OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Soil is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	74
Soil indicators for ecosystem services: a focus on water regulation	56
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	51
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	50
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	49
Soil contamination in arid environments and assessment of remediation applying surface evaporation capacitor model: a case study from the Judean Desert, Israel	47
Comprehensive increase in CO ₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing	43
Prediction of peat properties from transmission mid-infrared spectra	42
Limited effect of organic matter addition on stabilised organic carbon in four tropical arable soils	41
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO ₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	35
Soil erosion in Mediterranean olive groves: a review	33
High-resolution frequency-domain electromagnetic mapping for the hydrological modeling of an orange orchard	32
The potential of reed canary grass and the importance of field heterogeneity for reducing GHG emissions in a rewetting fen peatland	30
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	29
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	28
Plastic film residues on cropland: monitoring soil contamination through optical remote sensing	25
Portable X-ray fluorescence as a tool for urban soil contamination analysis: accuracy, precision, and practicality	25
The impact of agriculture on tropical mountain soils in the western Peruvian Andes: a pedo-geoarchaeological study of terrace agricultural systems in the Laramate region (14.5° S)	24
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	24
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	24
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	23
Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE	23
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	22
Organic-matter-mediated leaching of alkalinity in limed acid soils is affected by dissolved organic carbon adsorption and soil structure	21
Terrain is a stronger predictor of peat depth than airborne radiometrics in Norwegian landscapes	20

Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	20
Pooled error variance and covariance estimation of sparse in situ soil moisture sensor measurements in agricultural fields in Flanders	20
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	19
Drivers of soil C quality and stability: insights from a topsoil dataset at landscape scale in Ontario, Canada	19
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	19
Availability of labile carbon controls the temperature-dependent response of soil organic matter decomposition in alpine soils	19
Soil health approaches to assess the impacts of no-tillage with agricultural terraces in southern Brazil	18
Soil fungal network complexity and functional roles differ between black truffle plantations and forests	17
Leaching behavior of steelmaking slag fertilizer under repeated wetting and drying conditions simulating upland soil	17
Electrical conductivity measurements as proxies for diffusion-limited microbial activity in soils under controlled laboratory conditions	16
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	16
Mineral-bound organic carbon exposed by hillslope thermokarst terrain: case study in Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic	16
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	16
Weathering without realizing inorganic CO ₂ removal revealed through base cation monitoring	16
A simple model of the turnover of organic carbon in a soil profile: model test, parameter identification and sensitivity	16
Destabilization of buried carbon under changing moisture regimes	16
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	15
What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?	14
Long-term pig manure application increases SOC through aggregate protection and Fe-C associations in a subtropical red soil (Udic Ferralsols)	14
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	14
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	14
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	13
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	13
Quantification of the effects of long-term straw return on soil organic matter spatiotemporal variation: a case study in a typical black soil region	13
Soil carbon accrual and biopore formation across a plant diversity gradient	13
Improving models to predict holocellulose and Klason lignin contents for peat soil organic matter with mid-infrared spectra	12
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	12
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N ₂ O emissions in rice cultivation	12
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	12
Benchmarking soil multifunctionality	12
Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe	12
The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment	11
Improvement of soil properties maps using an iterative residual correction method	11
Soil organic carbon mineralization is controlled by the application dose of exogenous organic matter	11
Organic matters, but inorganic matters too: column examination of elevated mercury sorption on low organic matter aquifer material using concentrations and stable isotope ratios	11
Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils	11
The effect of soil moisture content and soil texture on fast in situ pH measurements with two types of robust ion-selective electrodes	10
On the benefits of clustering approaches in digital soil mapping: an application example concerning soil texture regionalization	10
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	10
What is the stability of additional organic carbon stored thanks to alternative cropping systems and organic waste product application? A multi-method evaluation	10
Does soil thinning change soil erodibility? An exploration of long-term erosion feedback systems	10
Unraveling biogeographical patterns and environmental drivers of soil fungal diversity at the French national scale	10
Overcoming barriers in long-term, continuous monitoring of soil CO ₂ flux: a low-cost sensor system	9
The effect of groundwater depth on topsoil organic matter mineralization during a simulated dry summer in northwestern Europe	9
Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term no-till cropping systems in the tropical upland of Cambodia	9
Potential of natural language processing for metadata extraction from environmental scientific publications	9
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine	8
The influence of land use and management on the behaviour and persistence of soil organic carbon in a subtropical Ferralsol	8
Assessing the impact of rewetting agricultural fen peat soil via open drain damming: an agrogeophysical approach	8
Managing soil organic carbon in tropical agroecosystems: evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya	8

Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture	8
Quantifying hydrological impacts of compacted sandy subsoils using soil water flow simulations: the importance of vegetation parameterization	8
Biochar reduces early-stage mineralization rates of plant residues more in coarse-textured soils than in fine-textured soils – an artificial-soil approach	8
The six rights of how and when to test for soil C saturation	7
Perspectives on the misconception of levitating soil aggregates	7
Status and influential factors of soil nutrients and acidification in Chinese tea plantations: a meta-analysis	7
Quantifying spatial uncertainty to improve soil predictions in data-sparse regions	7
Advancing studies on global biocrust distribution	7
Improved management increases soil mineral-protected organic carbon storage via plant-microbial-nutrient mediation in semi-arid grasslands	7
Dissolved carbon flow to particulate organic carbon enhances soil carbon sequestration	7
Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in juniper–oak savanna: role of vegetation and geology	6
Representing soil landscapes from digital soil mapping products – helping the map to speak for itself	6
Land inclination controls CO ₂ and N ₂ O fluxes, but not CH ₄	6
Experimental drought and soil amendments affect grassland above- and belowground vegetation but not soil carbon stocks	6
Estimating soil carbon sequestration potential with mid-IR spectroscopy and explainable machine learning	6
On the risks of good intentions and poor evidence – comment on “Back to the future? Conservative grassland management can preserve soil health in the changing landscapes of Uruguay” by Säumel et al. (	6
Impact of crop type on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a rewetted cultivated peatland	6
Gully rehabilitation in southern Ethiopia – value and impacts for farmers	6
Mixed Signals: interpreting mixing patterns of different soil bioturbation processes through luminescence and numerical modelling	6
Addressing soil data needs and data gaps in catchment-scale environmental modelling: the European perspective	6
Gradual drying of permafrost peat decreases carbon dioxide production in drier peat plateaus but not in wetter fens and bogs	6
Response of soil nutrients and erodibility to slope aspect in the northern agro-pastoral ecotone, China	6
Large errors in soil carbon measurements attributed to inconsistent sample processing	6
Mapping the fertosphere's phosphorus availability distribution in a field trial using a novel diffusive gradients in thin-films (fDGT) technique	6
Pesticide transport through the vadose zone under sugarcane in the Wet Tropics, Australia	5
Earthworm-invaded boreal forest soils harbour distinct microbial communities	5
An ensemble estimate of Australian soil organic carbon using machine learning and process-based modelling	5
Thermodynamic and hydrological drivers of the soil and bedrock thermal regimes in central Spain	5
Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity in soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions	5
Assessing the potential of complex artificial neural networks for modelling small-scale soil erosion by water	5
Soil stoichiometric characteristics and influencing factors in karst forests at microtopography and microhabitat scales	5
Mapping land degradation risk due to land susceptibility to dust emission and water erosion	5
Accuracy of regional-to-global soil maps for on-farm decision-making: are soil maps “good enough”?	5
Warming accelerates the decomposition of root-derived hydrolysable lipids in a temperate forest and is depth- and compound class-dependent	5
Challenges in soil carbon modelling and measurement: a decade of experimental data vs. RothC simulations in an organic olive grove	5