OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Systems is 39. 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
Frost shocks negatively impact the supply of high-stem juicing apples in Switzerland	224
Assessing extensive pasture-based beef production in South Africa under future climate change conditions	158
Assessment of food-feed competition for producing milk in cow dairy farms	158
Optimizing cropland management to mitigate climate-induced nitrogen leakage risk in Chinese ecosystems	126
The CIRKULÆR model – A national and regional static flow model of agricultural production, environmental and climatic impacts	118
Pathways towards Net Zero emissions in grain cropping farms	112
Evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of rice-soybean diversification in South Korea	91
Integrating an abandoned farmland simulation model (AFSM) using system dynamics and CLUE-S for sustainable agriculture	88
Sustainable management of sweet potatoes: A review on practices, strategies, and opportunities in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, energy security, and quality of life	86
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion	77
Enhancing farmers' agency is a more effective extension paradigm: The case of soil health management in Africa	76
Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework	75
The dairy production system in the north of Sweden under possible future food scenarios	71
Projected climate effects on soil workability and trafficability determine the feasibility of converting permanent grassland to arable land	69
Alternative practices to pesticide use in the Guadeloupe banana belt: Do biophysical constraints limit agroecological transitions?	66
Editorial Board	61
The relative productivity of organic agriculture must be considered in the full food-system context. A comment on Connor (2022)	60
Examining the synergistic effect of cocoa-plantain intercropping system on gross margin: A system dynamics modelling approach	59
What determines the acceptance of Climate Smart Technologies? The influence of farmers' behavioral drivers in connection with the policy environment	55
Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions	54
Review of APSIM's soil nitrogen modelling capability for agricultural systems analyses	54
Editorial Board	52
Precision farming: what do Italian farmers really think? An application of the Q methodology	52
Improving livelihood through crop-livestock integration: Insights from a farm trajectory model	49
Optimization of manure recycling and fertilizer use to meet crop nutrient demands and reduce nutrient losses, a case study in Quzhou, China	48

Marginal lands between recovery and valorization. An inclusive definition to support bio-energy supply chains. The Southern Italy contexts case study	48
Editorial Board	47
Conserving cropland resilience space in alpine agro-pastoral ecotones: A quantitative study of Qinghai Province	46
Linking types of East Javanese rice farming systems to farmers' perceptions of complex rice systems	45
Risk monitoring of pine wilt disease based on semi-dynamic spatial prediction in South Korea	45
How opportunity and cognition improve family farms' low-carbon production behavior: Evidence from China	43
Nutrient use efficiency of intensive dairy farms in China – Current situation and analyses of options for improvement	42
Modelling cow longevity policies: Impacts on GHG emissions of the Swiss agricultural sector	42
Potential for land and water management adaptations in Mediterranean croplands under climate change	41
Transition from chemical fertilizers to sustainable swards: What determines farmers' adoption decisions for clover and multi-species swards?	41
A framework for the assessment of farm diversification options in broadacre agriculture	41
An integrative bio-physical approach to determine the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks of a cow and her offspring in a beef cattle operation: A system dynamics approach	41
A scheme for distribution of genetically improved oil palm plants well suited to local conditions	40
Assessing pollinator abundance and services to enhance agricultural sustainability and crop yield optimization in the Qilian Mountains	40
Determinants of phosphorus balance and use efficiency in diverse dairy farming systems	39