OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Systems is 38. 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
Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions	182
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion	177
The relative productivity of organic agriculture must be considered in the full food-system context. A comment on Connor (2022)	125
Evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of rice-soybean diversification in South Korea	102
Enhancing farmers' agency is a more effective extension paradigm: The case of soil health management in Africa	99
Editorial Board	98
Examining the synergistic effect of cocoa-plantain intercropping system on gross margin: A system dynamics modelling approach	93
The dairy production system in the north of Sweden under possible future food scenarios	80
Alternative practices to pesticide use in the Guadeloupe banana belt: Do biophysical constraints limit agroecological transitions?	79
Exploring opportunities for diversification of smallholders' rice-based farming systems in the Senegal River Valley	75
Projected climate effects on soil workability and trafficability determine the feasibility of converting permanent grassland to arable land	74
Integrating an abandoned farmland simulation model (AFSM) using system dynamics and CLUE-S for sustainable agriculture	71
Precision farming: what do Italian farmers really think? An application of the Q methodology	62
Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework	61
What determines the acceptance of Climate Smart Technologies? The influence of farmers' behavioral drivers in connection with the policy environment	59
Assessment of food-feed competition for producing milk in cow dairy farms	58
Coupling landscape-scale diagnostics surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation to identify entry points for sustainably closing rice yield gaps in Nepal	56
Review of APSIM's soil nitrogen modelling capability for agricultural systems analyses	55
Sustainable management of sweet potatoes: A review on practices, strategies, and opportunities in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, energy security, and quality of life	54
Risk monitoring of pine wilt disease based on semi-dynamic spatial prediction in South Korea	54
Editorial Board	52
Transition from chemical fertilizers to sustainable swards: What determines farmers' adoption decisions for clover and multi-species swards?	52
Improving livelihood through crop-livestock integration: Insights from a farm trajectory model	51
Marginal lands between recovery and valorization. An inclusive definition to support bio-energy supply chains. The Southern Italy contexts case study	50
Linking types of East Javanese rice farming systems to farmers' perceptions of complex rice systems	49

Legumes and livestock in no-till crop rotations: Effects on nitrous oxide emissions, carbon sequestration, yield, and wheat protein content	47
Conserving cropland resilience space in alpine agro-pastoral ecotones: A quantitative study of Qinghai Province	46
Modelling cow longevity policies: Impacts on GHG emissions of the Swiss agricultural sector	46
Determinants of phosphorus balance and use efficiency in diverse dairy farming systems	45
Diffusion of organic farming among Dutch pig farmers: An agent-based model	43
Editorial Board	42
A scheme for distribution of genetically improved oil palm plants well suited to local conditions	42
Analysis of perceived robustness, adaptability and transformability of Spanish extensive livestock farms under alternative challenging scenarios	41
Assessing pollinator abundance and services to enhance agricultural sustainability and crop yield optimization in the Qilian Mountains	41
Nutrient use efficiency of intensive dairy farms in China – Current situation and analyses of options for improvement	41
Optimizing the sowing window for direct-seeded rice (Oryza sativa L.) considering high yield and methane emissions in Central China	40
Optimization of manure recycling and fertilizer use to meet crop nutrient demands and reduce nutrient losses, a case study in Quzhou, China	39
How opportunity and cognition improve family farms' low-carbon production behavior: Evidence from China	39
An integrative bio-physical approach to determine the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks of a cow and her offspring in a beef cattle operation: A system dynamics approach	38