OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Disease is 29. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Role of Soil Moisture in Disease Development of Charcoal Rot of Strawberries Caused by Macrophomina phaseolina	119
First Report of Stenocarpella macrospora Causing Diplodia Leaf Streak Disease of Maize in Yunnan Province, China	68
Construction of a Comprehensive Meteorological Risk Index for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight Prediction Based on More than a Half-Century of Monitoring Data	65
First Report of Pantoea anthophila Causing Shoot Dieback Disease of Ceylon Ironwood (Mesua ferrea) in Malaysia	55
First Report of Tobacco Ringspot Virus Naturally Infecting Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in the United States	48
First Report of Colletotrichum tropicale Causing Anthracnose on Common Fig in Taiwan	45
Ampelopsis grossedentata Represents a New Host of the 16SrI Group Phytoplasma Associated with Yellow Leaf Symptoms in China	45
Distinct Genomic Loci Underlie Quantitative Resistance to Meloidogyne enterolobii Galling and Reproduction in Citrullus amarus	43
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
First Report of Bipolaris yamadae and Exserohilum rostratum Associated with Leaf Spots of Maize (Zea mays) in Zambia	43
First Report of Didymella sinensis Causing Leaf Blight on Italian Ryegrass in China	40
First Report of Botrytis cinerea Causing Gray Mold on Alternanthera philoxeroides in China	38
A Quantitative PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Fusarium sambucinum	38
First Report of Colletotrichum karsti Causing Anthracnose of Begonia lanternaria in China	38
A Genome Sequence Resource of Nigrospora sphaerica Causing Fruit Dried-Shrink Disease in Akebia trifoliata	38
First Report of Seedling Damping-Off of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Caused by Seed-Transmitted Alternaria rosae in Italy	37
First Report of Powdery Mildew Caused by Golovinomyces ambrosiae on Erigeron annuus in Korea	35
First Report of Pearl Millet Bacterial Leaf Blight Caused by Pantoea stewartii Subspecies indologenes in India	35
Identification of 16S rXXX-A Phytoplasma Associated with Salt Cedar (Tamarix chinensis) Witches’-Broom in Southern Xinjiang of China	34
First Report of Black Spot on Ophiopogon japonicus Caused by Alternaria alternata in Zhejiang Province, China	33
First Report of Pestalotiopsis trachicarpicola Causing Apothecium Wither on Cultivated Morchella sextelata in Sichuan, China	31
First Report of Diplodia fraxini and Diplodia subglobosa Causing Canker and Dieback of Fraxinus excelsior in Slovenia	31
Occurrence of Crown Gall Disease on Japanese Spindle (Euonymus japonicas var. Green Rocket) Caused by Agrobacterium rosae in Iran	29
Quantitative Detection and Monitoring of Colletotrichum siamense in Rubber Trees Using Real-Time PCR	29
First Report of Pepino Mosaic Virus Infecting Tomato in South Korea	29

First Report of Cytospora ailanthicola Causing Canker on Cherry Blossom (Cerasus serrulata) in China	29
First Report of Bacterial Speck Caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato Race 1 Affecting Tomato in Different Regions of Chile	29
Molecular and Morphological Identification of Monilia yunnanensis Causing Brown Rot on Chinese Quince and Peach in Yunnan, China	29
First Report of Neonectria punicea Causing Preharvest Fruit Rot of Apple in Sichuan, China	29