OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Arid Land is 19. 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
Formation and ecological response of sand patches in the protection system of Shapotou section of the Baotou-Lanzhou railway, China	66
Variations of soil moisture and its influencing factors in arid and semi-arid areas, China	54
Soil quality assessment for desertification based on multi-indicators with the best-worst method in a semi-arid ecosystem	51
Erratum to: Soil evolution along an alluvial-loess transect in the Herat Plain, western Afghanistan	51
Hydrochemistry and environmental implications in the western alpine region of China	44
Wind dynamic environment and wind-sand erosion and deposition processes on different surfaces along the Dunhuang–Golmud railway, China	38
Geochemical signatures and human health risk evaluation of rare earth elements in soils and plants of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	35
Benefits and ecological restoration implications of hanging grass fences in Mongolian desert steppe	35
Leaf stoichiometry of Leontopodium lentopodioides at high altitudes on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	32
Nutrient resorption and its influencing factors of typical desert plants in different habitats on the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, China	29
Impact of land use/land cover types on surface humidity in northern China in the early 21st century	27
Thriving green havens in baking deserts: Plant diversity and species composition of urban plantations in the Sahara Desert	26
Modeling and analyzing supply-demand relationships of water resources in Xinjiang from a perspective of ecosystem services	25
Future meteorological drought conditions in southwestern Iran based on the NEX-GDDP climate dataset	25
Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of vegetation net primary productivity in the Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration, China from 2001 to 2020	22
Reasonable grazing may balance the conflict between grassland utilization and soil conservation in the semi-arid hilly areas, China	22
Host plant traits play a crucial role in shaping the composition of epiphytic microbiota in the arid desert, Northwest China	20
Spatiotemporal variation in vegetation net primary productivity and its relationship with meteorological factors in the Tarim River Basin of China from 2001 to 2020 based on the Google Earth Engine	20
Aeolian activity in the southern Gurbantunggut Desert of China during the last 900 years	19
Reclamation during oasification is conducive to the accumulation of the soil organic carbon pool in arid land	19
Predicting potential invasion risks of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit in the arid area of Saudi Arabia	19