OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 33. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	255
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	175
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	119
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	98
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	69
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	68
Designing high-yielding wheat crops under late sowing: a case study in southern China	67
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	64
Farming ducks in a maize field: a new and potential crop-livestock system from China	62
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	61
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	59
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	57
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	57
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	55
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	51
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	47
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	46
Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	45
Engaging, collaborating, and driving change within a multi-stakeholder platform through a step-by-step approach of innovation design applied to African dairy value chains	43
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	40
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	40
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	39
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	38
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	38
Agronomic performance, nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the perennial grain crop Thinopyrum intermedium in a monoculture and intercropped with alfalfa in Scandinavia	38

Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	37
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	36
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	35
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	35
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	35
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	34
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	34
An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions	33