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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Characteristics of the soil macropore and root architecture of alpine meadows during the seasonal freezing-thawing process and their impact on water transport in the Qinghai Lake watershed, northeaste	38
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	32
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	19
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	18
Combining Gypsum with Establishment of Perennial Vegetation Improved the Restoration of a Salt-Affected Soil in the Northern Great Plains	17
The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	16
Erratum for Xiao et al., Crop type drives soil bacterial community and functional structure on the Loess Plateau terraces of China	15
Policy process and problem framing for state Nutrient Reduction Strategies in the US Upper Mississippi River Basin	15
Using targeted messages to improve farmer engagement in conservation programs	15
Spatial and agronomic assessment of water erosion on inland Pacific Northwest cereal grain cropland	14
The good, the bad, the salty: Investigation of native plants for revegetation of salt-impacted soil in the northern Great Plains, United States	14
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	14
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	13
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	13
Pathways to conservation persistence: Psychosocial drivers of durable grasslands following the Conservation Reserve Program	12
Soil loss due to harvesting of peanut and cassava under traditional farming systems: Cost implications of soil nutrient loss	12
Social networks as conservation practice: Targeting wetland conservation for women landowners	11
Agriculture as part of the solution to climate change: Incentivizing the adoption of no-till and cover crops	11
Estimates of soil erosion and best management practice effectiveness at forestry stream crossings in North Carolina	11
A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges	10
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	10
Rice producer enrollment and retention in a USDA regional conservation partnership program in the southern United States	10
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	10
Surface runoff responses to conservation cotton production systems and edge-of-field buffers	9
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	9

United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	9
Designing a lower salt future: Examining chloride’s environmental and infrastructure impacts	8
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	8
Impact of rainfall on the distribution of soil aggregate fractions caused by shallow runoff	8
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	7
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	7
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	7
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	7
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	7
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	6
Effect of biochar treatment on soil pH and cucumber fruit: A demonstration of the importance of biochar amendment on the tropical soils of Nigeria	6
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	6
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	6
Estimating landowners’ willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method	6
How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!	6
Communicating with farmers about conservation practices: Lessons learned from a systematic review of survey studies	6
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	6
Assessing the need to grow natural resources professionals’ competencies beyond conservation	6
Soil health through farmers’ eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value, and manage for healthier soils	6
Linking geospatial information and effects of land management to edaphic properties	5
Conservation plans and soil and water conservation practice use: Evidence from Iowa	5
A historic landmark for the role of soil health in climate and food security: “Soil health” in COP28 UAE Declaration	5
Evaluating the impact of midwestern cropping systems on soil health and soil carbon dynamics	5
Environmental justice, climate change, and agriculture	5
Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage	5
Patterns and associations between dominant crop productions and water quality in an irrigated watershed	5
Awareness of nutrient loss among Illinois corn farmers	5
Sediment delivery ratios from forest road networks and harvesting operational features by physiographic region in the southeastern United States	5
Understanding farmers’ adoption of conservation tillage in South Dakota: A modified application of the theory of planned behavior	5
Reflections for enhancing participatory research and outreach from a multistakeholder soil health program	5
The progression of USDA NRCS conservation planning’s Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool	5
Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region	5
Kansas producers’ motivations and barriers to soil health practice adoption through the lens of diffusion of innovations theory	5
Managing South Asia’s nitrogen cycle by restoring soil health and adopting conservation agriculture	4
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	4
Middle and West Tennessee producer perceptions of no-till and cover crops	4
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	4
Elevation-Derived Hydrography: The USGS’s rich new hydrological features dataset	4
Eco-hydrological functioning of multi-aged dryland afforestation systems	4
Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops	4
Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	4
Can yield warranties promote farmer practice adoption? Evidence from a two-region pilot study	4
Farmland preservation in Chatham County, North Carolina: A program overview	4
Defining boundaries and conceptual frameworks for ecologically focused agricultural systems	3
Rye cover crop had a nitrogen credit one year after termination in a frigid environment	3
Practical guidance for deciding whether to account for soil variability when managing for land health, agricultural production, and climate resilience	3
Driving small-scale agricultural and hydrological models using globally available stochastic climate datasets that include point-scale precipitation	3
The urgent need for action	3
Groundwater trends during 1985 to 2019 in a critical groundwater area of northeastern Arkansas	3

Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	3
A new chapter for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	3
Can nitrogen in fall-planted legume cover crops be credited to maize?	3
From lab to field to farm: Applying behavioral science insights to agri-environmental programs	3
Sustainable and regenerative agriculture: Tools to address food insecurity and climate change	3
Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	3
Flue gas desulfurization gypsum and grass buffer strip influence on runoff and nutrient loss from inorganically and organically fertilized corn on a US Coastal Plain soil	3
Overcoming barriers to program participation for interested farmers	3
Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services	3
Soil loss and PM10 emissions from agricultural fields in the Junggar Basin over the past six decades	3
The speciation of Iowa’s nutrient loads and the implications for midwestern nutrient reduction strategies	3
Headcut erosion characteristics revealed through simulated rainfall and scouring experiments in the gully region of the Loess Plateau	2
Artificial intelligence for assessing organic matter content and related soil properties	2
Managed aquifer recharge using a borrow pit in connection with the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in northeastern Arkansas	2
Progress in soil erosion research: A European perspective	2
Critical shear stress variability in claypan soils with depth	2
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	2
Cropping system drives microbial community response to simulated climate change and plant inputs	2
Modeling the applicability of edge-of-field treatment wetlands to reduce nitrate loads in the Elm Creek watershed in southern Minnesota, United States	2
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	2
Environmental impact of the historical slag pile at Davenport, Iowa, United States: Trace metal contamination in soils and terrestrial vegetation	2
Low-overhead dairy grazing: A specific solution to a vexing problem	2
Interplay between voluntary private carbon initiatives and USDA programs	2
Phytoremediation and high rainfall combine to improve soil and plant health in a North America Northern Great Plains saline sodic soil	2
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	2
Producers’ views and decision-making related to new management practices and technologies after participating in an experiential farm management competition: A mixed-methods study	2
Cropland water erosion estimates simulated by RUSLE2 and WEPP: Results from two initial studies	2
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	2
Agriculture in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System: A miracle in the making?	2
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	2
Capability of high-resolution RGB imagery to accurately document residue in row-crop fields	2
Oilseed radish/cereal cover crop bicultures and soil phosphorus distribution	2
Risk mitigation or risky business? Agricultural stakeholders’ perspectives on crop insurance discount programs, cover crops, and risk management	2
Twenty years of conservation effects assessment in the St. Joseph River watershed, Indiana	2
Nature-based solutions of soil management and agriculture	2
Aerial interseeding and planting green to enhance nitrogen capture and cover crop biomass carbon	2
Supporting on-the-ground conservationists: The Conservation Practitioner Poll	2