| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals | Soil | 2016 | 1,077 |
| 2 | SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty | Soil | 2021 | 511 |
| 3 | The interdisciplinary nature of <i>SOIL</i> | Soil | 2015 | 494 |
| 4 | Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields | Soil | 2019 | 344 |
| 5 | Global distribution of soil organic carbon – Part 1: Masses and frequency distributions of SOC stocks for the tropics, permafrost regions, wetlands, and the world | Soil | 2015 | 299 |
| 6 | Integrated soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa: unravelling local adaptation | Soil | 2015 | 263 |
| 7 | World's soils are under threat | Soil | 2016 | 259 |
| 8 | Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils | Soil | 2015 | 249 |
| 9 | Permafrost soils and carbon cycling | Soil | 2015 | 241 |
| 10 | Identification of sensitive indicators to assess the interrelationship between soil quality, management practices and human health | Soil | 2015 | 209 |
| 11 | Machine learning and soil sciences: a review aided by machine learning tools | Soil | 2020 | 195 |
| 12 | Global concentrations of microplastics in soils – a review | Soil | 2020 | 169 |
| 13 | Evaluation of digital soil mapping approaches with large sets of environmental covariates | Soil | 2018 | 167 |
| 14 | The soil N cycle: new insights and key challenges | Soil | 2015 | 154 |
| 15 | Soil organic carbon stocks are systematically overestimated by misuse of the parameters bulk density and rock fragment content | Soil | 2017 | 152 |
| 16 | Soil fauna: key to new carbon models | Soil | 2016 | 149 |
| 17 | Using deep learning for digital soil mapping | Soil | 2019 | 144 |
| 18 | The past, present, and future of soils and human health studies | Soil | 2015 | 136 |
| 19 | A systemic approach for modeling soil functions | Soil | 2018 | 113 |
| 20 | A review of the global soil property maps for Earth system models | Soil | 2019 | 94 |
| 21 | Soil surface roughness: comparing old and new measuring methods and application in a soil erosion model | Soil | 2015 | 87 |
| 22 | The influence of training sample size on the accuracy of deep learning models for the prediction of soil properties with near-infrared spectroscopy data | Soil | 2020 | 84 |
| 23 | Can we manipulate root system architecture to control soil erosion? | Soil | 2015 | 83 |
| 24 | A meta-analysis of soil biodiversity impacts on the carbon cycle | Soil | 2015 | 83 |
| 25 | An overview of the recent approaches to terroir functional modelling, footprinting and zoning | Soil | 2015 | 82 |
| 26 | The fate of seeds in the soil: a review of the influence of overland flow on seed removal and its consequences for the vegetation of arid and semiarid patchy ecosystems | Soil | 2015 | 81 |
| 27 | Influence of long-term mineral fertilization on metal contents and properties of soil samples taken from different locations in Hesse, Germany | Soil | 2015 | 77 |
| 28 | Mitigating N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from soil: from patching leaks to transformative action | Soil | 2015 | 73 |
| 29 | Soil conservation in the 21st century: why we need smart agricultural intensification | Soil | 2017 | 70 |
| 30 | Multi-source data integration for soil mapping using deep learning | Soil | 2019 | 66 |
| 31 | Soil microbial biomass and function are altered by 12 years of crop rotation | Soil | 2016 | 64 |
| 32 | Game theory interpretation of digital soil mapping convolutional neural networks | Soil | 2020 | 64 |
| 33 | Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect | Soil | 2016 | 60 |
| 34 | No silver bullet for digital soil mapping: country-specific soil organic carbon estimates across Latin America | Soil | 2018 | 60 |
| 35 | The use of soil electrical resistivity to monitor plant and soil water relationships in vineyards | Soil | 2015 | 59 |
| 36 | Opportunities and limitations related to the application of plant-derived lipid molecular proxies in soil science | Soil | 2017 | 59 |
| 37 | What do we know about how the terrestrial multicellular soil fauna reacts to microplastic? | Soil | 2020 | 56 |
| 38 | Climate and soil factors influencing seedling recruitment of plant species used for dryland restoration | Soil | 2016 | 55 |
| 39 | Morphological dynamics of gully systems in the subhumid Ethiopian Highlands: the Debre Mawi watershed | Soil | 2016 | 55 |
| 40 | Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis | Soil | 2020 | 54 |
| 41 | Eddy covariance for quantifying trace gas fluxes from soils | Soil | 2015 | 53 |
| 42 | Assessment and quantification of marginal lands for biomass production in Europe using soil-quality indicators | Soil | 2018 | 53 |
| 43 | The application of terrestrial laser scanner and SfM photogrammetry in measuring erosion and deposition processes in two opposite slopes in a humid badlands area (central Spanish Pyrenees) | Soil | 2015 | 52 |
| 44 | Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals | Soil | 2016 | 51 |
| 45 | An ecosystem approach to assess soil quality in organically and conventionally managed farms in Iceland and Austria | Soil | 2015 | 50 |
| 46 | Effects of land use changes on the dynamics of selected soil properties in northeast Wellega, Ethiopia | Soil | 2016 | 50 |
| 47 | On the rebound: soil organic carbon stocks can bounce back to near forest levels when agroforests replace agriculture in southern India | Soil | 2016 | 49 |
| 48 | Greater soil carbon stocks and faster turnover rates with increasing agricultural productivity | Soil | 2017 | 49 |
| 49 | Refining physical aspects of soil quality and soil health when exploring the effects of soil degradation and climate change on biomass production: an Italian case study | Soil | 2019 | 47 |
| 50 | Effects of fresh and aged chars from pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization on nutrient sorption in agricultural soils | Soil | 2015 | 46 |
