OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Arid Land is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Variations of soil moisture and its influencing factors in arid and semi-arid areas, China	77
Formation and ecological response of sand patches in the protection system of Shapotou section of the Baotou-Lanzhou railway, China	59
Nutrient resorption and its influencing factors of typical desert plants in different habitats on the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, China	41
Benefits and ecological restoration implications of hanging grass fences in Mongolian desert steppe	41
Soil quality assessment for desertification based on multi-indicators with the best-worst method in a semi-arid ecosystem	39
Erratum to: Soil evolution along an alluvial-loess transect in the Herat Plain, western Afghanistan	33
Leaf stoichiometry of Leontopodium lentopodioides at high altitudes on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	31
Wind dynamic environment and wind-sand erosion and deposition processes on different surfaces along the Dunhuang–Golmud railway, China	31
Hydrochemistry and environmental implications in the western alpine region of China	28
Geochemical signatures and human health risk evaluation of rare earth elements in soils and plants of the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	26
Trade-off and synergy effects, driving factors, and spatial optimization of ecosystem services in the Wuding River Basin of China: A study based on the Bayesian Belief Network approach	26
Reasonable grazing may balance the conflict between grassland utilization and soil conservation in the semi-arid hilly areas, China	25
Effects of desert plant communities on soil enzyme activities and soil organic carbon in the proluvial fan in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountain in Ningxia, China	24
Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of vegetation net primary productivity in the Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration, China from 2001 to 2020	23
Reclamation during oasification is conducive to the accumulation of the soil organic carbon pool in arid land	23
Meteorological drought in semi-arid regions: A case study of Iran	23
Aeolian activity in the southern Gurbantunggut Desert of China during the last 900 years	23
Predicting potential invasion risks of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit in the arid area of Saudi Arabia	22
Spatiotemporal variation in vegetation net primary productivity and its relationship with meteorological factors in the Tarim River Basin of China from 2001 to 2020 based on the Google Earth Engine	20
Impact of land use/land cover types on surface humidity in northern China in the early 21st century	20
Future meteorological drought conditions in southwestern Iran based on the NEX-GDDP climate dataset	19
Host plant traits play a crucial role in shaping the composition of epiphytic microbiota in the arid desert, Northwest China	19
Divergent vegetation response to increasing grazing pressure in arid and semi-arid rangelands in Argentina	19
Thriving green havens in baking deserts: Plant diversity and species composition of urban plantations in the Sahara Desert	19
Influence of vapor pressure deficit on vegetation growth in China	18

Three-dimensional (3D) parametric measurements of individual gravels in the Gobi region using point cloud technique	17
Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving mechanisms of land use/land cover (LULC) changes in the Jinghe River Basin, China	17
Impact of urban sprawl on land surface temperature in the Mashhad City, Iran: A deep learning and cloud-based remote sensing analysis	17
Grazing alters sandy soil greenhouse gas emissions in a sand-binding area of the Hobq Desert, China	17
Hydrochemical characteristics and transformation relationships between different water bodies in the Qixing Lake region of the Hobq Desert, China	16
Land use and cover change and influencing factor analysis in the Shiyang River Basin, China	16
Leaf morpho-physiology and phytochemistry of olive trees as affected by cultivar type and increasing aridity	15
Response of vegetation variation to climate change and human activities in the Shiyang River Basin of China during 2001–2022	15
Evaluation of CRU TS, GPCC, AgMERRA, and AgCFSR meteorological datasets for estimating climate and crop variables: A case study of maize in Qazvin Province, Iran	15
Understanding and simulating of three-dimensional subsurface hydrological partitioning in an alpine mountainous area, China	14
High-frequency climatic fluctuations over the past 30 ka in northwestern margin of the East Asian monsoon region, China	14
Carbon inputs regulate the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in temperate forests	13
A review of science–policy interface for water governance in the Caspian Sea	13
Assessment of runoff changes in the sub-basin of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River basin, China based on multiple methods	13
Erosion on marginal slopes of unpaved roads in semi-arid Brazil, and the role of Caatinga vegetation in sediment retention and disconnectivity	12
Unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted evaluation of the effectiveness of sand control engineering along a Gobi desert highway in Ejin Banner, northern China	12
Effects of the growing-maize canopy and irrigation characteristics on the ability to funnel sprinkler water	12
Response of ecosystem carbon storage to land use change from 1985 to 2050 in the Ningxia Section of Yellow River Basin, China	12
Occurrence, sources, and relationships of soil microplastics with adsorbed heavy metals in the Ebinur Lake Basin, Northwest China	12
Land use change and its driving factors in the ecological function area: A case study in the Hedong Region of the Gansu Province, China	11
Effects of temperature and salinity on the seed germination of Limonium strictissimum (Salzm.) Arrigoni in the Mediterranean Basin	11
Controlled drainage in the Nile River delta of Egypt: a promising approach for decreasing drainage off-site effects and enhancing yield and water use efficiency of wheat	11
Spatiotemporal dynamic and drivers of ecological environmental quality on the Chinese Loess Plateau: Insights from kRSEI model and climate-human interaction analysis	11
Structural and functional responses of soil microbial communities to petroleum pollution in the eastern Gansu Province on the Loess Plateau, China	11
Non-stationary characteristics and causes of extreme precipitation in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, China	11
Leguminosae plants play a key role in affecting soil physical-chemical and biological properties during grassland succession after farmland abandonment in the Loess Plateau, China	11
Parkland trees on smallholder farms ameliorate soil physical-chemical properties in the semi-arid area of Tigray, Ethiopia	11
Spatiotemporal evolution and prediction of habitat quality in Hohhot City of China based on the InVEST and CA-Markov models	11
Artificial cyanobacteria crusts can improve soil fertility and plant growth in a semi-arid area, northern China	10
Effects of land-use patterns on soil microbial diversity and composition in the Loess Plateau, China	10
Improving the livelihoods of local communities in degraded desert regions through afforestation with Moringa peregrina trees to combat desertification	10
Dependency of litter decomposition on litter quality, climate change, and grassland type in the alpine grassland of Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China	10
Modelling the dead fuel moisture content in a grassland of Ergun City, China	10
Soil seed bank is affected by transferred soil thickness and properties in the reclaimed coal mine in the Qilian Mountains, China	10
Comparison of different vegetation indices for estimating vegetation changes and analyzing driving factors in a semi-arid area, China	10
Land use/cover change and ecological network in Gansu Province, China during 2000–2020 and their simulations in 2050	10
Spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of soil protection in the wind-water erosion area of Chinese Loess Plateau	10
Effects of dry soil aggregate size on organic carbon, total nitrogen, and soil texture under different land uses	10
Improving land cover classification in drylands with MSAVI: Evidence from the South Aral Seabed	10
Effect of sand-fixing vegetation on the hydrological regulation function of sand dunes and its practical significance	10
Occurrence of flash drought in reservoirs in the semi-arid area of the Ceará State, Brazil	10
Environmental interpretation of spatial heterogeneity in the trade-offs and synergies of land use functions: A study based on the XGBoost-SHAP model	9
Spatiotemporal variations of surface water and its response to climate change in global arid regions during 2000–2020	9
Combination of artificial zeolite and microbial fertilizer to improve mining soils in an arid area of Inner Mongolia, China	9
Rhizobacteria facilitate physiological and biochemical drought tolerance of Halimodendron halodendron (Pall.) Voss	9
Influence of land use on spatial distribution of primary productivity in aquatic environment in the Weihe River Basin, China	9
Research on wind erosion processes and controlling factors based on wind tunnel test and 3D laser scanning technology	9
Morphological change and migration of revegetated dunes in the Ketu Sandy Land of the Qinghai Lake, China	9
Exploring groundwater quality in semi-arid areas of Algeria: Impacts on potable water supply and agricultural sustainability	9
Quantifying major sources of uncertainty in projecting the impact of climate change on wheat grain yield in dryland environments	9

Monitoring rock desert formation caused by two different origins (ice-snow melting and drying) in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China by considering topographic and meteorological elements	9
Changes in diversity, composition and assembly processes of soil microbial communities during Robinia pseudoacacia L. restoration on the Loess Plateau, China	9
Synergistic trade-off between desertification and lake evolution in the eastern Qinghai Lake region since the late Last Glacial Interstadial: Evidence from aeolian sediments	9
Determining groundwater-dependent ecological thresholds in the oasis–desert ecotone by exploring the linkage between plant communities and groundwater depth	9
Automatic classification of coastal sand dunes in the Namib Desert through the texture analysis approach	9
Estimation of soil organic matter in the Ogan-Kuqa River Oasis, Northwest China, based on visible and near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning	9
Dew amount and its long-term variation in the Kunes River Valley, Northwest China	9
Spatiotemporal variations of tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Gobi desert, Northwest China	8
Projection of hydrothermal condition in Central Asia under four SSP-RCP scenarios	8
Spatial and temporal pattern of human activity intensity and its driving mechanism in the Turpan-Hami Basin, China from 1990 to 2020	8
Runoff simulation and hydropower resource prediction of the Kaidu River Basin in the Tianshan Mountains, China	8
Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological environment quality and its drivers in the Helan Mountain, China	8
Radial growth of Platycladus orientalis Linn. and its growth resilience after extreme droughts along a precipitation gradient	8
Distribution patterns of fire regime in the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, West Africa	8
Spatio-temporal dynamics of desertification in China from 1970 to 2019: A meta-analysis	8
Check dam extraction from remote sensing images using deep learning and geospatial analysis: A case study in the Yanhe River Basin of the Loess Plateau, China	8
Characteristics of snow cover distribution along railway subgrade and the protective effect of snow fences	8
Carbon pattern driven by land use/land cover in mountain-desert-oasis complex system	8
Mechanism underlying the uprooting of taproot-type shrub species in the loess area of northeastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China	7
Responses of plant diversity and soil microorganism diversity to nitrogen addition in the desert steppe, China	7
Characteristics of root pullout resistance of Caragana korshinskii Kom. in the loess area of northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	7
Spatiotemporal variations in ecological quality of Otindag Sandy Land based on a new modified remote sensing ecological index	7
Exogenous addition of nitrate nitrogen regulates the uptake and translocation of lead (Pb) by Iris lacteal Pall. var. chinensis (Fisch.) Koidz.	7
Numerical simulation and spatiotemporal tracking of sand and dust storm events in East Asia	7
Effects of different types of guardrails on sand transportation of desert highway pavement	7
Monitoring and analysis of snow cover change in an alpine mountainous area in the Tianshan Mountains, China	7
Environmental significance and hydrochemical characteristics of rivers in the western region of the Altay Mountains, China	7
Influence of nitrogen inputs on biomass allocation strategies of dominant plant species in sandy ecosystems	7
Urban growth scenario projection using heuristic cellular automata in arid areas considering the drought impact	7
Temporal and spatial variation characteristics of extreme precipitation on the Loess Plateau of China facing the precipitation process	7
Multi-media distribution, sources, and ecological risk of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Weihe River Basin, China	7