OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Land Degradation & Development is 30. 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
Responses of plant, soil bacterial and fungal communities to grazing vary with pasture seasons and grassland types, northern Tibet	60
Characterization of a chitosan‐based sustained release nanofertilizer formulation used as a soil conditioner while simultaneously improving biomass production of Zea mays L.	59
Spatial differences in soil microbial diversity caused by pH‐driven organic phosphorus mineralization	56
Assessment of land use systems for CO₂ sequestration, carbon credit potential, and income security in Vindhyan region, India	49
Assessing an ecological security network for a rapid urbanization region in Eastern China	48
Which impacts more seriously on natural habitat loss and degradation? Cropland expansion or urban expansion?	48
Relationships between soil and microbial biomass properties and annual flux of nutrients in Central Himalaya forests, India	47
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of no‐tillage on soil aggregation and aggregate‐associated organic carbon	45
Evaluating the landscape ecological risk based on GIS: A case‐study in the Poyang Lake region of China	44
Future impact of climate extremes in the Mediterranean: Soil erosion projections when fire and extreme rainfall meet	44
Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity	44
Assessing the response of vegetation photosynthesis to meteorological drought across northern China	44
Soil quality indices for metal(loid) contamination: An enzymatic perspective	43
Desertification risk assessment in Northeast Brazil: Current trends and future scenarios	40
Response of soil characteristics and bacterial communities to nitrogen fertilization gradients in a coastal salt‐affected agroecosystem	39
Baseline maps of potentially toxic elements in the soils of Garhwal Himalayas, India: Assessment of their eco‐environmental and human health risks	38
Land system transformations govern the trophic status of an urban wetland ecosystem: Perspectives from remote sensing and water quality analysis	38
Nitrogen rhizodeposition by legumes and its fate in agroecosystems: A field study and literature review	38
Grazing significantly increases root shoot ratio but decreases soil organic carbon in Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau grasslands: A hierarchical meta‐analysis	38
Factors influencing the evolution of human‐driven rocky desertification in karst areas	38
Long‐term impacts of grazing management on land degradation in a rural community of Southern Italy: Depopulation matters	36
Quantitative analysis of ecological risk and human health risk of potentially toxic elements in farmland soil using the PMF model	36
Effects of coastal wetland reclamation on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus in China: A meta‐analysis	35
Estimating soil salinity with different fractional vegetation cover using remote sensing	35
Assessment of land degradation using machine‐learning techniques: A case of declining rangelands	33

Structure and functioning of Coriaria nepalensis dominated shrublands in degraded hills of Kumaun Himalaya. I. Dry matter dynamics	33
Evaporation and cracked soda soil improved by fly ash from recycled materials	33
Soil labile organic carbon sequestration is tightly correlated with the abundance and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in semiarid maize fields	32
Recent responses of grassland net primary productivity to climatic and anthropogenic factors in Kyrgyzstan	32
Effect of engineered nanoparticles on soil biota: Do they improve the soil quality and crop production or jeopardize them?	32
Environmental determinants impacting the spatial heterogeneity of karst ecosystem services in Southwest China	30
Win–win path for ecological restoration	30
Tight coupling of fungal community composition with soil quality in a Chinese fir plantation chronosequence	30
Variations in the diversity of the soil microbial community and structure under various categories of degraded wetland in Sanjiang Plain, northeastern China	30
Plants use rhizosphere metabolites to regulate soil microbial diversity	30
Biochar affects greenhouse gas emissions in various environments: A critical review	30