OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 29. 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
Novel deep learning algorithm in soil erodibility factor predicting at a continental scale	319
Kinetics of native and added carbon mineralization on incubating at different soil and moisture conditions in Typic Ustochrepts and Typic Halustalf	252
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	176
Modeling runoff and sediment yield at the event scale in semiarid watersheds	131
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	118
Mechanisms controlling the inhibiting effects of roots on soil detachment through the growth of herbaceous plants in Southwest China	93
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	89
Spatial variations in runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses induced by toposequence and biochar application in upland maize farming	82
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	79
Rheological evaluation of soil microstructure stability during vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau of China	60
Convolutional neural networks-driven bias correction of satellite precipitation improves rainfall-runoff-inundation modeling	60
Biochar application reduces soil detachment capacity by overland flow under a continuous three-year field experiment on the Loess Plateau of China	57
Rainfall intensity profile induced changes in surface‒subsurface flow and soil loss as influenced by surface cover type: A long-term in situ field study	56
Water demand and surface water supply dynamics in the changing climate of semi-arid basins	53
Automatic mapping of gully from satellite images using asymmetric non-local LinkNet: A case study in Northeast China	51
Estimation of generalized soil structure index based on differential spectra of different orders by multivariate assessment	51
Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia	47
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	46
Editorial Board	42
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	41
Wind erosion from crusted playa surfaces by no saltation and with saltation: A comparison through laboratory wind tunnel experiments	40
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	37
Assessing the impact of residue cover on hillslope soil loss in the Midwest US: insights from the daily erosion project modeling framework	37
Dealing with sub-pixel landscape elements in distributed rainfall-runoff modelling in agricultural catchments	33
Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	33

Predicting particulate phosphorus removal efficiency in vegetative filter strips: A particle size-based model coupled with VFSMOD-W in black soil region of northeast China	32
Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin	32
Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China	30
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	29
Large-scale extraction of check dams and silted fields on the Chinese loess plateau using ensemble learning models	29
Soybean yield in response to soil erosion under different dry and wet conditions	29