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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	36
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	29
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	17
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	17
The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	16
Erratum for Xiao et al., Crop type drives soil bacterial community and functional structure on the Loess Plateau terraces of China	15
Policy process and problem framing for state Nutrient Reduction Strategies in the US Upper Mississippi River Basin	15
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	15
Using targeted messages to improve farmer engagement in conservation programs	14
The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States	14
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	13
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	13
Agriculture as part of the solution to climate change: Incentivizing the adoption of no-till and cover crops	12
Spatial and agronomic assessment of water erosion on inland Pacific Northwest cereal grain cropland	12
Pathways to conservation persistence: Psychosocial drivers of durable grasslands following the Conservation Reserve Program	11
Soil loss due to harvesting of peanut and cassava under traditional farming systems: Cost implications of soil nutrient loss	11
Social networks as conservation practice: Targeting wetland conservation for women landowners	10
Estimates of soil erosion and best management practice effectiveness at forestry stream crossings in North Carolina	10
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	9
Surface runoff responses to conservation cotton production systems and edge-of-field buffers	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
A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges	9
Impact of rainfall on the distribution of soil aggregate fractions caused by shallow runoff	8

United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	8
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	8
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	7
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	7
Designing a lower salt future: Examining chloride’s environmental and infrastructure impacts	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	7
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	7
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	6
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	6
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	6
Assessing the need to grow natural resources professionals’ competencies beyond conservation	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
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	6
How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!	6
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	6
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	6
Soil health through farmers’ eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value, and manage for healthier soils	6
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	5
Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method	5
The progression of USDA NRCS conservation planning’s Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool	5
Patterns and associations between dominant crop productions and water quality in an irrigated watershed	5
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	5
Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage	5
Environmental justice, climate change, and agriculture	5
Reflections for enhancing participatory research and outreach from a multistakeholder soil health program	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
A historic landmark for the role of soil health in climate and food security: “Soil health” in COP28 UAE Declaration	5
Awareness of nutrient loss among Illinois corn farmers	5
Sediment delivery ratios from forest road networks and harvesting operational features by physiographic region in the southeastern United States	4
Eco-hydrological functioning of multi-aged dryland afforestation systems	4
Farmland preservation in Chatham County, North Carolina: A program overview	4
Managing South Asia’s nitrogen cycle by restoring soil health and adopting conservation agriculture	4
Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region	4
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	4
Can yield warranties promote farmer practice adoption? Evidence from a two-region pilot study	4
Elevation-Derived Hydrography: The USGS’s rich new hydrological features dataset	4
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	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
Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops	4
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	4
Rye cover crop had a nitrogen credit one year after termination in a frigid environment	3
Defining boundaries and conceptual frameworks for ecologically focused agricultural systems	3
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	3
Overcoming barriers to program participation for interested farmers	3
Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	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
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	3
The speciation of Iowa’s nutrient loads and the implications for midwestern nutrient reduction strategies	3

Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	3
A new chapter for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	3
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	3
Practical guidance for deciding whether to account for soil variability when managing for land health, agricultural production, and climate resilience	3
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	2
Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies	2
Supporting on-the-ground conservationists: The Conservation Practitioner Poll	2
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	2
Critical shear stress variability in claypan soils with depth	2
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	2
Risk mitigation or risky business? Agricultural stakeholders’ perspectives on crop insurance discount programs, cover crops, and risk management	2
The urgent need for action	2
Driving small-scale agricultural and hydrological models using globally available stochastic climate datasets that include point-scale precipitation	2
Oilseed radish/cereal cover crop bicultures and soil phosphorus distribution	2
Agriculture in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System: A miracle in the making?	2
Artificial intelligence for assessing organic matter content and related soil properties	2
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	2
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	2
Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana	2
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	2
Progress in soil erosion research: A European perspective	2
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	2
Can nitrogen in fall-planted legume cover crops be credited to maize?	2
Environmental impact of the historical slag pile at Davenport, Iowa, United States: Trace metal contamination in soils and terrestrial vegetation	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
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	2
Headcut erosion characteristics revealed through simulated rainfall and scouring experiments in the gully region of the Loess Plateau	2
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	2
Interplay between voluntary private carbon initiatives and USDA programs	2
Managed aquifer recharge using a borrow pit in connection with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in northeastern Arkansas	2
Low-overhead dairy grazing: A specific solution to a vexing problem	2
From lab to field to farm: Applying behavioral science insights to agri-environmental programs	2
Capability of high-resolution RGB imagery to accurately document residue in row-crop fields	2