# Developmental History of Soil Concepts from a Scientific Perspective
## 3 Results  
A total of 35 journals were grouped in the soil science category in the Web of Science (Table 2). The youngest journal with over 10,000 total citations was _Catena_, which began publishing in 1983. No journals published within the past decade have yet reached 2000 citations. A few journals published before 2015 have not reached more than 1000 citations, such as _Agrochimica_, _Arid Land Research and Management_, and _Soil and Water Research_. The following journals were ranked as having the five highest IF and ES scores: _Soil Biology & Biochemistry_ (SBB); _Biology and Fertility of Soils_ (BFS); _Soil & Tillage Research_ (STR); _Geoderma; and Land Degradation & Development_ (LDD). Both the _Vadose Zone Journal_ (VZJ) and _Pedosphere_ (PDP), which began publishing within the past decade, ranked in the top 10 in terms of IF but not for ES. On the other hand, the _Journal of Soils and Sediments_ (JSS) and the _Soil Science Society of America Journal_ (SSSA) ranked within the top 10 for ES. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Journal Title**} & **Year of First** & **Total** & **Impact Factor** & **Eigenfactor** \\  & **Publication** & **Citations 1** & **(2018)** & **Score (\(\times\)1000)** \\ \hline _Soil Science (SS)_ & 1916 & 7053 & 1.70 & 1.18 \\ _Plant and Soil_ & 1948 & 33,620 & 3.26 & 23.64 \\ _Agrochimica_ & 1965 & 221 & 0.65 & 0.16 \\ _Canadian Journal of Soil Science_ & 1965 & 3130 & 0.95 & 1.37 \\ _Pedobiologia_ & 1965 & 2480 & 1.83 & 1.20 \\ _Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC)_ & 1967 & 4171 & 2.18 & 3.03 \\ _Clays and Clay Minerals (CCM)_ & 1968 & 5550 & 1.84 & 1.22 \\ _Geoderma_ & 1968 & 23,042 & 4.34 & 21.89 \\ _Soil Science Society of America Journal (SSSAI)_ & 1972 & 24,121 & 2.00 & 7.28 \\ _Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (CSSPA)_ & 1974 & 5644 & 0.69 & 2.69 \\ _Soil Biology & Biochemistry (SBB)_ & 1974 & 36,977 & 5.29 & 31.75 \\ _Soil Science and Plant Nutrition_ & 1976 & 3205 & 1.42 & 1.93 \\ _Soil & Tillage Research (STR)_ & 1980 & 12,573 & 4.68 & 10.33 \\ _Catena_ & 1983 & 13,025 & 3.85 & 16.62 \\ _Biology and Fertility of Soils (BFS)_ & 1985 & 8837 & 4.83 & 6.39 \\ _Soil Use and Management_ & 1986 & 2958 & 1.96 & 2.13 \\ _Acta Agriculture Scandinavica Section B-Soil and Plant Science_ & 1992 & 1070 & 0.81 & 1.17 \\ _Eurusain Soil Science_ & 1992 & 1783 & 0.88 & 1.11 \\ _European Journal of Soil Biology_ & 1993 & 3139 & 2.24 & 3.18 \\ _Applied Soil Ecology_ & 1994 & 9096 & 3.45 & 10.78 \\ _European Journal of Soil Science_ & 1994 & 7014 & 2.82 & 4.94 \\ _Compost Science \& Utilization_ & 1995 & 757 & 1.00 & 0.27 \\ _Land Degradation \& Development (LDD)_ & 1996 & 5333 & 4.28 & 6.94 \\ _Nutrient Cycling in Agrocosystems_ & 1996 & 4344 & 2.85 & 2.86 \\ _Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science_ & 1999 & 4564 & 2.06 & 3.68 \\ _Arid Land Research and Management_ & 2001 & 518 & 0.99 & 0.53 \\ _Vadose Zone Journal (VZJ)_ & 2002 & 4450 & 3.63 & 5.00 \\ _Pedosphere_ & 2003 & 2896 & 3.19 & 3.22 \\ _Revista Brasileira De Ciencia Do Solo_ & 2003 & 3553 & 1.17 & 2.54 \\ _Journal of Soils and Sediments (JSS)_ & 2005 & 5572 & 2.67 & 8.44 \\ _Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition_ & 2010 & 1440 & 2.01 & 2.01 \\ _Soil and Water Research_ & 2010 & 318 & 1.21 & 0.46 \\ _Archives of Agroynomy and Soil Science_ & 2011 & 1605 & 1.68 & 2.73 \\ _Soil Research_ & 2011 & 1110 & 1.57 & 2.29 \\ _Geoderma Regional_ & 2016 & 311 & 1.50 & 0.91 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: List of soil science journals found in Web of Science on 27 July 2019. In some cases, journals were ranked higher for IF and/or ES with fewer total citations. For example, _Clays and Clay Minerals_ (CCM) from 1968 and LDD from 1996 were similar in terms of total citations, but the IF of CCM was nearly two times higher than that of LDD. Even journals with fewer total citations, such as PDP, received higher IF and ES scores than CCM.