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Biology and Fertility of Soils is an international journal focusing on all fundamental and applied aspects of soil biology and fertility of soils.

  • Provides a platform for research aimed at understanding biological functions, processes, and interactions in soils particularly concerning the increasing demands of agriculture, deforestation and industrialization.
  • Specializes in fundamental and applied aspects of microflora, microfauna, and soil productivity.
  • Covers research on techniques and methods that evaluate processes, biogeochemical interactions and ecological stresses
  • Publishes original papers, reviews, short communications, commentaries and opinion papers.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Paolo Nannipieri
Impact factor
6.5 (2022)
5 year impact factor
6.9 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
5 days
Downloads
512,022 (2023)

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  • Call for Papers Special Issue on “Performance of carriers for microbial inoculation into the soil-plant system”

    This special issue invites the latest studies in a variety of aspects related to bioencapsulation or immobilization of microbial inoculants, such as improving cells survival, biopolymers, encapsulation techniques, and functional biopolymers, focusing on the effect of the inoculant carrier on the microbial performance in the soil-plant system

    Submission Deadline: 30 April 2024 | Expected 2024


  • Position and Opinion Papers: two new types of papers in the journal

    This editorial announces two new types of publications that can be submitted to Biology and Fertility of Soils: position paper and opinion paper. The intention is to promote: i) hypothesis-driven research by considering the state-of-the art of a target topic in a scientific age dominated by technology-driven research; ii) the revision of topics studied in soil science decades ago since decades; iii) the reconsideration of some neglected keystone concepts in soil biology and biochemistry. Indeed the ignorance of bibliography published before the arrival of the electronic age has led to the negligence of important concepts developed by soil biologists and biochemists...

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Electronic ISSN
1432-0789
Print ISSN
0178-2762
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