OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 18. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	266
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	180
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	125
Farming ducks in a maize field: a new and potential crop-livestock system from China	104
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	75
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	71
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	70
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	67
Designing high-yielding wheat crops under late sowing: a case study in southern China	67
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	65
Tackling the question of work in systemic agronomy. A review	63
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	63
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	61
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	58
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	57
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	50
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
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	42
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	41
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	41
Agronomic performance, nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the perennial grain crop Thinopyrum intermedium in a monoculture and intercropped with alfalfa in Scandinavia	40
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	39
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	39

Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	38
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	37
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	37
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	37
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	36
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation with field aged biochar may enhance water and rice productivity	34
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	34
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	33
Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador	33
An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions	33
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	33
Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	33
Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020	33
Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades	32
Introducing intermediate wheatgrass as a perennial grain crop into farming systems: insights into the decision-making process of pioneer farmers	32
Using perennial plant varieties for use as living mulch for winter cereals. A review	32
Soil health metrics reflect yields in long-term cropping system experiments	31
Future agricultural systems and the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability goals. A review	30
Agri-environment schemes are associated with greater terrestrial invertebrate abundance and richness in upland grasslands	30
Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study	30
Intercropping with service crops provides multiple services in temperate arable systems: a review	30
The nitrogen fertilizer conundrum: why is yield a poor determinant of crops’ nitrogen fertilizer requirements?	29
Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway	29
Ecological quality as a coffee quality enhancer. A review	29
Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality	29
Increasing wheat proteins sustainably by rotation with forage legumes	29
Soil properties resulting in superior maize yields upon climate warming	28
Considering farming management at the landscape scale: descriptors and trends on biodiversity. A review	28
Relay intercropping can efficiently support weed management in cereal-based cropping systems when appropriate legume species are chosen	28
Lessons learned from farmers’ experience of soil carbon management practices in grazing regimes of Australia	27
Knowns and unknowns of cattle grazing in oil palm plantations. A review	26
Improving the sustainability of cropping systems via diversified planting in arid irrigation areas	25
Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern Bahia	25
A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France	25
Long-term fertilization with urban and animal wastes enhances soil quality but introduces pharmaceuticals and personal care products	24
Modelling the impact of nitrification inhibition in a fallow-based West African corn cropping system	24
Crop residue return achieves environmental mitigation and enhances grain yield: a global meta-analysis	24
Organic management of cattle and pigs in Mediterranean systems: energy efficiency and ecosystem services	23
The use of oil palm empty fruit bunches as a soil amendmentto improve growth and yield of crops. A meta-analysis	23
Comparison of models for leaf blotch disease management in wheat based on historical yield and weather data in the Nordic-Baltic region	23
Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems	23
Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity	23
Farmer participatory assessment of soil health from Conservation Agriculture adoption in three regions of East Africa	23
Long-term ley and manure managements have consistent effects on microbial functional profiles and organic C groups across soils from a latitudinal gradient	22
Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review	22
Crop response to nitrogen-phosphorus colimitation: theory, experimental evidences, mechanisms, and models. A review	22
On the effects that motivate pesticide use in perspective of designing a cropping system without pesticides but with mineral fertilizer—a review	21
Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review	21
Why are the benefits of enhanced-efficiency fertilizers inconsistent in the field? Prerequisite conditions identified from simulation analyses	21
Delivering “less but better” meat in practice—a case study of a farm in agroecological transition	21

Diversification improves the performance of cereals in European cropping systems	21
A functional ecology approach to define a conceptual and participatory method for designing species mixtures: a case study on nitrogen cycling and weed control	21
Farmers’ perception and management of water scarcity in irrigated rice-based systems in dry climatic zones of West Africa	20
Effects of Rhizobium inoculum compared with mineral nitrogen fertilizer on nodulation and seed yield of common bean. A meta-analysis	20
Improving soil fertility with lime and phosphogypsum enhances soybean yield and physiological characteristics	20
Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits	19
Assessing management factors limiting rice production in Venezuela	19
Legume seed system performance in sub-Saharan Africa: barriers, opportunities, and scaling options. A review	19
Adapting agriculture to climate change: which pathways behind policy initiatives?	19
How do work challenges interact with health management in dairy farms?	18
Sustainable management practices to improve the water use efficiency of winter wheat in the North China Plain: a meta-analysis	18
Rice residue management in the Indo-Gangetic Plains for climate and food security. A review	18
Using botanical resources to select wild forage legumes for domestication in temperate grassland agricultural systems	18
Yield and fertilizer benefits of maize/grain legume intercropping in China and Africa: A meta-analysis	18