OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archives of Agronomy and Soil 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Efficient substrates based on anaerobic sewage sludge biochar for tobacco seedlings in floating systems	65
Biochar addition to organo-mineral fertilisers delays nutrient leaching and enhances barley nutrient content	36
Soil health in temperate agroforestry: influence of tree species and position in the field	28
Combined application of animal manure and stover enhance labile organic carbon and benefit the microbial community in dark brown soil	25
Pullout properties of Hippophae rhamnoides L. roots in the loess area	25
Fast selection opportunity of salt tolerant guar bean genotypes with GGE biplot method	24
Integrated nutrient management in spring-maize improves yield, nutrient use efficiency and minimizes greenhouse gas intensity	21
Effect of vanadium on Nicotiana tabacum L. grown in vanadium-loaded soil	21
Effects of cultivars and habitats on rhizospheric arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Gannan navel oranges	21
Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on nitrogen transformation and functional biological properties in the rice rhizosphere	19
Nitrogen uptake and utilization of two maize hybrids with contrasting nitrogen use efficiencies depending on fertilization amount	17
Impact of straw return and decomposition agent on Tibetan barley yield and soil microbial community in Xizang, China	16
Effect of elevated temperature on growth and glyphosate susceptibility of Chloris truncata R.Br., Sonchus oleraceus L., and	15
Alleviation of soil acidification using livestock manure increases nitrogen supply while stimulating N ₂ O emission in a tea plantation	14
Optimizing essential oil, fatty acid profiles, and phenolic compounds of dragon’s head (Lallemantia iberica) intercropped with chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) with biofertilizer inoculatio	14
Effects of agricultural waste returning on soil nematode community composition	14
Effect of soybean–wheat rotation on soil aggregation, organic nitrogen and net nitrogen mineralization characteristics: a four-year field study	14
Water footprint in wheat production under conservation tillage	13
Effects of poultry manure on structure and some indicators of fertility in tropical soils	12
Nitrification inhibitor application at stem elongation stage increases soil nitrogen availability and wheat nitrogen use efficiency under drought stress	12
Crop residue interactions with fertilizer rate enhances volatilization loss and reduces nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated maize and potato	12
Profile distribution of trace elements under different land-use systems in North East India	11
Relationship between soil fertility and pasture composition on milk quality in Simmental-Fleckvieh production systems in the Peruvian Amazon	11
Comparative study on changes in biochemical constituents, yield and quality of lemongrass ( Cymbopogon flexuosus ) grown under different soil types	11
Effect of calcined/non-calcined phosphate rock application on crop yield and phosphorus availability to replace commercial fertilizer on a lixisol in Burkina Faso	11

Application of soil amendments to enhance soil carbon and biological properties in a paddy field under elevated CO₂ conditions	10
Potential of novel Rhizobium strains as biofertilizer for improved groundnut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) cultivation in Eastern India	10
Soil chemical characteristics, yield and technological quality of sugarcane under subsurface drip irrigation with treated sewage effluent	10
Application of mineral phosphorus fertilizer influences rhizosphere chemical and biological characteristics	9
Soil quality assessment of different land use systems of peri-urban - rural landscape of Deccan plateau, hot semi-arid agro-ecosystem	9
Quantification of soil quality index using pedo-morphological data of alluvial soils of indo-gangetic plains, India	8
Effect of soil compaction and cover crop management on soil physical quality, biomass production and corn and soybean yield	8
Techniques for sustainable coffee crop management: impacts on growth and yield	8
Elemental sulphur with sulphur oxidizing bacteria enhances phosphorus availability and improves growth and yield of wheat in calcareous soil	8
Comparative effects of different kinds of biochar on ammonia volatilization and chemical properties of saline soil	8
Behavior of coffee plants under different cropping systems with a focus on mitigating water scarcity	8
Sugarcane straw management by inoculation of microbial consortia and its impact on short-term N source and amelioration of ratoon sugarcane yield	7
Soil Diseases Suppressiveness Conferred by Organic Farming, Practices and Microbial Metabolites	7
Soil quality assessment based on machine learning approach for cultivated lands in semi-humid environmental condition part of Black Sea region	7
Optimizing nitrogen fertilization for forage maize production to maximize profit and minimize environmental costs in a rainfed region in China	7
Soil labile carbon and nitrogen fractions after eleven years of manure and mineral fertilizer applications	7
Assessment of sludge application in maize ( Zea mays L.): influence on crop biomass and heavy metals bioavailability	7
Economic, water saving and energy efficient crop establishment and inter-culture practices for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in Indian humid subtropics	7
Myco-ecological warfare with Meloidogyne species	7
Optimizing nitrogen fertilizer and straw management promote root extension and nitrogen uptake to improve grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency of winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.<	7
Elevations change fungal communities of the bulk soil, rhizosphere and root ofRhododendron delavayiFranch (Ericaceae) by affecting soil properties in a karst area, southwest China	7
Poly-γ-glutamic acid enhances the wheat yield, water use efficiency and soil physicochemical properties of the arid area in the Northwest China	7
Soil aggregate variation in two contrasting rice straw recycling systems for paddy soil amendment over two years	7
Effect of straw mulching on water consumption components and crop coefficients in a maize field	7
Bioethanol potential of switchgrass cultivars for rainfed and irrigated conditions in marginal lands	6
Evaluation of soil quality and land suitability in different management systems	6
The summer sprays of iodine with calcium chloride are successful in biofortifying apples with iodine and improving their storability	6
Loose and tower-type canopy structure can improve cotton yield in the Yellow River basin of China by increasing light interception	6
Soilborne nematodes as bioindicators of soil health in cropping systems: a systematic review	6
Saffron yield estimation by adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system and particle swarm optimization (ANFIS-SCM-PSO) hybrid model	6
The application of N-butyl Phosphorothioate Triamine and Dicyandiamide changes the soil N₂O production path	6
Synthesis, characterization and application of silicon and titanium nanoparticles to enhance the early development of maize ( Zea mays L.)	6
Rare microbial populations as sensitive indicators of bacterial community dissimilarity under different agricultural management practices	6
Response of soil micro-food webs to the addition of maize straw and animal manure in a mollisol	6
Using a single base addition for lime requirement of Acrisols: a case study in Southeastern Vietnam	6
Response of microbial community diversity and subsoil properties to cow manure amendment in mollisols	6
Soil quality indicators along a degradation gradient in central Iran: comparison of two regions with contrasting grazing systems	6
Influence of nitrogen sources on grain yield of wheat and net global warming potential	6
Scaling of Kostiakov–Lewis equation and estimation of scaling factors at field scale	6
Positive influences of the compost made from distillers’ grains waste on maize agronomic performances and greenhouse gas emissions	6
Effects of integrated rice-animals co-culture on paddy soil and water properties and rice yield: a meta-analysis	6
Pyrolytic synthesis and performance efficacy comparison of biochar-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron on soil polluted with toxic metals	6
Twenty—eight years long chemical fertilization effects on soil potassium status under rice-wheat-green gram cropping sequence	6
Trade-off between soil aggregate stability and carbon decomposition under 44 years long-term integrated nutrient management in rice-wheat-jute system	6
Biodegradable film mulching promotes better soil quality and increases summer maize grain yield in North China Plain	6
Effect of controlled traffic on maintaining physical soil quality in sugarcane fields under different crop management systems	5
Influence of the application of charred and uncharred spent coffee grounds on soil Carbon and Nitrogen cycles	5
Effect of partial root-zone drying irrigation (PRDI) on alfalfa available soil P	5
Subsurface drainage influences the structure and assembly of soil bacterial and fungal communities in salinized cotton field	5
Exogenous application of Atonik (sodium nitrophenolate) under skip irrigation regimes modulated the physiology, growth and productivity of Zea mays L	5

Straw, biochar, and nanocarbon altered the enzymatic reaction kinetics and thermodynamic process of catalase in the black soil under continuous warming	5
Effect of herbicides on weed dynamics, soil fertility, energetics and productivity of upland rice in an acidic subtropical soil of the Eastern Himalayas, India	5
Effect of organic amendments on soil structure, microbial community and water transport in the Qinghai Lake watershed, North-Eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	5
Residue retention and nitrogen management of preceding crops influences the productivity, profitability and environmental footprints of summer mungbean in maize-based cropping systems under conservati	5
Effects of belowground interactions on crop yields and nutrient uptake in maize-faba bean relay intercropping systems	5
Taxonomic and biological characterization and predatory activity of four nematophagous fungi isolates of Arthrobotrys species from Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico	5
Subsoiling reduces CO2 concentrations in soil profile of winter wheat – summer maize rotation ecosystem in the North China Plain: a strategy to achieve carbon neutrality in farmland	5
Reductive soil disinfestation to improve soil properties in long-term tobacco cultivation	5
Modelling soil, plant and fertilizer relationship to optimize nutrient management for chilli ( Capsicum annuum L) under Alfisols of Southe	5
Crop nutrition and grain yield as affected by phosphorus fertilization and continued use of phosphogypsum in an Oxisol under no-till management	5
Microbial inoculants improve nutrients uptake and yield of durum wheat in calcareous soils under drought stress in the Mediterranean region	5
The role of management practices on soil seed bank agrobiodiversity and agronomic sustainability in a horticultural cropping system	5
Subsoiling before winter wheat cultivation increases photosynthetic characteristics and leaf water-use efficiency of summer maize in a double-cropping system	5
Silicon and arbuscular mycorrhizal species complement in improving soil characteristics, sulfur metabolism and antioxidant defense responses in arsenic stressed Cajanus cajan	5