OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 5. 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
Impact of short-term organic amendments incorporation on soil structure and hydrology in semiarid agricultural lands	27
Assessment of deforestation impact on soil erosion in loess formation using 137Cs method (case study: Golestan Province, Iran)	27
Spatial optimization of soil and water conservation practices using coupled SWAT model and evolutionary algorithm	27
Seasonal changes of soil erosion and its spatial distribution on a long gentle hillslope in the Chinese Mollisol region	27
Global analysis of cover management and support practice factors that control soil erosion and conservation	27
Cadmium speciation as influenced by soil water content and zinc and the studies of kinetic modeling in two soils textural classes	26
Fingerprinting sediment sources in a typical karst catchment of southwest China	25
Prediction of sediment yield of the Inxu River catchment (South Africa) using the MUSLE	23
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	23
Small dams/reservoirs site location analysis in a semi-arid region of Mozambique	23
Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau	23
Effects of a check dam system on the runoff generation and concentration processes of a catchment on the Loess Plateau	23
Crop productivity, soil health, and energy dynamics of Indian Himalayan intensified organic maize-based systems	23
GIS-based soil maps as tools to evaluate land capability and suitability in a coastal reclaimed area (Ravenna, northern Italy)	22
Surface runoff and soil erosion in a natural regeneration area of the Brazilian Cerrado	22
Double mulching improves soil properties and productivity of maize-based cropping system in eastern Indian Himalayas	22
The application of proximal visible and near-infrared spectroscopy to estimate soil organic matter on the Triffa Plain of Morocco	21
Human and climatic drivers of land and water use from 1997 to 2019 in Tarim River basin, China	21
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	21
Assessing soil thickness in a black soil watershed in northeast China using random forest and field observations	19
Resident rhizosphere microbiome’s ecological dynamics and conservation: Towards achieving the envisioned Sustainable Development Goals, a review	19
Remote estimates of suspended particulate matter in global lakes using machine learning models	19
Effect of time resolution of rainfall measurements on the erosivity factor in the USLE in China	19
Monitoring the variation of soil quality with sewage sludge application rates in absence of rhizosphere effect	19
The soil configuration on granite residuals affects Benggang erosion by altering the soil water regime on the slope	18
Changes of soil quality induced by different vegetation restoration in the collapsing gully erosion areas of southern China	18
Remote sensing vs. field-based monitoring of agricultural terrace degradation	18
Spatial distribution of water and wind erosion and their influence on the soil quality at the agropastoral ecotone of North China	18
Effect of Polyacrylamide integrated with other soil amendments on runoff and soil loss: Case study from northwest Ethiopia	18
Effect of joint structure and slope direction on the development of collapsing gully in tuffaceous sandstone area in South China	18
Near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity and pore characteristics as influenced by conventional and conservation tillage practices in North-West Himalayan region, India	17
Evolution of river course and morphometric features of the River Ganga: A case study of up and downstream of Farakka Barrage	17
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	17
Determination of runoff coefficient (C) in catchments based on analysis of precipitation and flow events	16
Ecological intensification of cropping systems enhances soil functions, mitigates soil erosion, and promotes crop resilience to dry spells in the Brazilian Cerrado	16
Primary environmental factors controlling gully distribution at the local and regional scale: An example from Northeastern China	16
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	16
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	15
Impacts of different surface features on soil detachment in the subtropical region	15
Microbiome analysis reveals soil microbial community alteration with the effect of animal excretion contamination and altitude in Tibetan Plateau of China	15
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	15
Protective effect of multi-row HDPE board sand fences: A wind tunnel study	14
Event-based hydrology and sedimentation in paired watersheds under commercial eucalyptus and grasslands in the Brazilian Pampa biome	14
Impacts of horizontal resolution and downscaling on the USLE LS factor for different terrains	14
Rainfall partitioning in young clonal plantations Eucalyptus species in a subtropical environment, and implications for water and forest management	14
New approach for obtaining the C-factor of RUSLE considering the seasonal effect of rainfalls on vegetation cover	14

Erosion risk assessment: A contribution for conservation priority area identification in the sub-basin of Lake Tana, north-western Ethiopia	14
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)	13
Assessment of gully erosion susceptibility using different DEM-derived topographic factors in the black soil region of Northeast China	13
Ephemeral gully recognition and accuracy evaluation using deep learning in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in China	12
Tillage and crop management impacts on soil loss and crop yields in northwestern Ethiopia	12
Experimental study on the effects of multiple factors on spring meltwater erosion on an alpine meadow slope	12
Land surface roughness impacted by typical vegetation restoration projects on aeolian sandy lands in the Yarlung Zangbo River valley, southern Tibetan plateau	12
Study on phosphorus loss and influencing factors in the water source area	12
Invasion of Prosopis juliflora and its effects on soil physicochemical properties in Afar region, Northeast Ethiopia	12
Soil conservation and sustainable development goals(SDGs) achievement in Europe and central Asia: Which role for the European soil partnership?	12
Determination of rill erodibility and critical shear stress of saturated purple soil slopes	12
Soil properties characterization for land-use planning and soil management in watersheds under family farming	12
Spatiotemporal changes in terrestrial water storage in the Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region from GRACE satellites	11
Effects of forest cover type and ratio changes on runoff and its components	11
In-depth analysis of soil management and farmers’ perceptions of related risks in two olive grove areas in southern Spain	11
Comparative effects of composted organic waste and inorganic fertilizer on nitrate leachate from the farm soils of northern Guam	11
Soil organic carbon stock and fractional distribution across central-south China	11
Study on a soil erosion sampling survey in the Pan-Third Pole region based on higher-resolution images	11
Rainfall erosivity estimation over the Tibetan plateau based on high spatial-temporal resolution rainfall records	11
Changes in hydrologic components from a mid-sized plots induced by rill erosion due to cyanobacterization	10
Contribution of phytoecological data to spatialize soil erosion: Application of the RUSLE model in the Algerian atlas	9
Exploring the factors influencing the hydrological response of soil after low and high-severity fires with post-fire mulching in Mediterranean forests	9
The relative contributions of soil hydrophilicity and raindrop impact to soil aggregate breakdown for a series of textured soils	9
A new definition of soil to promote soil awareness, sustainability, security and governance	9
How to model the effect of mechanical erosion control practices at a catchment scale?	9
Multi-temporal modeling of road-induced overland flow alterations in a terraced landscape characterized by shallow landslides	9
Atrazine removal from water by activated charcoal cloths	9
Unpaved road erosion after heavy storms in mountain areas of northern China	9
Evaluating the applicability of the water erosion prediction project (WEPP) model to runoff and soil loss of sandstone reliefs in the Loess Plateau, China	8
A hillslope version of the revised Morgan, Morgan and Finney water erosion model	8
Institutional performance and participatory paradigms: Comparing two groups of watersheds in semi-arid region of India	8
Rainfall erosivity and erosivity density through rainfall synthetic series for São Paulo State, Brazil: Assessment, regionalization and modeling	8
Field instrumentation for real-time measurement of soil-water characteristic curve	8
Modeling hydrologic responses using multi-site and single-site rainfall generators in a semi-arid watershed	8
Which are the most favourable conditions for reducing soil CO2 emissions with no-tillage? Results from a meta-analysis	8
Overland flow resistance and its components for slope surfaces covered with gravel and grass	8
An updated isoerodent map of the conterminous United States	8
Magnitude, direction, and drivers of rhizosphere effect on soil nitrogen and phosphorus in global agroecosystem	7
Decoupling effects of driving factors on sediment yield in the Chinese Loess Plateau	7
Guest editorial – soil erosion assessment, tools and data: A special issue from the Global Symposium on soil Erosion 2019	7
Combating wind erosion through soil stabilization under simulated wind flow condition – Case of Kuwait	7
Interactions between soil conservation and dryland farming of heterogeneously eroding areas in Loess Hills, China	7
137Cs tracing of the spatial patterns in soil redistribution, organic carbon and total nitrogen in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
Effects of cropland abandonment and afforestation on soil redistribution in a small Mediterranean mountain catchment	7
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	7
Assessing spatial variability and erosion susceptibility of soils in hilly agricultural areas in Southern Italy	7
Quantifying spatial distribution of interrill and rill erosion in a loess at different slopes using structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry	7
Global mapping of volumetric water retention at 100, 330 and 15 000 cm suction using the WoSIS database	6
Do model choice and sample ratios separately or simultaneously influence soil organic matter prediction?	6
Evaluation of nine major satellite soil moisture products in a typical subtropical monsoon region with complex land surface characteristics	6
Soil loss and runoff obtained with customized precipitation patterns simulated by InfiAsper	6
A field parcel-oriented approach to evaluate the crop cover-management factor and time-distributed erosion risk in Europe	6
Soil splash erosion: An overlooked issue for sustainable rubber plantation in the tropical region of China	6
Erosion and covered zones altered by surface coverage effects on soil nitrogen and carbon loss from an agricultural slope under laboratory-simulated rainfall events	6
Rangeland restoration in Jordan: Restoring vegetation cover by water harvesting measures	6
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	6
Brazilian payment for environmental services programs emphasize water-related services	6
Variations of soil organic carbon fractions in response to conservative vegetation successions on the Loess Plateau of China	6
Runoff and nutrient losses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) production with tied-ridge-furrow rainwater harvesting on sloping land	6
Organic manure input and straw cover improved the community structure of nitrogen cycle function microorganism driven by water erosion	5
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	5
Root tensile strength of terrace hedgerow plants in the karst trough valleys of SW China: Relation with root morphology and fiber content	5
Inhibiting soil loss and runoff from small plots induced by an individual freeze-thaw cycle using three rangeland species	5
Best management practices to reduce soil erosion and change water balance components in watersheds under grain and dairy production	5
Potential of roots and shoots of Napier grass for arresting soil erosion and runoff of mollisols soils of Himalayas	5
Evaluation of WEPP versus EGEM and empirical model efficiencies in predicting ephemeral gully erosion around Mubi area, Northeast Nigeria	5
Role of forests in headwater control with changing environment and society	5
Natural disaster in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil: Assessment of the daily rainfall erosivity as an early warning index	5
Effects of soil rock fragment content on the USLE-K factor estimating and its influencing factors	5
The quality attribute of watershed ecosystem is more important than the landscape attribute in controlling erosion of red soil in southern China	5
Augmenting freshwater availability in mountain headwater streams: Assessing the sustainability under baseline and future climate change scenarios	5