Environmental sustainability is attracting attention due to global environmental concerns and one of the main focuses is agricultural production. Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) is a crop of global significance and one of the important issues to be addressed towards its sustainable production is how soil quality has been considered in sugarcane cultivation. This bibliometric study aimed to investigate how soil quality has been addressed in sugarcane management research, as well as to identify possible knowledge gaps to be considered in future studies. The bibliographic search was performed by using a combination of terms considering all databases from the Web of Science ® (WOS). A total of 160 scientific publications were found and the following information was analyzed: i) publication years, ii) countries, iii) institutions, iv) authors, and v) research areas. Furthermore, to identify possible gaps in the literature, we classified soil-related papers in the following categories: soil physics, soil chemistry, soil use and management, soil conservation, soil survey and classification, soil micromorphology, soil biology, soil geochemistry, and soil fertility and plant nutrition. We also presented the most cited papers and contribution maps for countries considering a subset of 119 articles from the WOS Core Collection database. Concerns about soil quality in the cultivation of sugarcane have increased in recent years, especially in the last 9 years, when 74 % of the total papers were published. Brazil is the country responsible for 99 out of 160 publications with 12 institutions and 13 authors responsible for the largest number of publications. From a total of 160 published articles, 97 % were related to agriculture research and 71 % to soil science, whereas soil use and management was the most reported category. We found a lack of studies of no-tillage systems in sugarcane cultivation that assess soil quality, and that integrate physical, chemical and biological indicators, including hydrophysical, micromorphological and macrofauna analyses as indicators of soil quality. Therefore, we suggest that these issues should be considered in future studies.

由于全球环境问题，环境可持续性引起了人们的关注，农业生产是主要重点之一。甘蔗（Saccharum officinarum））是一种具有全球重要性的作物，其可持续生产需要解决的重要问题之一是如何在甘蔗种植中考虑土壤质量。这项文献计量研究旨在调查如何在甘蔗管理研究中解决土壤质量问题，并确定可能在未来研究中考虑的知识差距。书目搜索是通过综合考虑来自Web of Science（WOS）的所有数据库的术语进行的。共找到160种科学出版物，并对以下信息进行了分析：i）出版年，ii）国家，iii）机构，iv）作者，v）研究领域。此外，为了找出文献中可能存在的空白，我们将与土壤相关的论文归类为以下几类：土壤物理学，土壤化学，土壤的使用和管理，土壤养护，土壤调查和分类，土壤微观形态，土壤生物学，土壤地球化学以及土壤肥力和植物营养。我们还考虑了来自WOS Core Collection数据库的119条文章的子集，给出了被引用次数最多的国家的论文和贡献图。近年来，尤其是在最近的9年中，对甘蔗种植中的土壤质量的关注有所增加，当发表的论文总数达到74％时。巴西是负责160种出版物中的99种的国家，有12个机构和13位作者在出版物中占最大份额。在发表的160篇文章中，有97％与农业研究有关，而71％与土壤科学有关，而土壤利用和管理是报道最多的类别。我们发现缺乏对甘蔗种植中的免耕系统进行评估的研究，这些系统评估土壤质量，并整合了物理，化学和生物学指标，包括水物理，微观形态学和大型动物分析作为土壤质量指标。因此，我们建议在以后的研究中应考虑这些问题。