OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Systems is 42. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable production and dissemination of genetically improved farmed tilapia seed in smallholder farming systems: A case study from Timor-Leste	366
Enhancing off-season maize production through tailored nitrogen management and advanced cultivar selection techniques	168
Exploring optimised crop-livestock changes that promote higher efficiency and reduced N imports in three French farming systems	165
Evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of rice-soybean diversification in South Korea	137
Room for renewables: A GIS-based agrivoltaics site suitability analysis in urbanized landscapes	115
Review of APSIM's soil nitrogen modelling capability for agricultural systems analyses	104
Enhancing simulations of biomass and nitrous oxide emissions in vineyard, orchard, and vegetable cropping systems	94
Field estimates of current and predicted cotton yield loss due to pink bollworm and boll rot in India	91
Nitrogen uptake and leaching from urine and fertilizer applications during simulated grazing rotations of a perennial grass pasture	87
Unveiling the potential of organic farming in mitigating beef losses in Sweden	85
Environmental effects of improved regional nitrogen cycling in crop-livestock systems – A generic modelling approach	77
From rural to urban: Exploring livestock farming practices in urbanizing landscapes	75
Editorial Board	74
Ecological indicators for monitoring coffee agroforestry systems in protected areas: A case study in São Paulo State, Brazil	74
Climate change-induced aridity is affecting agriculture in Northeast Italy	73
Establishing an Agri-food living lab for sustainability transitions: Methodological insight from a case of strengthening the niche of organic vegetables in the Vestfold region in Norway	71
Modeling cover crop biomass production and related emissions to improve farm-scale decision-support tools	69
Adoption pathway analysis: Representing the dynamics and diversity of adoption for agricultural practices	65
Organic waste recycling for green and sustainable nitrogen management of fruit production systems in China	64
Typology analysis of Egyptian agricultural households reveals increasing income diversification and abandonment of agricultural activities	63
Soil fertility in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Punjab, Pakistan: The role of institutional factors and sustainable land management practices	58
Assessment of food-feed competition for producing milk in cow dairy farms	58
Agroecological alternatives for small and medium tropical crop farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon for adaptation to climate change	57
Perennial transitions from market gardening towards mixed fruit tree - vegetable systems	55
Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions	53

Land use changes and economic effects of alternative fertilizer policies: A simulation analysis with a bio-economic model for a Tank Village of Sri Lanka	53
A food tax only minimally reduces the N surplus of Swiss agriculture	53
Integrated analysis of opportunities and trade-offs for mixed crop-livestock farm types in Amhara, Ethiopia	52
Editorial Board	52
Editorial Board	51
The economic potential of organic production for stockless arable farms importing biogas digestate: A case study analysis for western Germany	49
Improving crop yield prediction accuracy by embedding phenological heterogeneity into model parameter sets	49
Editorial Board	49
Tracking down coupled innovations supporting agroecological vegetable crop protection to foster sustainability transition of agrifood systems	48
Optimal nitrogen fertilizer decisions for rice farming in a cascaded tank system in Sri Lanka: An analysis using an integrated crop, hydro-nutrient and economic model	46
The Crop Generator: Implementing crop rotations to effectively advance eco-hydrological modelling	45
Linking indigenous with scientific knowledge about enset (Ensete ventricosum) disease management in Gamo highlands of Ethiopia: Evidence from local people response, soil physicochemical and microbial	45
The relative productivity of organic agriculture must be considered in the full food-system context. A comment on Connor (2022)	45
From emerging theories to messy realities: Inclusive innovation in agriculture and food systems	44
Towards sustainable fruit production: Identifying challenges and optimization strategies	44
Quantifying the adoption of conservation agriculture: Development and application of the Conservation Agriculture Appraisal Index	43
Nitrate leaching and nitrogen balances for integrated willow-poultry organic systems in Denmark	43
Can citizen science in water-related nature-based solutions deliver transformative participation in agri-food systems? A review	42