OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 15. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	354
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	271
Kinetics of native and added carbon mineralization on incubating at different soil and moisture conditions in Typic Ustochrepts and Typic Halustalf	101
Modeling runoff and sediment yield at the event scale in semiarid watersheds	100
Spatial variations in runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses induced by toposequence and biochar application in upland maize farming	87
Novel deep learning algorithm in soil erodibility factor predicting at a continental scale	71
Carbon and soil structure in an ultisol with corn (Zea mays L.) cropping in long-term plots in northeastern Brazil	64
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	63
Assessing the impact of reservoir tillage on soil water dynamics in sloped sandy potato fields	60
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	59
Estimation of generalized soil structure index based on differential spectra of different orders by multivariate assessment	54
Comparison of approaches using MUSLE, USLE-M and RUSLE2 for large-scale hydrosedimentological modelling	53
RSM application in chisel tillage assessment: Enhancing rainfall infiltration and soil erosion control	48
Spatial modeling of soil 137Cs inventory and redistribution using machine learning with remote sensing and auxiliary variables at the watershed scale	46
Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia	40
Convolutional neural networks-driven bias correction of satellite precipitation improves rainfall-runoff-inundation modeling	38
Automatic mapping of gully from satellite images using asymmetric non-local LinkNet: A case study in Northeast China	38
Biochar application reduces soil detachment capacity by overland flow under a continuous three-year field experiment on the Loess Plateau of China	38
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	38
Effects of rainfall intensity and kinetic energy on hillslope soil erosion in the thin-layer Mollisol region of China: Field observation and rainfall simulation	36
Wind erosion from crusted playa surfaces by no saltation and with saltation: A comparison through laboratory wind tunnel experiments	35
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	34
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	33
Hydro-learning: Integrating AI with SWAT for multi-resolution flow and sediment prediction in data-scarce basins	33
Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	32

Editorial Board	31
Dealing with sub-pixel landscape elements in distributed rainfall-runoff modelling in agricultural catchments	31
Assessing the impact of residue cover on hillslope soil loss in the Midwest US: insights from the daily erosion project modeling framework	31
Soybean yield in response to soil erosion under different dry and wet conditions	30
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	30
A modified CSLE for soil loss prediction under different vegetation patterns at slope scale in China	29
Large-scale extraction of check dams and silted fields on the Chinese loess plateau using ensemble learning models	29
Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China	29
Optimizing water and nutrient application for Caragana korshinskii-based vegetation restoration in coal-mine-degraded arid lands	29
Morphology evolution of vegetation-covered loess gully heads induced by hydraulic and gravitational erosion	28
Temporal variation in soil erodibility of typical land use types for purple soil of the Three Gorges Reservoir area	28
Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin	28
Synthesis analysis of sediment load changes in the Yellow River Basin	27
Soil type classification using Landsat 8: A comparison between the USDA and a local system in Israel	27
Quantifying ridge-induced slope correction and its impact on soil erosion estimation in black soil sloping croplands of Northeast China: Mechanisms and mitigation	27
Vegetation characteristics and soil properties in grazing exclusion areas of the Inner Mongolia desert steppe	27
Clay mineral dispersion as a driver of internal erosion under low-energy seepage: Mechanistic insights from laboratory pinhole tests	27
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	27
Gully erosion mapping susceptibility in a Mediterranean environment: A hybrid decision-making model	26
Response of soil detachment capacity to freeze‒thaw process for five loess soils from the Loess Plateau of China	26
Grassland restoration measures influence soil water-holding capacity by altering soil and vegetation properties composition	25
Divergent behaviour of soil nutrients imprinted by different land management practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	25
Soil splash erosion: An overlooked issue for sustainable rubber plantation in the tropical region of China	25
Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry and Rare Earth Oxides can quantify diffuse and convergent soil loss and source apportionment	24
Mapping sediment mobilization risks: Prioritizing results obtained at watershed and sub-watershed scales	24
A validation of WEPP water quality routines in uniform and nonuniform agricultural hillslopes	24
Long-term conservation tillage results in a more balanced soil microbiological activity and higher nutrient supply capacity	23
Simulated rainfall in Brazil: An alternative for assesment of soil surface processes and an opportunity for technological development	23
Intra-annual characterization of soil mean temperature at 5 and 10 cm depths based on remote sensing data, at country scale	23
Establishing and verifying soil quality index model based on GIS and remote sensing for cultivated lands under semi-humid terrestrial ecosystem	22
Runoff and Infiltration responses of revegetated slopes to clipping management on the northern Loess Plateau	22
Why we should revitalize indigenous water harvesting systems: Lessons learned	22
The effects of freeze-thaw processes on crusting, aggregation and the interaction with erosive level winds in the Mollisol region of Northeast China	22
Global rainfall erosivity: Observation, attribution, and projection	22
Influence of vegetation type and topographic position on volumetric soil water content dynamics and similarity among surface and deep soil layers	22
Soil loss and runoff obtained with customized precipitation patterns simulated by InfiAsper	21
Effects of initial soil moisture on rill erodibility and critical shear stress factors in the WEPP model across diverse soil types	20
Zonal characteristics and attribution analysis of soil erodibility in Robinia pseudoacacia plantations on the Loess Plateau, China	20
Halting Erosion in Saline Soils Using a Novel Engineered Waste-Derived Porous Carbon Amendment	20
Automated quantification of contouring as support practice for improved soil erosion estimation considering ridges	20
Soil type-dependent effects of drying-wetting sequences on aggregates and their associated OC and N	20
Runoff- and erosion-reducing effects of vegetation on the loess hillslopes of China under concentrated flow	19
Assessing plant soil water availability in drought conditions: A comparative analysis of conventional and minimum tillage, example from Slovenia	19
Aeolian sediments physicochemical properties along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway	19
Corrigendum to “Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties” [Int. Soil Water Conserv. Res. 10 (2022) 343–354]	19
Long-term trends of precipitation and erosivity over Northeast China during 1961–2020	19
Saltwater intrusion in the Po River Delta (Italy) during drought conditions: Analyzing its spatio-temporal evolution and potential impact on agriculture	18
Towards defining soil quality of Mediterranean calcareous agricultural soils: Reference values and potential core indicator set	18
The quality attribute of watershed ecosystem is more important than the landscape attribute in controlling erosion of red soil in southern China	17
Interactions between soil conservation and dryland farming of heterogeneously eroding areas in Loess Hills, China	17

Watershed management, groundwater recharge and drought resilience: An integrated approach to adapt to rainfall variability in northern Ethiopia	16
Field experimental study on the effect of thawed depth of frozen alpine meadow soil on rill erosion by snowmelt waterflow	16
HOTSED: A new integrated model for assessing potential hotspots of sediment sources and related sediment dynamics at watershed scale	16
Visible, near-infrared, and shortwave-infrared spectra as an input variable for digital mapping of soil organic carbon	16
Editorial Board	16
Exploring best soil conservation practices using the tolerable soil loss limit in central highland of Ethiopia: A case study of Andit Tid watershed	16
Variability of soil organic carbon with elevation gradient in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	16
Tracing soil erosion processes in Karst regions using rare earth elements: The role of bedrock outcrops and seasonal impacts	16
Editorial Board	16
Maize crop residue cover mapping using Sentinel-2 MSI data and random forest algorithms	15
Effect of microrelief features of tillage methods under different rainfall intensities on runoff and soil erosion in slopes	15
Trade-off analyses between food provision and soil conservation service of Grain for Green Program in Mountainous Area	15
Soil porosity prediction across Europe with a focus on soil particle density determination	15
Generation of runoff in an alpine meadow hillslope underlain by permafrost	15
Editorial Board	15
Inorganic amendments increase soil carbon sequestration across global acidic agroecosystems: A meta-analysis	15
Runoff and soil erosion influenced by abandonment of sloping land on the Loess Plateau: Insights from eight years of monitoring	15