OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Grass and Forage Science 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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Quantifying the Contributing Potential of European Grasslands to Food Protein and Organic Manure in a Circular Food System	42
Sward Species Diversity Impacts on Pasture Productivity and Botanical Composition Under Grazing Systems	35
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Proceedings of a European Grassland Federation Symposium, held at Vilnius, Lithuania, 11–14 June 2023. By Ž.Kadžiulienė, K.Jaškūnė, E.Norkevičienė, M.Toleikienė, L.Šarūnaitė (Eds.). 2023. pp. 280. ISB	28
Selection of succeeding crops for a double‐cropping system in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau	25
Urea fertilization for potentializing beef cattle performance in agroforestry systems in the humid tropics	21
The de‐domestication of Ornithopus sativus Brot. to develop cultivars with physical dormancy (hardseed)	19
The impact of genotype‐by‐environment interaction on the dry matter yield and chemical composition in timothy (Phleum pratense L.) examined by using the additive main effects and multiplicative	18
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Above and belowground litter decomposition of cover crops grazed at different intensities	13
Could the Dilatata group of Paspalum be bred as sexual species? A preliminary assessment	12
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Effect of chop length of grass silage harvested at two maturity stages, and of concentrate protein level, on feed intake and milk production in dairy cows	10
Translating and applying a simulation model to enhance understanding of grassland management	9
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Alfalfa‐bermudagrass mixtures managed under contrasting harvest strategies in the southeastern US	8
Re‐ensiling effects on sorghum silage quality, methane emission and sheep efficiency in tropical climate	8
Intensive mechanical processing of forage crops to improve fibre digestion	8
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Shufflenetv2UNet: An improved neural network model for grassland sample coverage extraction	8
Editorial: Special issue on green biorefining	8

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Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bacteriocins in Feed Preservation: Mechanisms and Antifungal Properties	7
Native forbs interseeded into native grass pastures persist under grazing	7
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Long‐term trends in the genotypic integrity, phenotype and reproductive development of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) populations in New Zealand dairy pastures: Implications for pasture	6
Management of perennial forbs sown with or without self‐regenerating annual clovers for forage and nectar sources in a low‐input dryland production system	6
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How do we feed grazing livestock in the future? A case for knowledge‐driven grazing systems	6
Dry‐matter production and botanical composition of multispecies and perennial ryegrass swards under varying defoliation management	6
Eco‐efficiency of leys—The trigger for sustainable integrated crop‐dairy farming systems	6
Effect of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lentilactobacillus buchneri on corn and sorghum silage quality and sheep energy partition under tropical conditions	6
Agronomic and physiological responses of corn intercropped with palisadegrass growing in full sun or in a crop‐livestock‐forestry systems	5
Variations of seed size and seed number per spikelet and their effects on seed germination in hulled oats	5
Agronomic and forage nutritive responses of Kentucky bluegrass dominated pastures in the northern Great Plains	5
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Morphology of flower bud differentiation and floral organ specialization in Caucasian clover	5
Fractionation of mixed grass and clover stands using a leaf stripper	4
Herbage and sheep production from simple, diverse, and legume pastures established in an agrivoltaic production system	4
Sustainable intensification of livestock systems using forage legumes in the Anthropocene	4
Evaluation of chromosome diversity of Elymus nutans on the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau by FISH	4
Grassland soil organic carbon stocks along management intensity and warming gradients	4
Yield and Stability of Three Tropical Forage Grasses Cultivated as Pure or Mixed Stands	4
Lower soil nitrous oxide emissions by a high lipid genetically modified perennial ryegrass line compared to its wild type	4
Main ecological and environmental factors affecting forage yield and quality in alpine summer pastures (NW‐Italy, Gran Paradiso National Park)	4
Are We Up to the Best Practices in Forage and Grassland Precision Harvest? A Review	4
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Productivity of beef cattle grazing Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu with and without nitrogen fertilizer application or mixed pastures with the legume Desmodium ovalifolium	4
Effects of nitrogen fertilization rate and seeding density on the forage yield and quality of autumn‐sown triticale in an alpine grazing area of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, China	4
Grasses of Saudi Arabia: A Review	4