OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 38. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	209
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	161
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	134
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	97
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	94
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	93
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	77
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	76
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	76
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	72
Tackling the question of work in systemic agronomy. A review	71
Integrating tactics for weed seed management provides sustainable weed control in organic rice production	66
FarmSTEPS, a model for spatial-temporal exploration of diversified and sustainable crop sequence plans for crop farms	63
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	62
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	60
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	54
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	53
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	50
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	48
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	48
Engaging, collaborating, and driving change within a multi-stakeholder platform through a step-by-step approach of innovation design applied to African dairy value chains	47
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	47
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	47
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	46
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	45

Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	45
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	44
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	42
Crop residues moderately influence cumulative N2O emissions through their carbon to nitrogen ratio in a 12-year experiment in northern France	41
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	41
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	41
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation with field aged biochar may enhance water and rice productivity	40
Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	40
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	39
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	39
Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador	38
Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020	38
Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades	38