OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 28. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The assessment of soil loss by water erosion in China	138
A systematic review of soil erosion control practices on the agricultural land in Asia	96
Advantages and disadvantages of terracing: A comprehensive review	78
Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties	67
Determinants of adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Nigeria	63
Predicted trends of soil erosion and sediment yield from future land use and climate change scenarios in the Lancang–Mekong River by using the modified RUSLE model	59
Conservation management decreases surface runoff and soil erosion	56
Evaluation of soil erosion risk and identification of soil cover and management factor (C) for RUSLE in European vineyards with different soil management	54
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China	52
Recent advances in assessment of soil erosion vulnerability in a watershed	48
Drivers of soil erosion and subsurface loss by soil leakage during karst rocky desertification in SW China	46
Unsupervised learning approach in defining the similarity of catchments: Hydrological response unit based k-means clustering, a demonstration on Western Black Sea Region of Turkey	44
Biochar derived from agricultural wastes and wood residues for sustainable agricultural and environmental applications	41
Remote sensing of soil degradation: Progress and perspective	40
Tillage and no-tillage effects on physical and chemical properties of an Argiaquoll soil under long-term crop rotation in Buenos Aires, Argentina	38
Mulching as best management practice to reduce surface runoff and erosion in steep clayey olive groves	37
Multi-criteria decision making methods to address rural land allocation problems: A systematic review	37
Soil erosion: An important indicator for the assessment of land degradation neutrality in Russia	36
Distinct and combined impacts of climate and land use scenarios on water availability and sediment loads for a water supply reservoir in northern Morocco	35
Comparing surface erosion processes in four soils from the Loess Plateau under extreme rainfall events	35
Predictions of soil and nutrient losses using a modified SWAT model in a large hilly-gully watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau	30
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	30
Duration and intensity of rainfall events with the same erosivity change sediment yield and runoff rates	30
Improved and sustainable agroecosystem, food security and environmental resilience through zero tillage with emphasis on soils of temperate and subtropical climate regions: A review	29
Agro-residue biochar and N fertilizer addition mitigates CO2-C emission and stabilized soil organic carbon pools in a rain-fed agricultural cropland	29

Carbon sequestration benefits of the grain for Green Program in the hilly red soil region of southern China	28
Effects of land management practices and land cover types on soil loss and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A review	28
Can integrated watershed management reduce soil erosion and improve livelihoods? A study from northern Ethiopia	28
Factor influencing land degradation sensitivity and desertification in a drought prone watershed in Thailand	28