OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Systems is 40. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring opportunities for diversification of smallholders' rice-based farming systems in the Senegal River Valley	215
Frost shocks negatively impact the supply of high-stem juicing apples in Switzerland	208
Assessment of food-feed competition for producing milk in cow dairy farms	150
Assessing extensive pasture-based beef production in South Africa under future climate change conditions	145
Optimizing cropland management to mitigate climate-induced nitrogen leakage risk in Chinese ecosystems	121
The CIRKULÆR model – A national and regional static flow model of agricultural production, environmental and climatic impacts	114
Pathways towards Net Zero emissions in grain cropping farms	110
The relative productivity of organic agriculture must be considered in the full food-system context. A comment on Connor (2022)	91
Editorial Board	85
Examining the synergistic effect of cocoa-plantain intercropping system on gross margin: A system dynamics modelling approach	83
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion	75
Evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of rice-soybean diversification in South Korea	70
Sustainable management of sweet potatoes: A review on practices, strategies, and opportunities in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, energy security, and quality of life	70
Precision farming: what do Italian farmers really think? An application of the Q methodology	69
Integrating an abandoned farmland simulation model (AFSM) using system dynamics and CLUE-S for sustainable agriculture	68
Projected climate effects on soil workability and trafficability determine the feasibility of converting permanent grassland to arable land	66
The dairy production system in the north of Sweden under possible future food scenarios	63
Alternative practices to pesticide use in the Guadeloupe banana belt: Do biophysical constraints limit agroecological transitions?	63
Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework	61
Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions	57
Enhancing farmers' agency is a more effective extension paradigm: The case of soil health management in Africa	56
Review of APSIM's soil nitrogen modelling capability for agricultural systems analyses	56
What determines the acceptance of Climate Smart Technologies? The influence of farmers' behavioral drivers in connection with the policy environment	54
Editorial Board	53
Editorial Board	51

Conserving cropland resilience space in alpine agro-pastoral ecotones: A quantitative study of Qinghai Province	51
Analysis of perceived robustness, adaptability and transformability of Spanish extensive livestock farms under alternative challenging scenarios	49
Prospects of rehabilitation of ancient irrigation systems in India – A case study from coastal saline zone of West Bengal	49
Optimization of manure recycling and fertilizer use to meet crop nutrient demands and reduce nutrient losses, a case study in Quzhou, China	49
Assessing pollinator abundance and services to enhance agricultural sustainability and crop yield optimization in the Qilian Mountains	48
Limited capability of organic farming and conservation tillage to enhance agroecosystem resilience to severe drought	48
Legumes and livestock in no-till crop rotations: Effects on nitrous oxide emissions, carbon sequestration, yield, and wheat protein content	45
Improving livelihood through crop-livestock integration: Insights from a farm trajectory model	44
Optimizing the sowing window for direct-seeded rice (Oryza sativa L.) considering high yield and methane emissions in Central China	44
A scheme for distribution of genetically improved oil palm plants well suited to local conditions	43
Linking types of East Javanese rice farming systems to farmers' perceptions of complex rice systems	43
Nutrient use efficiency of intensive dairy farms in China – Current situation and analyses of options for improvement	42
Risk monitoring of pine wilt disease based on semi-dynamic spatial prediction in South Korea	42
How opportunity and cognition improve family farms' low-carbon production behavior: Evidence from China	41
Marginal lands between recovery and valorization. An inclusive definition to support bio-energy supply chains. The Southern Italy contexts case study	41
Transition from chemical fertilizers to sustainable swards: What determines farmers' adoption decisions for clover and multi-species swards?	40