OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil Research is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Soil carbon market-based instrument pilot – the sequestration of soil organic carbon for the purpose of obtaining carbon credits	23
Effects of conservation and standard tillage on soil physico-chemical properties and overall quality in a semi-arid agrosystem	19
The extent, significance and amelioration of subsurface acidity in southern New South Wales, Australia	17
Slow movement of alkali from surface-applied lime warrants the introduction of strategic tillage for rapid amelioration of subsurface acidity in south-western Australia	17
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2	16
Key properties governing sorption–desorption behaviour of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in saturated and unsaturated soils: a review	13
Quantifying blue carbon and nitrogen stocks in surface soils of temperate coastal wetlands	12
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of Pampean soils: comparing methods and estimation for surface and deep layers	12
Soil fertility constraints and management to increase crop yields in the dryland farming systems of Aceh, Indonesia	12
Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1	12
Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research	10
Linking decomposition rates of soil organic amendments to their chemical composition	9
Selecting soil properties for assessment of soil aggregation using principal component and clustering analyses	9
Carbon and nitrogen stocks and organic matter fractions in the topsoil of traditional and agrisilvicultural systems in the Southeast of Brazil	9
Phosphorus status and saturation in soils that drain into the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary of Western Australia	8
Evaluation of the DNDCv.CAN model for simulating greenhouse gas emissions under crop rotations that include winter cover crops	8
Changes in soil-pores and wheat root geometry due to strategic tillage in a no-tillage cropping system	8
Soil nutrient variation along a shallow catena in Paracou, French Guiana	8
Climate smart agricultural practices improve soil quality through organic carbon enrichment and lower greenhouse gas emissions in farms of bread bowl of India	8
Do admixed conifers change soil nutrient conditions of European beech stands?	7
Storage of soil samples leads to over-representation of the contribution of nitrate to plant-available nitrogen	7
Aggregation and dynamics of soil organic matter under different management systems in the Brazilian Cerrado	7
Macrofauna communities and their relationship with soil structural quality in different land use systems	7
Crop yields in no-tillage are severely limited by low availability of P and high acidity of the soil in depth	7
Soil characteristics and tillage can predict the effect of ‘structure lime’ on soil aggregate stability	6

The Brigalow Catchment Study: V*. Clearing and burning brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) in Queensland, Australia, temporarily increases surface soil fertility prior to nutrient decline under cropping or	6
Long-term effects of tillage systems on liming efficiency, soil chemical properties and wheat yield in Southern Brazil	6
Spatiotemporal variability of soil organic carbon for different topographic and land use types in a gully watershed on the Chinese Loess Plateau	6
Cover crop residue diversity enhances microbial activity and biomass with additive effects on microbial structure	6
No-till farming: prospects, challenges – productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services	6
Accelerating soil aggregate formation: a review on microbial processes as the critical step in a post-mining rehabilitation context	6
Altitudinal transects reveal large differences in intact lipid composition among soils	6
Amending soils of different pH to decrease phosphorus losses	5
Organic farming does not increase soil organic carbon compared to conventional farming if there is no carbon transfer from other agroecosystems. A meta-analysis	5
Vertical distribution of soil aggregates and associated organic carbon fractions under conventional vegetable- and rice-based tillage operations	5
Conservation agriculture influences crop yield, soil carbon content and nutrient availability in the rice–wheat system of north-west India	5
Creating a soil parent material map digitally using a combination of interpretation and statistical techniques	5
Summer irrigation of pasture enhances the transfer and short-term storage of soil organic carbon in the particulate and mineral-associated organic matter fractions	5
Carbon (δ	5
Contrasting agricultural management effects on soil organic carbon dynamics between topsoil and subsoil	5
Chiselling and wheeling on sandy loam long-term no-tillage soil: compressibility and load bearing capacity	4
Greenhouse gas emissions and net ecosystem carbon budget from tobacco-planted soil with different organic amendments	4
Soil algae for combating soil degradation – greenhouse experiment with different soil amendments	4
Salt precipitation and evaporative flux on sandy soil with saline groundwater under different evaporation demand conditions	4
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen in soil physical fractions in woody encroached grassland in South African savannas	4
Soil carbon stock and biological activity in silvopastoral systems planted with	4
Benefits from enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilisers in rainfed temperate pastures are seasonally driven	4
Short-term effects of rice straw biochar on hydraulic properties and aggregate stability of an Acrisol	4
Algebraic model for one-dimensional horizontal water flow with arbitrary initial soil water content	4
Distribution of subsoil microbial activity and biomass under Australian rotational cotton as influenced by system, crop status and season	4
Effects of alpine meadow degradation on nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities, and N	4
Investigating the relationships between soil acidity and phosphorus fractions in high country farmland of New Zealand’s South Island	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
Potential for suppression of Rhizoctonia root rot is influenced by nutrient (N and P) and carbon inputs in a highly calcareous coarse-textured topsoil	4
Orchard floor management effect on soil free-living nematode communities	4
Conservation agriculture improves soil physical properties and crop productivity: a long-term study in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	4
Impacts of hydrological conditions on the activities of soil enzymes in temperate floodplain forest sites	4
Rapid colorimetric methods for analysis of pH, extractable aluminium and Colwell phosphorus in soils	4
Effects of plant invaders on rhizosphere microbial attributes depend on plant identity and growth stage	4
Optimisation and modelling of draft and rupture width using response surface methodology and artificial neural network for tillage tools	4
Soil water deficit effects on soil inorganic nitrogen in alternate-furrow flood irrigated Australian cotton production systems	4