OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 33. 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
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	255
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	175
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	119
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	98
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	69
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	68
Designing high-yielding wheat crops under late sowing: a case study in southern China	67
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	64
Farming ducks in a maize field: a new and potential crop-livestock system from China	62
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	61
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	59
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	57
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	57
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	55
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	51
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	47
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	46
Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	45
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	43
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	40
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	40
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	39
Agronomic performance, nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the perennial grain crop Thinopyrum intermedium in a monoculture and intercropped with alfalfa in Scandinavia	38
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	38
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	38

Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	37
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	36
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	35
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	35
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	35
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	34
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	34
An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions	33