SOIL cover
Executive editors: Rémi Cardinael, Peter Fiener, Engracia Madejón Rodríguez, Kristof Van Oost, Raphael Viscarra Rossel & Jeanette Whitaker
eISSN: SOIL 2199-398X, SOILD 2199-3998

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.).

Journal metrics

SOIL is indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, etc. We refrain from displaying the journal metrics prominently on the landing page since citation metrics used in isolation do not describe importance, impact, or quality of a journal. However, these metrics can be found on the journal metrics page.

Recent papers

28 Jan 2025
Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses
Sonya S. Altzitser, Yael G. Mishael, and Nimrod Schwartz
SOIL, 11, 95–104, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-95-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-95-2025, 2025
Short summary
27 Jan 2025
Effect of colloidal particle size on physicochemical properties and aggregation behaviors of two alkaline soils
Yuyang Yan, Xinran Zhang, Chenyang Xu, Junjun Liu, Feinan Hu, and Zengchao Geng
SOIL, 11, 85–94, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-85-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-85-2025, 2025
Short summary
24 Jan 2025
Closing the phenotyping gap with non-invasive belowground field phenotyping
Guillaume Blanchy, Waldo Deroo, Tom De Swaef, Peter Lootens, Paul Quataert, Isabel Roldán-Ruíz, Roelof Versteeg, and Sarah Garré
SOIL, 11, 67–84, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-67-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-67-2025, 2025
Short summary
22 Jan 2025
Physical Protection of Soil Carbon Stocks Under Regenerative Agriculture
Sam G. Keenor, Rebekah Lee, and Brian J. Reid
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4029,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4029, 2025
Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary
17 Jan 2025
On soil health and the pivotal role of proximal sensing
Yang Hu, Adam Cross, Zefang Shen, Johan Bouma, and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3939,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3939, 2025
Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary

Highlight articles

18 Jul 2024
Can corporate supply chain sustainability standards contribute to soil protection?
Jan Frouz, Vojtěch Čemus, Jaroslava Frouzová, Alena Peterková, and Vojtěch Kotecký
SOIL, 10, 505–519, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-505-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-505-2024, 2024
Short summary Executive editor
11 Apr 2024
Unraveling biogeographical patterns and environmental drivers of soil fungal diversity at the French national scale
Christophe Djemiel, Samuel Dequiedt, Walid Horrigue, Arthur Bailly, Mélanie Lelièvre, Julie Tripied, Charles Guilland, Solène Perrin, Gwendoline Comment, Nicolas P. A. Saby, Claudy Jolivet, Antonio Bispo, Line Boulonne, Antoine Pierart, Patrick Wincker, Corinne Cruaud, Pierre-Alain Maron, Sébastien Terrat, and Lionel Ranjard
SOIL, 10, 251–273, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-251-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-251-2024, 2024
Short summary Executive editor
10 Feb 2023
Semantics about soil organic carbon storage: DATA4C+, a comprehensive thesaurus and classification of management practices in agriculture and forestry
Kenji Fujisaki, Tiphaine Chevallier, Antonio Bispo, Jean-Baptiste Laurent, François Thevenin, Lydie Chapuis-Lardy, Rémi Cardinael, Christine Le Bas, Vincent Freycon, Fabrice Bénédet, Vincent Blanfort, Michel Brossard, Marie Tella, and Julien Demenois
SOIL, 9, 89–100, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-89-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-89-2023, 2023
Short summary Executive editor
04 Jan 2023
Soil and crop management practices and the water regulation functions of soils: a qualitative synthesis of meta-analyses relevant to European agriculture
Guillaume Blanchy, Gilberto Bragato, Claudia Di Bene, Nicholas Jarvis, Mats Larsbo, Katharina Meurer, and Sarah Garré
SOIL, 9, 1–20, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-1-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-1-2023, 2023
Short summary Executive editor

News

27 Jan 2025 Comprehensive increase in CO2 release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude

The authors incubated 10 Japanese soils to study CO2 release under drying–rewetting cycles (DWCs). CO2 release was increased by DWCs among all soils, showing soil-by-soil variations in CO2 release increase magnitude. Read more.

27 Jan 2025 Comprehensive increase in CO2 release by drying–rewetting cycles among Japanese forests and pastureland soils and exploring predictors of increasing magnitude

The authors incubated 10 Japanese soils to study CO2 release under drying–rewetting cycles (DWCs). CO2 release was increased by DWCs among all soils, showing soil-by-soil variations in CO2 release increase magnitude. Read more.

19 Dec 2024 ResearchGate and institutional agreements

We are pleased to announce that scientists associated with our 38 library partners representing 350 universities and research centres as well as 300 institutions from Research4Life countries will be informed directly about APC coverage when browsing our articles on ResearchGate. Read more.

19 Dec 2024 ResearchGate and institutional agreements

We are pleased to announce that scientists associated with our 38 library partners representing 350 universities and research centres as well as 300 institutions from Research4Life countries will be informed directly about APC coverage when browsing our articles on ResearchGate. Read more.

29 Nov 2024 Changes to article processing charges

We are pleased to announce a change in the handling of article processing charges. Please find all information on our APC page as well as in the news item from EGU.

29 Nov 2024 Changes to article processing charges

We are pleased to announce a change in the handling of article processing charges. Please find all information on our APC page as well as in the news item from EGU.

Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.