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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Sward Species Diversity Impacts on Pasture Productivity and Botanical Composition Under Grazing Systems	49
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A Comparison Between Upper and Bottom Layers in Bunker Silos: Performance of Dairy Cows	33
Perennial Grass‐Legume Integration: A Sustainable Approach to Fodder Production	33
Quantifying the Contributing Potential of European Grasslands to Food Protein and Organic Manure in a Circular Food System	31
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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	13
Selection of succeeding crops for a double‐cropping system in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau	12
The de‐domestication of Ornithopus sativus Brot. to develop cultivars with physical dormancy (hardseed)	11
Urea fertilization for potentializing beef cattle performance in agroforestry systems in the humid tropics	11
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Above and belowground litter decomposition of cover crops grazed at different intensities	10
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Could the Dilatata group of Paspalum be bred as sexual species? A preliminary assessment	10
Alfalfa‐bermudagrass mixtures managed under contrasting harvest strategies in the southeastern US	9
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Editorial: Special issue on green biorefining	8
Intensive mechanical processing of forage crops to improve fibre digestion	8
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Translating and applying a simulation model to enhance understanding of grassland management	8
Shufflenetv2UNet: An improved neural network model for grassland sample coverage extraction	8
Native forbs interseeded into native grass pastures persist under grazing	8

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	8
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Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bacteriocins in Feed Preservation: Mechanisms and Antifungal Properties	8
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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	7
Dry‐matter production and botanical composition of multispecies and perennial ryegrass swards under varying defoliation management	7
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Effect of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lentilactobacillus buchneri on corn and sorghum silage quality and sheep energy partition under tropical conditions	6
How do we feed grazing livestock in the future? A case for knowledge‐driven grazing systems	6
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
Species Composition Influences Zinc and Selenium Uptake in Multispecies Grasslands	6
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Agronomic and forage nutritive responses of Kentucky bluegrass dominated pastures in the northern Great Plains	5
Eco‐efficiency of leys—The trigger for sustainable integrated crop‐dairy farming systems	5
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Agronomic and physiological responses of corn intercropped with palisadegrass growing in full sun or in a crop‐livestock‐forestry systems	5
Morphology of flower bud differentiation and floral organ specialization in Caucasian clover	5
Variations of seed size and seed number per spikelet and their effects on seed germination in hulled oats	5
Main ecological and environmental factors affecting forage yield and quality in alpine summer pastures (NW‐Italy, Gran Paradiso National Park)	4
Fractionation of mixed grass and clover stands using a leaf stripper	4
Nutritional Dynamics of Iranian Pasture Flora: Implications for Animal Health and Productivity	4
Are We Up to the Best Practices in Forage and Grassland Precision Harvest? A Review	4
Toward Standardisation of Methodologies and Biodiversity Measures for Describing the Microbiome Structure and Diversity of Silages	4
Productivity of beef cattle grazing Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu with and without nitrogen fertilizer application or mixed pastures with the legume Desmodium ovalifolium	4
Yield and Stability of Three Tropical Forage Grasses Cultivated as Pure or Mixed Stands	4
Herbage and sheep production from simple, diverse, and legume pastures established in an agrivoltaic production system	4
In Vitro Fermentation Characteristics of Seven Commonly Used Dairy Roughages With Relatively High and Low Nutritive Values	4
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Lower soil nitrous oxide emissions by a high lipid genetically modified perennial ryegrass line compared to its wild type	4
Sustainable intensification of livestock systems using forage legumes in the Anthropocene	4
Grasses of Saudi Arabia: A Review	4