OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agricultural Water Management is 51. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of deficit irrigation on nitrogen uptake and soil mineral nitrogen in alfalfa grasslands of the inland arid area of China	306
Editorial Board	165
Biophysical controls on energy exchange and water use efficiency over a poplar plantation in Northern Hilly China	125
Field evaluation of nitrogen volatilization loss during fertigation through center pivots	120
Increasing the concentration of film antitranspirant increases yields of rapeseed under terminal drought by improving plant water status	107
Editorial Board	100
Interannual variability of water productivity on the Eastern Snake Plain in Idaho, United States	100
Editorial Board	94
Improving pumpset selection to support intensification of groundwater irrigation in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains	94
Soil moisture influences wheat yield by affecting root growth and the composition of microbial communities under drip fertigation	91
A distributed simulation-optimization framework for many-objective water resources allocation in canal-well combined irrigation district under diverse supply and demand scenarios	86
Corrigendum to “Harnessing SMAP satellite soil moisture product to optimize soil properties to improve water resource management for agriculture” [Agric. Water Manag., Volume 300, 1 July 2024, 108918]	83
Soybean yield response to managed depletion irrigation regimes in a Mid-South silt loam soil	81
Corrigendum to “Responses of yield and water use efficiency to the interaction between water supply and plastic film mulch in winter wheat-summer fallow system” [Agric. Water Manag. 266 (2022) 107545]	80
Evaluation and verification of two evapotranspiration models based on precision screening and partitioning of field temperature data	79
Regional-scale evaluation of tertiary irrigation system in Muda Irrigation Scheme from space	77
Adopting plastic film mulching system in the food-energy-water-carbon nexus to the sustainable dryland agriculture	75
Hydrogeology and subsurface water flow beneath grass waterways: Implications for exploiting waterways for nitrate reductions	75
Shallow-incorporated straw returning further improves rainfed maize productivity, profitability and soil carbon turnover on the basis of plastic film mulching	74
Sustainability of collective irrigation under water competition between agriculture and civil uses: The case study of Alanya Water Users Association (Türkiye)	74
Impact of grass traits on the transport path and retention efficiency of nitrate nitrogen in vegetation filter strips	74
Influence of the sampling time interval of canopy temperature on the dynamic zoning of variable rate irrigation	73
Influence of suspended solid particles on calcium carbonate fouling in dripper labyrinths	73
Effects of regulated, precision and continuous deficit irrigation on the growth and productivity of a young super high-density olive orchard	71
Optimal planting density combined with phosphorus input promotes common buckwheat resource use efficiency and productivity to increase grain yield	70

Generating high-precision farmland irrigation pattern maps using remotely sensed ecological indices and machine learning algorithms	70
Regional water-saving potential calculation method for paddy rice based on remote sensing	67
An integrated approach for multi-year irrigation benchmarking using satellites, surveys and on-farm measured data	66
A comparison of physical-based and machine learning modeling for soil salt dynamics in crop fields	66
Monitoring irrigation dynamics in paddy fields using spatiotemporal fusion of Sentinel-2 and MODIS	64
Effect of lateral flushing on emitter clogging in drip irrigation using high-sediment water	64
A simplified method for water depth mapping over crops during flood based on Copernicus and DTM open data	64
Bridging the gap: Analysis of systemic barriers to irrigation technology supply businesses in Ethiopia	63
Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya	63
Reference evapotranspiration change in Heilongjiang Province, China from 1951 to 2018: The role of climate change and rice area expansion	62
Photosynthetic characteristics, soil nutrients, and their interspecific competitions in an apple–soybean alley cropping system subjected to different drip fertilizer regimes on the Loess Plateau, Chin	61
Grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat controlled by irrigation regime and manure substitution in the North China Plain	59
Biochar decreased N loss from paddy ecosystem under alternate wetting and drying in the Lower Liaohe River Plain, China	58
Phosphorus in the runoff of soils with contrasting textures influenced by soil slope and pig slurry application	58
The incorporation of solar energy and compressed air into the energy supply system enhances the environmentally friendly and efficient operation of drip irrigation systems	56
Diversified crop rotations reduce groundwater use and enhance system resilience	56
Evaluating maize evapotranspiration using high-resolution UAV-based imagery and FAO-56 dual crop coefficient approach	54
Reference crop evapotranspiration for data-sparse regions using reanalysis products	54
Assessing the performance of conservation measures for controlling slope runoff and erosion using field scouring experiments	53
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	53
Water competition among the coexisting Platycladus orientalis, Prunus davidiana and Medicago sativa in a semi-arid agroforestry system	53
Simulating the effect of subsurface tile drainage on watershed salinity using SWAT	53
A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning	52
Extraction of grassland irrigation information in arid regions based on multi-source remote sensing data	52
Editorial Board	51
Ridge-furrow planting patterns with film mulching improve water use efficiency by enhancing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizosphere and endophyte of summer maize	51
Evaluating the impact of floating spheres on evaporation reduction and water salinity control in reservoirs	51