OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Agricultural Science is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Radiation use efficiency and canopy structure of contrasting elephant grass varieties grown as monocrops and intercrops with butterfly pea	48
Crop–livestock systems transformation in the semiarid zones of North Africa over a decade: approach and case-study in Southern Tunisia	37
Ecosystem services provided by silvopastoral systems: a review	24
Cereal and oil seed crops response to organic nitrogen when grown in rotation with annual aerial-seeded pasture legumes	22
Nitrogen nutrition for cotton in a semi-arid environment	17
Regenerative agriculture v. conservation agriculture: potential effects on soil quality, crop productivity and whole-farm economics in Mediterranean-climate regions	16
Circular agriculture practices enhance phosphorus recovery for large-scale commercial farms under tropical conditions	15
Dynamics of fermentation profile, bacterial communities and their functional characteristics in red clover	14
Tiller population dynamics and self-thinning law reveal stability mechanisms in mixed grass swards under variable grazing management	13
Comparison of single-step methods for genomic prediction of age at first calving in dairy buffaloes	13
Effect of three crop rotations and four residue levels on canola and bean grain yield and residue production	13
A statistical method to standardize and interpret the activity data generated by wireless biosensors in dairy cows	13
Weed management in a direct-seeded rice-ratoon rice cropping system	12
Growth and yield estimation of banana through mathematical modelling: a systematic review	12
The ability of CROPGRO-Tomato model to simulate the growth characteristics of Thomas F1 tomato cultivar grown under open field conditions	11
Impact of in-furrow fertilizers on winter wheat grain yield and mineral concentration	11
AGS volume 160 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	11
An assessment of adaptation measures to enhance wheat productivity under climate change during early, mid and end of 21st century in Indian Punjab	9
Contribution of coffee plants to carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems of Southwestern Ethiopia	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
AGS volume 160 issue 3-4 Cover and Front matter	9
Biomass production of hairy vetch and Egyptian clover as affected by sowing dates under warm and hot semi-arid conditions	9
Upland rice intercropped with green manures and its impact on the succession with common bean	8
Capsaicin supplementation on ruminal fermentation, immune responses, intake and digestibility nutrients in grazing bulls	8
Composting from organic municipal solid waste: a sustainable tool for the environment and to improve grape quality	8

Optimizing geophysics, biotechnology and other emerging tools for livestock production and management: a review	8
Incubation experiments using nitrogen isotope discrimination to estimate ammonia emission from amended sheep manure treatments	8
Lactobacillus buchneri inoculation compared to chitosan and facultative heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria improves sugarcane silage conservation	8
Optimising intensive grazing: a comprehensive review of rotational grassland management, innovative grazing strategies and infrastructural requirements	8
Influence of crude protein content and flint maize processing methods on the performance of early-weaning Nellore calves	7
AGS volume 159 issue 7-8 Cover and Front matter	7
Effects of alpha-lipoic acid on productive performance, immunity, antioxidation and serum metabolism in Holstein cows	7
Unlocking the potential of artificial nighttime lighting in agricultural fields: a novel approach to enhancing crop productivity	7
A comparison of grazingv. zero-grazing on early-lactation dairy cow performance	7
System fertilization in the pasture phase enhances productivity in integrated crop–livestock systems	6
Impact of enzyme-supplemented dried dates (Phoenix dactylifera) fruit pulp incorporated into broiler chickens’ meal	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
Spineless cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera (L.)) as an exclusive or partial source of water for goats: histomorphological changes in the digestive, hepatic and renal systems	6
Drip irrigation and mulching reduce weed interference and improve water productivity of spring maize	6
The effect of abomasal infusion of corn starch and β-hydroxybutyrate on hindgut microbial fermentation kinetics in early lactating dairy cows measured by the in vitro gas production technique	6
AGS volume 160 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	5
Weather indices during reproductive phase explain wheat yield variability	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
Impact of wheat-Agropyron germplasm on the improvement of grain weight and size: a comprehensive QTL analysis	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
Productive and nutritive traits of Piatã palisadegrass after thinning the forest component of a silvopastoral system in southeastern Brazil	5
Soil quality assessment based on hybrid computational approach with spatial multi-criteria analysis and geographical information system for sustainable tea cultivation	5
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
Genome-wide association study identifies significant SNP and related genes associated with body size in Yorkshire pigs using latent variable modelling	5
Conservation tillage and microbially mediated integrated phosphorus management enhance productivity, profitability and energy use efficiency of maize	5
Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health and behaviour	5
Developing biomarkers to estimate manure ammonia emissions from dairy cattle	5
Content and uptake of macroelements in green fodder of mixtures of narrowleaf lupin with spring triticale	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
Genomic evaluation of threshold traits in different scenarios of threshold number using parametric and non-parametric statistical methods	4
In vitro and in sacco digestibility of almond hulls	4
Comparison of four upscaling methods to drive instantaneous evapotranspiration to daily values for maize in two climatic regions in China	4
A novel 28-bp indel inIGF1Rgene associated with growth traits across four Chinese cattle breeds	4
Benchmarking of topsoil moisture estimation methods based on a field study	4
Biorefined perennial ryegrass press cake as an alternative feed for dairy cows in late lactation and during the dry period: a demonstration	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
Adaptability and yield stability of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare) varieties: Bayesian analysis	4
Organic system vs. conventional – a Bayesian analysis of Polish potato post-registration trials	4
On-farm agronomic performance and farmer preference of quality protein maize grown under conservation agriculture in Southern Africa: a case for Zimbabwe	4
Response of wheat cultivars to zinc application for seed yield and quality improvement	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
Coupling the interactive effects of solar radiation, temperature and nitrogen on performance of transplanted rice	4