| Dr | Ignacio | Valverde Palacios | University of Granada/ Buildings Construction Department | Spain | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. | Irina | Kumukova | Moscow Multidisciplinary Clinical Center "Kommunarka,", Moscow, Russia | Russia | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Ishrat | Naz | The University of Agriculture, Peshawar | Pakistan | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Ismail | Khan | UCSI university | Malaysia | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Jamal | Nasar | Guizhou University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Jasvir | Singh | Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla | India | Soil and Sustainable Development | soilscientists.org |
| Prof | Javad | Varvani | Islamic Azad University | Iran | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Mr | Jean Baptiste | Biloa | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) | Cameroon | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Jianhua | Yuan | University of South China | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Prof | Jianling | Xu | Yazhou Bay Innovation Institute/College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan Tropical Ocean University/Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Excellence in Soil Research | soilscientists.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jianwei | Zhang | Zhejiang Ocean university | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Ms | Jianxia | Yang | College of Geographical Sciences, Qinghai Normal University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jiao | Wang | School of Environmental & Resource Sciences of Shanxi University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Jiazhe | Zhu | University of Northampton | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Prof | jingjin | yu | Nanjing Agricultural University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Dr | Jingzhe | Wang | Shenzhen Polytechnic University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jinjie | Wang | College of Geography and Remote Sensing Science, Xinjiang University | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | José | Madeira | Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa | Portugal | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. | Jun | Meng | Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China | China | Best Scholar Award | soilscientists.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Junli | Hu | Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | soilscientists.org |