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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
First Report of Stenocarpella macrospora Causing Diplodia Leaf Streak Disease of Maize in Yunnan Province, China	135
Construction of a Comprehensive Meteorological Risk Index for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight Prediction Based on More than a Half-Century of Monitoring Data	70
First Report of Pantoea anthophila Causing Shoot Dieback Disease of Ceylon Ironwood (Mesua ferrea) in Malaysia	63
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	50
First Report of Colletotrichum tropicale Causing Anthracnose on Common Fig in Taiwan	44
First Report of Bipolaris yamadae and Exserohilum rostratum Associated with Leaf Spots of Maize (Zea mays) in Zambia	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
Distinct Genomic Loci Underlie Quantitative Resistance to Meloidogyne enterolobii Galling and Reproduction in Citrullus amarus	39
First Report of Botrytis cinerea Causing Gray Mold on Alternanthera philoxeroides in China	38
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 Black Spot on Ophiopogon japonicus Caused by Alternaria alternata in Zhejiang Province, China	35
First Report of Neonectria punicea Causing Preharvest Fruit Rot of Apple in Sichuan, China	34
First Report of Cytospora ailanthicola Causing Canker on Cherry Blossom (Cerasus serrulata) in China	34
First Report of Diplodia fraxini and Diplodia subglobosa Causing Canker and Dieback of Fraxinus excelsior in Slovenia	34
First Report of Pepino Mosaic Virus Infecting Tomato in South Korea	32
Molecular and Morphological Identification of Monilia yunnanensis Causing Brown Rot on Chinese Quince and Peach in Yunnan, China	32
First Report of Impatiens Necrotic Spot Orthotospovirus Infecting Tulbaghia violacea in China	31
First Report of Cape Gooseberry Scab Caused by Cladosporium exasperatum in Thailand	31
First Report of Alfalfa Root Rot Caused by Fusarium commune in China	30
Genome Sequence Resource of Phytophthora colocasiae from China Using Nanopore Sequencing Technology	29
Novel Single Nucleotide Variations Alter Pathogenicity in Korean Isolates of Erwinia amylovora	29
First Report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae Race 2 Causing Fusarium Wilt of Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) in California	28

First Report of Bitter Rot Caused by Colletotrichum scovillei on Apple in Korea	28
Fusarium pernambucanum Causing Leaf Yellow Spot on Melon (Cucumis melo), a New Disease in China	27
First Report of Bacterial Leaf Spot on Muskmelon Caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae in China	27