OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 29. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling runoff and sediment yield at the event scale in semiarid watersheds	258
Kinetics of native and added carbon mineralization on incubating at different soil and moisture conditions in Typic Ustochrepts and Typic Halustalf	209
Spatial variations in runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses induced by toposequence and biochar application in upland maize farming	150
Novel deep learning algorithm in soil erodibility factor predicting at a continental scale	115
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	102
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	80
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	77
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	72
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	71
Convolutional neural networks-driven bias correction of satellite precipitation improves rainfall-runoff-inundation modeling	57
Rainfall intensity profile induced changes in surface‒subsurface flow and soil loss as influenced by surface cover type: A long-term in situ field study	54
Automatic mapping of gully from satellite images using asymmetric non-local LinkNet: A case study in Northeast China	48
Estimation of generalized soil structure index based on differential spectra of different orders by multivariate assessment	46
Biochar application reduces soil detachment capacity by overland flow under a continuous three-year field experiment on the Loess Plateau of China	46
Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia	44
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	43
Effects of rainfall intensity and kinetic energy on hillslope soil erosion in the thin-layer Mollisol region of China: Field observation and rainfall simulation	42
RSM Application in Chisel Tillage Assessment: Enhancing Rainfall Infiltration and Soil Erosion Control	41
Comparison of approaches using MUSLE, USLE-M and RUSLE2 for large-scale hydrosedimentological modelling	41
Editorial Board	39
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	39
Hydro-learning: Integrating AI with SWAT for multi-resolution flow and sediment prediction in data-scarce basins	37
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	34
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	34
Assessing the impact of residue cover on hillslope soil loss in the Midwest US: insights from the daily erosion project modeling framework	34

Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	32
Wind erosion from crusted playa surfaces by no saltation and with saltation: A comparison through laboratory wind tunnel experiments	32
Optimizing water and nutrient application for Caragana korshinskii-based vegetation restoration in coal-mine-degraded arid lands	29
Dealing with sub-pixel landscape elements in distributed rainfall-runoff modelling in agricultural catchments	29
A modified CSLE for soil loss prediction under different vegetation patterns at slope scale in China	29
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	29