OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contribution of streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa	41
Influence of forest structure and soil chemistry on ants, land snails, and beetles in Balkan floodplain forests: Examining species richness and habitat preferences	35
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	20
Combining Gypsum with Establishment of Perennial Vegetation Improved the Restoration of a Salt-Affected Soil in the Northern Great Plains	18
Using artificial neural networks to improve phosphorus indices	18
Changes in soil properties among site positions and tillage in a furrow-irrigated rice production system	16
The Nutrient Reduction Index: A minimalist and continuous measure of conservation practice adoption among farmers	16
Using targeted messages to improve farmer engagement in conservation programs	16
Policy process and problem framing for state Nutrient Reduction Strategies in the US Upper Mississippi River Basin	15
Erratum for Xiao et al., Crop type drives soil bacterial community and functional structure on the Loess Plateau terraces of China	15
Cover crops and specialty crop agriculture: Exploring cover crop use among vegetable and fruit growers in Michigan and Ohio	15
Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science	14
Prairie strips improve many measures of soil health in nearly a decade	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
Assessing Soil Vulnerability Index classification with respect to rainfall characteristics	14
Spatial and agronomic assessment of water erosion on inland Pacific Northwest cereal grain cropland	14
Soil loss due to harvesting of peanut and cassava under traditional farming systems: Cost implications of soil nutrient loss	13
Social networks as conservation practice: Targeting wetland conservation for women landowners	12
Pathways to conservation persistence: Psychosocial drivers of durable grasslands following the Conservation Reserve Program	12
Estimates of soil erosion and best management practice effectiveness at forestry stream crossings in North Carolina	11
Agriculture as part of the solution to climate change: Incentivizing the adoption of no-till and cover crops	10
Cover crop mixtures versus single species: Water quality and cash crop yield	10
Audit procedures and implementation rates for forest water quality Best Management Practices in the 13 southeastern states	9
Rice producer enrollment and retention in a USDA regional conservation partnership program in the southern United States	9
United Nations Food Systems Summit: What is the role of soil health in putting the Sustainable Development Goals on track?	8

A vision for integrated, collaborative solutions to critical water and food challenges	8
Infiltration within native prairie vegetative strips embedded in row crop fields across Iowa	8
Designing a lower salt future: Examining chloride’s environmental and infrastructure impacts	8
Surface runoff responses to conservation cotton production systems and edge-of-field buffers	8
Global connections: A case for international perspectives	7
Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation	7
The soil microbiome unveils strong imprints of artificial erosion after 27 years	7
Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio	7
Trade-off analysis of water conservation and water consumption of typical ecosystems at different climatic scales in the Dongjiang River basin, China	7
Ecosystem services in Iowa agricultural catchments: Hypotheses for scenarios with water quality wetlands and improved tile drainage	7
Effect of biochar treatment on soil pH and cucumber fruit: A demonstration of the importance of biochar amendment on the tropical soils of Nigeria	7
Invasive annual grasses—Reenvisioning approaches in a changing climate	7
Compost amendment to enhance carbon sequestration in rangelands	7
Assessing the need to grow natural resources professionals’ competencies beyond conservation	6
Manure injection effects on soil nitrate, carbon mineralization, and POXC dynamics and spatial distribution under corn silage	6
Soil health through farmers’ eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value, and manage for healthier soils	6
Soil macroaggregates: The hotspots driving emission or mitigation of greenhouse gases according to the management system adopted	6
How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!	6
Reflections for enhancing participatory research and outreach from a multistakeholder soil health program	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
Recent advances in feed additives with the potential to mitigate enteric methane emissions from ruminant livestock	6
Linking geospatial information and effects of land management to edaphic properties	6
Environmental justice, climate change, and agriculture	5
Understanding farmers’ adoption of conservation tillage in South Dakota: A modified application of the theory of planned behavior	5
Patterns and associations between dominant crop productions and water quality in an irrigated watershed	5
Evaluating the impact of midwestern cropping systems on soil health and soil carbon dynamics	5
A historic landmark for the role of soil health in climate and food security: “Soil health” in COP28 UAE Declaration	5
Kansas producers’ motivations and barriers to soil health practice adoption through the lens of diffusion of innovations theory	5
The progression of USDA NRCS conservation planning’s Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool	5
On-farm progress toward soil health potential in Southern US row crops	5
Sediment delivery ratios from forest road networks and harvesting operational features by physiographic region in the southeastern United States	5
Soil health conceptualization differs across key stakeholder groups in the Midwest	5
Salinity and acid sulfate soils of the Vietnam Mekong Delta: Agricultural management and adaptation	5
Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region	5