Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Last updated ISSN 0038-0717
Soil Biology and Biochemistry is published by Elsevier BV in agricultural and biological sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,950.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Soil Biology and Biochemistry concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0038-0717, 1879-3428 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,950 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 13,169 |
| Publishing since | 1969 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemis |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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