
Executive editors: Engracia Madejón Rodríguez, John Quinton, Johan Six, Kristof Van Oost & Jeanette Whitaker
SOIL is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of high-quality research in the field of soil system sciences.
SOIL is at the interface between the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. SOIL publishes scientific research that contributes to understanding the soil system and its interaction with humans and the entire Earth system. The scope of the journal includes all topics that fall within the study of soil science as a discipline, with an emphasis on studies that integrate soil science with other sciences (hydrology, agronomy, socio-economics, health sciences, atmospheric sciences, etc.).
IF5.841
IF 5-year6.691
CiteScore5.8
Recent papers
10 May 2022
Potential effect of wetting agents added to agricultural sprays on the stability of soil aggregates
SOIL, 8, 349–372,
2022 09 May 2022
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture
EGUsphere,
2022Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
05 May 2022
Soil bacterial communities triggered by organic matter inputs associates with a high-yielding pear production
SOIL, 8, 337–348,
2022 04 May 2022
Relationship between the stocks of carbon in non-cultivated trees and soils in a West-African forest-savanna transition zone
EGUsphere,
2022Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
26 Apr 2022
Evaluation of a long-term optimized management strategy for the improvement of cultivated soils in rainfed cereal cropland based on water retention curves
EGUsphere,
2022Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 4 comments)
Highlight articles
20 Jan 2022
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Rhizodeposition efficiency of pearl millet genotypes assessed on a short growing period by carbon isotopes (δ13C and F14C)
SOIL, 8, 49–57,
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Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa
SOIL, 7, 305–332,
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SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty
SOIL, 7, 217–240,
2021 02 Jun 2021
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Oxygen isotope exchange between water and carbon dioxide in soils is controlled by pH, nitrate and microbial biomass through links to carbonic anhydrase activity
SOIL, 7, 145–159,
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Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis
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