OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management is 56. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart irrigation monitoring and control strategies for improving water use efficiency in precision agriculture: A review	186
Groundwater quality forecasting using machine learning algorithms for irrigation purposes	168
Soil water balance models for determining crop water and irrigation requirements and irrigation scheduling focusing on the FAO56 method and the dual Kc approach	125
Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China	118
Alternate wetting and drying: A water-saving and ecofriendly rice production system	116
Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models	115
Drip fertigation significantly increased crop yield, water productivity and nitrogen use efficiency with respect to traditional irrigation and fertilization practices: A meta-analysis in China	113
Forecasting evapotranspiration in different climates using ensembles of recurrent neural networks	104
Determining irrigation amount and fertilization rate to simultaneously optimize grain yield, grain nitrogen accumulation and economic benefit of drip-fertigated spring maize in northwest China	95
Water utilization in intercropping: A review	95
Forecast of short-term daily reference evapotranspiration under limited meteorological variables using a hybrid bi-directional long short-term memory model (Bi-LSTM)	92
Research into the super-absorbent polymers on agricultural water	92
Sustainable management of agricultural water and land resources under changing climate and socio-economic conditions: A multi-dimensional optimization approach	91
A hybrid CNN-GRU model for predicting soil moisture in maize root zone	90
Evaluation of hydroponic systems for the cultivation of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L., var. Longifolia) and comparison with protected soil-based cultivation	88
Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China	88
Spatial-temporal dynamics of agricultural drought in the Loess Plateau under a changing environment: Characteristics and potential influencing factors	88
Modeling the combined impacts of deficit irrigation, rising temperature and compost application on wheat yield and water productivity	82
Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height. Background and validation using ground and remote sensing data	81
Minimizing water and nutrient losses from soilless cropping in southern Europe	81
Assessing soil water balance to optimize irrigation schedules of flood-irrigated maize fields with different cultivation histories in the arid region	81
Interactive effects of mulching practice and nitrogen rate on grain yield, water productivity, fertilizer use efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions of rainfed summer maize in northwest China	80
Dynamic game in agriculture and industry cross-sectoral water pollution governance in developing countries	79
Nano-fertilizers improved drought tolerance in wheat under deficit irrigation	78
Methods to estimate evapotranspiration in humid and subtropical climate conditions	76

Towards a sustainable viticulture: The combination of deficit irrigation strategies and agroecological practices in Mediterranean vineyards. A review and update	76
Modeling long-term dynamics of crop evapotranspiration using deep learning in a semi-arid environment	76
Effects of grass vegetation coverage and position on runoff and sediment yields on the slope of Loess Plateau, China	75
Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers	72
Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen management strategy to trade off yield, crop water productivity, nitrogen use efficiency and fruit quality of greenhouse grown tomato	71
The use of combined soil moisture data to characterize agricultural drought conditions and the relationship among different drought types in China	67
Effects of a PLA/PBAT biodegradable film mulch as a replacement of polyethylene film and their residues on crop and soil environment	67
Benefits and limitations of straw mulching and incorporation on maize yield, water use efficiency, and nitrogen use efficiency	66
Estimation of soil moisture content under high maize canopy coverage from UAV multimodal data and machine learning	66
Application of an artificial intelligence technique enhanced with intelligent water drops for monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation	65
Irrigation management of European greenhouse vegetable crops	65
Effects of different film mulching methods on soil water productivity and maize yield in a semiarid area of China	65
Effect of saline land reclamation by constructing the “Raised Field -Shallow Trench” pattern on agroecosystems in Yellow River Delta	64
Improving nutrient and water use efficiencies using water-drip irrigation and fertilization technology in Northeast China	63
Stomatal limitations to photosynthesis and their critical Water conditions in different growth stages of maize under water stress	63
Updated single and dual crop coefficients for tree and vine fruit crops	61
Reuse of treated water in European agriculture: Potential to address water scarcity under climate change	61
Dynamic variation of meteorological drought and its relationships with agricultural drought across China	59
Evaluation of efficiency and resilience of agricultural water resources system in the Yellow River Basin, China	59
3-Dimensional cross linked hydrophilic polymeric network “hydrogels”: An agriculture boom	59
New technologies and practical approaches to improve irrigation management of open field vegetable crops	59
Deficit irrigation improves maize yield and water use efficiency in a semi-arid environment	58
Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern Xinjiang	58
Managing agricultural water-energy-food-environment nexus considering water footprint and carbon footprint under uncertainty	58
Comparison of different irrigation methods to synergistically improve maize’s yield, water productivity and economic benefits in an arid irrigation area	57
Identifying drought-tolerant genotypes of faba bean and their agro-physiological responses to different water regimes in an arid Mediterranean environment	57
Sustainability of rice-based livelihoods in the upper floodplains of Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Prospects and challenges	57
Mulching improved soil water, root distribution and yield of maize in the Loess Plateau of Northwest China	57
Development of smart irrigation systems based on real-time soil moisture data in a greenhouse: Proof of concept	57
Planned behavior and social capital: Understanding farmers’ behavior toward pressurized irrigation technologies	56
Effects of irrigation quantity and biochar on soil physical properties, growth characteristics, yield and quality of greenhouse tomato	56