Writing about organic carbon determination in soil

Abstract

The article draws attention to increasing incidents of confusing description of organic carbon determination methods in soil research articles, published even in Eurasian Soil Science, the leading journal in the field in Russia, i.e. when authors refer to the total soil carbon measured by automated elemental analysers as soil organic carbon, without any justification neglecting soil inorganic carbon, often small but important for many soil properties and processes fraction of total soil carbon.