OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management is 52. 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
Editorial Board	325
Biophysical controls on energy exchange and water use efficiency over a poplar plantation in Northern Hilly China	170
Interannual variability of water productivity on the Eastern Snake Plain in Idaho, United States	127
Editorial Board	124
Editorial Board	111
Improving pumpset selection to support intensification of groundwater irrigation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	104
A distributed simulation-optimization framework for many-objective water resources allocation in canal-well combined irrigation district under diverse supply and demand scenarios	104
Corrigendum to “Harnessing SMAP satellite soil moisture product to optimize soil properties to improve water resource management for agriculture” [Agric. Water Manag., Volume 300, 1 July 2024, 108918]	100
Corrigendum to “Responses of yield and water use efficiency to the interaction between water supply and plastic film mulch in winter wheat-summer fallow system” [Agric. Water Manag. 266 (2022) 107545]	99
Regional-scale evaluation of tertiary irrigation system in Muda Irrigation Scheme from space	92
Adopting plastic film mulching system in the food-energy-water-carbon nexus to the sustainable dryland agriculture	89
Hydrogeology and subsurface water flow beneath grass waterways: Implications for exploiting waterways for nitrate reductions	86
Impact of grass traits on the transport path and retention efficiency of nitrate nitrogen in vegetation filter strips	85
Sustainability of collective irrigation under water competition between agriculture and civil uses: The case study of Alanya Water Users Association (Türkiye)	82
Influence of the sampling time interval of canopy temperature on the dynamic zoning of variable rate irrigation	80
Influence of suspended solid particles on calcium carbonate fouling in dripper labyrinths	78
Optimal planting density combined with phosphorus input promotes common buckwheat resource use efficiency and productivity to increase grain yield	77
Regional water-saving potential calculation method for paddy rice based on remote sensing	76
Generating high-precision farmland irrigation pattern maps using remotely sensed ecological indices and machine learning algorithms	76
Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya	75
A comparison of physical-based and machine learning modeling for soil salt dynamics in crop fields	75
Reference evapotranspiration change in Heilongjiang Province, China from 1951 to 2018: The role of climate change and rice area expansion	73
Bridging the gap: Analysis of systemic barriers to irrigation technology supply businesses in Ethiopia	73
Phosphorus in the runoff of soils with contrasting textures influenced by soil slope and pig slurry application	73
The incorporation of solar energy and compressed air into the energy supply system enhances the environmentally friendly and efficient operation of drip irrigation systems	71

A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning	68
Ridge-furrow planting patterns with film mulching improve water use efficiency by enhancing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizosphere and endophyte of summer maize	68
Evaluating the impact of floating spheres on evaporation reduction and water salinity control in reservoirs	67
Editorial Board	67
The impact of digital inclusive finance on alternate irrigation technology innovation: From the perspective of the 'catfish effect' in financial markets	65
Life cycle water footprint analysis of crop production in China	64
Dynamic risk assessment of waterlogging disaster to spring peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Henan Province, China	64
Bridging the gap: An interpretable coupled model (SWAT-ELM-SHAP) for blue-green water simulation in data-scarce basins	62
Time-delayed machine learning models for estimating groundwater depth in the Hetao Irrigation District, China	60
Shallow-incorporated straw returning further improves rainfed maize productivity, profitability and soil carbon turnover on the basis of plastic film mulching	59
Assessing field scale spatiotemporal heterogeneity in salinity dynamics using aerial data assimilation	58
Monitoring irrigation dynamics in paddy fields using spatiotemporal fusion of Sentinel-2 and MODIS	58
Photosynthetic characteristics, soil nutrients, and their interspecific competitions in an apple–soybean alley cropping system subjected to different drip fertilizer regimes on the Loess Plateau, Chin	57
Evaluating maize evapotranspiration using high-resolution UAV-based imagery and FAO-56 dual crop coefficient approach	56
A simplified method for water depth mapping over crops during flood based on Copernicus and DTM open data	55
Maize leaf functional responses to blending urea and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer under various drip irrigation regimes	54
An integrated approach for multi-year irrigation benchmarking using satellites, surveys and on-farm measured data	54
Impact of straw return on soil temperature and water during the freeze-thaw period	54
Water competition among the coexisting Platycladus orientalis, Prunus davidiana and Medicago sativa in a semi-arid agroforestry system	54
Biochar decreased N loss from paddy ecosystem under alternate wetting and drying in the Lower Liaohe River Plain, China	54
Evaluation and verification of two evapotranspiration models based on precision screening and partitioning of field temperature data	53
Increasing the concentration of film antitranspirant increases yields of rapeseed under terminal drought by improving plant water status	53
Soil moisture influences wheat yield by affecting root growth and the composition of microbial communities under drip fertigation	53
Field evaluation of nitrogen volatilization loss during fertigation through center pivots	53
Extraction of grassland irrigation information in arid regions based on multi-source remote sensing data	52
Grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat controlled by irrigation regime and manure substitution in the North China Plain	52
Soybean yield response to managed depletion irrigation regimes in a Mid-South silt loam soil	52