OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Agricultural Science is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Radiation use efficiency and canopy structure of contrasting elephant grass varieties grown as monocrops and intercrops with butterfly pea	44
Cereal and oil seed crops response to organic nitrogen when grown in rotation with annual aerial-seeded pasture legumes	35
Crop–livestock systems transformation in the semiarid zones of North Africa over a decade: approach and case-study in Southern Tunisia	27
Ecosystem services provided by silvopastoral systems: a review	24
Comparison of single-step methods for genomic prediction of age at first calving in dairy buffaloes	21
Nitrogen nutrition for cotton in a semi-arid environment	20
Circular agriculture practices enhance phosphorus recovery for large-scale commercial farms under tropical conditions	16
Dynamics of fermentation profile, bacterial communities and their functional characteristics in red clover	15
Tiller population dynamics and self-thinning law reveal stability mechanisms in mixed grass swards under variable grazing management	14
A statistical method to standardize and interpret the activity data generated by wireless biosensors in dairy cows	14
Growth and yield estimation of banana through mathematical modelling: a systematic review	13
Regenerative agriculture v. conservation agriculture: potential effects on soil quality, crop productivity and whole-farm economics in Mediterranean-climate regions	12
Effect of three crop rotations and four residue levels on canola and bean grain yield and residue production	12
Impact of in-furrow fertilizers on winter wheat grain yield and mineral concentration	11
AGS volume 160 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	11
The ability of CROPGRO-Tomato model to simulate the growth characteristics of Thomas F1 tomato cultivar grown under open field conditions	11
Weed management in a direct-seeded rice-ratoon rice cropping system	11
AGS volume 160 issue 3-4 Cover and Front matter	10
Biomass production of hairy vetch and Egyptian clover as affected by sowing dates under warm and hot semi-arid conditions	9
Comparison of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber size distribution fitting methods and evaluation of the relationship between soil properties and estimated distribution parameters	9
An assessment of adaptation measures to enhance wheat productivity under climate change during early, mid and end of 21st century in Indian Punjab	9
Incubation experiments using nitrogen isotope discrimination to estimate ammonia emission from amended sheep manure treatments	8
Optimizing geophysics, biotechnology and other emerging tools for livestock production and management: a review	8
Composting from organic municipal solid waste: a sustainable tool for the environment and to improve grape quality	8
Upland rice intercropped with green manures and its impact on the succession with common bean	8

Contribution of coffee plants to carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems of Southwestern Ethiopia	8
Capsaicin supplementation on ruminal fermentation, immune responses, intake and digestibility nutrients in grazing bulls	8
Lactobacillus buchneri inoculation compared to chitosan and facultative heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria improves sugarcane silage conservation	8
Spineless cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera (L.)) as an exclusive or partial source of water for goats: histomorphological changes in the digestive, hepatic and renal systems	7
Optimising intensive grazing: a comprehensive review of rotational grassland management, innovative grazing strategies and infrastructural requirements	7
Effects of alpha-lipoic acid on productive performance, immunity, antioxidation and serum metabolism in Holstein cows	7
AGS volume 159 issue 7-8 Cover and Front matter	7
System fertilization in the pasture phase enhances productivity in integrated crop–livestock systems	7
A comparison of grazingv. zero-grazing on early-lactation dairy cow performance	7
Influence of crude protein content and flint maize processing methods on the performance of early-weaning Nellore calves	6
Multi-trait selection index and cluster analyses in Angus cattle	6
Impact of wheat-Agropyron germplasm on the improvement of grain weight and size: a comprehensive QTL analysis	6
Gamma-aminobutyric acid augments performance of heat-stressed broiler chickens through enhancement of oxidative defence mechanism	6
Yield improvement with antitranspirant application in droughted wheat associated with both reduced transpiration and reduced abscisic acid	6
The net contribution of livestock to the supply of human edible protein: the case of Ireland	6
Productive and nutritive traits of Piatã palisadegrass after thinning the forest component of a silvopastoral system in southeastern Brazil	6
Drip irrigation and mulching reduce weed interference and improve water productivity of spring maize	6
AGS volume 160 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	6
Genome-wide association study identifies significant SNP and related genes associated with body size in Yorkshire pigs using latent variable modelling	6
Genetic gains in potato breeding as measured by field testing of cultivars released during the last 200 years in the Nordic Region of Europe	5
Benchmarking of topsoil moisture estimation methods based on a field study	5
Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health and behaviour	5
Weather indices during reproductive phase explain wheat yield variability	5
Conservation tillage and microbially mediated integrated phosphorus management enhance productivity, profitability and energy use efficiency of maize	5
Developing biomarkers to estimate manure ammonia emissions from dairy cattle	5
Modelling maize yield impacts of improved water and fertilizer management in southern Africa using cropping system model coupled to an agro-hydrological model at field and catchment scale	5
Statistical options for the analysis of in vitro gas production profiles illustrated using rumen liquor as the inoculum – ERRATUM	5
Production and nutritive value of Tifton 85 bermudagrass pastures overseeded with annual ryegrass and inoculated with diazotrophic bacteria	5
Feed quality of modern varieties of Festuca arundinacea and Phleum pratense as an alternative to Lolium perenne in intensively managed grassland with different defoliation schemes	5
Genomic evaluation of threshold traits in different scenarios of threshold number using parametric and non-parametric statistical methods	4
Biorefined perennial ryegrass press cake as an alternative feed for dairy cows in late lactation and during the dry period: a demonstration	4
Organic system vs. conventional – a Bayesian analysis of Polish potato post-registration trials	4
Coupling the interactive effects of solar radiation, temperature and nitrogen on performance of transplanted rice	4
In vitro and in sacco digestibility of almond hulls	4
A novel 28-bp indel inIGF1Rgene associated with growth traits across four Chinese cattle breeds	4
Soil quality assessment based on hybrid computational approach with spatial multi-criteria analysis and geographical information system for sustainable tea cultivation	4
Inoculant, nitrogen and phosphorus improves photosynthesis and water-use efficiency in soybean production	4
Genotype–environment interaction and sexual dimorphism in the genetic evaluation of yearling weight in Simmental cattle raised in Brazil	4
Cropping pattern effects on water supply-demand balance in a traditional irrigation network of a semi-arid region of Iran	4
Modelling the effects of stocking rate, soil type, agroclimate location and nitrogen input on the grass DM yield and forage self-sufficiency of Irish grass-based dairy production systems	4
On-farm agronomic performance and farmer preference of quality protein maize grown under conservation agriculture in Southern Africa: a case for Zimbabwe	4
Calibration and bias correction of seasonal weather forecasts from the North American Multi-Model Ensemble: Potential applications for regional crop modelling and irrigation management	4
Response of wheat cultivars to zinc application for seed yield and quality improvement	4
Selection and evaluation of black short grain breeding lines associated with yield, cooking quality, high nutrition and antioxidant potential derived from indica black rice x japonica wh	4
Content and uptake of macroelements in green fodder of mixtures of narrowleaf lupin with spring triticale	4
A novel source of calcium: effects of calcium pidolate concentration on egg quality in aged laying quails (Coturnix coturnix Japonica)	3
Comparison of four upscaling methods to drive instantaneous evapotranspiration to daily values for maize in two climatic regions in China	3
Parental imprinting effects on growth traits and Kleiber ratio in sheep	3
Further solutions to an isotope dilution model for partitioning phenylalanine and tyrosine between milk protein synthesis and other metabolic fates by the mammary gland of lactating dairy cows	3
The effect of spring grass availability and silage supplementation on dairy cow performance and dry matter intake during early lactation	3

Efficiency of fertilization with coated urea in the cultivation of cactus pear under rainfed conditions in Brazilian savannah	3
Quality of haylage of Brachiaria brizantha with different contents of dry matter in the storage – CORRIGENDUM	3
Comparison of aerobic rice cultivation using drip systems with conventional flooding	3
Temporal trends in winter wheat yield: the role of NPK-fertilization and climate over decades of field experiments	3
Determination of the effects of different tillage methods and irrigation levels on soybean yield and yield components	3
Yields and weed management of sweet corn as influenced by seedbed preparation methods and wheat residues rates	3
Including clover and herb species in grazing forages – effects on milk production, milk processability and milk fatty acid profile of late lactation dairy cows supplemented with grass silage and conce	3
Statistical options for the analysis of in vitro gas production profiles illustrated using rumen liquor as the inoculum	3
AGS volume 160 issue 3-4 Cover and Back matter	3
Marker-assisted selection for improving body weight in local chickens in Egypt	3
Linking maize yields in Veneto Italy, to large-scale atmospheric variability, circulation regimes and weather types	3
Plant variety selection using interaction classes derived from factor analytic linear mixed models: models with information on genetic relatedness	3
Investigation of fermentation profiles, bacterial community structure and bacterial β-carotene synthesis of alfalfa silage treated with propionic acid or its combination with squalene	3
Bambara groundnut production, grain composition and nutritional value: opportunities for improvements	3