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Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Soil Science ID: T10004

Current Trend

+25%
vs baseline
757
works this month
606
baseline/mo

Monthly Publications

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics — Monthly Publications 0 250 500 750 462 Sep '25 381 Oct '25 82 Nov '25 312 Dec '25 722 Jan '26 601 Feb '26 998 Mar '26 561 Apr '26 700 May '26 686 Jun '26 734 Jul '26 698 Aug '26 757 Sep '26 Source: OpenAlex · Botany Live

Monthly Trend History

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics — Trend vs Baseline (%) -82% -41% 0% +41% +82% +123% Sep '24 Nov '24 Jan '25 Mar '25 May '25 Jul '25 Sep '25 Nov '25 Jan '26 Mar '26 May '26 Jul '26 Sep '26 Source: OpenAlex · Botany Live

Annual Publications

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics — Annual Publications 0 1,590 3,180 4,770 6,360 3,812 2015 3,885 2016 3,994 2017 4,152 2018 4,580 2019 5,123 2020 5,728 2021 6,077 2022 6,360 2023 5,815 2024 5,628 2025 Source: OpenAlex · Botany Live

Most-Cited Papers (Past 12 Months)

Managing soil health for climate resilience and crop productivity in a changing environment
Wogene Kabato et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 2025-09-16 · 78 citations
National Soil Carbon Research Programme: Field and Laboratory Methodologies
Jonathan Sanderman et al. · CSIRO · 2026-08-18 · 62 citations
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization
Sheng Tang et al. · Nature Geoscience · 2025-09-10 · 60 citations
The impacts of biochar on carbon sequestration, soil processes, and microbial communities: a review
Matthew Chekwube Enebe et al. · Biochar · 2025-09-09 · 52 citations
Vegetation restoration shapes soil organic matter chemistry and microbial processes
Shuzhen Wang et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2025-09-05 · 43 citations

Rising Papers (High Citation Velocity)

Nutrient Cycling and Plant-Microbe Interaction in Alpine Ecosystem
Mian Muhammad Ahmed et al. · · 2026-04-16 · 3 citations · FWCI 84.4
Continental-scale drivers of soil microbial extracellular polymeric substances
Ke Shi et al. · Nature Communications · 2026-03-02 · 14 citations · FWCI 52.3
Warming increases CO2 emissions in biochar-amended cropland soil
Tongyu Xu et al. · Biochar · 2026-06-04 · 13 citations · FWCI 49.2

☘ Annals of Botany Company Journals

Taxonomically conservative root phenolic compounds underpin biogeochemical niche separation between grasses and forbs in temperate steppes of northern China
Baolan Wang et al. · Annals of Botany · 2026-05-09 · 1 citations
Drought stress increases total C released from roots
Danielle Ulrich et al. · Annals of Botany · 2026-01-08 · 1 citations
Drought tightens rhizosphere networks—but where does the carbon go? A commentary on ‘Increased dependencies among plant performance traits, root exudates and the rhizosphere microbiome under drought’
Eva Kaštovská · Annals of Botany · 2026-09-25 · 0 citations