OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 32. 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
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	248
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	164
Farming ducks in a maize field: a new and potential crop-livestock system from China	112
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	87
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	64
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	62
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	59
Designing high-yielding wheat crops under late sowing: a case study in southern China	58
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	58
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	58
Introduction of alternative crops in the Mediterranean to satisfy EU Green Deal goals. A review	55
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	53
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	52
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	52
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	50
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	49
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	49
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	48
Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	42
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	41
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	41
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	40
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	38
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	37
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	36

Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	35
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	35
Agronomic performance, nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the perennial grain crop Thinopyrum intermedium in a monoculture and intercropped with alfalfa in Scandinavia	34
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	34
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	33
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	32
An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions	32