OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management is 51. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Regional-scale evaluation of tertiary irrigation system in Muda Irrigation Scheme from space	387
Hydrogeology and subsurface water flow beneath grass waterways: Implications for exploiting waterways for nitrate reductions	157
Climate change and irrigation management shape crop resilience in UAE arid agriculture: APSIM model-driven assessment	139
Rethinking the modernization of pressurized networks: Lessons from a case study in the Gharb (Morocco)	131
Soil moisture influences wheat yield by affecting root growth and the composition of microbial communities under drip fertigation	122
Understanding copula-based multivariate standardized drought indices for characterizing meteorological, hydrological and agricultural droughts across global land areas	121
Properties of biochars derived from different straw at 500℃ pyrolytic temperature: Implications for their use to improving acidic soil water retention	109
Soybean yield response to managed depletion irrigation regimes in a Mid-South silt loam soil	103
Shallow-incorporated straw returning further improves rainfed maize productivity, profitability and soil carbon turnover on the basis of plastic film mulching	99
Bridging the gap: Analysis of systemic barriers to irrigation technology supply businesses in Ethiopia	97
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]	96
Extraction of grassland irrigation information in arid regions based on multi-source remote sensing data	93
Optimal planting density combined with phosphorus input promotes common buckwheat resource use efficiency and productivity to increase grain yield	90
Grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat controlled by irrigation regime and manure substitution in the North China Plain	89
Forecasting vapor pressure deficit for agricultural water management using machine learning in semi-arid environments	87
Simulating the effect of subsurface tile drainage on watershed salinity using SWAT	83
Generating high-precision farmland irrigation pattern maps using remotely sensed ecological indices and machine learning algorithms	83
A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning	81
Sustainability of collective irrigation under water competition between agriculture and civil uses: The case study of Alanya Water Users Association (Türkiye)	75
Assessing the performance of conservation measures for controlling slope runoff and erosion using field scouring experiments	75
Biochar decreased N loss from paddy ecosystem under alternate wetting and drying in the Lower Liaohe River Plain, China	72
A synthesis of soybean yield response to controlled drainage under varying precipitation patterns in the US Midwest	69
Determination of energy partition of a cucumber grown Venlo-type greenhouse in southeast China	65
Evapotranspiration partitioning over the Tibetan plateau: Spatial-seasonal patterns and possible controls	65
Editorial Board	64

The incorporation of solar energy and compressed air into the energy supply system enhances the environmentally friendly and efficient operation of drip irrigation systems	63
An integrated approach for multi-year irrigation benchmarking using satellites, surveys and on-farm measured data	61
A simplified method for water depth mapping over crops during flood based on Copernicus and DTM open data	61
Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems	61
Reference crop evapotranspiration for data-sparse regions using reanalysis products	60
Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya	60
Evaluating the impact of floating spheres on evaporation reduction and water salinity control in reservoirs	60
Water competition among the coexisting Platycladus orientalis, Prunus davidiana and Medicago sativa in a semi-arid agroforestry system	59
Ridge-furrow planting patterns with film mulching improve water use efficiency by enhancing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizosphere and endophyte of summer maize	58
Impact of straw return on soil temperature and water during the freeze-thaw period	58
The impact of digital inclusive finance on alternate irrigation technology innovation: From the perspective of the 'catfish effect' in financial markets	58
Interannual variability of water productivity on the Eastern Snake Plain in Idaho, United States	57
Dynamic risk assessment of waterlogging disaster to spring peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Henan Province, China	57
Regional water-saving potential calculation method for paddy rice based on remote sensing	55
Evaluation and verification of two evapotranspiration models based on precision screening and partitioning of field temperature data	55
Conveyance efficiency and irrigation water productivity under varying water supply conditions in arid lowlands of Central Asia	55
Increasing the concentration of film antitranspirant increases yields of rapeseed under terminal drought by improving plant water status	55
Influence of the sampling time interval of canopy temperature on the dynamic zoning of variable rate irrigation	55
Editorial Board	54
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]	54
Phosphorus in the runoff of soils with contrasting textures influenced by soil slope and pig slurry application	53
Field evaluation of nitrogen volatilization loss during fertigation through center pivots	53
Editorial Board	53
Biophysical controls on energy exchange and water use efficiency over a poplar plantation in Northern Hilly China	53
Editorial Board	52
Diversified crop rotations reduce groundwater use and enhance system resilience	52
A comparison of physical-based and machine learning modeling for soil salt dynamics in crop fields	51
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	51
Combined effects of urea type and placement depth on grain yield, water productivity and nitrogen use efficiency of rain-fed spring maize in northern China	51