Soil

Papers
(The H4-Index of Soil is 18. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Effect of colloidal particle size on physicochemical properties and aggregation behaviors of two alkaline soils916
Biochar reduces early-stage mineralization rates of plant residues more in coarse-textured soils than in fine-textured soils – an artificial-soil approach67
The effect of groundwater depth on topsoil organic matter mineralization during a simulated dry summer in northwestern Europe46
Validating plutonium-239+240 as a novel soil redistribution tracer – a comparison to measured sediment yield37
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil31
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale28
Identification of thermal signature and quantification of charcoal in soil using differential scanning calorimetry and benzene polycarboxylic acid (BPCA) markers25
Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests25
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data24
Investigating the complementarity of thermal and physical soil organic carbon fractions23
Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term no-till cropping systems in the tropical upland of Cambodia23
Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations20
Agricultural use of compost under different irrigation strategies in a hedgerow olive grove under Mediterranean conditions – a comparison with traditional systems20
Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon20
Dynamics of carbon loss from an Arenosol by a forest to vineyard land use change on a centennial scale19
Phosphorus dynamics during early soil development in a cold desert: insights from oxygen isotopes in phosphate19
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring19
Modelling of long-term Zn, Cu, Cd and Pb dynamics from soils fertilised with organic amendments19
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya18
Heterotrophic soil respiration and carbon cycling in geochemically distinct African tropical forest soils18
Lower functional redundancy in “narrow” than “broad” functions in global soil metagenomics18
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