OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrated biochar research: A roadmap	25
Accelerating regenerative grazing to tackle farm, environmental, and societal challenges in the upper Midwest	25
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	21
Economic dimensions of soil health practices that sequester carbon: Promising research directions	18
Why do farmers care about rented land? Investigating the context of farmland tenure	12
Multispecies cover cropping promotes soil health in no-tillage cropping systems of North Carolina	12
Soil erosion assessment in Ethiopia: A review	11
Crop yield and economics of cropping systems involving different rotations, tillage, and cover crops	11
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	10
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	9
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	8
Negative emission farming	8
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	8
Effect of soil and water conservation measures on the reduction of runoff and sediment load in a loess hilly-gully region	8
Transitioning from conventional continuous grazing to planned rest-rotation grazing: A beef cattle case study from central Texas	7
Soil health: Meaning, measurement, and value through a critical zone lens	7
Feeding the world and returning half of the agricultural land back to nature	7
Soil water and temperature characteristics under different straw mulching and tillage measures in the black soil region of China	7
Soil and water ecosystem services of agroforestry	7
Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains	7
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	6
Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?	6
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage estimated with the root-zone enrichment method under conventional and conservation land management across North Carolina	6
Duration of usage and farmer reported benefits of conservation tillage	6
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	6

What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa	6
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	6
Minimum tillage and no-tillage winter wheat–summer fallow for low precipitation regions	5
Manure injection alters the spatial distribution of soil nitrate, mineralizable carbon, and microbial biomass	5
Risk, cost-share payments, and adoption of cover crops and no-till	5
Agronomic and environmental performance of dairy farms in a warmer, wetter climate	5
Quantifying regional effects of best management practices on nutrient losses from agricultural lands	5
Soil health, cover crop, and fertility management: Nebraska producers’ perspectives on challenges and adoption	5
Adopting cover crops and buffer strips to reduce nonpoint source pollution: Understanding farmers’ perspectives in the US Northern Great Plains	5
Erosion and sediment delivery in southern Iowa watersheds: Implications for conservation planning	5
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	5
“How can you put a price on the environment?” Farmer perspectives on stewardship and payment for ecosystem services	4
Temporally downscaling precipitation intensity factors for Köppen climate regions in the United States	4
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	4
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	4
Advancing understanding of conservation practices on rented land	4
A framework to estimate climate mitigation potential for US cropland using publicly available data	4
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	4
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	4
Conversion of Conservation Reserve Program land back to cropland: Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics during the first five years	4
A new approach for calculating the slope length factor in the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation	4
Runoff and soil and nutrient losses from gravel mulching: A field experiment with natural rainfall on the Loess Plateau of China	3
Experimental detection of the volume of the drip irrigation soil wetted body using Ground Penetrating Radar	3
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	3
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	3
Enhancing integration of Indigenous agricultural knowledge into USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service cost-share initiatives	3
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	3
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	3
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	3
Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability	3
Pasture conservation management effects on soil surface infiltration in hay and grazed systems	3
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	3
Soil erodibility after the removal of wood chip mulch: A wind tunnel experiment	3
Plant morphological and functional characteristics combined with elevation and aspect influence phytogenic mound parameters in a dry-hot valley	3
Short-term soil physical responses to grazing and cover crops in an integrated crop-livestock agroecosystem	3
Supporting practitioners in developing effective decision support tools for natural resource managers	3
Dynamics of dissolved reactive phosphorus loss from phosphorus source and sink soils in tile-drained systems	3
Seasonal water quality trends in a tailwater recovery system in the Mississippi Delta	3
The effects of soil aeration prior to dairy manure application on edge-of-field hydrology and nutrient fluxes in cold climate hayland agroecosystems	3
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	3
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	3
Carbon, nitrogen, and aggregation index in Ultisol with 11 years of application of animal manures and mineral fertilizer	3
Applicability of laser diffraction method for soil particle size distribution analysis of five soil orders in the water erosion region of China	3
Modeling the applicability of edge-of-field treatment wetlands to reduce nitrate loads in the Elm Creek watershed in southern Minnesota, United States	3
Understanding the market for cover crop seeds in the United States: Background and potential policy directions	3