OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Disease is 27. 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
First Report of Stenocarpella macrospora Causing Diplodia Leaf Streak Disease of Maize in Yunnan Province, China	129
Construction of a Comprehensive Meteorological Risk Index for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight Prediction Based on More than a Half-Century of Monitoring Data	69
First Report of Pantoea anthophila Causing Shoot Dieback Disease of Ceylon Ironwood (Mesua ferrea) in Malaysia	60
First Report of Tobacco Ringspot Virus Naturally Infecting Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in the United States	53
Ampelopsis grossedentata Represents a New Host of the 16SrI Group Phytoplasma Associated with Yellow Leaf Symptoms in China	48
First Report of Colletotrichum tropicale Causing Anthracnose on Common Fig in Taiwan	47
First Report of Bipolaris yamadae and Exserohilum rostratum Associated with Leaf Spots of Maize (Zea mays) in Zambia	44
Phylogenetic Diversity and Phenotypic Characterization of Phlyctema vagabunda (syn. Neofabraea alba) and Neofabraea kienholzii Causing Postharvest Bull’s Eye Rot of Apple in North	43
Distinct Genomic Loci Underlie Quantitative Resistance to Meloidogyne enterolobii Galling and Reproduction in Citrullus amarus	42
First Report of Botrytis cinerea Causing Gray Mold on Alternanthera philoxeroides in China	41
A Genome Sequence Resource of Nigrospora sphaerica Causing Fruit Dried-Shrink Disease in Akebia trifoliata	37
Identification of 16S rXXX-A Phytoplasma Associated with Salt Cedar (Tamarix chinensis) Witches’-Broom in Southern Xinjiang of China	36
First Report of Pearl Millet Bacterial Leaf Blight Caused by Pantoea stewartii Subspecies indologenes in India	36
First Report of Seedling Damping-Off of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Caused by Seed-Transmitted Alternaria rosae in Italy	36
First Report of Black Spot on Ophiopogon japonicus Caused by Alternaria alternata in Zhejiang Province, China	35
Quantitative Detection and Monitoring of Colletotrichum siamense in Rubber Trees Using Real-Time PCR	34
First Report of Bacterial Speck Caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato Race 1 Affecting Tomato in Different Regions of Chile	34
First Report of Diplodia fraxini and Diplodia subglobosa Causing Canker and Dieback of Fraxinus excelsior in Slovenia	34
First Report of Neonectria punicea Causing Preharvest Fruit Rot of Apple in Sichuan, China	33
First Report of Cytospora ailanthicola Causing Canker on Cherry Blossom (Cerasus serrulata) in China	32
First Report of Cape Gooseberry Scab Caused by Cladosporium exasperatum in Thailand	31
First Report of Pepino Mosaic Virus Infecting Tomato in South Korea	31
First Report of Impatiens Necrotic Spot Orthotospovirus Infecting Tulbaghia violacea in China	31
Molecular and Morphological Identification of Monilia yunnanensis Causing Brown Rot on Chinese Quince and Peach in Yunnan, China	31
First Report of Alfalfa Root Rot Caused by Fusarium commune in China	30

Novel Single Nucleotide Variations Alter Pathogenicity in Korean Isolates of Erwinia amylovora	29
Genome Sequence Resource of Phytophthora colocasiae from China Using Nanopore Sequencing Technology	27