OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 35. 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
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	268
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	186
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	133
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	109
Designing high-yielding wheat crops under late sowing: a case study in southern China	78
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	76
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	71
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	70
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	70
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	69
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	65
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	64
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	63
Tackling the question of work in systemic agronomy. A review	60
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	60
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	51
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	51
Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	47
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	45
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	44
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	44
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	44
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	43
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	42
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	40

Agronomic performance, nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the perennial grain crop Thinopyrum intermedium in a monoculture and intercropped with alfalfa in Scandinavia	39
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	38
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	38
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	37
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	37
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	36
An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions	36
Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	36
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	35
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation with field aged biochar may enhance water and rice productivity	35