	2
Influence of biocrust islands on organic Carbon changes along the soil profile in Sejzi Plain, Iran	2