OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Kinetics of native and added carbon mineralization on incubating at different soil and moisture conditions in Typic Ustochrepts and Typic Halustalf	161
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	131
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	120
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	115
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	105
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	88
Estimation of generalized soil structure index based on differential spectra of different orders by multivariate assessment	86
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	83
Automatic mapping of gully from satellite images using asymmetric non-local LinkNet: A case study in Northeast China	74
Biochar application reduces soil detachment capacity by overland flow under a continuous three-year field experiment on the Loess Plateau of China	65
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	51
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	51
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	50
Carbon sequestration benefits of the grain for Green Program in the hilly red soil region of southern China	50
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	50
Effects of land management practices and land cover types on soil loss and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A review	49
Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	49
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	46
Editorial Board	44
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	44
Wind erosion from crusted playa surfaces by no saltation and with saltation: A comparison through laboratory wind tunnel experiments	42
Determinants of adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Nigeria	42
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	42
Generation of a long-term daily gridded precipitation dataset for the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) through temporal Reconstruction, Correction & Informed Regionalization-“ReCIR”	41
How to model the effect of mechanical erosion control practices at a catchment scale?	41

Large-scale extraction of check dams and silted fields on the Chinese loess plateau using ensemble learning models	37
Dealing with sub-pixel landscape elements in distributed rainfall-runoff modelling in agricultural catchments	36
Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China	35
Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin	34
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	33
Soil splash erosion: An overlooked issue for sustainable rubber plantation in the tropical region of China	33
Divergent behaviour of soil nutrients imprinted by different land management practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	31