OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 4. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the short- and long-term impacts of subsurface drainage installation on soil physical and biological properties	30
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	29
Impact of rainfall on the distribution of soil aggregate fractions caused by shallow runoff	23
Elevation-Derived Hydrography: The USGS’s rich new hydrological features dataset	22
Vegetation restoration and plant roots improve soil infiltration capacity after a severe forest fire in Daxing’anling, northeast China	19
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture	15
New explanations for gully formation on farmlands in China’s Mollisols region: Fissure evidence by spring freeze-thaw actions	13
United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	13
A preliminary determination of the plot-scale fertilization tolerance of an Entisol in southwest China	12
Risk, cost-share payments, and adoption of cover crops and no-till	12
Hedgerow ridge: A novel and improved method of ridge tillage to reduce water, sediment, and nutrient losses from sloping farmlands in Songhua River basin, northeast China	11
Using agricultural models to inform policy: Discussion points for researchers and policymakers	11
A case study of runoff and sediment yield in areas subjected to different forest thinning operations in a northern New Mexico forest	10
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	10
Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains	10
Negative emission farming	9
Long-term drainage water recycling affects soil health and soil properties	9
Modification of the Soil Vulnerability Index to account for increased erosion risk from winter precipitation in the southern United States	9
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	9
Estimating soil carbon change using the web-based Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT) with APEX	8
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	8
Soil water and temperature characteristics under different straw mulching and tillage measures in the black soil region of China	8
Relationship between the slope microtopography and the spatial redistribution pattern of soil organic carbon under water erosion	8
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	8
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	8

Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation	7
Farmland preservation in Chatham County, North Carolina: A program overview	7
Effects of organic matter-bound multivalent cations on the internal and external formation of soil aggregates under Pinus massoniana forest	7
Understanding barriers to adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices in California	7
Simulating behavioral heterogeneity in watershed models: A systematic review of fertilizer use in SWAT studies	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	7
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	7
Influence of gypsum and cover crop on greenhouse gas emissions in soybean cropping systems	7
Farmers’ participation in incentivized conservation programs: Exploring barriers and opportunities for innovative designs	6
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	6
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	6
Conservation programs to reduce greenhouse gases	6
Soil health: Meaning, measurement, and value through a critical zone lens	6
Experimental detection of the volume of the drip irrigation soil wetted body using Ground Penetrating Radar	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
Combining gypsum with establishment of perennial vegetation improved the restoration of a salt-affected soil in the Northern Great Plains	6
Cover crops may exacerbate moisture limitations on South Texas dryland farms	5
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	5
Variability and correlation of selected soil attributes and maize yield influenced by tillage systems in mountainous agroecosystem	5
Defining boundaries and conceptual frameworks for ecologically focused agricultural systems	5
Pasture conservation management effects on soil surface infiltration in hay and grazed systems	5
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	5
Mapping pollutant source to enhance water quality conservation in agricultural watersheds: Nonpoint no more?	5
The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	5
Rye cover crop had a nitrogen credit one year after termination in a frigid environment	5
Nitrogen balances and losses in conservation cropping systems across a tile-drained landscape in Ohio, United States	5
Seasonal water quality trends in a tailwater recovery system in the Mississippi Delta	4
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	4
Increased rainfall may place saline/sodic soils on the tipping point of sustainability	4
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage estimated with the root-zone enrichment method under conventional and conservation land management across North Carolina	4
Flooding: Management and risk mitigation	4
Analysis of soil water potential characteristics of wheat croplands and apple orchards in an agroforestry ecosystem based on the van Genuchten model	4
The effects of soil aeration prior to dairy manure application on edge-of-field hydrology and nutrient fluxes in cold climate hayland agroecosystems	4
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	4
What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa	4
Capture of surface water runoff for irrigation of corn in western Illinois: Implications for nutrient loss reduction	4
A new approach for calculating the slope length factor in the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation	4
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	4
Development of deficit irrigation program for improving the water use efficiency, growth, and yield of groundnut in the semiarid tropical region of India	4
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	4