OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Grass and Forage Science 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Perennial Grass‐Legume Integration: A Sustainable Approach to Fodder Production	46
A Comparison Between Upper and Bottom Layers in Bunker Silos: Performance of Dairy Cows	45
Sward Species Diversity Impacts on Pasture Productivity and Botanical Composition Under Grazing Systems	44
Quantifying the Contributing Potential of European Grasslands to Food Protein and Organic Manure in a Circular Food System	36
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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	27
Urea fertilization for potentializing beef cattle performance in agroforestry systems in the humid tropics	16
Selection of succeeding crops for a double‐cropping system in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau	16
Stocking Method Effects on Canopy Characteristics and Herbage Accumulation of Mulato II Brachiariagrass	16
No Variation in Critical Nitrogen Curves of Modern Maize Hybrids Differing in Maturity Group Grown Under Contrasting Environmental Conditions	15
The de‐domestication of Ornithopus sativus Brot. to develop cultivars with physical dormancy (hardseed)	14
Above and belowground litter decomposition of cover crops grazed at different intensities	14
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Root Rot Affects Red Clover More Than Other Forage Legumes in Mixed Grass‐Legume Leys	14
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Shufflenetv2UNet: An improved neural network model for grassland sample coverage extraction	10
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
Editorial: Special issue on green biorefining	10
Intensive mechanical processing of forage crops to improve fibre digestion	10
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Management of perennial forbs sown with or without self‐regenerating annual clovers for forage and nectar sources in a low‐input dryland production system	9
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Alfalfa‐bermudagrass mixtures managed under contrasting harvest strategies in the southeastern US	9

Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bacteriocins in Feed Preservation: Mechanisms and Antifungal Properties	9
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Native forbs interseeded into native grass pastures persist under grazing	9
Translating and applying a simulation model to enhance understanding of grassland management	9
Dry‐matter production and botanical composition of multispecies and perennial ryegrass swards under varying defoliation management	8
Effect of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lentilactobacillus buchneri on corn and sorghum silage quality and sheep energy partition under tropical conditions	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	8
Evaluating Performance of Bouteloua gracilis Cultivars After Drought: The Role of the Soil Microbiome	8
Fermentation Parameters and In Vitro Degradability of Diets Containing Cratylia argentea Hay as a	8
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How do we feed grazing livestock in the future? A case for knowledge‐driven grazing systems	7
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Species Composition Influences Zinc and Selenium Uptake in Multispecies Grasslands	7
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Eco‐efficiency of leys—The trigger for sustainable integrated crop‐dairy farming systems	6
Agronomic and physiological responses of corn intercropped with palisadegrass growing in full sun or in a crop‐livestock‐forestry systems	6
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Agronomic and forage nutritive responses of Kentucky bluegrass dominated pastures in the northern Great Plains	6
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Morphology of flower bud differentiation and floral organ specialization in Caucasian clover	6
Variations of seed size and seed number per spikelet and their effects on seed germination in hulled oats	6
Yield and Stability of Three Tropical Forage Grasses Cultivated as Pure or Mixed Stands	6
Fractionation of mixed grass and clover stands using a leaf stripper	5
Lower soil nitrous oxide emissions by a high lipid genetically modified perennial ryegrass line compared to its wild type	5
Productivity of beef cattle grazing Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu with and without nitrogen fertilizer application or mixed pastures with the legume Desmodium ovalifolium	5
Herbage and sheep production from simple, diverse, and legume pastures established in an agrivoltaic production system	5
Nutritional Dynamics of Iranian Pasture Flora: Implications for Animal Health and Productivity	5
Main ecological and environmental factors affecting forage yield and quality in alpine summer pastures (NW‐Italy, Gran Paradiso National Park)	5
Sustainable intensification of livestock systems using forage legumes in the Anthropocene	5
Toward Standardisation of Methodologies and Biodiversity Measures for Describing the Microbiome Structure and Diversity of Silages	5
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