OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 18. 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
Soil health metrics reflect yields in long-term cropping system experiments	33
Using perennial plant varieties for use as living mulch for winter cereals. A review	33
Introducing intermediate wheatgrass as a perennial grain crop into farming systems: insights into the decision-making process of pioneer farmers	33
Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020	33
Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality	33
Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador	33
Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades	32
The nitrogen fertilizer conundrum: why is yield a poor determinant of crops’ nitrogen fertilizer requirements?	32
Agri-environment schemes are associated with greater terrestrial invertebrate abundance and richness in upland grasslands	32
Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway	32
Intercropping with service crops provides multiple services in temperate arable systems: a review	31
Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study	31
Future agricultural systems and the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability goals. A review	31
Knowns and unknowns of cattle grazing in oil palm plantations. A review	30
Lessons learned from farmers’ experience of soil carbon management practices in grazing regimes of Australia	30
Relay intercropping can efficiently support weed management in cereal-based cropping systems when appropriate legume species are chosen	30
Ecological quality as a coffee quality enhancer. A review	29
Considering farming management at the landscape scale: descriptors and trends on biodiversity. A review	29
Soil properties resulting in superior maize yields upon climate warming	29
Improving the sustainability of cropping systems via diversified planting in arid irrigation areas	29
A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France	27
Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern Bahia	27
Competitive yields in organic and agroforestry cacao cropping systems: results from 15 years of a long-term systems comparison trial in Bolivia	26
Increasing wheat proteins sustainably by rotation with forage legumes	26
Comparison of models for leaf blotch disease management in wheat based on historical yield and weather data in the Nordic-Baltic region	25
Modelling the impact of nitrification inhibition in a fallow-based West African corn cropping system	25
Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity	25
Crop residue return achieves environmental mitigation and enhances grain yield: a global meta-analysis	25
Impacts of long-term conservation agriculture and nitrogen management on maize yield, soil carbon sequestration, and nitrogen cycling in the Indo-Gangetic Plains	24
Organic management of cattle and pigs in Mediterranean systems: energy efficiency and ecosystem services	24
Farmer participatory assessment of soil health from Conservation Agriculture adoption in three regions of East Africa	24
Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems	23
Crop response to nitrogen-phosphorus colimitation: theory, experimental evidences, mechanisms, and models. A review	23
Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review	23
Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review	23
The use of oil palm empty fruit bunches as a soil amendmentto improve growth and yield of crops. A meta-analysis	23
Long-term ley and manure managements have consistent effects on microbial functional profiles and organic C groups across soils from a latitudinal gradient	22
Effect of climate change adaptation options on maize yield across different agro-climatic zones in South Asia. A meta-analysis	22
Farmers’ perception and management of water scarcity in irrigated rice-based systems in dry climatic zones of West Africa	21
Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits	21

Why are the benefits of enhanced-efficiency fertilizers inconsistent in the field? Prerequisite conditions identified from simulation analyses	21
Effects of Rhizobium inoculum compared with mineral nitrogen fertilizer on nodulation and seed yield of common bean. A meta-analysis	21
Adapting agriculture to climate change: which pathways behind policy initiatives?	21
Diversification improves the performance of cereals in European cropping systems	20
On the effects that motivate pesticide use in perspective of designing a cropping system without pesticides but with mineral fertilizer—a review	20
Delivering “less but better” meat in practice—a case study of a farm in agroecological transition	20
Yield and fertilizer benefits of maize/grain legume intercropping in China and Africa: A meta-analysis	19
Legume seed system performance in sub-Saharan Africa: barriers, opportunities, and scaling options. A review	19
A functional ecology approach to define a conceptual and participatory method for designing species mixtures: a case study on nitrogen cycling and weed control	19
Improving soil fertility with lime and phosphogypsum enhances soybean yield and physiological characteristics	19
Assessing management factors limiting rice production in Venezuela	18
Rice residue management in the Indo-Gangetic Plains for climate and food security. A review	18
Sustainable management practices to improve the water use efficiency of winter wheat in the North China Plain: a meta-analysis	18
Using botanical resources to select wild forage legumes for domestication in temperate grassland agricultural systems	18