OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil is 12. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	56
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	37
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	36
The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes	35
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	33
Soil contamination in arid environments and assessment of remediation applying surface evaporation capacitor model: a case study from the Judean Desert, Israel	29
Comprehensive increase in CO₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude	28
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	27
The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis	23
Are agricultural plastic covers a source of plastic debris in soil? A first screening study	23
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	23
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	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)	22
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	22
Portable X-ray fluorescence as a tool for urban soil contamination analysis: accuracy, precision, and practicality	21
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	21
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	21
Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands)	20
Synergy between compost and cover crops in a Mediterranean row crop system leads to increased subsoil carbon storage	20
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	18
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	17
Reusing Fe water treatment residual as a soil amendment to improve physical function and flood resilience	17
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	17
Pooled error variance and covariance estimation of sparse in situ soil moisture sensor measurements in agricultural fields in Flanders	16
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	16

Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	16
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	15
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
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	15
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	14
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	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	14
Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (δ¹³C and F¹⁴C)	14
Quantification of the effects of long-term straw return on soil organic matter spatiotemporal variation: a case study in a typical black soil region	14
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N₂O emissions in rice cultivation	14
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	14
Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils	13
Soil organic carbon mineralization is controlled by the application dose of exogenous organic matter	13
The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment	13
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	13
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production	13
Organic matters, but inorganic matters too: column examination of elevated mercury sorption on low organic matter aquifer material using concentrations and stable isotope ratios	13
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses	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
Biotic factors dominantly determine soil inorganic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands	12