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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.).

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Recent papers

01 Apr 2025
Assessing soil fertilization effects using time-lapse electromagnetic induction
Manuela S. Kaufmann, Anja Klotzsche, Jan van der Kruk, Anke Langen, Harry Vereecken, and Lutz Weihermüller
SOIL, 11, 267–285, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-267-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-267-2025, 2025
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01 Apr 2025
What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?
Jennifer Michel, Yves Brostaux, Bernard Longdoz, Hervé Vanderschuren, and Pierre Delaplace
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1067,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1067, 2025
Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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31 Mar 2025
Terrain is a stronger predictor of peat depth than airborne radiometrics in Norwegian landscapes
Julien Vollering, Naomi Gatis, Mette Kusk Gillespie, Karl-Kristian Muggerud, Sigurd Daniel Nerhus, Knut Rydgren, and Mikko Sparf
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1046,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1046, 2025
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28 Mar 2025
Do morphological hillslope features affect soil properties and processes promoting chestnut ink disease? The study case of the Northern Apennine mountains
William Trenti, Mauro De Feudis, Sara Marinari, Sergio Murolo, Giulia Tabanelli, Federico Puliga, Rosita Marabottini, Alessandra Zambonelli, Fausto Gardini, and Livia Vittori Antisari
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-911,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-911, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Effect of trachyte and basalt powder on the growth and yield of maize (Zea Mays L.) in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon (Central Africa)
Bienvenu Sidsi, Claudine Vounba, Simon Djakba Basga, Aubin Nzeugang Nzeukou, Merlin Dedzo Gountie, and Désiré Tsozué
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-930,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-930, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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News

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

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.