OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Quality 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Emissions of hydrogen sulfide from a western open‐lot dairy	67
Elevated levels of anthropogenic antibiotic resistance gene marker, sul1, linked with extreme fecal contamination and poor water quality in wastewater‐receiving ponds	53
Cover Image, Volume 51, Issue 5	37
Copper induces nitrification by ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and archaea in pastoral soils	34
Subsurface phosphorus and nitrogen loss following liquid dairy manure and commercial fertilizer application on a clay soil in northwest Ohio	25
Delaying application and injecting nitrogen fertilizer with urease and nitrification inhibitors decreased nitrous oxide emissions and enhanced corn yields	24
Chesapeake Bay Watershed residents’ support for varied scenarios for agricultural systems in urbanized landscapes	23
Shallow‐lake sediments release nutrients by complete destratification events	23
Impact of pyrolysis temperature on phosphorus plant availability in biochar—A pot experiment using ³³P dilution	23
CO₂ flux in a wheat‐soybean succession in subtropical Brazil: A carbon sink	22
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Issue Information	20
Effect of olive‐processing technology on the utilization of olive mill pomace as a soil amendment	19
Spatiotemporal patterns of PFAS in water and crop tissue at a beneficial wastewater reuse site in central Pennsylvania	19
Is it raining PFAS in France? An analysis of 52 PFAS at nanogram per liter levels in French rainwaters during autumn season	18
The effect of biogas ebullition on ammonia emissions from animal manure–processing lagoons	18
The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed	17
Evaluation of nutrient assimilative capacity in waterfowl impoundments: The role of environmental stressors	17
Issue Information	17
Cover Image, Volume 50, Issue 6	16
Strategic tillage of no‐till decreased surface and subsurface losses of dissolved phosphorus	16
Challenges in linking soil health to edge‐of‐field water quality across the Great Lakes basin	16
Mechanism evolution and prediction of carbamazepine sorption by mangrove plant residue–derived biochars	15
Connecting the soil health–water quality nexus under surface‐irrigated conservation tillage	15
Recipients of 2022 JEQ Editor's Citation for Excellence named	15

Exploring management and environment effects on edge‐of‐field phosphorus losses with linear mixed models	15
Comparison of microbial communities in replicated woodchip bioreactors	14
Thanks to our 2023 reviewers	14
The LTAR Common Experiment at Upper Chesapeake Bay: Integrated	14
The importance of consensus science to managing phosphorus in the environment: SERA‐17 and the legacy of Andrew Sharpley	14
Benthic nitrate removal capacity in marine mangroves of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles	13
The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at Platte River High Plains Aquifer	13
Adsorption characteristics of N‐rGO for multiple representative trace antibiotics in water	13
Denitrification potential of surface soils of constructed wetlands in Newtown Creek, an urban superfund site	13
Soil organic matter can delay—but not eliminate—leaching of neonicotinoid insecticides	13
Using RZWQM2‐P to capture tile drainage phosphorus dynamics in Ohio	13
On the compounding of nitrate loads and discharge	13
Saturated buffers: Improvements and issues	13
The longevity of fencing out livestock as a method of decreasing contaminant concentrations in a headwater stream	12
Cover Image, Volume 52, Issue 1	12
Establishing three warm‐season turfgrasses with tailored water: II. Root development, nitrate accumulation in plant tissue and soil, and relationship with leaching	11
Influence of climate, topography, and soil type on soil extractable phosphorus in croplands of northern glacial‐derived landscapes	11
Fertilizer source and soil properties affect soil test phosphorus and relationships with phosphorus losses in snowmelt runoff	11
Greenhouse gas emissions from soils in corn‐based cropping systems	11
Determination of bioavailable arsenic threshold and validation of modeled permissible total arsenic in paddy soil using machine learning	11
Multidrug‐resistant Escherichia coli isolated from cleaned and disinfected poultry houses prior to day‐old chick placement	11
Enhanced efficiency fertilizers, potato production, and nitrate leaching in the Wisconsin Central Sands	11
Utility of near‐surface phenology in estimating productivity and evapotranspiration across diverse ecosystems	11
Effect of poultry litter soil amendment on antibiotic‐resistant Escherichia coli	10
New phosphorus losses via tile drainage depend on fertilizer form, placement, and timing	10
Removal of nutrients from aquaculture wastewater using cattail (Typha spp.) constructed wetlands	10
Uncertainty in phosphorus fluxes and budgets across the US long‐term agroecosystem research network	10
Nitrogen removal performance in roadside stormwater bioretention cells amended with drinking water treatment residuals	10
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment in the Upper Chesapeake Bay	10
Representing soil health practice effects on soil properties and nutrient loss in a watershed‐scale hydrologic model	10
Biochar addition reduces non‐CO₂ greenhouse gas emissions during composting of human excreta and cattle manure	10
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Central Mississippi River Basin	10
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Evaporative loss and environmental impact of covers on water storages: A review	10
Fenton oxidation of biochar improves retention of cattle slurry nitrogen	9
Soil lead, zinc, and copper in two urban forests as influenced by highway proximity	9
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A high‐resolution monitoring station for the in situ assessment of nitrate‐related redox processes at an agricultural site	9
Microplastics in composts, digestates, and food wastes: A review	9
Using syringe filtration after lab‐scale adsorption processes potentially overestimates PFAS adsorption removal efficiency from non‐conventional irrigation water	9
Soil hydro‐physical variables and crop residues determinate runoff, soil loss, and glyphosate and AMPA concentration in the aqueous phase under simulated rainfall events	9
Seasonal variability of nitrate concentrations below the root zone: A monthly predictive modeling approach	9
Review and update of a Nutrient Transfer model used for estimating nitrous oxide emissions from complex grazed landscapes, and implications for nationwide accounting	9
Influence of earthworm population density on the performance of vermifiltration for treating liquid dairy manure	9
Nascently generated microplastics in freshwater stream are colonized by bacterial communities from stream and riparian sources	8
Methane emission reduction by adding sulfate to liquid dairy manure	8
Pennycress reduces potential for nutrient loss in Illinois	8
Spatial variability of nitrous oxide emissions from croplands and unmanaged natural ecosystems across a large environmental gradient	8
Distribution of livestock sectors in Canada: Implications for manureshed management	8
Nitrogen and phosphorus removal in a bioretention cell experiment receiving agricultural runoff from a dairy farm production area during third and fourth years of operation	8

Impact of surface‐applied liquid manure on the drainage resistance profile of an agricultural tile‐drained clay till field	8
Nitrous oxide emissions are driven by environmental conditions rather than nitrogen application methods in a perennial hayfield	8
Changes in microbial communities in soil treated with organic or conventional N sources	8
A conceptual model for dissolved P mobilization from legacy sources	8
Surveillance of PFAS in sludge and biosolids at 12 water resource recovery facilities	8
Enhancing dissolved inorganic phosphorous capture by gypsum‐incorporated biochar: Synergic performance and mechanisms	7
Scaling up conservation agriculture: An exploration of challenges and opportunities through a stakeholder engagement process	7
Fate and transport of fragmented and spherical microplastics in saturated gravel and quartz sand	7
Potential areas of crop residue burning contributing to hazardous air pollution in Delhi during the post‐monsoon season	7
Pig slurry organic matter transformation and methanogenesis at ambient storage temperatures	7
Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from beef feedlot surface material treated with aluminum sulfate (alum) or microbial amendments	7
Potential for managing pool levels in a flood‐control reservoir to increase nitrate‐nitrogen load reductions	7
Optimizing pXRF sample preparation for in situ soil screening: A regulatory framework perspective	7
Engaging stakeholders to strengthen coproduction of knowledge in the Long‐Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) indicator framework	7
Ineffectiveness of phosphorus‐containing amendments to reduce Pb bioaccessibility in an urban alkaline soil	7
Crop performance and profitability for the initial transition years of a regenerative cropping system in the Upper Midwest United States	7
Saturated buffer design flow and performance in Illinois	6
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The Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework Financial and Nutrient Reduction Tool: A planning tool for cost effective conservation	6
Chronic enrichment affects nitrogen removal in tidal freshwater river and estuarine creek sediments	6
Effects of whole‐orchard recycling on nitrate leaching potential in almond production systems	6
Erratum to “A conceptual model for dissolved P mobilization from legacy sources”	6
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Impact of tillage, cover crop, and in situ bioreactors on nutrient loss from an artificially drained Midwestern Mollisol	6
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain	6
Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: Heavy metal–acidity–organic matter nexus	6
Field‐scale evaluation of ecosystem service benefits of bioenergy switchgrass	6
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in agricultural soil after application of cattle manure and eastern redcedar wood chips	6
Long‐term changes in riparian connectivity and groundwater chemistry in an urban watershed	6
Pig manure degradation and carbon emission: Measuring and modeling combined aerobic–anaerobic transformations	6
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Platte River/High Plains Aquifer	6
Optimizing sampling across transect‐based methods improves the power of agroecological monitoring data	6
Nitrate losses across 29 Iowa watersheds: Measuring long‐term trends in the context of interannual variability	6
Flooding‐induced inorganic phosphorus transformations in two soils, with and without gypsum amendment	6
Modeling the sorption of Ni(II) and Zn(II) by Mn oxide–coated sand: Equilibrium and kinetic approaches	6
Nitrous oxide emissions from soybean in response to drained and undrained soils and previous corn nitrogen management	6
Diurnal variation in methane emission from a rice paddy due to ebullition	6
Phosphorus sources, forms, and abundance as a function of streamflow and field conditions in a Maumee River tributary, 2016–2019	6
Resolving new and old phosphorus source contributions to subsurface tile drainage with weighted regressions on discharge and season	5
Sodium hypochlorite as an oxidizing agent for removal of soil organic matter before microplastics analyses	5
Thanks to our 2022 reviewers	5
ECB‐WQ: A Long‐Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR)—Eastern Corn Belt node field‐scale water quality dataset	5
A short history of the phosphorus index and Andrew Sharpley's contributions from inception through development and implementation	5
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at the Texas Gulf	5
Release of phosphorus and metal(loid)s from manured soils to floodwater during a laboratory simulation of snowmelt flooding	5
Stream pathogenic bacteria levels rebound post‐population control of wild pigs	5
Soil nutrients and plant uptake parameters as related to greenhouse gas emissions	5
Tillage and manure effects on runoff nitrogen and phosphorus losses from frozen soils	5
Lack of wastewater treatment in a small town drives the spread of ESBL‐producing Escherichia coli in irrigation waters	5
Dynamic prediction and quantitative assessment of carbon emissions from animal husbandry: A case study of inner mongolia autonomous region, China	5
Mechanisms underlying episodic nitrate and phosphorus leaching from poorly drained agricultural soils	5
Assessment of phosphorus status in a calcareous soil receiving long‐term application of chemical fertilizer and different forms of swine manures	5
Soil organic carbon dynamics shift by incorporating wheat straw in paddy soil in China	5
Long‐term sulfamethazine leaching simulation in two different soils using the MACRO model	5
Application timing optimization of lignite‐derived humic substances for three agricultural plant species and soil fertility	5
Toward a transdisciplinary and unifying definition of legacy phosphorus	5
Linking agricultural conservation to water quality outcomes in the United States at multiple scales: Do we have the information we need?	5
Cover Image, Volume 51, Issue 6	5
Connecting soil characteristics to edge‐of‐field water quality in Ohio	4
River metabolic fingerprints and regimes reveal ecosystem responses to enhanced wastewater treatment	4
Effects of Lake Erie dredged material on microbiomes in a farm soil of northwestern Ohio	4
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Effects of conservation buffer systems on adsorption of fluorescent‐labeled Escherichia coli	4
Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis for predicted soil test phosphorus using the Annual Phosphorus Loss Estimator model	4
Impact of nitrogen fertilizer timing on nitrate loss and crop production in northwest Iowa	4
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Optimizing accuracy of measurement protocols for nitrogen application in dilute dairy manure	4
Reply to “Biochar and greenhouse gas emissions: Comment on ‘Biochar as a negative emission technology: A synthesis of field research on greenhouse gas emissions’”	4
High‐density polyethylene microplastics in agricultural soil: Impact on microbes, enzymes, and carbon‐nitrogen ratio	4
Complex hydrology and variability of nitrogen sources in a karst watershed	4
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Eastern Corn Belt	4
Relationships between soil test phosphorus and county‐level agricultural surplus phosphorus	4
Multiyear methane and nitrous oxide emissions in different irrigation management under long‐term continuous rice rotation in Arkansas	4
Urbanization drives geographically heterogeneous freshwater salinization in the northeastern United States	4
Alum reduced phosphorus release from flooded soils under cold spring weather conditions	4
A low‐input strategy for chromium removal from industrial stormwater using peat sorbent	4
Multiscale spatiotemporal variability of fecal indicator bacteria and associated particle size distributions in the sandy bottom sediments of a Pennsylvania creek	4
Fate of ¹⁴C‐MSMA in a soil column study simulating herbicide use environments	4
Insights on biotic and abiotic 2,4‐dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation by anaerobic iron‐cycling bacteria	4

The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Upper Mississippi River Basin–St. Paul	4
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Biochar and greenhouse gas emissions: Comment on “Biochar as a negative emission technology: A synthesis of field research on greenhouse gas emissions”	4
Effect of water sampling strategies on the uncertainty of phosphorus load estimation in subsurface drainage discharge	4
Intra‐daily variation of Escherichia coli concentrations in agricultural irrigation ponds	4
Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water treatment residuals: Occurrence and desorption	4
Estimates of black carbon emissions from global biomass burning for the period 1997–2023	4
Effects of Mn²⁺ on Cd accumulation and ionome in rice and spinach	4
PFAS fate using lysimeters during degraded soil reclamation using biosolids	3
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Bacterial inoculation along with different amendments accelerates the remediation of bauxite residue for vegetation establishment	3
Integrating isotope and fluorescence approaches for joint source tracking of nitrate and CDOM in an agricultural watershed	3
Phosphorus recovery as struvite and hydroxyapatite from the liquid fraction of municipal sewage sludge with limited magnesium addition	3
A comprehensive review on the sources, environmental behavior, and degradation of alkylphenol ethoxylates and their metabolites in surface water and soils	3
Structural and compositional diversity of biosurfactants produced by a novel strain of Sporosarcina luteola ME44 from oil reservoir	3
Long‐term cover cropping and nitrogen fertilization impacts on net global warming potential of continuous no‐till cotton cropping system	3
Assessment of salt tolerance in phytodesalination candidates: Two varieties of Fimbristylis—F. ferruginea and F. tenuicula	3
Validation and use of the dead‐end ultrafiltration method for the capture and recovery of Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli from surface water	3
Multiyear changes in snowmelt phosphorus runoff with soil P drawdown or application of struvite to an organic forage crop	3
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Upper Mississippi River Basin–Morris	3
Integrating livestock and cropping systems: Interseeding cereal rye into corn for grazing	3
Assessing the concept of control points for dissolved reactive phosphorus losses in subsurface drainage	3
The Long‐Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network: Cross‐site transdisciplinary science to support a sustainable and resilient agriculture	3
Cover Image, Volume 52, Issue 3	3
Cover crop performance under a changing climate in continuous corn system over Nebraska	3
Effects of glyphosate on antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria and its potential significance: A review	3
Escherichia coli runoff from sheep and dairy cow grazed pasture: A plot scale simulation	3
Spatiotemporal trends of Escherichia coli levels and their influences vary among ponds in the coastal plain of Georgia	3
Legacy phosphorus in Alabama Hartsells soil after long‐term amendment with broiler litter	3
The role of plant functional traits and diversity in soil carbon dynamics within riparian agroforests	3
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Long‐term continuous cropping reduces greenhouse gas emissions while sustaining crop yields	3
Air pollutant removal by four sidewalk tree species in the largest city in Taiwan	3
Fate and transport in environmental quality	3
Different management and movement in the agricultural nutrient balances of Korea and the Netherlands: Highest nutrient surplus countries among OECD members	3
Assessing environmental and management factors that drive soybean yield gaps in Brazil	3
Connecting soil health and water quality in agricultural landscapes	3
Mobility of arsenic and vanadium in waterlogged calcareous soils due to addition of zeolite and manganese oxide amendments	3
Improving trace element measurement accuracy: Lysimeter cleaning and material effects	3
The Clean Water Act and biosolids: A 45‐year chronological review of biosolids land application research in Colorado	3
Organic amendments temporarily change arsenic speciation and bioaccessibility in a lead and arsenic co‐contaminated urban soil	3
Testing Wisconsin P index assessments across cropping systems	3
Perfluorooctanoic acid uptake in the mustard species Brassica juncea	3
Composting post‐anaerobic digestion for emerging contaminant biodegradation: Impacts of operating conditions	3
Enhancing the Soil Health–Watershed Health Nexus: Introduction	3
Post‐drainage stand growth and peat mineralization impair water quality from forested peatlands	3
Spatial heterogeneity in sediment phosphorus pools and phosphatase activity in a eutrophic reservoir	3
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A risk index tool to minimize the risk of nitrogen loss from land to water	2
Response of soil microbial glycoside hydrolase family 6 cellulolytic population to lignocellulosic biochar reveals biochar stability toward microbial degradation	2
Mechanistic modeling indicates rapid glyphosate dissipation and sorption‐driven persistence of its metabolite AMPA in soil	2
Impacts of campaign‐based community watershed management on selected soil quality indicators	2
Spatiotemporal dynamic of rice production and its carbon footprint in Hainan, China: Implications for food security and environmental sustainability	2
The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at the Central Plains Experimental Range: Collaborative adaptive rangeland management	2
The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at the Jornada Experimental Range: Old genetics, new precision technologies, and adaptive value chains	2
Microbial diversity and gene abundance in denitrifying bioreactors: A comparison of the woodchip surface biofilm versus the interior wood matrix	2
Soil bacterial community response to rhizoma peanut incorporation into Florida pastures	2
Heteroaggregation of virions and microplastics reduces the number of active bacteriophages in aqueous environments	2
Toward better targeting of mitigation measures for reducing phosphorus losses from land to water: Andrew Sharpley's legacy in Norway and Sweden	2
Soil health and community well‐being: A framework of intangible outcomes of sustainable agriculture	2
Biochar application in biofiltration systems to remove nutrients, pathogens, and pharmaceutical and personal care products from wastewater	2
The LTAR Integrated Grazing Land Common Experiment at the Texas Gulf	2
Assessing the impacts of stakeholder involvement in long‐term agricultural experiments via a case study in the upper US Midwest	2
JEQ 2021 Publisher's Report	2
Analyzing the effect of lake dredged material from the Western Lake Erie Basin on soil properties and corn health	2
Phosphorus sorption and desorption as affected by long‐term cover cropping at two soil surface depths	2
Modeling the impact of measured and projected climate and management systems on agricultural fields: Surface runoff, soil moisture, and soil erosion	2
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at the Kellogg Biological Station	2
Microbial source tracking and land use associations for antibiotic resistance genes in private wells influenced by human and livestock fecal sources	2
Estimating soil P pools and desorption rates using flow‐through cells	2
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Analysis of nighttime aerosols and relation to covariates over a highly polluted sub‐Saharan site using Mann–Kendall and wavelet coherence approach	2
Variation in methodology obscures clarity of cropland global warming potential estimates	2
Evaluating water quality benefits of manureshed management in the Susquehanna River Basin	2
Nitrogen mineralization from organic fertilizers and composts: Literature survey and model fitting	2
Denitrifying bioreactor microbiome: Understanding pollution swapping and potential for improved performance	2
Manure methane emissions over three years at a swine farm in western Canada	2
Cover Image, Volume 51, Issue 1	2
Natural organic matter under human‐influenced environments: Implications for future environmental quality research	2
Impact of dissolved organic matter chemical properties on perfluorooctane sulfonate solution binding affinities and adsorption on soils	2
Fall cover crop nitrogen uptake drives reductions in winter‐spring leaching	2
Opportunities to implement manureshed management in the Iowa, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania swine industry	2
Split fertilizer nitrogen application with a cereal rye cover crop reduces tile nitrate loads in a corn–soybean rotation	2
Integrated crop‐livestock systems result in less nitrate leaching than ungrazed crop systems in North Florida	2
Challenges and opportunities for manureshed management across U.S. dairy systems: Case studies from four regions	2
Phosphorus fractions and speciation in an alkaline, manured soil amended with alum, gypsum, and Epsom salt	2
Water quality trends of streams in Puerto Rico: Evaluating 50 years of the Clean Water Act	2
Improving crop growing conditions with water treatment residual and compost co‐amendments: Soil–water dynamics	2
Heavy metal contamination and blue carbon sequestration in mangrove ecosystems of Puerto Rico	2
Alfalfa in rotation with annual crops reduced nitrate leaching potential	2
Organic production reduces subsurface nitrate leaching and maintains crop yields in a US Mollisol	2
Cover Image, Volume 51, Issue 3	2
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Are historical trends in weather consistent with model predictions in the Central United States?	1
Heavy metal accumulation and transfer between soils–plants–goats in a Mo‐mining area	1