OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 8. 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
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	51
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	51
Variations in the disintegration rate of physical crusts induced by artificial rainfall in different alcohol concentrations	50
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
Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China	49
Effects of land management practices and land cover types on soil loss and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A review	49
Agricultural drought severity in NE Italy: Variability, bias, and future scenarios	46
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed	44
Editorial Board	44
New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates	42
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
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
Soil splash erosion: An overlooked issue for sustainable rubber plantation in the tropical region of China	33
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	33
Divergent behaviour of soil nutrients imprinted by different land management practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	31
Vegetation characteristics and soil properties in grazing exclusion areas of the Inner Mongolia desert steppe	30
Soil type classification using Landsat 8: A comparison between the USDA and a local system in Israel	29
Gully erosion mapping susceptibility in a Mediterranean environment: A hybrid decision-making model	29
Editorial Board	27
Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry and Rare Earth Oxides can quantify diffuse and convergent soil loss and source apportionment	27
The effects of freeze-thaw processes on crusting, aggregation and the interaction with erosive level winds in the Mollisol region of Northeast China	27
Long-term conservation tillage results in a more balanced soil microbiological activity and higher nutrient supply capacity	26
Mapping sediment mobilization risks: Prioritizing results obtained at watershed and sub-watershed scales	26
Why we should revitalize indigenous water harvesting systems: Lessons learned	26
Influence of vegetation type and topographic position on volumetric soil water content dynamics and similarity among surface and deep soil layers	26
A validation of WEPP water quality routines in uniform and nonuniform agricultural hillslopes	25
Small dams/reservoirs site location analysis in a semi-arid region of Mozambique	24
Runoff and Infiltration responses of revegetated slopes to clipping management on the northern Loess Plateau	24
Advantages and disadvantages of terracing: A comprehensive review	24
Simulated rainfall in Brazil: An alternative for assesment of soil surface processes and an opportunity for technological development	24
Editorial Board	23
Automated quantification of contouring as support practice for improved soil erosion estimation considering ridges	23
Soil type-dependent effects of drying-wetting sequences on aggregates and their associated OC and N	23
Long-term trends of precipitation and erosivity over Northeast China during 1961–2020	22
Effects of initial soil moisture on rill erodibility and critical shear stress factors in the WEPP model across diverse soil types	22
Runoff and nutrient losses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) production with tied-ridge-furrow rainwater harvesting on sloping land	22
Ecological intensification of cropping systems enhances soil functions, mitigates soil erosion, and promotes crop resilience to dry spells in the Brazilian Cerrado	21
Soil loss and runoff obtained with customized precipitation patterns simulated by InfiAsper	21
Visible, near-infrared, and shortwave-infrared spectra as an input variable for digital mapping of soil organic carbon	21
Watershed management, groundwater recharge and drought resilience: An integrated approach to adapt to rainfall variability in northern Ethiopia	20
The quality attribute of watershed ecosystem is more important than the landscape attribute in controlling erosion of red soil in southern China	19
Tracing soil erosion processes in Karst regions using rare earth elements: The role of bedrock outcrops and seasonal impacts	19
Interactions between soil conservation and dryland farming of heterogeneously eroding areas in Loess Hills, China	19
Towards defining soil quality of Mediterranean calcareous agricultural soils: Reference values and potential core indicator set	19
Corrigendum to “Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties” [Int. Soil Water Conserv. Res. 10 (2022) 343–354]	19
Responses of flood peaks to land use and landscape patterns under extreme rainstorms in small catchments - A case study of the rainstorm of Typhoon Lekima in Shandong, China	18
Saltwater intrusion in the Po River Delta (Italy) during drought conditions: Analyzing its spatio-temporal evolution and potential impact on agriculture	18
Generation of runoff in an alpine meadow hillslope underlain by permafrost	18
Field experimental study on the effect of thawed depth of frozen alpine meadow soil on rill erosion by snowmelt waterflow	18
Runoff- and erosion-reducing effects of vegetation on the loess hillslopes of China under concentrated flow	18
Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau	17
Editorial Board	17
Effect of microrelief features of tillage methods under different rainfall intensities on runoff and soil erosion in slopes	17
Editorial Board	17
HOTSED: A new integrated model for assessing potential hotspots of sediment sources and related sediment dynamics at watershed scale	17
Maize crop residue cover mapping using Sentinel-2 MSI data and random forest algorithms	16
Editorial Board	16
Overland flow resistance and its components for slope surfaces covered with gravel and grass	16

Trade-off analyses between food provision and soil conservation service of Grain for Green Program in Mountainous Area	16
Gully internal erosion triggered by a prolonged heavy rainfall event in the tableland region of China's Loess Plateau	16
Roles of raindrop impact in detachment and transport processes of interrill soil erosion	15
Redistribution process of precipitation in ecological restoration activity of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in Mu Us Sandy Land, China	15
Geospatial evaluation of the agricultural suitability and land use compatibility in Europe's temperate continental climate region	15
A detailed reconstruction of changes in the factors and parameters of soil erosion over the past 250 years in the forest zone of European Russia (Moscow region)	15
Role of alternate and fixed partial root-zone drying on water use efficiency and growth of maize (Zea mays L.) in gypsiferous soils	15
Natural disaster in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: Assessment of the daily rainfall erosivity as an early warning index	15
Experimental determination of sediment transport capacity of rill flow over sandified loess slope	14
Using a modified PAP/RAC model and GIS-for mapping water erosion and causal risk factors: Case study of the Asfalou watershed, Morocco	14
Effects of forest cover type and ratio changes on runoff and its components	14
Temporal variability of global potential water erosion based on an improved USLE model	14
New sciences & technologies in soil conservation and eco-sustainability	14
An updated isoerodent map of the conterminous United States	14
An experimental study on the responses of spring snowmelt erosion to driving factors in a Chinese Mollisol soil	14
Economic comparison of conventional and conservation tillage in a long-term experiment: Is it worth shifting?	13
Root tensile strength of terrace hedgerow plants in the karst trough valleys of SW China: Relation with root morphology and fiber content	13
Multi-criteria decision making methods to address rural land allocation problems: A systematic review	13
Evaluation of the effectiveness of an expressway sand protection system in a gobi region—case study of the Ceke–Ejina expressway, Ejina banner, China	13
A modified RUSLE model to simulate soil erosion under different ecological restoration types in the loess hilly area	13
Digital mapping of soil inorganic carbon content and density in soil profiles after ‘Grain for Green’ program	13
Spatiotemporal variations and determinants of stream nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations from a watershed in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China	13
Feedback mechanism between gully landforms and sediment trapping efficiency in a check dam	12
Impacts of different surface features on soil detachment in the subtropical region	12
Soil properties characterization for land-use planning and soil management in watersheds under family farming	12
Decoupling effects of driving factors on sediment yield in the Chinese Loess Plateau	12
Historical evolution of gully erosion and its response to land use change during 1968–2018 in the Mollisol region of Northeast China	12
Tracing soil erosion with Fe3O4 magnetic powder: Principle and application	12
Effects of soil rock fragment content on the USLE-K factor estimating and its influencing factors	12
Variations of soil organic carbon fractions in response to conservative vegetation successions on the Loess Plateau of China	12
Event-based hydrology and sedimentation in paired watersheds under commercial eucalyptus and grasslands in the Brazilian Pampa biome	11
Do model choice and sample ratios separately or simultaneously influence soil organic matter prediction?	11
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China	11
Effects of cropland abandonment and afforestation on soil redistribution in a small Mediterranean mountain catchment	11
The soil configuration on granite residuals affects Benggang erosion by altering the soil water regime on the slope	11
Brazilian payment for environmental services programs emphasize water-related services	11
Biochar derived from agricultural wastes and wood residues for sustainable agricultural and environmental applications	11
Erosion risk assessment: A contribution for conservation priority area identification in the sub-basin of Lake Tana, north-western Ethiopia	11
Towards accurate mapping of loess waterworn gully by integrating google earth imagery and DEM using deep learning	11
Synergetic variations of active layer soil water and salt in a permafrost-affected meadow in the headwater area of the Yellow River, northeastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau	11
Erosion and covered zones altered by surface coverage effects on soil nitrogen and carbon loss from an agricultural slope under laboratory-simulated rainfall events	11
Soil type and wetting intensity control the enhancement extent of N2O efflux in soil with drought and rewetting cycles	11
Saturation-excess overland flow in the European loess belt: An underestimated process?	10
Editorial Board	10
Modification of the RUSLE slope length factor based on a multiple flow algorithm considering vertical leakage at karst landscapes	10
Divergent shift of normal alpine meadow exacerbated soil loss of hillslope alpine meadows based on field experiments	10
Can hydraulic-energy-indices be effectively used to describe the saturated hydraulic conductivity?	10
Numerical modeling of nutrient transport to assess the agricultural impact on the trophic state of reservoirs	10
Effects of a check dam system on the runoff generation and concentration processes of a catchment on the Loess Plateau	10
Remote sensing of soil degradation: Progress and perspective	10
Streamflow prediction in ungauged catchments by using the Grunsky method	10
Nutrient transport by overland sheet flow on sites containing swine slurry	10
Editorial Board	9
Rangeland hillslope lengths: A case study at the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed, southeastern Arizona	9
Crop productivity, soil health, and energy dynamics of Indian Himalayan intensified organic maize-based systems	9
Editorial Board	9
The relative contributions of soil hydrophilicity and raindrop impact to soil aggregate breakdown for a series of textured soils	9
Assessing gully erosion and rehabilitation using multi temporal LiDAR DEMs: Case study from the Great Barrier Reef catchments, Australia	9
Predictive simulation and optimal allocation of surface water resources in reservoir basins under climate change	9
Cover crops, crop rotation, and gypsum, as conservation practices, impact Mehlich-3 extractable plant nutrients and trace metals	8
Comparison and quantitative assessment of two regional soil erosion survey approaches	8
In-depth analysis of soil management and farmers’ perceptions of related risks in two olive grove areas in southern Spain	8
Estimating the annual runoff frequency distribution based on climatic conditions and catchment characteristics: A case study across China	8
Human and climatic drivers of land and water use from 1997 to 2019 in Tarim River basin, China	8
Benggang segmentation via deep exchanging of digital orthophoto map and digital surface model features	8
Development of web-based decision support tool for rainfall erosivity estimation using both high-resolution rainfall data and simplified models	8
A spatial frequency/spectral indicator-driven model for estimating cultivated land quality using the gradient boosting decision tree and genetic algorithm-back propagation neural network	8
Intensified cropping reduces soil erosion and improves rainfall partitioning and soil properties in the marginal land of the Indian Himalayas	8
Variation in soil infiltration properties under different land use/cover in the black soil region of Northeast China	8
Hydrological and sediment connectivity under freeze–thaw meltwater compound erosion conditions on a loessal slope	8
Evaluating soil erosion and runoff dynamics in a humid subtropic, low stream order, southern plains watershed from cultivation and solar farm development	8
Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties	8
Tillage and crop management impacts on soil loss and crop yields in northwestern Ethiopia	8
Global analysis of cover management and support practice factors that control soil erosion and conservation	8