Inorganic carbon is overlooked in global soil carbon research: A bibliometric analysis

作者：Sajjad Raza, Annie Irshad, Andrew J. Margenot, Kazem Zamanian, Nan Li, Sami Ullah, Khalid Mehmood, Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Nadeem Siddique, Jianbin Zhou, Sacha J. Mooney, I. N. Kurganova, Xiaoning Zhao, Yakov Kuzyakov · 发表于：Geoderma · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116831 · 被引用次数：106 · 研究领域：Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics、Soil and Unsaturated Flow、Clay minerals and soil interactions

). The largest terrestrial C reservoir in soils comprises two main pools: organic (SOC) and inorganic C (SIC), each having distinct fates and functions but with a large disparity in global research attention. This study quantified global soil C research trends and the proportional focus on SOC and SIC pools based on a bibliometric analysis and raise the importance of SIC pools fully underrepresented in research, applications, and modeling. Studies on soil C pools started in 1905 and has produced over 47,000 publications (>1.7 million citations). Although the global C stocks down to 2 m depth are nearly the same for SOC and SIC, the research has dominantly examined SOC (>96 % of publications and citations) with a minimal share on SIC (<4%). Approximately 40 % of the soil C research was related to climate change. Despite poor coverage and publications, the climate change-related research impact (citations per document) of SIC studies was higher than that of SOC. Mineral associated organic carbon, machine learning, soil health, and biochar were the recent top trend topics for SOC research (2020-2023), whereas digital soil mapping, soil properties, soil acidification, and calcite were recent top trend topics for SIC. SOC research was contributed by 151 countries compared to 88 for SIC. As assessed by publications, soil C research was mainly concentrated in a few countries, with only 9 countries accounting for 70 % of the research. China and the USA were the major producers (45 %)...