OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ergot alkaloids in New Zealand pastures and their impact	23
Computer vision-based weight estimation of livestock: a systematic literature review	22
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral landuses in New Zealand II. The effects of some farm mitigation actions over the past two decades	20
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in New Zealand III. What could be achieved by 2035?	13
Intended and unintended consequences of genetically modified crops – myth, fact and/or manageable outcomes?	10
Effect of birth rank and age at first lambing on lifetime performance and ewe efficiency	9
Effects of heavier live weight of ewe lambs at mating on fertility, lambing percentage, subsequent live weight and the performance of their progeny	9
Reflecting on the journey of environmental farm planning in New Zealand	8
Assessing dairy farming eco-efficiency in New Zealand: a two-stage data envelopment analysis	8
Impacts of growing and utilising genetically modified crops and forages – a New Zealand perspective	8
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral landuses in New Zealand I. Development of a spatial framework for assessing losses at a farm scale	7
Comparing herbicide resistance in New Zealand and Australia	7
Simplified methods for on-farm prediction of yield potential of grazed lucerne crops in New Zealand	7
Production, profit and nitrogen flows in irrigated dairy systems representing different industry development pathways: the Pastoral 21 experience in Canterbury	7
Defects and bacterial pathogens in udders of non-dairy breed ewes from New Zealand	6
Impacts of pasture species and ruminant urine on N₂O emissions and nitrogen transforming microbial communities in soil mesocosms	6
Investigation into the contrasting production of eight perennial clover cultivars in the first two years at field sites in in Waikato and Canterbury	6
The effect of a fodder beet versus rye-grass grazing regime during mid-to-late gestation twin-bearing ewes on dam and progeny performance and lamb survival	5
Multiple resistance to flumetsulam and MCPA in two clones of Ranunculus acris	5
Forage production, morphological, and chemical composition of diploid and tetraploid cultivars of Italian ryegrass in hydromorphic soils	5
Cumulative effects of fragmentation and development on highly productive land in New Zealand	5
A horizon scan for temperate pastoral weed science–a New Zealand perspective	5
Breeding heavier ewe lambs at seven months of age did not impact their subsequent two and three-year-old ewe live weight and reproductive performance	5
Analytical purity of old New Zealand forage seed samples and detection of fungal and insect contaminants including ryegrass endophyte and Argentine stem weevil	5
The effect of polyferric sulphate treated farm dairy effluent and clarified water on leaching losses, greenhouse gas emissions and pasture growth	5

Causes of leaf reddening in subterranean clover cultivars	4
Measuring the response of variable bulk solid fertiliser application by computer-controlled delivery from aircraft	4
A comparison of three nitrate leaching mitigation treatments with dicyandiamide using lysimeters	4
Total soil cadmium concentrations in the Winchmore long-term phosphorus fertiliser trial are still increasing	4
Soybean silage in dairy heifers’ diets: ruminal fermentation, intake and digestibility of nutrients	4
The state of knowledge of cadmium in New Zealand agricultural systems: 2021	4
Live weight and body condition score of mixed-aged beef breeding cows on commercial hill country farms in New Zealand	4
Implications of sampling bias and population behaviour in the study of parasitoid-based biocontrol of Listronotus bonariensis in New Zealand’s exotic pasture ecosystems	3
Effects of Ca:Mg ratio and pH on soil chemical, physical and microbiological properties and grass N yield in drained peat soil	3
Perceptions of plant breeding methods–from ‘phenotypic selection’ to ‘genetic modification’ and ‘new breeding technologies’	3
Robots and shocks: emerging non-herbicide weed control options for vegetable and arable cropping	3
Glyphosate and paraquat resistance in putative resistant plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) populations collected in 21 localities	3
Combining perennial ryegrass cultivars in seed mixtures confers limited and situation-specific benefits for dairy pasture productivity	3
Genetic parameters across milking frequency for first lactation milk production traits in New Zealand	3
Productive performance and ingestive behaviour of feedlot finished Santa Ines lambs on diets containing differing fibre levels	3
Effectiveness of cottonseed cake fibre included in the diet of Nellore steers finished in confinement	3
Growth dynamics and nutrient uptake of panicum maximum under nitrogen fertilisation	3
Target-site and non-target site resistance mechanisms are associated with iodosulfuron resistance in Lolium perenne L.	3
Modelling the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of edge-of-field mitigations for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus loads in the Waituna Lagoon Catchment, Southland	3
Selection scheme designs for dairy cattle milked once daily in New Zealand: a deterministic approach	3
Phosphorus transport in subsurface flow from a stony soil under irrigated and non-irrigated lucerne	3
Do pasture-based mixed dairy systems with higher milk production have lower environmental impacts? A Uruguayan case study	3
The effect of irrigated land-use intensification on the topsoil physical properties of a pastoral silt loam	3