Kyungsoo Yoo

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Kyungsoo Yoo is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyungsoo Yoo has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Soil Science, 29 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kyungsoo Yoo's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (17 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Kyungsoo Yoo is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (17 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Kyungsoo Yoo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Kyungsoo Yoo's co-authors include Ronald Amundson, Simon M. Mudd, Arjun M. Heimsath, A. K. Aufdenkampe, W. E. Dietrich, R. E. Aalto, Scott C. Doney, Emilio Mayorga, Peter A. Raymond and Simone R. Alin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kyungsoo Yoo

53 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen

2003 924 citations Ronald Amundson, Kyungsoo Yoo et al. profile →
Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere

2011 918 citations A. K. Aufdenkampe, R. E. Aalto et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kyungsoo Yoo United States	25	1.6k	1.2k	1.2k	682	595	56	3.6k
R. E. Aalto United Kingdom	25	1.6k 1.0×	839 0.7×	953 0.8×	812 1.2×	477 0.8×	49	3.3k
Jérôme Poulenard France	35	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	399 0.6×	406 0.7×	111	3.6k
James O. Sickman United States	29	1.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	927 1.4×	1.2k 2.0×	69	4.2k
Gregory B. Noe United States	41	2.8k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	465 0.4×	834 1.2×	946 1.6×	102	4.1k
W. T. Baisden New Zealand	33	1.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	879 1.3×	969 1.6×	98	4.3k
Carl Trettin United States	33	2.5k 1.6×	914 0.8×	511 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	513 0.9×	159	3.9k
Mark H. Garnett United Kingdom	34	2.0k 1.2×	675 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	911 1.3×	613 1.0×	109	3.7k
Noel A. Trustrum New Zealand	36	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	541 0.8×	334 0.6×	61	3.2k
Naziano Filizola Brazil	34	1.4k 0.8×	667 0.6×	770 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	196 0.3×	94	3.6k
Charlotte Bryant United Kingdom	42	1.7k 1.0×	366 0.3×	2.9k 2.5×	466 0.7×	1.1k 1.9×	109	5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kyungsoo Yoo

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All Works

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Amundson, Ronald, et al.. (2025). Neglecting vertical transport leads to underestimated soil carbon dynamics. Nature Geoscience. 18(12). 1239–1244.

Roering, Joshua J., Brooke D. Hunter, Ken L. Ferrier, et al.. (2023). Quantifying erosion rates and weathering pathways that maximize soil organic carbon storage. Biogeochemistry. 164(2). 319–333. 4 indexed citations

Yoo, Kyungsoo, et al.. (2023). Mineral surface area in deep weathering profiles reveals the interrelationship of iron oxidation and silicate weathering. Earth Surface Dynamics. 11(1). 51–69. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xiang, Adrian Wackett, Brandy M. Toner, & Kyungsoo Yoo. (2021). Consistent mineral-associated organic carbon chemistry with variable erosion rates in a mountainous landscape. Geoderma. 405. 115448–115448. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Xiang, Brandy M. Toner, & Kyungsoo Yoo. (2019). Mineral vs. organic matter supply as a limiting factor for the formation of mineral-associated organic matter in forest and agricultural soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 692. 344–353. 16 indexed citations

Aufdenkampe, A. K., et al.. (2018). Soil carbon redistribution and organo-mineral associations after lateral soil movement and mixing in a first-order forest watershed. Geoderma. 319. 142–155. 4 indexed citations

Eger, André, Kyungsoo Yoo, Peter C. Almond, et al.. (2018). Does soil erosion rejuvenate the soil phosphorus inventory?. Geoderma. 332. 45–59. 24 indexed citations

Wang, Xiang, Nicolas A. Jelinski, Brandy M. Toner, & Kyungsoo Yoo. (2018). Long-term agricultural management and erosion change soil organic matter chemistry and association with minerals. The Science of The Total Environment. 648. 1500–1510. 23 indexed citations

Rendahl, Aaron, et al.. (2017). Quantifying weathering on variable rocks, an extension of geochemical mass balance: Critical zone and landscape evolution. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(14). 2457–2468. 11 indexed citations

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Wackett, Adrian, Kyungsoo Yoo, Erin K. Cameron, Carolina Olid, & Jonatan Klaminder. (2017). Global W`o'rming and Darwin Revisited: Quantifying Soil Mixing Rates by Non-native Earthworms in Fennoscandian Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Jelinski, Nicolas A., Kyungsoo Yoo, & Jonatan Klaminder. (2017). Utilising a Suite of Isotopic and Elemental Tracers to Constrain Cryoturbation Rates and Patterns in a Non‐sorted Circle. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 28(4). 634–648. 1 indexed citations

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Attal, Mikaël, Simon M. Mudd, Martin D. Hurst, et al.. (2015). Impact of change in erosion rate and landscape steepness on hillslope and fluvial sediments grain size in the Feather River basin (Sierra Nevada, California). Earth Surface Dynamics. 3(1). 201–222. 111 indexed citations

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Dalzell, B. J., et al.. (2013). Terrain Influences on Soil Organic Carbon Translocation and Burial: Applications of High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Yoo, Kyungsoo, et al.. (2011). Elemental and mineralogical changes in soils due to bioturbation along an earthworm invasion chronosequence in Northern Minnesota. Applied Geochemistry. 26. S127–S131. 17 indexed citations

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Yoo, Kyungsoo, et al.. (2011). Rates of soil mixing and associated carbon fluxes in a forest versus tilled agricultural field: Implications for modeling the soil carbon cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(G1). 25 indexed citations

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Naylor, Mark, Simon M. Mudd, & Kyungsoo Yoo. (2010). Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Inversion of Hillslope Elevation and Soil Thickness Data for the Baselevel History. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8745. 1 indexed citations

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Mudd, Simon M. & Kyungsoo Yoo. (2010). Reservoir theory for studying the geochemical evolution of soils. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(F3). 42 indexed citations

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Heimsath, Arjun M., et al.. (2009). Weathering the escarpment: chemical and physical rates and processes, south‐eastern Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 34(6). 768–785. 49 indexed citations

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Yoo, Kyungsoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun M. Heimsath, & W. E. Dietrich. (2005). Spatial patterns of soil organic carbon on hillslopes: Integrating geomorphic processes and the biological C cycle. Geoderma. 130(1-2). 47–65. 189 indexed citations

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Yoo, Kyungsoo, Ronald Amundson, Arjun M. Heimsath, & W. E. Dietrich. (2003). Non-steady State Soil Organic Carbon Storage in Undisturbed Watersheds Due to Diffusive Sediment Transport. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003.

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