OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management is 50. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	222
Water-saving irrigation mitigates methane emissions from paddy fields: The role of iron	186
Hydrogeology and subsurface water flow beneath grass waterways: Implications for exploiting waterways for nitrate reductions	127
Developing climate change agro-adaptation strategies through field experiments and simulation analyses for sustainable sorghum production in semi-arid tropics of India	120
Mapping maize crop coefficient Kc using random forest algorithm based on leaf area index and UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices	116
Winter legume cover crop with adequate nitrogen fertilization enhance dryland maize yield and water-use efficiency	104
Intermittent sprinkler irrigation during the establishment of strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.) bare-root transplants conserves water without loss of yield and fruit quality	99
Bridging the gap: An interpretable coupled model (SWAT-ELM-SHAP) for blue-green water simulation in data-scarce basins	94
Editorial Board	92
Optimizing nutrient removal of algal-bacterial symbiosis system for treating low C/N farmland drainage	92
Stem characteristics and yield of wheat is regulated to improve planting efficiency and reduce lodging risk by fertilizer rate and irrigation stage	91
Soil moisture retrieval over croplands using novel dual-polarization SAR vegetation index	91
Economic irrigation water productivity of wheat and potato: An earth observation perspective on policy implications in the Litani Basin, Lebanon	89
Relationships between C/N metabolism and rice growth related indicators under alternating drought and flooding stress	88
Social network shapes farmers’ non-point source pollution governance behavior – A case study in the Lijiang River Basin, China	83
Sustainability of collective irrigation under water competition between agriculture and civil uses: The case study of Alanya Water Users Association (Türkiye)	82
Regional-scale evaluation of tertiary irrigation system in Muda Irrigation Scheme from space	81
Adopting plastic film mulching system in the food-energy-water-carbon nexus to the sustainable dryland agriculture	79
Regional water-saving potential calculation method for paddy rice based on remote sensing	76
Improving pumpset selection to support intensification of groundwater irrigation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	76
Water stress, yield, and grape quality in a hilly rainfed “Aglianico” vineyard grown in two different soils along a slope	75
Long-term effects of living grass mulching on soil and water conservation and fruit yield of citrus orchard in south China	74
Combined effects of urea type and placement depth on grain yield, water productivity and nitrogen use efficiency of rain-fed spring maize in northern China	73
Extraction of grassland irrigation information in arid regions based on multi-source remote sensing data	72
Determination of energy partition of a cucumber grown Venlo-type greenhouse in southeast China	69

Developing irrigation water conservation strategies for hybrid bermudagrass using an evapotranspiration-based smart irrigation controller in inland southern California	68
Water uptake dynamics in apple trees assessed by an isotope labeling approach	67
Reference evapotranspiration change in Heilongjiang Province, China from 1951 to 2018: The role of climate change and rice area expansion	66
Reference crop evapotranspiration for data-sparse regions using reanalysis products	65
Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern Xinjiang	64
New machine learning approaches to improve reference evapotranspiration estimates using intra-daily temperature-based variables in a semi-arid region of Spain	61
Impact of irrigation systems on water saving and yield of greenhouse and open field cucumber production in Saudi Arabia	59
Evaluating the long-term effects of best management practices on pollution reduction and soil quality improvement in sloping farmland of the Three Gorges Reservoir area	59
Phloem carbon isotopic signature as a valuable tool to assess physiological adjustments among European grapevine varieties under a Mediterranean climate	58
Simulation-optimization based real-time irrigation scheduling: A human-machine interactive method enhanced by data assimilation	57
A critique of successful elements of existing on-farm irrigation water management initiatives in Pakistan	56
Could buckwheat and spelt be alternatives to wheat under future environmental conditions? Study of their physiological response to drought	56
A simplified method for water depth mapping over crops during flood based on Copernicus and DTM open data	55
Optimal groundwater depth and irrigation amount can mitigate secondary salinization in water-saving irrigated areas in arid regions	55
How water table level influences C balance under different fertilization regimes	54
Spatial and temporal variations of maize and wheat yield gaps and their relationships with climate in China	54
Nitrogen fertilizer rate and timing of application for potato under different irrigation methods	54
Precise soil water control using a negative pressure irrigation system to improve the water productivity of greenhouse watermelon	54
Responses of leaf nitrogen status and leaf area index to water and nitrogen application and their relationship with apple orchard productivity	53
Combing transfer learning with the OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) to diagnosis small-scale field soil moisture from hyperspectral data	53
Accurate measurement of wind drift and evaporation losses could improve water application efficiency of sprinkler irrigation systems − A comparison of measuring techniques	52
Customizing pyfao56 for evapotranspiration estimation and irrigation scheduling at the Limited Irrigation Research Farm (LIRF), Greeley, Colorado	51
Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya	51
Modelling the response of wheat yield to stage-specific water stress in the Po Plain	51
A coupled hourly water-carbon flux model at plot and field scales for water-saving irrigated rice paddy	51
Optimizing variable rate irrigation using model and satellite-based dynamic prescription maps	50
Evaluating the role of remote sensing-based energy balance models in improving site-specific irrigation management for young walnut orchards	50