OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring nitrogen-flow networks and energy performance of contrasting organic farms	25
Recycled nutrients supply phosphorus for organically-managed wheat and forage crops	24
Towards net zero emissions without compromising agricultural sustainability: What is achievable?	22
Nitrogen supply by cut-and-carry biomass for vegetable crops and subsequent cereals	21
Decision-making environment of low-protein animal feeding in dairy and poultry farms in China	20
Field based 15 N study: an investigation of cereal rye N fate and utilization by the subsequent corn and soybean	19
Nitrous oxide emissions after application of cattle-manure-based pellet of different pH levels to an Andosol upland field	19
A decision support tool for the selection of 15 N analysis methods of ammonium and nitrate	18
Large nitrous oxide emissions from arable soils after crop harvests prior to sowing	18
Fertilizer price hikes, farmers’ willingness to pay and crop switching decision in Ghana	18
Nitrogen management trade-offs in hybrid rice for agronomy, carbon, and energy efficiency	15
Split N application and DMP based nitrification inhibitors mitigate N2O losses in a soil cropped with winter wheat	15
Impacts of slurry acidification and injection on fertilizer nitrogen fates in grassland	15
Gained net ecosystem economic benefit in machine-transplanted double-cropped rice strategies	14
Improving nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated cotton production	14
Greenlandic glacial rock flour improves crop yield in organic agricultural production	13
15Nitrogen urea fertilizer fate in soil–water–plant pools for corn–soybean rotation with grass and legume cover crops	13
Simulating long-term soil carbon storage, greenhouse gas balance, and crop yields in semi-arid cropping systems using DayCent model	13
Emissions of N2O and NH3 from cattle excreta in grass pastures fertilized with N or mixed with a forage legume	13
Soil organic phosphorus mineralisation rate in cropped fields receiving various P sources	13
Limited benefits of summer cover crops on nitrogen cycling in organic vegetable production	12
Soil carbon and nutrient stocks under intensified pasture and sugarcane expansion	12
Developing climate-resilient agri-environmental production systems	12
Use of 15N tracers to study nitrogen flows in agro-ecosystems: transformation, losses and plant uptake	12
Marginal increase in nitrate leaching under grass–clover leys by slurry and mineral fertilizer	12

Establishing optimal one-time root-zone nitrogen management for winter wheat in a loamy soil	12
Do tropical climatic conditions reduce the effectiveness of nitrification inhibitors? A meta-analysis of studies carried out in Brazil	12
Cell signalling compound improves pasture and livestock productivity and the environment	12
Spatial distribution and environmental risk of soil phosphorus under a long-term fertilizer strategy in a rice–wheat rotation system	11
Urease inhibitor reduces ammonia volatilization and increases rice grain yield under irrigation delay	11
Assessing policy impacts on nutrient circularity: a comprehensive review	11
Fertilization strategies to reduce yield-scaled N2O emissions based on the use of biochar and biochar-based fertilizers	11
Soy and mustard effectively mobilize phosphorus from inorganic and organic sources	11
Structural equation modelling to analyze the sustainability of the fertilizer sector in India	11
New generation urease inhibitor Duromide reduces ammonia losses and increases irrigated rice yield	11
Summer soil management regulates greenhouse gas emissions in dryland wheat cropping	11
Magnesium fertilization has a greater impact on soil and leaf nutrient concentrations than nitrogen or calcium fertilization in Florida orange production	11
Drivers of soil respiration across a management intensity gradient in temperate grasslands under drought	11
Quantifying the fate of nitrogen from cereal rye root and shoot biomass using 15N	10
Adding inhibitors to manure injections can mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from barley croplands	10
Reversing negative nitrogen balances in intensive rice-based cropping with Conservation Agriculture	10
Influence of greenhouse duration on soil fertility and nitrate/nitrite in Cucumis sativus L.	10
Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in nitrogen-fertilized grass and legume-grass forage systems	10
Slurry acidification outperformed injection as an ammonia emission-reducing technique in boreal grass cultivation	10
Unraveling the role of ruzigrass in soil K cycling in tropical cropping systems	10
Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in grazing systems through nitrification inhibitors: a meta-analysis	9
Ruzigrass as cover crop improves the potassium partial balance and use by subsequent cotton	9
Decomposition and macronutrient release rates of cereal rye residue in a temperate agroecosystem	9
Rice husk ash and water management affect the GHG emission and water productivity in rice	9
Regenerating productivity after soil fertility depletion in a 20-year cotton–maize rotation in Benin	8
In recognition of Mike Hedley: fate of fertiliser in soil and mobilisation of recalcitrant nutrients	8
Beyond circularity! Integration of circularity, efficiency, and sufficiency for nutrient management in agri-food systems	8
Biochar amendments make the harvesting of crop residue for bioenergy production sustainable	8
Correction: Cover crop quality and quantity influences organic corn performance more than soil context	8
Mitigate N2O emissions while maintaining sugarcane yield using enhanced efficiency fertilisers and reduced nitrogen rates	8
Soil fertility, maize productivity, and nutrient use efficiency following different cattle corralling duration and mineral fertilizer application on a Lixisol in Benin	8
Nutrient circularity of an anaerobic digestion project in a typical intensive rice cultivation village in the Vietnamese Mekong delta region: a regional material flow analysis and discussion of modeli	8
Phosphorus drawdown rate following cessation of repeated manure application to annual crops	8
Polymer coated urea does not improve nitrogen use efficiency above urea in ratoon sugarcane crops in the wet subtropics	7
Assessing crop nitrogen status under organic amendments to reduce nitrogen fertilizer inputs and improve sustainability	7
Identifying the circularization opportunities for organic wastes generated in a Mediterranean region	7
Canola productivity and carbon footprint under different cropping systems in eastern Canada	7
Integrating organic fertilizers in maize-mung bean intercropping: implications for soil carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas reduction	7
Enduring increases in maize yield are a co-benefit of enhanced weathering of Greenlandic glacial rock flour in Ghana	7
End-of-life stage of renewable growing media with biochar versus spent peat or mineral wool	7
Integrated nutrient management enhances leaf litter, mango yield, quality and carbon stock	7
Optimizing nutrient requirement in space and time for increased crop yield and income	7
Elevated CO2 results in modified N2O emissions from paddy rice fields	7
Temporal changes in the nutrient content of cattle dung in the Nebraska Sandhills ecosystem	7
Effects of urea micronized sulfur combined with urease and nitrification inhibitors on nitrogen transformation, losses, and crop response	7
Nitrogen loss partitioning and emissions in intensive subtropical hybrid dairy systems	6
Are soil carbon and nitrogen stocks at steady state despite introducing grass and legumes to soybean and maize production system?	6
Correction: Nitrogen fertilization with pig slurry in a barley-sorghum double-annual forage cropping system	6
Fertilisation strategies and their influence on nutrient flows in organic apple orchards	6
Leaching and volatilization of nitrogen in paddy rice under different nitrogen management	6

Biomass partitioning and nutrient fluxes in Silphium perfoliatum and silage maize cropping systems	6
Differential nutrient dynamics in cowpea and sunn hemp under organic orange peel powder fertilization	6
A new circular fertiliser framework for greenhouse hydroponic systems using phosphorus as a case study	6
Why is nutrient cycling in food systems so limited? A case study from the North-Netherlands region	6
Sub-surface drip-fertigation and legume residue improved maize yield and nitrogen use	6
Indigenous nutrient supply, weeding and fertilisation strategies influence on-farm N, P and K use efficiency in lowland rice	6
High fertilizing value but potentially high volatilization of urine based fertilizers	5
Can periodic phosphorus fertilizer applications reduce the risk of P loss ?	5
A modular approach for quantification of nitrogen flows and losses along dairy manure management chains of different complexity	5
Agroecological practices improve soil biological properties in an organic vegetable system	5
Soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical vegetable farms, using forest as a reference	5
Long-term K fertilization effects on soil available K, grain yield, and plant K critical value in winter wheat	5
How can urea-N one-time management achieve high yield and high NUE for rainfed and irrigated maize?	5
Productivity and nutritive value of no-input minimum tillage organic forage systems	5
Potential to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by use of perennial mobile green manures	5
Liming improves wheat nutrient use efficiency, yield, and quality on acid soils in Ethiopia	5
Optimizing nitrogen input in orchard systems to balance agronomic productivity and environmental protection	5
System-based management of phosphorus in a non-flooded rice-lentil system on alkaline soil	5
Using spatially variable nitrogen application and crop responses to evaluate crop nitrogen use efficiency	5
Agroecological practices affect agronomic performance and resilience in fennel cultivation	5
Linear relationship between CH4 fluxes and atmospheric CO2 concentration levels controlled by rice biomass and soil methanogenic communities	5
Book review «Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop production»	5
Alfalfa green manure amendment improved P use efficiency and reduced P losses from paddy fields	5
Interrelationships between soil phosphorus compounds and their dependence on soil chemical and physical attributes	5
Nitrogen fertilizer replacement values of organic amendments: determination and prediction	5
Challenges and opportunities for nutrient circularity: an innovation platform approach	5
Modelling long-term yield and soil organic matter dynamics in a maize cropping system	4
Soil nitrogen dynamics and sorghum productivity as affected by biochar in the dry tropics	4
Nitrate leaching from silage maize is more related to biomass N concentration at harvest time than inclusion of undersown cover crops	4
Plant and soil N of different winter cover crops as green manure for subsequent organic white cabbage	4
Agri-environmental implications of N- and P-based manure application to perennial and annual cropping systems	4
Phosphorus effects on four lentil cultivars grown on alkaline Mediterranean soil	4
Shallow plough tillage with straw return increases rice yield by improving nutrient availability and physical properties of compacted subsurface soils	4
Carbon and nutrient cycling in cocoa agroforests under organic and conventional management	4
Nitrous oxide emissions as influenced by tillage practice for cover crop termination	4
Potassium-enriched biochar-based fertilizers for improved uptake in radish plants	4
Inoculation of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria improves soil phosphorus mobilization and maize productivity	4
Foliar zinc fertilization improves yield, biofortification and nutrient-use efficiency of upland rice	4
Can 15N leaf-labelling reliably quantify rhizodeposited nitrogen remaining after a nodulated legume crop?	4
Interseeded alfalfa N2 fixation and transfer to maize are reduced by N fertilizer	4
Alternate wetting and drying: a water-saving technology for sustainable rice production in Burkina Faso?	4
Field evaluation of coated urea with NBPT and micronutrients: 15N recovery and maize yield in contrasting soils	4
Strategies for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from weathered soils fertilized with urea	4
New field technique to determine in-situ gross nitrification rates on an intact 4 m2 scale on arable land	3
Fate and cost effectiveness of soil carbon sequestered using supplementary nutrients applied to crop residues under field conditions	3
Soil respiration under different N fertilization and irrigation regimes in Bengaluru, S-India	3
Rapid determination of site-specific N, P, and K management for rice in a tidal swampland	3
Inhibitors application time and pasture canopy capture regulate gaseous losses of urine-N	3
Enhanced CO2 removal and improved carbon budget by enhanced rock weathering: a field experiment in Hokkaido, Japan	3
Impacts of cropping system diversification on soil phosphorus fractions and enzyme-mediated p cycling	3
Soils potentially vulnerable to phosphorus losses: speciation of inorganic and organic phosphorus and estimation of leaching losses	3
On-farm greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon stocks of a soybean‒maize system	3
Understory vegetation management regulates soil carbon and nitrogen storage in rubber plantations	3
Enabling the circular nitrogen economy with organic and organo-mineral fertilisers	3
Regulation of winter soil mineral nitrogen and N2O emissions by cover crop termination timing	3
Dynamics of potassium concentration in paddy field water, soil and plant affected by potassium fertilizer levels	3
Farm adaptation to stricter nutrient management legislation and the implications for future livestock production: a review	3
Wollastonite improves soybean yield without toxic trace elements enrichment	3
Combination of Lolium perenne L. and Festuca arundinacea Schreb. improve yields under low phosphorus availability	3
Nitrogen use efficiency and yield gains from Stylosanthes guianensis integration in upland rice: insights from a 15N-labelling study under conservation agriculture	3
Global-scale meta-analysis reveals enhanced cereal yields through sulfur and zinc fertilization	3
Tiered maize and wheat nutrient removal coefficients estimated from available data	3
Split-nitrogen application increases nitrogen-use efficiency and yield of cotton	3
Straw incorporation facilitates utilization of straw-derived N in Black Soils	3
Predicting soil nitrogen dynamics after incorporating cereal cover crop residues	3
Site-specific recommendations of cattle manure nitrogen and urea for silage maize	3
Performance of LINTUL-2 in simulating water-limited yields of maize using different sets of weather data in Ghana	3
Similar distribution of 15N labeled cattle slurry and mineral fertilizer in soil after one year	3
Editorial on special issues: “regional nutrient management in the circular economy” & “nitrogen and carbon recycling: benefits from the stakeholders’ perspective”	3
Controlled-release potassium blended fertilizer mitigates greenhouse gas emissions in paddy fields	3
Mixing ratio and Nitrogen fertilization drive synergistic effects between biochar and compost	3