OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Journal of Range & Forage Science is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Quality characteristics of forage in the sowing year of a standard perennial pasture established with annual ryegrass, barley, and berseem clover as companion crops	18
Bromatological and histological features of native African grasses under grazing in Brazilian semi-arid rangelands	18
Book Review. Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development	18
Dynamics of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) and Kikuyu grass (Cenchrus clandestinus) pastures associated with white clover (Trifolium repens) in small-scale dairy systems in the	18
Performance of goats browsing on Vachellia karroo encroached communal lands and open grasslands in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa	15
The effect of changes in human drivers on the fire regimes of South African grassland and savanna environments over the past 100 years	13
Diet preference of black rhinocerosDiceros bicornisat Welgevonden Game Reserve, South Africa, across seasons	12
Kraals or bomas increase soil carbon and fertility across several biomes	11
Participatory establishment of Cenchrus ciliaris forage grass among pastoralists in a semi-arid rangeland area of eastern Tanzania	10
Nearly six decades of grazing research published by the Grassland Society of Southern Africa: trends, recommendations and gaps	9
Drought as a driver of vegetation change in Succulent Karoo rangelands, South Africa	9
Do native grasses emerge and establish in areas rehabilitated using vetiver grass?	8
Nutritional properties and in vitro gas production in cactus pear ( Opuntia stricta ) and cassava ( Manihot esculenta	7
Does spring defoliation affect energy reserves in a South African mesic grassland geophyte?	6
Putting the pieces together: woody plant encroachment across a precipitation gradient in southern Africa	6
Book review: ‘Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert: Ecosystem Engineering by Subterranean Social Insects’	6
Lucerne establishment in dryland conditions: effects of crop residues and wheat as a nurse crop	6
Effect of plant spacing and cutting intensity on the morphology and productivity of forage cactus [ Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw.]	6
Two reviews of GrassPro Southern Africa (online app)	6
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action	6
Lessons from a century of evidence-based fire management in grassy ecosystems	6
The control of the encroaching shrub Seriphium plumosum ( L. ) Thunb. (Asteraceae) and the response of the grassy layer in a South African	6
An Ecological Guide to the BushAn Ecological Guide to the Bush, By Bruce McKenzie, 2022, Jacana Media: www.jacana.co.za, 194 pages, softcover, ISBN 9781431432875, Price: R235.00	6
Overlooked forbs: implications for rangeland biodiversity and function in southern Africa	5
Integration of livestock into conservation agriculture systems in the Mediterranean climate region of South Africa	5

Forage yield, competition and economic benefit of intercropping cactus and millet with mulch in a semi-arid environment	5
Biostimulant effects on the herbage yield and nutritive composition of a mixed ryegrass–clover pasture	5
Unravelling the accessions–environment interactions and the unveiling of released variety: insights from Bouffordia dichotoma	4
High-intensity fire experiments to manage shrub encroachment: lessons learned in South Africa and the United States	4
A balanced perspective on the contribution of extensive ruminant production to greenhouse gas emissions in southern Africa	4
From forage to multifunctionality: shifting perceptions of rangeland ecosystem services in the journals of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa	4
Effect of botanical composition calibration on the accuracy of undisturbed sward height and comparative yield method techniques for herbage mass estimation in tropical heterogeneous pastures	4
Herbicide trials on Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Asteraceae) during adverse conditions reveal incompatibility with biocontrol and a narrow window of opportunity for che	4
Genetic analysis of Panicum coloratum var. makarikariense caryopsis retention	4
African Journal of Range and Forage Science : paving the way to restoration in African rangelands	3
Vegetation structure and defoliation patterns in heterogeneous grasslands under two herbage allowance levels	3
Too much, too late: fires and reactive wildfire management in northern Botswana’s forests and woodland savannas	3
Forage yield and quality response of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) to different dry season harvesting management under the subhumid agroecology of western Ethiopia	3
The diversity of epigeal insects after the application of the brush packing restoration method following bush-encroachment control in South Africa	3
Could CO₂-induced changes to C₄ grass flammability aggravate savanna woody encroachment?	3
The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next	3
Selection and evaluation of promising indigenous fodder trees and shrubs as supplemental diets for ruminant animals across different agroecological environments	3
Effects of short-duration kraaling depend on initial conditions in a mesic grassland	3
Grass dynamics along a woody-plant density reduction gradient in a South African savanna	3
Rewilding – the Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery	2
Seedling establishment and early growth in Calobota sericea subjected to moisture stress	2
Historical trajectories and current perspectives on sub-Saharan wildland fire science and management in select scientific literature	2
Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: a potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems	2
Fermentation characteristics of maize–forage legume mixtures ensiled in small-scale silos	2
A laissez-faire management approach in a grassland landscape results in a fine-scale, spatio-temporally heterogeneous fire pattern	2
Drought release and post-drought changes in herbaceous composition and diversity in two land uses subjected to selective bush control in a semi-arid Kalahari savanna	1
Calibration and evaluation of a CROPGRO Perennial Forage Model for Brachiaria humidicola yield simulation under future climate in subhumid environments of Ethiopia	1
Ensiling as a technique for preservation of the nutritional quality of Vachellia nilotica	1
The recent fire regimes of Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga national parks, Angola	1
Allometric biomass estimations for Senegalia mellifera and Vachellia reficiens	1
Book Review. Ekologiese Restourasie in Namakwaland: ’n Praktiese GidsEkologiese restourasie in Namakwaland: ’n praktiese gids, By Peter Carrick, Susan Botha and Raldo Kruger, 2022, Nurture, Restore, I	1
Does the presence of tall or dwarf elephant grass genotypes change the nutritive value of butterfly pea in grass–legume intercrops?	1
Frequent defoliation rapidly and progressively reduces the vigour of a perennial mesic grassland forb, Thunbergia atriplicifolia	1
Associative nitrogen fixation could be common in South African mesic grassland	1
Tipping the scales: how fire controls the balance among functional groups in Angolan grasslands	1
Chemical composition and in-vitro dry matter degradability of Eragrostis curvula grass hay supplemented with Raphanus sativ	1
Book Review. Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands	1
Grazing effects on forage quality parameters of three rangeland species in arid regions of Semnan, Iran	1
Woody cover change in relation to fire history and land-use in the savanna-woodlands of north-east Namibia (1996–2019)	1
Nutritional improvement of cactus fruit scraps with addition of alfalfa or Atriplex halimus , and comparison of two animal feed preservation methods (silage and solar dr	1
Grazing capacity change on a small Mediterranean-type South African offshore island following the control of invasive alien European rabbits ( Oryctolagus cuniculus )	1
The influence of grass competition and soil moisture on the growth and phenology of Karoo shrubs in the Eastern Upper Karoo	1
Spatio-temporal status of vegetation, soil and cattle serum minerals in degraded communal rangelands of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: implications for livestock sustainability and management interve	1
Quantifying the effect of chemical bush control of Senegalia mellifera on vegetation production in the Eastern Kalahari Bushveld, South Africa	1
The grazing paradox: assessing contradictions of continuous versus rotational grazing systems in southern Africa	1
Rainfed-based production of Megathyrsus maximus in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the semi-arid environment of Sudan	1
A tribute to Winston Smuts Watts Trollope – a firebrand and visionary in fire research	1