Soil Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing. The current editor-in-chief is R.J. Gilkes (University of Western Australia). The journal is abstracted and indexed in Elsevier BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index. It was established in 1963 as the Australian Journal of Soil Research and obtained its current title in 2011.