OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agronomy for Sustainable Development is 19. 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
Biotic stress and yield stability in English organic silvoarable agroforestry	209
Relevance of soil fertility spatial databases for parameterizing APSIM-wheat crop model in Moroccan rainfed areas	161
Accounting for diversity while assessing sustainability: insights from the Walloon bovine sectors	134
Ecologically based agriculture benefits earthworms in Argentina’s large-scale systems: farm-level strategies matter	97
Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents	94
Invasive woody plants in the tropics: a delicate balance between control and harnessing potential benefits. A review	93
Salinity effects on rice, rice weeds, and strategies to secure crop productivity and effective weed control. A review	77
Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea: implications for modelling and managing frost and heat stress	76
The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective	76
Archetypes of climate change adaptation among large-scale arable farmers in southern Romania	72
Tackling the question of work in systemic agronomy. A review	71
Integrating tactics for weed seed management provides sustainable weed control in organic rice production	66
FarmSTEPS, a model for spatial-temporal exploration of diversified and sustainable crop sequence plans for crop farms	63
Mid-season variable-rate algorithm for organic and mineral rice fertilization	62
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review	60
Temporal behaviour of cacao clone production over 18 years	54
Soil organic carbon stock change following perennialization: a meta-analysis	53
Improvement of nutritional quality of food crops with fertilizer: a global meta-analysis	50
Optimizing planting density for enhanced maize yield and resource use efficiency in China. A meta-analysis	48
Proposal and extensive test of a calibration protocol for crop phenology models	48
Adapting agroforestry to upland farming systems: narratives from smallholder farmers in Northwest Vietnam	47
Low legume-grass seeding ratio combined with phosphorus fertilization promotes forage yield and soil quality in managed grasslands	47
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	47
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions	46
Achieving the win–win: targeted agronomy can increase both productivity and sustainability of the rice–wheat system	45

Analyzing unexploitable, agronomic, and non-agronomic yield gaps in irrigated barley growing areas of arid and frost-prone regions from Iran	45
Multidimensional measures of farmer well-being: A scoping review	44
Alien vs. herbivore: ant-mediated plant defense as an option for biological control of leafcutter ants	42
Correction to: Incorporating energy cover crops for biogas production into agricultural systems: benefits and environmental impacts. A review	41
A multifunctional life cycle assessment of durum wheat cropping systems	41
Crop residues moderately influence cumulative N2O emissions through their carbon to nitrogen ratio in a 12-year experiment in northern France	41
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation with field aged biochar may enhance water and rice productivity	40
Novel insights into factors associated with yield response and nutrient use efficiency of maize and rice in sub-Saharan Africa. A review	40
Narrowing maize yield gaps across smallholder farming systems in Zambia: what interventions, where, and for whom?	39
Long-term active restoration of degraded grasslands enhances vegetation resilience by altering the soil seed bank	39
Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades	38
Agroecological settings and seed recycling account only partially for potato seed degeneration in Ecuador	38
Genetic progress battles climate variability: drivers of soybean yield gains in China from 2006 to 2020	38
The nitrogen fertilizer conundrum: why is yield a poor determinant of crops’ nitrogen fertilizer requirements?	37
Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality	37
Introducing intermediate wheatgrass as a perennial grain crop into farming systems: insights into the decision-making process of pioneer farmers	37
Using perennial plant varieties for use as living mulch for winter cereals. A review	37
Intercropping with service crops provides multiple services in temperate arable systems: a review	36
Soil health metrics reflect yields in long-term cropping system experiments	36
Future agricultural systems and the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability goals. A review	36
Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway	35
Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study	33
Competitive yields in organic and agroforestry cacao cropping systems: results from 15 years of a long-term systems comparison trial in Bolivia	32
Relay intercropping can efficiently support weed management in cereal-based cropping systems when appropriate legume species are chosen	32
Lessons learned from farmers’ experience of soil carbon management practices in grazing regimes of Australia	32
Increasing wheat proteins sustainably by rotation with forage legumes	30
Soil properties resulting in superior maize yields upon climate warming	30
Considering farming management at the landscape scale: descriptors and trends on biodiversity. A review	30
Improving the sustainability of cropping systems via diversified planting in arid irrigation areas	29
A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France	29
Ecological quality as a coffee quality enhancer. A review	29
Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern Bahia	29
Crop residue return achieves environmental mitigation and enhances grain yield: a global meta-analysis	28
Effect of climate change adaptation options on maize yield across different agro-climatic zones in South Asia. A meta-analysis	28
Modelling the impact of nitrification inhibition in a fallow-based West African corn cropping system	28
Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review	27
Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems	27
Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity	26
Long-term ley and manure managements have consistent effects on microbial functional profiles and organic C groups across soils from a latitudinal gradient	26
Organic management of cattle and pigs in Mediterranean systems: energy efficiency and ecosystem services	25
Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review	25
Crop response to nitrogen-phosphorus colimitation: theory, experimental evidences, mechanisms, and models. A review	24
Comparison of models for leaf blotch disease management in wheat based on historical yield and weather data in the Nordic-Baltic region	24
Impacts of long-term conservation agriculture and nitrogen management on maize yield, soil carbon sequestration, and nitrogen cycling in the Indo-Gangetic Plains	24
Sustainable agricultural practices shape the weed seed bank. A meta-analysis	23
Legume seed system performance in sub-Saharan Africa: barriers, opportunities, and scaling options. A review	23
Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits	23
Farmer participatory assessment of soil health from Conservation Agriculture adoption in three regions of East Africa	23
Effects of Rhizobium inoculum compared with mineral nitrogen fertilizer on nodulation and seed yield of common bean. A meta-analysis	22
Why are the benefits of enhanced-efficiency fertilizers inconsistent in the field? Prerequisite conditions identified from simulation analyses	22

Farmers’ perception and management of water scarcity in irrigated rice-based systems in dry climatic zones of West Africa	22
A functional ecology approach to define a conceptual and participatory method for designing species mixtures: a case study on nitrogen cycling and weed control	22
Adapting agriculture to climate change: which pathways behind policy initiatives?	21
Diversification improves the performance of cereals in European cropping systems	21
On the effects that motivate pesticide use in perspective of designing a cropping system without pesticides but with mineral fertilizer—a review	21
Assessing management factors limiting rice production in Venezuela	20
Rice residue management in the Indo-Gangetic Plains for climate and food security. A review	20
Yield and fertilizer benefits of maize/grain legume intercropping in China and Africa: A meta-analysis	20
Identification and description of relationships between actors involved in crop diversification experiences across Europe	19
Enhancing ecosystem services through direct-seeded rice in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains: a comparative study of different rice establishment practices	19
Methodological challenges in assessing the viability of agroecological practices: lessons from a multi-case study in Africa	19
Using botanical resources to select wild forage legumes for domestication in temperate grassland agricultural systems	19
Versatile crop yield estimator	19