OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 16. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	246
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	110
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	109
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	109
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	89
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	86
Agroforestry adaptation by farm households in northwestern Vietnam: resource needs and implications for practice and policy	80
Soil-health frameworks in agri-food systems. A review	79
Living mulch in fruit and olive orchards. A review	62
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	59
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	58
Integrating tactics for weed seed management provides sustainable weed control in organic rice production	57
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	55
FarmSTEPS, a model for spatial-temporal exploration of diversified and sustainable crop sequence plans for crop farms	55
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	53
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	52
Tackling the question of work in systemic agronomy. A review	50
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	48
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	48
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	48
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	46
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	44
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	43
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
Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	42

Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	41
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	40
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	40
Integrating legumes into cropping systems increases soil carbon and nitrogen content while it reduces the soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. A meta-analysis	40
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	40
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	40
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	38
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	36
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	36
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation with field aged biochar may enhance water and rice productivity	36
Crop residues moderately influence cumulative N2O emissions through their carbon to nitrogen ratio in a 12-year experiment in northern France	34
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	34
Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	33
Introducing intermediate wheatgrass as a perennial grain crop into farming systems: insights into the decision-making process of pioneer farmers	33
Using perennial plant varieties for use as living mulch for winter cereals. A review	32
Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades	32
The nitrogen fertilizer conundrum: why is yield a poor determinant of crops’ nitrogen fertilizer requirements?	30
Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020	29
Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality	27
Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador	26
Soil health metrics reflect yields in long-term cropping system experiments	26
Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study	25
A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France	24
Improving the sustainability of cropping systems via diversified planting in arid irrigation areas	24
Lessons learned from farmers’ experience of soil carbon management practices in grazing regimes of Australia	24
Ecological quality as a coffee quality enhancer. A review	24
Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway	24
Increasing wheat proteins sustainably by rotation with forage legumes	23
Considering farming management at the landscape scale: descriptors and trends on biodiversity. A review	23
Competitive yields in organic and agroforestry cacao cropping systems: results from 15 years of a long-term systems comparison trial in Bolivia	23
Soil properties resulting in superior maize yields upon climate warming	23
Relay intercropping can efficiently support weed management in cereal-based cropping systems when appropriate legume species are chosen	23
Organic management of cattle and pigs in Mediterranean systems: energy efficiency and ecosystem services	22
Farmer participatory assessment of soil health from Conservation Agriculture adoption in three regions of East Africa	22
Modelling the impact of nitrification inhibition in a fallow-based West African corn cropping system	22
Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems	22
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute more to phosphorus uptake by oats under long-term conservation agriculture than under conventional tillage	22
Crop residue return achieves environmental mitigation and enhances grain yield: a global meta-analysis	22
Effect of climate change adaptation options on maize yield across different agro-climatic zones in South Asia. A meta-analysis	22
Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review	21
Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review	21
Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity	20
Crop response to nitrogen-phosphorus colimitation: theory, experimental evidences, mechanisms, and models. A review	20
Impacts of long-term conservation agriculture and nitrogen management on maize yield, soil carbon sequestration, and nitrogen cycling in the Indo-Gangetic Plains	19
Long-term ley and manure managements have consistent effects on microbial functional profiles and organic C groups across soils from a latitudinal gradient	19
Farmers’ perception and management of water scarcity in irrigated rice-based systems in dry climatic zones of West Africa	18
A functional ecology approach to define a conceptual and participatory method for designing species mixtures: a case study on nitrogen cycling and weed control	18
Adapting agriculture to climate change: which pathways behind policy initiatives?	18
On the effects that motivate pesticide use in perspective of designing a cropping system without pesticides but with mineral fertilizer—a review	18
Sustainable agricultural practices shape the weed seed bank. A meta-analysis	18

Diversification improves the performance of cereals in European cropping systems	18
Rice residue management in the Indo-Gangetic Plains for climate and food security. A review	17
Assessing management factors limiting rice production in Venezuela	17
Yield and fertilizer benefits of maize/grain legume intercropping in China and Africa: A meta-analysis	17
Legume seed system performance in sub-Saharan Africa: barriers, opportunities, and scaling options. A review	17
Irrigated rice yield plateaus are caused by management factors in Argentina	16
How do work challenges interact with health management in dairy farms?	16
Enhancing ecosystem services through direct-seeded rice in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains: a comparative study of different rice establishment practices	16
Identification and description of relationships between actors involved in crop diversification experiences across Europe	16
Using botanical resources to select wild forage legumes for domestication in temperate grassland agricultural systems	16
Versatile crop yield estimator	16