OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	958
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	75
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	48
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	40
Comprehensive increase in CO₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude	31
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	31
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	28
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	27
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	26
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	25
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	23
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)	23
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	23
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	21
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	20
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	20
Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands)	20
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	20
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage	20
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	19
Reusing Fe water treatment residual as a soil amendment to improve physical function and flood resilience	19
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	18
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	17
Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations	17
Geogenic organic carbon in terrestrial sediments and its contribution to total soil carbon	17

Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	16
Nonlinear turnover rates of soil carbon following cultivation of native grasslands and subsequent afforestation of croplands	16
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring	16
Assessing soil redistribution of forest and cropland sites in wet tropical Africa using ^239+240Pu fallout radionuclides	16
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	15
Transformation of n-alkanes from plant to soil: a review	15
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	14
Oxygen isotope exchange between water and carbon dioxide in soils is controlled by pH, nitrate and microbial biomass through links to carbonic anhydrase activity	13
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	13
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	13
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	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 nitrogen and water management by winter-killed catch crops	12
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	12
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N₂O emissions in rice cultivation	12
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	12
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	12
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	12
Improving models to predict holocellulose and Klason lignin contents for peat soil organic matter with mid-infrared spectra	12
Soil organic carbon mineralization is controlled by the application dose of exogenous organic matter	12
Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (δ¹³C and F¹⁴C)	12
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	11
Spatial variations, origins, and risk assessments of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in French soils	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
Mulch application as the overarching factor explaining increase in soil organic carbon stocks under conservation agriculture in two 8-year-old experiments in Zimbabwe	11
The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment	11
Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils	11