OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Water use indicators and economic analysis for on-farm irrigation decision: A case study of a super high density olive tree orchard	243
A deep learning CNN architecture applied in smart near-infrared analysis of water pollution for agricultural irrigation resources	209
Modeling daily reference evapotranspiration via a novel approach based on support vector regression coupled with whale optimization algorithm	172
Similarity and difference of potential evapotranspiration and reference crop evapotranspiration – a review	144
Groundwater quality forecasting using machine learning algorithms for irrigation purposes	134
Smart irrigation monitoring and control strategies for improving water use efficiency in precision agriculture: A review	123
New approach to estimate daily reference evapotranspiration based on hourly temperature and relative humidity using machine learning and deep learning	117
Climate change impact on yields and water use of wheat and maize in the North China Plain under future climate change scenarios	116
Soil water balance models for determining crop water and irrigation requirements and irrigation scheduling focusing on the FAO56 method and the dual Kc approach	101
Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models	100
Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China	94
Forecasting evapotranspiration in different climates using ensembles of recurrent neural networks	87
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	87
Alternate wetting and drying: A water-saving and ecofriendly rice production system	86
Remote sensing for estimating and mapping single and basal crop coefficientes: A review on spectral vegetation indices approaches	84
Forecast of short-term daily reference evapotranspiration under limited meteorological variables using a hybrid bi-directional long short-term memory model (Bi-LSTM)	82
Water utilization in intercropping: A review	81
Spatial-temporal dynamics of agricultural drought in the Loess Plateau under a changing environment: Characteristics and potential influencing factors	78
Application of water-energy-food nexus approach for designating optimal agricultural management pattern at a watershed scale	78
Research into the super-absorbent polymers on agricultural water	76
Modeling the combined impacts of deficit irrigation, rising temperature and compost application on wheat yield and water productivity	76
Sustainable management of agricultural water and land resources under changing climate and socio-economic conditions: A multi-dimensional optimization approach	73
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	73
Dynamic game in agriculture and industry cross-sectoral water pollution governance in developing countries	73
Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China	73

A hybrid CNN-GRU model for predicting soil moisture in maize root zone	73
Spatio-temporal analysis of drought and return periods over the East African region using Standardized Precipitation Index from 1920 to 2016	73
Transitions from irrigated to dryland agriculture in the Ogallala Aquifer: Land use suitability and regional economic impacts	70
Modeling long-term dynamics of crop evapotranspiration using deep learning in a semi-arid environment	69
Minimizing water and nutrient losses from soilless cropping in southern Europe	68
Effects of grass vegetation coverage and position on runoff and sediment yields on the slope of Loess Plateau, China	68
Evaluation of hydroponic systems for the cultivation of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L., var. Longifolia) and comparison with protected soil-based cultivation	66
Nano-fertilizers improved drought tolerance in wheat under deficit irrigation	65
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	65
Prediction of crop coefficients from fraction of ground cover and height. Background and validation using ground and remote sensing data	61
The use of combined soil moisture data to characterize agricultural drought conditions and the relationship among different drought types in China	60
Decision support systems and models for aiding irrigation and nutrient management of vegetable crops	60
Effects of different film mulching methods on soil water productivity and maize yield in a semiarid area of China	60
Optimization allocation of irrigation water resources based on crop water requirement under considering effective precipitation and uncertainty	59
Methods to estimate evapotranspiration in humid and subtropical climate conditions	59
Towards a sustainable viticulture: The combination of deficit irrigation strategies and agroecological practices in Mediterranean vineyards. A review and update	58
Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers	57
Optimizing irrigation and nitrogen management strategy to trade off yield, crop water productivity, nitrogen use efficiency and fruit quality of greenhouse grown tomato	56
Nitrogen management of vegetable crops	56
Application of an artificial intelligence technique enhanced with intelligent water drops for monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation	56
Satellite-based NDVI crop coefficients and evapotranspiration with eddy covariance validation for multiple durum wheat fields in the US Southwest	55
Effect of irrigation and fertilization regimes on grain yield, water and nitrogen productivity of mulching cultivated maize (Zea mays L.) in the Hetao Irrigation District of China	54
Stomatal limitations to photosynthesis and their critical Water conditions in different growth stages of maize under water stress	53
Evapotranspiration and crop coefficient of tomato grown in a solar greenhouse under full and deficit irrigation	53
Root morphological characteristics and soil water infiltration capacity in semi-arid artificial grassland soils	53
Optimizing irrigation strategies to synchronously improve the yield and water productivity of winter wheat under interannual precipitation variability in the North China Plain	53
The potential of antitranspirants in drought management of arable crops: A review	52
Irrigation management of European greenhouse vegetable crops	52