OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment is 52. 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
Below-ground biodiversity in agricultural systems: The role of crop-specific management in shaping soil arthropod communities	216
Enhanced rice phosphorus use efficiency under elevated atmospheric CO2 and its drivers	193
Editorial Board	151
Management strategies for reducing phosphorus levels in saltwater-intruded agricultural fields	128
Effects of non-crop habitats on ground-dwelling arthropod diversity in a desert-oasis region of northwest China	120
Temperature response of soil respiration decreases with latitude and elevation in abandoned croplands	110
How diverse are sun-grown coffee plantations? Local and landscape heterogeneity drives Andean rove beetle diversity	107
Experimental insecticide applications change tomato pollinator assemblages and do not increase fruit production	106
Editorial Board	90
Effect of long-term tillage and residue managements on weed flora and its impact on winter wheat development	89
Impact assessment of soil salinity on crop production in Uzbekistan and its global significance	87
No wild bees? Don't worry! Non-bee flower visitors are still hard at work: The edge effect, landscape, and local characteristics determine taxonomic and functional diversity in apple orchards	81
Do voluntary sustainability standards reduce primary forest loss? A global analysis for food commodities	81
The value of biotic pollination and dense forest for fruit set of Arabica coffee: A global assessment	80
Combining entomopathogenic Pseudomonas bacteria, nematodes and fungi for biological control of a below-ground insect pest	78
Quantifying soil organic carbon’s critical role in cereal productivity losses under annualized crop rotations	78
Long-term cover crop management effects on soil properties in dryland cropping systems	78
Pyric herbivory increases soil microbial diversity but has a site-dependent effect on soil mesofauna in the mid-term	78
Agricultural extensification enhances functional diversity but not phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean olive groves: A case study with ant and bird communities	76
Pasture age impacts soil fungal composition while bacteria respond to soil chemistry	75
Crop rotation and green manure type enhance organic carbon fractions and reduce soil arsenic content	75
A global synthesis on the rational management practices for enhancing phosphorus use efficiency in agricultural systems	74
Diversified crop rotation: Synergistically enhancing peanut yield and soil organic carbon stability	74
The planting years of vineyards alters the carbon fixation pathways by soil autotrophic microorganism	73
Identifying the best fertilization practices by many-objective optimization to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from tea field in the subtropics in Central China	73

Nitrate losses in subsurface drainage and nitrous oxide emissions from a winter camelina relay cropping system reveal challenges to sustainable intensification	73
Increase of soil organic carbon stock by iron slag-based silicate fertilizer application in paddy soils	71
Patterns of denitrifier communities assembly and co-occurrence network regulate N2O emissions in soils with long-term contrasting tillage histories	71
Great and fast increase in soil CH4 uptake after reforestation in karst cropland area is linked to the environmental and microbial factors	68
Agroforestry with contour planting of grass contributes to terrace formation and conservation of soil and nutrients on sloping land	67
Intercropping in rainfed Mediterranean olive groves contributes to improving soil quality and soil organic carbon storage	67
Nitrous oxide emission factors for cattle dung and urine deposited onto tropical pastures: A review of field-based studies	67
Effects of intercropping on composition and molecular diversity of soil dissolved organic matter in apple orchards: Different roles of bacteria and fungi	66
Nitrous oxide emissions dynamics in Indian agricultural landscapes: Revised emission rates and new insights	65
Effects of patch-burn grazing and rotational grazing on grassland bird abundance, species richness, and diversity in native grassland pastures of the Midsouth USA	65
Plastic film-mulched ridges and straw-mulched furrows increase soil carbon sequestration and net ecosystem economic benefit in a wheat-maize rotation	63
Ameliorating C and N balance without loss of productivity by applying mulching measures in rainfed areas	63
Effect of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on greenhouse gas emissions in rice varieties	62
Land cover and climate drive shifts in Bombus assemblage composition	62
Response of soil organic carbon fractions to cover cropping: A meta-analysis of agroecosystems	61
Using the paddy eco-ditch wetland system to reduce nitrogen non-point source pollution discharge from paddies: A consecutive six-year study in the Yunnan Plateau, China	58
Root exudate-mediated plant–microbiome interactions determine plant health during disease infection	57
Quantifying N leaching losses as a function of N balance: A path to sustainable food supply chains	55
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen fractions as affected by straw and nitrogen management on the North China Plain	54
Soil microbial composition, diversity, and network stability in intercropping versus monoculture responded differently to drought	53
Flowering plants in open tomato greenhouses enhance pest suppression in conventional systems and reveal resource saturation for natural enemies in organic systems	53
Seasonal and annual methane and nitrous oxide emissions affected by tillage and cover crops in flood-irrigated rice	53
Enhanced soil aggregation and reduced colloidal phosphorus loss by straw biochars in tea and medicinal herb cropping systems	52
Editorial Board	52
Feed grain polycultures mitigate weather risk, support arthropods, and suppress weeds in the Western Corn Belt	52
Mineral fertilizer substitution and application of Bacillus velezensis SQR9 reduced nitrogen-oxide emissions in tropical vegetable fields	52
Alfalfa-livestock system promotes the accumulation of soil organic carbon in a semi-arid marginal land	52