OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Journal of Range & Forage Science is 4. 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
Frequent burning maintained a stable grassland over four decades in the Drakensberg, South Africa	18
Cattle performance withBrachiariaandPanicum maximumforages in an integrated crop-livestock system	14
Impact of livestock grazing intensity on plant diversity of montane grassland in the northern Drakensberg, South Africa	11
Characterisation of ecosystem-based adaptations to drought in the central cattle corridor of Uganda	9
Accounting for land cover changes and degradation in the Katse and Mohale Dam catchments of the Lesotho highlands	9
Methods of storing cactus pear genotypes for animal feeding	8
High-intensity fire experiments to manage shrub encroachment: lessons learned in South Africa and the United States	8
Forage yield, competition and economic benefit of intercropping cactus and millet with mulch in a semi-arid environment	8
Too much, too late: fires and reactive wildfire management in northern Botswana’s forests and woodland savannas	8
Does defoliation frequency and severity influence plant productivity? The role of grazing management and soil nutrients	8
Grass functional trait responses to experimental warming and fire in Afromontane grasslands	8
Fire and herbivory shape belowground bud banks in a semi-arid African savanna	8
Analysis of main factors affecting silage fermentation of sorghum prepared with whole crop and stover in semiarid West Africa	8
A review of the responses of medium- to large-sized African mammals to fire	7
A balanced perspective on the contribution of extensive ruminant production to greenhouse gas emissions in southern Africa	7
Long-term frequent fires do not decrease topsoil carbon and nitrogen in an Afromontane grassland	7
Long-term influence of season of grazing and rainfall on vegetation in the eastern Karoo, South Africa	7
Seasonal changes of copper and zinc concentrations in browse saltbush (Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.) from the Algerian arid rangelands	6
The effect of changes in human drivers on the fire regimes of South African grassland and savanna environments over the past 100 years	6
How stable is the tuft structure of a mesic Drakensberg grassland under various burning regimes?	5
Quantifying grass productivity using remotely sensed data: an assessment of grassland restoration benefits	5
Historic changes in the fire-rainfall relationship at a woodland-savanna transition zone in southern Africa	5
Nutritional quality of Calobota sericea fodders. A preliminary assessment	5
Revegetation of marginal saline rangelands of southern Tunisia using pastoral halophytes	5
Transhumance pastoralism in West Africa – its importance, policies and challenges	5

Assessing wetland functionality using soil surface indicators in Letšeng- la-Letsie wetland in Quthing District, Lesotho	5
Tipping the scales: how fire controls the balance among functional groups in Angolan grasslands	5
The population dynamics of four grass species in relation to burning in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg	5
Shortwave infrared vegetation index-based modelling for aboveground vegetation biomass assessment in the arid steppes of Algeria	5
Biogeographical patterns of grasses (Poaceae) indigenous to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini	5
Could CO₂-induced changes to C₄ grass flammability aggravate savanna woody encroachment?	4
Drivers of change in vegetation and soil in the Gamka Karoo: grazing versus rainfall	4
Drought as a driver of vegetation change in Succulent Karoo rangelands, South Africa	4
Woody cover change in relation to fire history and land-use in the savanna-woodlands of north-east Namibia (1996–2019)	4
Customary ecological conservation of Mwanda-Marungu Pastoral Commons in Taita Hills, south-west Kenya	4
Interactive effects of prescribed fire and livestock grazing on Seriphium plumosum in South African sour bushveld	4
Nutritional quality of Calobota sericea fodders harvested at different phenological stages – opportunities for inclusion in fodder flow programs for extensive livestock	4
Montane rangelands in a changing world	4
Intercropping forage cactus with sorghum affects the morphophysiology and phenology of forage cactus	4
Community diversity, functional traits and adaptation of Stipa tenacissima L. under different grazing regimes in a North African arid montane rangeland	4
What grass characteristics drive large herbivore feeding patch selection? A case study from a South African grassland protected area	4
Disease surveillance and farmers’ knowledge of Brachiaria (Syn. Urochloa) grass diseases in Rwanda	4