OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrated biochar research: A roadmap	24
Accelerating regenerative grazing to tackle farm, environmental, and societal challenges in the upper Midwest	22
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	19
Economic dimensions of soil health practices that sequester carbon: Promising research directions	17
Why do farmers care about rented land? Investigating the context of farmland tenure	12
Multispecies cover cropping promotes soil health in no-tillage cropping systems of North Carolina	11
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	10
Soil erosion assessment in Ethiopia: A review	10
Crop yield and economics of cropping systems involving different rotations, tillage, and cover crops	10
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	9
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	8
Effect of soil and water conservation measures on the reduction of runoff and sediment load in a loess hilly-gully region	8
Negative emission farming	8
Soil health: Meaning, measurement, and value through a critical zone lens	7
Feeding the world and returning half of the agricultural land back to nature	7
Soil water and temperature characteristics under different straw mulching and tillage measures in the black soil region of China	7
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	7
Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains	7
Duration of usage and farmer reported benefits of conservation tillage	6
Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?	6
What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa	6
Transitioning from conventional continuous grazing to planned rest-rotation grazing: A beef cattle case study from central Texas	6
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	6
Soil and water ecosystem services of agroforestry	6
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage estimated with the root-zone enrichment method under conventional and conservation land management across North Carolina	6

Adopting cover crops and buffer strips to reduce nonpoint source pollution: Understanding farmers’ perspectives in the US Northern Great Plains	5
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	5
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	5
Minimum tillage and no-tillage winter wheat–summer fallow for low precipitation regions	5
Erosion and sediment delivery in southern Iowa watersheds: Implications for conservation planning	5
Risk, cost-share payments, and adoption of cover crops and no-till	5
Quantifying regional effects of best management practices on nutrient losses from agricultural lands	5
Manure injection alters the spatial distribution of soil nitrate, mineralizable carbon, and microbial biomass	5
Agronomic and environmental performance of dairy farms in a warmer, wetter climate	4
A framework to estimate climate mitigation potential for US cropland using publicly available data	4
A new approach for calculating the slope length factor in the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation	4
Temporally downscaling precipitation intensity factors for Köppen climate regions in the United States	4
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	4
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	4
Advancing understanding of conservation practices on rented land	4
Conversion of Conservation Reserve Program land back to cropland: Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics during the first five years	4
Soil health, cover crop, and fertility management: Nebraska producers’ perspectives on challenges and adoption	4
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	4
Short-term soil physical responses to grazing and cover crops in an integrated crop-livestock agroecosystem	3
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	3
Dynamics of dissolved reactive phosphorus loss from phosphorus source and sink soils in tile-drained systems	3
Pasture conservation management effects on soil surface infiltration in hay and grazed systems	3
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	3
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	3
Carbon, nitrogen, and aggregation index in Ultisol with 11 years of application of animal manures and mineral fertilizer	3
Supporting practitioners in developing effective decision support tools for natural resource managers	3
Understanding the market for cover crop seeds in the United States: Background and potential policy directions	3
Runoff and soil and nutrient losses from gravel mulching: A field experiment with natural rainfall on the Loess Plateau of China	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
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	3
Soil erodibility after the removal of wood chip mulch: A wind tunnel experiment	3
Applicability of laser diffraction method for soil particle size distribution analysis of five soil orders in the water erosion region of China	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
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	3
Experimental detection of the volume of the drip irrigation soil wetted body using Ground Penetrating Radar	3
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	3
“How can you put a price on the environment?” Farmer perspectives on stewardship and payment for ecosystem services	3
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	3
Evaluating the impact of midwestern cropping systems on soil health and soil carbon dynamics	2
Comparing cover crop use by horticultural and commodity producers	2
Alfalfa reduces winter nitrate leaching relative to organic and conventional annual vegetable systems: Resin bag field measurements and modeling with HYDRUS-1D	2
Nature-based solutions of soil management and agriculture	2
Influence of poultry litter on nutrient availability and fate in plant-soil systems: A meta-analysis	2
Leading at the edge: A roadmap to advance edge of field practices in agriculture	2
Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability	2
A case study of runoff and sediment yield in areas subjected to different forest thinning operations in a northern New Mexico forest	2
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	2
Adoption and perception of cover crop implementation for tropical fruit growers	2
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	2
Enhancing integration of Indigenous agricultural knowledge into USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service cost-share initiatives	2

A perennial living mulch substantially increases infiltration in row crop systems	2
Cropping system drives microbial community response to simulated climate change and plant inputs	2
Runoff nutrient losses from tall fescue pastures varying in endophyte association, fertilization, and harvest management	2
Developing cover crop systems for California almonds: Current knowledge and uncertainties	2
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	2
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	2
Effects of organic matter-bound multivalent cations on the internal and external formation of soil aggregates under Pinus massoniana forest	2
New explanations for gully formation on farmlands in China’s Mollisols region: Fissure evidence by spring freeze-thaw actions	2
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	2
Nitrate losses from Midwest US agroecosystems: Impacts of varied management and precipitation	2
Plant morphological and functional characteristics combined with elevation and aspect influence phytogenic mound parameters in a dry-hot valley	2
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	2
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	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
Sources of sediments during rainfall in the dry-hot valley region of China on a small watershed scale	2
Conservation programs to reduce greenhouse gases	2
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	2
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	2
No-till adoption by corn and soybean producers: An examination of tenure	2
Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana	1
Managed aquifer recharge using a borrow pit in connection with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in northeastern Arkansas	1
Linking geospatial information and effects of land management to edaphic properties	1
The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States	1
Analysis of soil erosion in central and eastern China: A spatial model approach	1
Supporting on-the-ground conservationists: The Conservation Practitioner Poll	1
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	1
Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	1
A preliminary determination of the plot-scale fertilization tolerance of an Entisol in southwest China	1
Climate change impacts on soil, water, and biodiversity conservation	1
Capability of high-resolution RGB imagery to accurately document residue in row-crop fields	1
Individual- and county-level factors associated with farmers’ use of 4R Plus nutrient management practices	1
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	1
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	1
Impact of no-tillage on water purification and retention functions of soil	1
Irrigator perceptions and the value of groundwater quality in the High Plains Aquifer	1
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	1
Using agricultural models to inform policy: Discussion points for researchers and policymakers	1
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	1
Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops	1
Social networks as conservation practice: Targeting wetland conservation for women landowners	1
Soil loss due to harvesting of peanut and cassava under traditional farming systems: Cost implications of soil nutrient loss	1
Effects of different vegetation restoration types on soil infiltration characteristics in severely eroded subtropical regions of South China	1
Modeling likelihood of farmer participation in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Technical Assistance program in West Virginia	1
Public communication of soil conservation practices: A large-scale content analysis of Wisconsin’s agricultural trade publications	1
Development of deficit irrigation program for improving the water use efficiency, growth, and yield of groundnut in the semiarid tropical region of India	1
Seasonal water quality trends in a tailwater recovery system in the Mississippi Delta	1
United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	1
Simulating behavioral heterogeneity in watershed models: A systematic review of fertilizer use in SWAT studies	1
Headcut erosion characteristics revealed through simulated rainfall and scouring experiments in the gully region of the Loess Plateau	1