OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrated biochar research: A roadmap	28
Accelerating regenerative grazing to tackle farm, environmental, and societal challenges in the upper Midwest	28
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	22
Economic dimensions of soil health practices that sequester carbon: Promising research directions	18
Crop yield and economics of cropping systems involving different rotations, tillage, and cover crops	15
Soil erosion assessment in Ethiopia: A review	15
Multispecies cover cropping promotes soil health in no-tillage cropping systems of North Carolina	13
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	12
Why do farmers care about rented land? Investigating the context of farmland tenure	12
Transitioning from conventional continuous grazing to planned rest-rotation grazing: A beef cattle case study from central Texas	11
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	11
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	10
Negative emission farming	10
Effect of soil and water conservation measures on the reduction of runoff and sediment load in a loess hilly-gully region	9
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	9
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	8
Soil health: Meaning, measurement, and value through a critical zone lens	8
Soil and water ecosystem services of agroforestry	8
Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains	8
Feeding the world and returning half of the agricultural land back to nature	8
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	8
Duration of usage and farmer reported benefits of conservation tillage	7
Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability	7
What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa	7
Soil water and temperature characteristics under different straw mulching and tillage measures in the black soil region of China	7

“How can you put a price on the environment?” Farmer perspectives on stewardship and payment for ecosystem services	7
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	7
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	6
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	6
Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?	6
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	6
Manure injection alters the spatial distribution of soil nitrate, mineralizable carbon, and microbial biomass	6
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage estimated with the root-zone enrichment method under conventional and conservation land management across North Carolina	6
Erosion and sediment delivery in southern Iowa watersheds: Implications for conservation planning	6
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	6
Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops	5
Adopting cover crops and buffer strips to reduce nonpoint source pollution: Understanding farmers’ perspectives in the US Northern Great Plains	5
Carbon, nitrogen, and aggregation index in Ultisol with 11 years of application of animal manures and mineral fertilizer	5
Soil health, cover crop, and fertility management: Nebraska producers’ perspectives on challenges and adoption	5
Risk, cost-share payments, and adoption of cover crops and no-till	5
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	5
Minimum tillage and no-tillage winter wheat–summer fallow for low precipitation regions	5
A framework to estimate climate mitigation potential for US cropland using publicly available data	5
Understanding the market for cover crop seeds in the United States: Background and potential policy directions	5
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	5
Agronomic and environmental performance of dairy farms in a warmer, wetter climate	5
Quantifying regional effects of best management practices on nutrient losses from agricultural lands	5
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	5
Runoff and soil and nutrient losses from gravel mulching: A field experiment with natural rainfall on the Loess Plateau of China	5
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	4
Applicability of laser diffraction method for soil particle size distribution analysis of five soil orders in the water erosion region of China	4
A perennial living mulch substantially increases infiltration in row crop systems	4
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	4
Advancing understanding of conservation practices on rented land	4
Temporally downscaling precipitation intensity factors for Köppen climate regions in the United States	4
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	4
A new approach for calculating the slope length factor in the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation	4
Plant morphological and functional characteristics combined with elevation and aspect influence phytogenic mound parameters in a dry-hot valley	4
Conversion of Conservation Reserve Program land back to cropland: Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics during the first five years	4
Short-term soil physical responses to grazing and cover crops in an integrated crop-livestock agroecosystem	4
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	4
Enhancing integration of Indigenous agricultural knowledge into USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service cost-share initiatives	3
Nature-based solutions of soil management and agriculture	3
Modeling the applicability of edge-of-field treatment wetlands to reduce nitrate loads in the Elm Creek watershed in southern Minnesota, United States	3
The effects of soil aeration prior to dairy manure application on edge-of-field hydrology and nutrient fluxes in cold climate hayland agroecosystems	3
Experimental detection of the volume of the drip irrigation soil wetted body using Ground Penetrating Radar	3
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	3
Soil erodibility after the removal of wood chip mulch: A wind tunnel experiment	3
Developing cover crop systems for California almonds: Current knowledge and uncertainties	3
Supporting practitioners in developing effective decision support tools for natural resource managers	3
Pasture conservation management effects on soil surface infiltration in hay and grazed systems	3
Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	3
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	3
Nitrate losses from Midwest US agroecosystems: Impacts of varied management and precipitation	3
Cropping system drives microbial community response to simulated climate change and plant inputs	3

Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	3
Dynamics of dissolved reactive phosphorus loss from phosphorus source and sink soils in tile-drained systems	3
Seasonal water quality trends in a tailwater recovery system in the Mississippi Delta	3
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	3
Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana	2
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	2
No-till adoption by corn and soybean producers: An examination of tenure	2
Effects of organic matter-bound multivalent cations on the internal and external formation of soil aggregates under Pinus massoniana forest	2
Evaluating the impact of midwestern cropping systems on soil health and soil carbon dynamics	2
A case study of runoff and sediment yield in areas subjected to different forest thinning operations in a northern New Mexico forest	2
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	2
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	2
Influence of poultry litter on nutrient availability and fate in plant-soil systems: A meta-analysis	2
Supporting on-the-ground conservationists: The Conservation Practitioner Poll	2
Sources of sediments during rainfall in the dry-hot valley region of China on a small watershed scale	2
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	2
A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges	2
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	2
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	2
New explanations for gully formation on farmlands in China’s Mollisols region: Fissure evidence by spring freeze-thaw actions	2
Individual- and county-level factors associated with farmers’ use of 4R Plus nutrient management practices	2
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	2
Alfalfa reduces winter nitrate leaching relative to organic and conventional annual vegetable systems: Resin bag field measurements and modeling with HYDRUS-1D	2
A spatial analysis of high and low farmer participation in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Technical Assistance program in West Virginia	2
Soil, soul, spirituality, and stewardship	2
Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method	2
Impact of no-tillage on water purification and retention functions of soil	2
Gully erosion susceptibility prediction in Mollisols using machine learning models	2
Conservation programs to reduce greenhouse gases	2
Adoption and perception of cover crop implementation for tropical fruit growers	2
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	2
Climate change impacts on soil, water, and biodiversity conservation	2
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	2
Comparing cover crop use by horticultural and commodity producers	2
The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States	2
Runoff nutrient losses from tall fescue pastures varying in endophyte association, fertilization, and harvest management	2
Irrigator perceptions and the value of groundwater quality in the High Plains Aquifer	2
Leading at the edge: A roadmap to advance edge of field practices in agriculture	2
Analysis of soil erosion in central and eastern China: A spatial model approach	2