OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 30. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	201
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	155
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	139
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	124
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	96
Kinetics of native and added carbon mineralization on incubating at different soil and moisture conditions in Typic Ustochrepts and Typic Halustalf	94
Modeling runoff and sediment yield at the event scale in semiarid watersheds	92
Spatial variations in runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses induced by toposequence and biochar application in upland maize farming	86
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	72
Automatic mapping of gully from satellite images using asymmetric non-local LinkNet: A case study in Northeast China	60
Estimation of generalized soil structure index based on differential spectra of different orders by multivariate assessment	56
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	55
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	55
Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia	54
Effects of land management practices and land cover types on soil loss and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A review	53
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	48
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	47
Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	46
Editorial Board	46
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	42
Wind erosion from crusted playa surfaces by no saltation and with saltation: A comparison through laboratory wind tunnel experiments	42
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	40
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	38
Generation of a long-term daily gridded precipitation dataset for the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) through temporal Reconstruction, Correction & Informed Regionalization-“ReCIR”	37
A modified CSLE for soil loss prediction under different vegetation patterns at slope scale in China	35

Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin	33
How to model the effect of mechanical erosion control practices at a catchment scale?	32
Large-scale extraction of check dams and silted fields on the Chinese loess plateau using ensemble learning models	32
Morphology evolution of vegetation-covered loess gully heads induced by hydraulic and gravitational erosion	32
Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China	30
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	30
Divergent behaviour of soil nutrients imprinted by different land management practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	30