Yakov Kuzyakov
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Yakov Kuzyakov is a soil scientist[1][2] who works at the University of Göttingen at the Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems department.[2][3] He is also affiliated with the RUDN University.[4] Since September 2026 his work has been scrutinized, so far five of his papers have been retracted due to serious ethical violations during the peer review and editorial process.[5][6][7][8][9]
Research and career
He was a professor at the department of Agroecosystem Research at the University of Bayreuth until 2011.[10] Since 2011, he has headed the department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems and the department of Agricultural Soil Science at the University of Göttingen.[2][11]
Controversies
In 2026, his work came under scrutiny for unethical behavior. As an editor for the Elsevier European Journal of Soil Biology, he edited several of his own papers. As of September 2026, four of the papers in that journal that he authored and edited himself were retracted. Aside from editing four of his own papers,[5][6][7][8] three papers had also been reviewed by at least one reviewer closely linked to him, compromising the editorial process.[12][6][7][8] A fifth paper he authored in a second Elsevier journal, Science of the Total Environment, was retracted due to suspicious changes in authors on the paper during the review process.[9]
Scientific achievements
Yakov is one of the most cited scientists in the world and has published more than a thousand scientific papers throughout his career.[1][13] He has been a world's top 2% ranked scientists for 7 years straight since 2020.[14] He was a highly cited researcher in the field of Agricultural Sciences between 2015 and 2020,[15] and was included in the list of the most cited Russian scientists in 2017.[16] Four of his papers published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry have been listed as the most cited over the last 50 years.[17]
Research interests
Kuzyakov specialises in soil ecology and soil biogeochemistry (lipids, low molecular organic substances), agriculture, land use, agroecology, C and N cycles, priming effects, soil-plant interactions (rhizosphere processes), in-depth study of rhizodeposition, partitioning of CO2 fluxes from soil and application of radioactive and stable isotope labelling approaches in soil science.[2][1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "RUDN professor Yakov Kuzyakov is recognized as one of the most cited scientists in the world". Indiaeducationdiary.in.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Staff list of Institute of Soil Science". uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 2026-09-07.
- ↑ "Staff list of Institute of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems". uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ "Yakov Kuzyakov". eng.rudn.ru.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Liang, Qiong; Chen, Haiqing; Gong, Yuanshi; Yang, Hefa; Fan, Mingsheng; Kuzyakov, Yakov (1 January 2014). "RETRACTED: Effects of 15 years of manure and mineral fertilizers on enzyme activities in particle-size fractions in a North China Plain soil". European Journal of Soil Biology. 60: 112–119. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.11.009.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Maharjan, Menuka; Maranguit, Deejay; Kuzyakov, Yakov (May 2018). "RETRACTED: Phosphorus fractions in subtropical soils depending on land use". European Journal of Soil Biology. 87: 17–24. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.04.002.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Qiu, Husen; Zheng, Xiaodong; Ge, Tida; Dorodnikov, Maxim; Chen, Xiangbi; Hu, Yajun; Kuzyakov, Yakov; Wu, Jinshui; Su, Yirong; Zhang, Zhenhua (November 2017). "RETRACTED: Weaker priming and mineralisation of low molecular weight organic substances in paddy than in upland soil". European Journal of Soil Biology. 83: 9–17. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.09.008.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Qiu, Husen; Ge, Tida; Liu, Jieyun; Chen, Xiangbi; Hu, Yajun; Wu, Jinshui; Su, Yirong; Kuzyakov, Yakov (January 2018). "RETRACTED: Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on soil organic matter mineralization: Experiments and structural modeling analysis". European Journal of Soil Biology. 84: 27–34. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.12.003.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Wu, Cuiyan; Huang, Wei; Liu, Yixian; Li, Han; Ding, Shuai; Zhu, Zhenke; Wang, Feng; Dijkstra, Feike A.; Zhang, Guangbin; Kuzyakov, Yakov; Cheng, Weiguo; Xiao, Mouliang; Ge, Tida (10 December 2024). "RETRACTED: Physicochemically protected organic carbon release is the rate-limiting step of rhizosphere priming in paddy soils". Science of the Total Environment. 955. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176859. PMID 39414056 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ "Yakov Kuzyakov". University of Bayreuth-BAYCEER. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
- ↑ "Staff list of Institute of Soil Science". uni-goettingen.de. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ "Retraction Watch Database". retractiondatabase.org.
- ↑ "Yakov Kuzyakov's Web of Sciece profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ "World'stop 2% scientists". manuelgarcia.info.
- ↑ "Viel zitierte Göttinger Wissenschaftler". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt (in Deutsch). 19 February 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ Ирина Смазневич (2018-02-21). "Самые высокоцитируемые российские ученые 2017 года". 4science.
- ↑ "Fifty years of SBB: The most cited articles for each year - Article Selections: Virtual Special Issues - Soil Biology and Biochemistry - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com.
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