OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biochar is 46. 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.)

Article	Citations
Unravelling how biochar and dung amendments determine the functional structure and community assembly related to methane metabolisms in grassland soils	484
Use of sewage sludge biochar as a catalyst in production of biodiesel through thermally induced transesterification	417
Life cycle assessment of urban uses of biochar and case study in Uppsala, Sweden	274
Effects of different C/N ratios on the maturity and microbial quantity of composting with sesame meal and rice straw biochar	218
Biochar mitigates the biotoxicity of heavy metals in livestock manure during composting	188
A nanoscale observation to explain the discrepancy of electron exchange capacities between biochar containing comparable surface redox-active moieties	178
Predicting the effect of dissolved humic acid on sorption of benzotriazole to biochar	171
Carbon-negative cement-bonded biochar particleboards	140
Poultry litter biochar application in combination with chemical fertilizer and Azolla green manure improves rice grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency in paddy soil	135
Simultaneous dissipation of trichloroethene and arsenic from co-contaminated groundwater by coupling biodechlorination and biodetoxification with assistance of biochar	99
Biochar and soil properties limit the phytoavailability of lead and cadmium by Brassica chinensis L. in contaminated soils	96
Characterization of biochars from woody agricultural wastes and sorption behavior comparison of cadmium and atrazine	94
Insights into thallium adsorption onto the soil, bamboo-derived biochar, and biochar amended soil in Pomelo orchard	90
Visualizing the development trend and research frontiers of biochar in 2020: a scientometric perspective	88
Pyrolytic synthesis of graphene-encapsulated zero-valent iron nanoparticles supported on biochar for heavy metal removal	83
A quantitative evaluation of the biochar’s influence on plant disease suppress: a global meta-analysis	76
Biochar as construction materials for achieving carbon neutrality	66
Seven years of biochar amendment has a negligible effect on soil available P and a progressive effect on organic C in paddy soils	64
Insights into simultaneous adsorption and oxidation of antimonite [Sb(III)] by crawfish shell-derived biochar: spectroscopic investigation and theoretical calculations	59
Silicate minerals control the potential uses of phosphorus-laden mineral-engineered biochar as phosphorus fertilizers	58
Towards predicting biochar impacts on plant-available soil nitrogen content	55
Functional biochar for efficient residue treatment of sulfonylurea herbicides by weak molecular interaction	51
Analysis of the simultaneous adsorption mechanism of ammonium and phosphate on magnesium-modified biochar and the slow release effect of fertiliser	50
Effect of invasive weed biochar amendment on soil enzymatic activity and respiration of coal mine spoil: a laboratory experiment study	49
Ball-milled bismuth oxychloride/biochar nanocomposites with rich oxygen vacancies for reactive red-120 adsorption in aqueous solution	47

Physicochemical disintegration of biochar: a potentially important process for long-term cadmium and lead sorption	46
Biochar addition to vineyard soils: effects on soil functions, grape yield and wine quality	46