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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mineral dust and pedogenesis in the alpine critical zone	69
Moderate N fertilizer reduction with straw return modulates cropland functions and microbial traits in a meadow soil	66
Optimized fertilization using online soil nitrate data	48
Soil indicators for ecosystem services: a focus on water regulation	45
Investigating the synergistic potential of Si and biochar to immobilize Ni in a Ni-contaminated calcareous soil after Zea mays L. cultivation	44
Soil contamination in arid environments and assessment of remediation applying surface evaporation capacitor model: a case study from the Judean Desert, Israel	42
High-resolution frequency-domain electromagnetic mapping for the hydrological modeling of an orange orchard	41
Comprehensive increase in CO ₂ release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing	39
Prediction of peat properties from transmission mid-infrared spectra	37
Soil erosion in Mediterranean olive groves: a review	33
Limited effect of organic matter addition on stabilised organic carbon in four tropical arable soils	33
Tolerance of soil bacterial community to tetracycline antibiotics induced by As, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb pollution	31
The effect of different biopreparations on soil physical properties and CO ₂ emissions when growing winter wheat and oilseed rape	29
The potential of reed canary grass and the importance of field heterogeneity for reducing GHG emissions in a rewetting fen peatland	28
Luminescence dating approaches to reconstruct the formation of plaggic anthrosols	25
Effects of a warmer climate and forest composition on soil carbon cycling, soil organic matter stability and stocks in a humid boreal region	24
Portable X-ray fluorescence as a tool for urban soil contamination analysis: accuracy, precision, and practicality	24
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
Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters	23
Soil organic matter interactions along the elevation gradient of the James Ross Island (Antarctica)	22
Miniaturised visible and near-infrared spectrometers for assessing soil health indicators in mine site rehabilitation	21
Aeration and mineral composition of soil mediate microbial CUE	20
Spatial prediction of organic carbon in German agricultural topsoil using machine learning algorithms	20
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction	19
Model-based analysis of erosion-induced microplastic delivery from arable land to the stream network of a mesoscale catchment	19

Organic-matter-mediated leaching of alkalinity in limed acid soils is affected by dissolved organic carbon adsorption and soil structure	19
Pooled error variance and covariance estimation of sparse in situ soil moisture sensor measurements in agricultural fields in Flanders	18
Terrain is a stronger predictor of peat depth than airborne radiometrics in Norwegian landscapes	18
Availability of labile carbon controls the temperature-dependent response of soil organic matter decomposition in alpine soils	18
Mineral-bound organic carbon exposed by hillslope thermokarst terrain: case study in Cape Bounty, Canadian High Arctic	17
Soil health approaches to assess the impacts of no-tillage with agricultural terraces in southern Brazil	17
Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions	17
Estimations of soil metal accumulation or leaching potentials under climate change scenarios: the example of copper on a European scale	17
Drivers of soil C quality and stability: insights from a topsoil dataset at landscape scale in Ontario, Canada	17
Soil fungal network complexity and functional roles differ between black truffle plantations and forests	16
A simple model of the turnover of organic carbon in a soil profile: model test, parameter identification and sensitivity	16
Leaching behavior of steelmaking slag fertilizer under repeated wetting and drying conditions simulating upland soil	16
The role of long-term mineral and manure fertilization on P species accumulation and phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in paddy red soils	15
The clay mineralogy rather than the clay content determines radiocaesium adsorption in soils on a global scale	15
Destabilization of buried carbon under changing moisture regimes	14
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research	14
Weathering without realizing inorganic CO ₂ removal revealed through base cation monitoring	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	13
What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?	13
Long-term pig manure application increases SOC through aggregate protection and Fe-C associations in a subtropical red soil (Udic Ferralsols)	12
Effects of returning corn straw and fermented corn straw to fields on the soil organic carbon pools and humus composition	12
Organic and inorganic nitrogen amendments reduce biodegradation of biodegradable plastic mulch films	12
Soil carbon accrual and biopore formation across a plant diversity gradient	11
Benchmarking soil multifunctionality	11
How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA	11
Tropical Andosol organic carbon quality and degradability in relation to soil geochemistry as affected by land use	11
Transforming living labs into lighthouses: a promising policy to achieve land-related sustainable development	11
Effects of mild alternate wetting and drying irrigation and rice straw application on N ₂ O emissions in rice cultivation	11