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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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Perennial Grass‐Legume Integration: A Sustainable Approach to Fodder Production	59
A Comparison Between Upper and Bottom Layers in Bunker Silos: Performance of Dairy Cows	42
Quantifying the Contributing Potential of European Grasslands to Food Protein and Organic Manure in a Circular Food System	41
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Sward Species Diversity Impacts on Pasture Productivity and Botanical Composition Under Grazing Systems	34
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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	15
Selection of succeeding crops for a double‐cropping system in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau	14
Urea fertilization for potentializing beef cattle performance in agroforestry systems in the humid tropics	14
Root Rot Affects Red Clover More Than Other Forage Legumes in Mixed Grass‐Legume Leys	13
No Variation in Critical Nitrogen Curves of Modern Maize Hybrids Differing in Maturity Group Grown Under Contrasting Environmental Conditions	13
The de‐domestication of Ornithopus sativus Brot. to develop cultivars with physical dormancy (hardseed)	12
Above and belowground litter decomposition of cover crops grazed at different intensities	12
Could the Dilatata group of Paspalum be bred as sexual species? A preliminary assessment	11
Editorial: Special issue on green biorefining	10
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Shufflenetv2UNet: An improved neural network model for grassland sample coverage extraction	10
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Alfalfa‐bermudagrass mixtures managed under contrasting harvest strategies in the southeastern US	9
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	9
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Intensive mechanical processing of forage crops to improve fibre digestion	9

Translating and applying a simulation model to enhance understanding of grassland management	9
Management of perennial forbs sown with or without self‐regenerating annual clovers for forage and nectar sources in a low‐input dryland production system	8
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Native forbs interseeded into native grass pastures persist under grazing	8
Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bacteriocins in Feed Preservation: Mechanisms and Antifungal Properties	8
Dry‐matter production and botanical composition of multispecies and perennial ryegrass swards under varying defoliation management	8
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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	7
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Species Composition Influences Zinc and Selenium Uptake in Multispecies Grasslands	7
Effect of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lentilactobacillus buchneri on corn and sorghum silage quality and sheep energy partition under tropical conditions	7
How do we feed grazing livestock in the future? A case for knowledge‐driven grazing systems	7
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Variations of seed size and seed number per spikelet and their effects on seed germination in hulled oats	6
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Agronomic and forage nutritive responses of Kentucky bluegrass dominated pastures in the northern Great Plains	6
Morphology of flower bud differentiation and floral organ specialization in Caucasian clover	6
Eco‐efficiency of leys—The trigger for sustainable integrated crop‐dairy farming systems	6
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Yield and Stability of Three Tropical Forage Grasses Cultivated as Pure or Mixed Stands	5
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Fractionation of mixed grass and clover stands using a leaf stripper	5
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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	5
Main ecological and environmental factors affecting forage yield and quality in alpine summer pastures (NW‐Italy, Gran Paradiso National Park)	5
Nutritional Dynamics of Iranian Pasture Flora: Implications for Animal Health and Productivity	5
Agronomic and physiological responses of corn intercropped with palisadegrass growing in full sun or in a crop‐livestock‐forestry systems	5
Lower soil nitrous oxide emissions by a high lipid genetically modified perennial ryegrass line compared to its wild type	5
Toward Standardisation of Methodologies and Biodiversity Measures for Describing the Microbiome Structure and Diversity of Silages	5
Herbage and sheep production from simple, diverse, and legume pastures established in an agrivoltaic production system	4
Grasses of Saudi Arabia: A Review	4
Evaluation of chromosome diversity of Elymus nutans on the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau by FISH	4
In Vitro Fermentation Characteristics of Seven Commonly Used Dairy Roughages With Relatively High and Low Nutritive Values	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
Parameters of nitrogen use efficiency of Kentucky bluegrass cultivars at different N levels under deficit irrigation	4
Sustainable intensification of livestock systems using forage legumes in the Anthropocene	4
Are We Up to the Best Practices in Forage and Grassland Precision Harvest? A Review	4
Screening of and Mechanistic Insights Into the Enteric Methane Mitigation Potential of European Native and Non‐Native Forage Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs Using In Vitro Batch Culture	4