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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	345
Biophysical controls on energy exchange and water use efficiency over a poplar plantation in Northern Hilly China	183
Editorial Board	132
Editorial Board	131
Improving pumpset selection to support intensification of groundwater irrigation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	117
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]	116
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]	113
Regional-scale evaluation of tertiary irrigation system in Muda Irrigation Scheme from space	110
Hydrogeology and subsurface water flow beneath grass waterways: Implications for exploiting waterways for nitrate reductions	109
A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning	94
Effects of deficit irrigation on nitrogen uptake and soil mineral nitrogen in alfalfa grasslands of the inland arid area of China	93
Methodology for studying nitrogen loss from paddy fields under alternate wetting and drying irrigation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China	93
Life cycle water footprint analysis of crop production in China	91
Assessing field scale spatiotemporal heterogeneity in salinity dynamics using aerial data assimilation	88
Reducing nutrient loss in drainage from tomato grown in free-draining substrate in greenhouses using dynamic nutrient management	85
Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya	83
Editorial Board	81
The incorporation of solar energy and compressed air into the energy supply system enhances the environmentally friendly and efficient operation of drip irrigation systems	81
Bridging the gap: An interpretable coupled model (SWAT-ELM-SHAP) for blue-green water simulation in data-scarce basins	79
Evaluating the impact of floating spheres on evaporation reduction and water salinity control in reservoirs	79
Phosphorus in the runoff of soils with contrasting textures influenced by soil slope and pig slurry application	77
Shallow-incorporated straw returning further improves rainfed maize productivity, profitability and soil carbon turnover on the basis of plastic film mulching	77
Grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat controlled by irrigation regime and manure substitution in the North China Plain	76
Regional water-saving potential calculation method for paddy rice based on remote sensing	75
Assessing the performance of conservation measures for controlling slope runoff and erosion using field scouring experiments	74

Optimizing irrigation schedules of greenhouse tomato based on a comprehensive evaluation model	73
Characterizing potato yield responses to water supply in Atlantic Canada’s humid climate using historical yield and weather data: Implications for supplemental irrigation	73
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	68
A comparison of physical-based and machine learning modeling for soil salt dynamics in crop fields	68
Generating high-precision farmland irrigation pattern maps using remotely sensed ecological indices and machine learning algorithms	64
Impact of straw return on soil temperature and water during the freeze-thaw period	64
Effect of lateral flushing on emitter clogging in drip irrigation using high-sediment water	62
Simulating the effect of subsurface tile drainage on watershed salinity using SWAT	62
Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems	61
Adopting plastic film mulching system in the food-energy-water-carbon nexus to the sustainable dryland agriculture	60
Influence of suspended solid particles on calcium carbonate fouling in dripper labyrinths	60
Sustainability of collective irrigation under water competition between agriculture and civil uses: The case study of Alanya Water Users Association (Türkiye)	60
Increasing the concentration of film antitranspirant increases yields of rapeseed under terminal drought by improving plant water status	60
An integrated approach for multi-year irrigation benchmarking using satellites, surveys and on-farm measured data	59
A simplified method for water depth mapping over crops during flood based on Copernicus and DTM open data	59
Evaluation and verification of two evapotranspiration models based on precision screening and partitioning of field temperature data	58
Soybean yield response to managed depletion irrigation regimes in a Mid-South silt loam soil	57
Field evaluation of nitrogen volatilization loss during fertigation through center pivots	57
Extraction of grassland irrigation information in arid regions based on multi-source remote sensing data	55
Water competition among the coexisting Platycladus orientalis, Prunus davidiana and Medicago sativa in a semi-arid agroforestry system	54
Interannual variability of water productivity on the Eastern Snake Plain in Idaho, United States	53
Rethinking the modernization of pressurized networks: Lessons from a case study in the Gharb (Morocco)	53
Investigation of satellite-related precipitation products for modeling of rainfed wheat production systems	53
Reference crop evapotranspiration for data-sparse regions using reanalysis products	53
Bridging the gap: Analysis of systemic barriers to irrigation technology supply businesses in Ethiopia	53
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	52
Optimal planting density combined with phosphorus input promotes common buckwheat resource use efficiency and productivity to increase grain yield	52
Biochar decreased N loss from paddy ecosystem under alternate wetting and drying in the Lower Liaohe River Plain, China	52
Time-delayed machine learning models for estimating groundwater depth in the Hetao Irrigation District, China	52
Monitoring irrigation dynamics in paddy fields using spatiotemporal fusion of Sentinel-2 and MODIS	52
Conveyance efficiency and irrigation water productivity under varying water supply conditions in arid lowlands of Central Asia	52
Soil moisture influences wheat yield by affecting root growth and the composition of microbial communities under drip fertigation	52
Influence of the sampling time interval of canopy temperature on the dynamic zoning of variable rate irrigation	52