OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A case study of runoff and sediment yield in areas subjected to different forest thinning operations in a northern New Mexico forest	32
Characteristics of the soil macropore and root architecture of alpine meadows during the seasonal freezing-thawing process and their impact on water transport in the Qinghai Lake watershed, northeaste	28
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	19
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	18
Combining Gypsum with Establishment of Perennial Vegetation Improved the Restoration of a Salt-Affected Soil in the Northern Great Plains	16
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	15
The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	15
Policy process and problem framing for state Nutrient Reduction Strategies in the US Upper Mississippi River Basin	15
Using targeted messages to improve farmer engagement in conservation programs	14
Erratum for Xiao et al., Crop type drives soil bacterial community and functional structure on the Loess Plateau terraces of China	14
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	13
The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States	13
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	13
Spatial and agronomic assessment of water erosion on inland Pacific Northwest cereal grain cropland	12
Estimates of soil erosion and best management practice effectiveness at forestry stream crossings in North Carolina	11
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	11
Soil loss due to harvesting of peanut and cassava under traditional farming systems: Cost implications of soil nutrient loss	11
Agriculture as part of the solution to climate change: Incentivizing the adoption of no-till and cover crops	10
A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges	10
Pathways to conservation persistence: Psychosocial drivers of durable grasslands following the Conservation Reserve Program	10
Social networks as conservation practice: Targeting wetland conservation for women landowners	10
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	9
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	9
Rice producer enrollment and retention in a USDA regional conservation partnership program in the southern United States	9
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	9

Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	8
Surface runoff responses to conservation cotton production systems and edge-of-field buffers	8
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	7
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	7
United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	7
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	7
Impact of rainfall on the distribution of soil aggregate fractions caused by shallow runoff	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	6
Effect of biochar treatment on soil pH and cucumber fruit: A demonstration of the importance of biochar amendment on the tropical soils of Nigeria	6
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	6
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	6
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	6
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	6
Runoff and soil and nutrient losses from gravel mulching: A field experiment with natural rainfall on the Loess Plateau of China	6
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	6
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	6
Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method	6
How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!	6
A historic landmark for the role of soil health in climate and food security: “Soil health” in COP28 UAE Declaration	5
Linking geospatial information and effects of land management to edaphic properties	5
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	5
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	5
Soil health through farmers’ eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value, and manage for healthier soils	5
Patterns and associations between dominant crop productions and water quality in an irrigated watershed	5
Sediment delivery ratios from forest road networks and harvesting operational features by physiographic region in the southeastern United States	5
Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage	5
Reflections for enhancing participatory research and outreach from a multistakeholder soil health program	5
The progression of USDA NRCS conservation planning’s Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool	5
Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region	4
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	4
Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	4
Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops	4
Environmental justice, climate change, and agriculture	4
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	4
Farmland preservation in Chatham County, North Carolina: A program overview	4
Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	4
Evaluating the impact of midwestern cropping systems on soil health and soil carbon dynamics	4
Understanding farmers’ adoption of conservation tillage in South Dakota: A modified application of the theory of planned behavior	4
Eco-hydrological functioning of multi-aged dryland afforestation systems	4
Elevation-Derived Hydrography: The USGS’s rich new hydrological features dataset	4
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	4
Awareness of nutrient loss among Illinois corn farmers	4
Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains	3
Can nitrogen in fall-planted legume cover crops be credited to maize?	3
Overcoming barriers to program participation for interested farmers	3
A new chapter for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	3
Rye cover crop had a nitrogen credit one year after termination in a frigid environment	3
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	3
The speciation of Iowa’s nutrient loads and the implications for midwestern nutrient reduction strategies	3
Flue gas desulfurization gypsum and grass buffer strip influence on runoff and nutrient loss from inorganically and organically fertilized corn on a US Coastal Plain soil	3

Defining boundaries and conceptual frameworks for ecologically focused agricultural systems	3
Practical guidance for deciding whether to account for soil variability when managing for land health, agricultural production, and climate resilience	3
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	3
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	2
Oilseed radish/cereal cover crop bicultures and soil phosphorus distribution	2
From lab to field to farm: Applying behavioral science insights to agri-environmental programs	2
Risk mitigation or risky business? Agricultural stakeholders’ perspectives on crop insurance discount programs, cover crops, and risk management	2
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	2
Headcut erosion characteristics revealed through simulated rainfall and scouring experiments in the gully region of the Loess Plateau	2
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	2
Modeling the applicability of edge-of-field treatment wetlands to reduce nitrate loads in the Elm Creek watershed in southern Minnesota, United States	2
Crop type drives soil bacterial community and functional structure on the Loess Plateau terraces of China	2
Agriculture in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System: A miracle in the making?	2
Progress in soil erosion research: A European perspective	2
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	2
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	2
Driving small-scale agricultural and hydrological models using globally available stochastic climate datasets that include point-scale precipitation	2
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	2
Capability of high-resolution RGB imagery to accurately document residue in row-crop fields	2
Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies	2
Water quality improvements in Grand Lake St. Marys watershed with the region’s first saturated buffer	2
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	2
Supporting on-the-ground conservationists: The Conservation Practitioner Poll	2
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	2
Critical shear stress variability in claypan soils with depth	2
Managed aquifer recharge using a borrow pit in connection with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in northeastern Arkansas	2
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	2
The urgent need for action	2
Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana	2
Artificial intelligence for assessing organic matter content and related soil properties	2
A preliminary determination of the plot-scale fertilization tolerance of an Entisol in southwest China	2
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	2
Erratum for Martinez et al., Leveraging ecological monitoring programs to collect soil and geomorphology data across the western United States	2
Environmental impact of the historical slag pile at Davenport, Iowa, United States: Trace metal contamination in soils and terrestrial vegetation	2
Applicability of laser diffraction method for soil particle size distribution analysis of five soil orders in the water erosion region of China	2
Low-overhead dairy grazing: A specific solution to a vexing problem	2