OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the short- and long-term impacts of subsurface drainage installation on soil physical and biological properties	23
Elevation-Derived Hydrography: The USGS’s rich new hydrological features dataset	13
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	13
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	12
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	11
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	9
Modification of the Soil Vulnerability Index to account for increased erosion risk from winter precipitation in the southern United States	9
Estimating soil carbon change using the web-based Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT) with APEX	9
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	9
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	8
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	7
Farmland preservation in Chatham County, North Carolina: A program overview	7
Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	7
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	7
Simulating behavioral heterogeneity in watershed models: A systematic review of fertilizer use in SWAT studies	6
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	6
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	6
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	6
Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	5
Soil health: Meaning, measurement, and value through a critical zone lens	5
Conservation programs to reduce greenhouse gases	5
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	5
Pasture conservation management effects on soil surface infiltration in hay and grazed systems	5
Effect of biochar treatment on soil pH and cucumber fruit: A demonstration of the importance of biochar amendment on the tropical soils of Nigeria	5

The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	5
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	4
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	4
Rye cover crop had a nitrogen credit one year after termination in a frigid environment	4
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	4
Defining boundaries and conceptual frameworks for ecologically focused agricultural systems	4
Combining gypsum with establishment of perennial vegetation improved the restoration of a salt-affected soil in the Northern Great Plains	4
Nitrogen balances and losses in conservation cropping systems across a tile-drained landscape in Ohio, United States	4
Mapping pollutant source to enhance water quality conservation in agricultural watersheds: Nonpoint no more?	4
Flooding: Management and risk mitigation	4
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	3
Analysis of soil water potential characteristics of wheat croplands and apple orchards in an agroforestry ecosystem based on the van Genuchten model	3
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	3
A new chapter for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	3
Capture of surface water runoff for irrigation of corn in western Illinois: Implications for nutrient loss reduction	3
Farmers’ participation in incentivized conservation programs: Exploring barriers and opportunities for innovative designs	3
Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability	3
Using targeted messages to improve farmer engagement in conservation programs	3
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	3
Seasonal water quality trends in a tailwater recovery system in the Mississippi Delta	3
Development of deficit irrigation program for improving the water use efficiency, growth, and yield of groundnut in the semiarid tropical region of India	3
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage estimated with the root-zone enrichment method under conventional and conservation land management across North Carolina	3
Dynamics of dissolved reactive phosphorus loss from phosphorus source and sink soils in tile-drained systems	2
Can nitrogen in fall-planted legume cover crops be credited to maize?	2
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	2
The influence of prairie strips sown in midwestern corn and soybean fields on sediment discharge throughout the year	2
Soil health, cover crop, and fertility management: Nebraska producers’ perspectives on challenges and adoption	2
Artificial intelligence for assessing organic matter content and related soil properties	2
Soil health through farmers’ eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value, and manage for healthier soils	2
Practical guidance for deciding whether to account for soil variability when managing for land health, agricultural production, and climate resilience	2
How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!	2
Implementing constructed wetlands for nutrient reduction at watershed scale: Opportunity to link models and real-world execution	2
The speciation of Iowa’s nutrient loads and the implications for midwestern nutrient reduction strategies	2
Public communication of soil conservation practices: A large-scale content analysis of Wisconsin’s agricultural trade publications	2
Dynamic equilibrium and nutrients and metals release in sandy soils amended with hydrochar, lignite, and cactus powder	2
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	2
Soil, soul, spirituality, and stewardship	2
Long-term subsoiling and straw return increase soil organic carbon fractions and crop yield	2
Smart control of agricultural water wells in western Iran: Application of the Q-methodology	2
Leveraging ecological monitoring programs to collect soil and geomorphology data across the western United States	2
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	2
Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies	2
Policy process and problem framing for state Nutrient Reduction Strategies in the US Upper Mississippi River Basin	2
From lab to field to farm: Applying behavioral science insights to agri-environmental programs	1
A historic landmark for the role of soil health in climate and food security: “Soil health” in COP28 UAE Declaration	1
Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage	1
Linking geospatial information and effects of land management to edaphic properties	1
Effects of different vegetation restoration types on soil infiltration characteristics in severely eroded subtropical regions of South China	1
Alfalfa reduces winter nitrate leaching relative to organic and conventional annual vegetable systems: Resin bag field measurements and modeling with HYDRUS-1D	1
Alternatives for improving Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) effectiveness on water resources	1

Soil and water ecosystem services of agroforestry	1
Spatial and agronomic assessment of water erosion on inland Pacific Northwest cereal grain cropland	1
Developing cover crop systems for California almonds: Current knowledge and uncertainties	1
Agriculture intensification as a critical step to enhance sustainable productive systems	1
A perennial living mulch substantially increases infiltration in row crop systems	1
Assessing the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework toolbox in a Southern Piedmont landscape of the United States	1
Short-term soil physical responses to grazing and cover crops in an integrated crop-livestock agroecosystem	1
How resilient are US rangeland ecosystems?	1
Influence of poultry litter on nutrient availability and fate in plant-soil systems: A meta-analysis	1
Restoring South Asia’s degraded soils and ecosystems for peace and prosperity	1
Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method	1
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	1
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	1
The urgent need for action	1
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	1
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	1
Adoption of cover crops in Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay watershed	1
A framework to estimate climate mitigation potential for US cropland using publicly available data	1