OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The assessment of soil loss by water erosion in China	173
Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties	104
Advantages and disadvantages of terracing: A comprehensive review	92
Determinants of adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Nigeria	84
Conservation management decreases surface runoff and soil erosion	74
Remote sensing of soil degradation: Progress and perspective	67
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China	64
Evaluation of soil erosion risk and identification of soil cover and management factor (C) for RUSLE in European vineyards with different soil management	62
Recent advances in assessment of soil erosion vulnerability in a watershed	61
Drivers of soil erosion and subsurface loss by soil leakage during karst rocky desertification in SW China	60
Biochar derived from agricultural wastes and wood residues for sustainable agricultural and environmental applications	55
Remote estimates of suspended particulate matter in global lakes using machine learning models	47
Comparing surface erosion processes in four soils from the Loess Plateau under extreme rainfall events	44
Multi-criteria decision making methods to address rural land allocation problems: A systematic review	44
Predictions of soil and nutrient losses using a modified SWAT model in a large hilly-gully watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau	43
Soil erosion: An important indicator for the assessment of land degradation neutrality in Russia	41
Mulching as best management practice to reduce surface runoff and erosion in steep clayey olive groves	40
Impact of short-term organic amendments incorporation on soil structure and hydrology in semiarid agricultural lands	38
Duration and intensity of rainfall events with the same erosivity change sediment yield and runoff rates	37
Effects of land management practices and land cover types on soil loss and crop productivity in Ethiopia: A review	36
Factor influencing land degradation sensitivity and desertification in a drought prone watershed in Thailand	36
Spatial optimization of soil and water conservation practices using coupled SWAT model and evolutionary algorithm	36
Agro-residue biochar and N fertilizer addition mitigates CO2-C emission and stabilized soil organic carbon pools in a rain-fed agricultural cropland	36
Global analysis of cover management and support practice factors that control soil erosion and conservation	35
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	35

Improved and sustainable agroecosystem, food security and environmental resilience through zero tillage with emphasis on soils of temperate and subtropical climate regions: A review	34
Carbon sequestration benefits of the grain for Green Program in the hilly red soil region of southern China	34
Seasonal changes of soil erosion and its spatial distribution on a long gentle hillslope in the Chinese Mollisol region	33
Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau	32
Crop productivity, soil health, and energy dynamics of Indian Himalayan intensified organic maize-based systems	31
Assessment of deforestation impact on soil erosion in loess formation using 137Cs method (case study: Golestan Province, Iran)	30
Effects of a check dam system on the runoff generation and concentration processes of a catchment on the Loess Plateau	30
Prediction of sediment yield of the Inxu River catchment (South Africa) using the MUSLE	29
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	27
Resident rhizosphere microbiome’s ecological dynamics and conservation: Towards achieving the envisioned Sustainable Development Goals, a review	27
Assessing soil thickness in a black soil watershed in northeast China using random forest and field observations	26
GIS-based soil maps as tools to evaluate land capability and suitability in a coastal reclaimed area (Ravenna, northern Italy)	26
Effect of Polyacrylamide integrated with other soil amendments on runoff and soil loss: Case study from northwest Ethiopia	25
Effects of residue management and nitrogen fertilizer rates on accumulation of soil residual nitrate and wheat yield under no-tillage system in south-west of Iran	25
Small dams/reservoirs site location analysis in a semi-arid region of Mozambique	25
Effect of time resolution of rainfall measurements on the erosivity factor in the USLE in China	25
Human and climatic drivers of land and water use from 1997 to 2019 in Tarim River basin, China	24
Changes of soil quality induced by different vegetation restoration in the collapsing gully erosion areas of southern China	23
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	23
Evolution of river course and morphometric features of the River Ganga: A case study of up and downstream of Farakka Barrage	22
Assessment of gully erosion susceptibility using different DEM-derived topographic factors in the black soil region of Northeast China	22
Remote sensing vs. field-based monitoring of agricultural terrace degradation	21
Ecological intensification of cropping systems enhances soil functions, mitigates soil erosion, and promotes crop resilience to dry spells in the Brazilian Cerrado	20
The soil configuration on granite residuals affects Benggang erosion by altering the soil water regime on the slope	20
Near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity and pore characteristics as influenced by conventional and conservation tillage practices in North-West Himalayan region, India	20
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	20
Protective effect of multi-row HDPE board sand fences: A wind tunnel study	20
Microbiome analysis reveals soil microbial community alteration with the effect of animal excretion contamination and altitude in Tibetan Plateau of China	19
Primary environmental factors controlling gully distribution at the local and regional scale: An example from Northeastern China	19
Erosion risk assessment: A contribution for conservation priority area identification in the sub-basin of Lake Tana, north-western Ethiopia	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	19
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)	19
Determination of runoff coefficient (C) in catchments based on analysis of precipitation and flow events	18
Potential of conservation tillage and altered land configuration to improve soil properties, carbon sequestration and productivity of maize based cropping system in eastern Himalayas, India	18
Assessing current and future soil erosion under changing land use based on InVEST and FLUS models in the Yihe River Basin, North China	18
Ephemeral gully recognition and accuracy evaluation using deep learning in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in China	18
Event-based hydrology and sedimentation in paired watersheds under commercial eucalyptus and grasslands in the Brazilian Pampa biome	18
Soil conservation and sustainable development goals(SDGs) achievement in Europe and central Asia: Which role for the European soil partnership?	18
New approach for obtaining the C-factor of RUSLE considering the seasonal effect of rainfalls on vegetation cover	17
Rainfall partitioning in young clonal plantations Eucalyptus species in a subtropical environment, and implications for water and forest management	17
Invasion of Prosopis juliflora and its effects on soil physicochemical properties in Afar region, Northeast Ethiopia	16
A new definition of soil to promote soil awareness, sustainability, security and governance	16
Tillage and crop management impacts on soil loss and crop yields in northwestern Ethiopia	16
Impacts of horizontal resolution and downscaling on the USLE LS factor for different terrains	15
Impacts of different surface features on soil detachment in the subtropical region	15
Study on phosphorus loss and influencing factors in the water source area	15
Global mapping of volumetric water retention at 100, 330 and 15 000 cm suction using the WoSIS database	15
Unpaved road erosion after heavy storms in mountain areas of northern China	15
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	14
Soil properties characterization for land-use planning and soil management in watersheds under family farming	14

Effects of forest cover type and ratio changes on runoff and its components	14
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	13
Contribution of phytoecological data to spatialize soil erosion: Application of the RUSLE model in the Algerian atlas	13
Land surface roughness impacted by typical vegetation restoration projects on aeolian sandy lands in the Yarlung Zangbo River valley, southern Tibetan plateau	13
Soil organic carbon stock and fractional distribution across central-south China	13
Study on a soil erosion sampling survey in the Pan-Third Pole region based on higher-resolution images	12
Determination of rill erodibility and critical shear stress of saturated purple soil slopes	12
Overland flow resistance and its components for slope surfaces covered with gravel and grass	12
Exploring the factors influencing the hydrological response of soil after low and high-severity fires with post-fire mulching in Mediterranean forests	12
In-depth analysis of soil management and farmers’ perceptions of related risks in two olive grove areas in southern Spain	12
Best management practices to reduce soil erosion and change water balance components in watersheds under grain and dairy production	12
Changes in hydrologic components from a mid-sized plots induced by rill erosion due to cyanobacterization	12
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
Evaluating the applicability of the water erosion prediction project (WEPP) model to runoff and soil loss of sandstone reliefs in the Loess Plateau, China	11
Variations of soil organic carbon fractions in response to conservative vegetation successions on the Loess Plateau of China	11
Comparative effects of composted organic waste and inorganic fertilizer on nitrate leachate from the farm soils of northern Guam	11
Magnitude, direction, and drivers of rhizosphere effect on soil nitrogen and phosphorus in global agroecosystem	11
The relative contributions of soil hydrophilicity and raindrop impact to soil aggregate breakdown for a series of textured soils	11
Which are the most favourable conditions for reducing soil CO2 emissions with no-tillage? Results from a meta-analysis	10
Erosion and covered zones altered by surface coverage effects on soil nitrogen and carbon loss from an agricultural slope under laboratory-simulated rainfall events	10
Decoupling effects of driving factors on sediment yield in the Chinese Loess Plateau	10
Runoff and nutrient losses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) production with tied-ridge-furrow rainwater harvesting on sloping land	10
Spatial distribution of soil erosion and its impacts on soil productivity in Songnen typical black soil region	10
How to model the effect of mechanical erosion control practices at a catchment scale?	10
Assessing spatial variability and erosion susceptibility of soils in hilly agricultural areas in Southern Italy	10
Field instrumentation for real-time measurement of soil-water characteristic curve	10
Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China	10
Modeling hydrologic responses using multi-site and single-site rainfall generators in a semi-arid watershed	10
Guest editorial – soil erosion assessment, tools and data: A special issue from the Global Symposium on soil Erosion 2019	9
An updated isoerodent map of the conterminous United States	9
Aeolian sediment transport over sandy gobi: Field studies in the Nanhu gobi along the Hami-Lop Nor Railway	9
Response of erosion reduction effect of typical soil and water conservation measures in cropland to rainfall and slope gradient changes and their applicable range in the Chinese Mollisols Region, Nort	9
The quality attribute of watershed ecosystem is more important than the landscape attribute in controlling erosion of red soil in southern China	9
Towards a better understanding of pathways of multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland	9
Rainfall erosivity and erosivity density through rainfall synthetic series for São Paulo State, Brazil: Assessment, regionalization and modeling	9
Natural disaster in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: Assessment of the daily rainfall erosivity as an early warning index	9
Interactions between soil conservation and dryland farming of heterogeneously eroding areas in Loess Hills, China	9
Spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock in an olive orchard at catchment scale in Southern Spain	9
Long-term conservation tillage results in a more balanced soil microbiological activity and higher nutrient supply capacity	9
The use of remote sensing to detect the consequences of erosion in gypsiferous soils	8
Assessing non-point source pollution in an apple-dominant basin and associated best fertilizer management based on SWAT modeling	8
Soil splash erosion: An overlooked issue for sustainable rubber plantation in the tropical region of China	8
Effects of soil rock fragment content on the USLE-K factor estimating and its influencing factors	8
Root tensile strength of terrace hedgerow plants in the karst trough valleys of SW China: Relation with root morphology and fiber content	8
Effects of cropland abandonment and afforestation on soil redistribution in a small Mediterranean mountain catchment	8
Wear of the working parts of agricultural tools in the context of the mass of chemical elements introduced into soil during its cultivation	8
Do model choice and sample ratios separately or simultaneously influence soil organic matter prediction?	8
Rangeland restoration in Jordan: Restoring vegetation cover by water harvesting measures	8
137Cs tracing of the spatial patterns in soil redistribution, organic carbon and total nitrogen in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	8
A field parcel-oriented approach to evaluate the crop cover-management factor and time-distributed erosion risk in Europe	8
A hillslope version of the revised Morgan, Morgan and Finney water erosion model	8
Evaluation of nine major satellite soil moisture products in a typical subtropical monsoon region with complex land surface characteristics	8
The USLE soil erodibility nomograph revisited	8
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	8
Organic manure input and straw cover improved the community structure of nitrogen cycle function microorganism driven by water erosion	7
Limited impacts of occasional tillage on dry aggregate size distribution and soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in semi-arid drylands	7
Long-term trends of precipitation and erosivity over Northeast China during 1961–2020	7
Brazilian payment for environmental services programs emphasize water-related services	7
Augmenting freshwater availability in mountain headwater streams: Assessing the sustainability under baseline and future climate change scenarios	7
An examination of thematic research, development, and trends in remote sensing applied to conservation agriculture	7
Inhibition of native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induced increases in cadmium loss via surface runoff and interflow from farmland	7
A modified RUSLE model to simulate soil erosion under different ecological restoration types in the loess hilly area	7
Soil loss and runoff obtained with customized precipitation patterns simulated by InfiAsper	7
Runoff- and erosion-reducing effects of vegetation on the loess hillslopes of China under concentrated flow	6
Redistribution process of precipitation in ecological restoration activity of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in Mu Us Sandy Land, China	6
Potential of roots and shoots of Napier grass for arresting soil erosion and runoff of mollisols soils of Himalayas	6
Variation in soil infiltration properties under different land use/cover in the black soil region of Northeast China	6
Effectiveness of measures aiming to stabilize urban gullies in tropical cities: Results from field surveys across D.R. Congo	6
Roles of raindrop impact in detachment and transport processes of interrill soil erosion	6
Historical evolution of gully erosion and its response to land use change during 1968–2018 in the Mollisol region of Northeast China	6
Evaluation of WEPP versus EGEM and empirical model efficiencies in predicting ephemeral gully erosion around Mubi area, Northeast Nigeria	6
Using a modified PAP/RAC model and GIS-for mapping water erosion and causal risk factors: Case study of the Asfalou watershed, Morocco	6
Effects of sediment characteristics on the sediment transport capacity of overland flow	6
Quantification and depth distribution analysis of carbon to nitrogen ratio in forest soils using reflectance spectroscopy	6
Use of geochemical fingerprints to trace sediment sources in an agricultural catchment of Argentina	6