OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Soil and Water Conservation Research is 16. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The assessment of soil loss by water erosion in China	171
Critical review of the impact of cover crops on soil properties	98
Advantages and disadvantages of terracing: A comprehensive review	92
Determinants of adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Nigeria	83
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	72
Conservation management decreases surface runoff and soil erosion	71
Remote sensing of soil degradation: Progress and perspective	64
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China	62
Evaluation of soil erosion risk and identification of soil cover and management factor (C) for RUSLE in European vineyards with different soil management	61
Recent advances in assessment of soil erosion vulnerability in a watershed	60
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
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	48
Remote estimates of suspended particulate matter in global lakes using machine learning models	46
Multi-criteria decision making methods to address rural land allocation problems: A systematic review	43
Predictions of soil and nutrient losses using a modified SWAT model in a large hilly-gully watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau	42
Comparing surface erosion processes in four soils from the Loess Plateau under extreme rainfall events	40
Mulching as best management practice to reduce surface runoff and erosion in steep clayey olive groves	39
Soil erosion: An important indicator for the assessment of land degradation neutrality in Russia	38
Duration and intensity of rainfall events with the same erosivity change sediment yield and runoff rates	37
Impact of short-term organic amendments incorporation on soil structure and hydrology in semiarid agricultural lands	37
Agro-residue biochar and N fertilizer addition mitigates CO2-C emission and stabilized soil organic carbon pools in a rain-fed agricultural cropland	36
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
Global analysis of cover management and support practice factors that control soil erosion and conservation	34

Can integrated watershed management reduce soil erosion and improve livelihoods? A study from northern Ethiopia	34
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
Is the runoff coefficient increasing or decreasing after ecological restoration on China’s Loess Plateau?	34
Spatial optimization of soil and water conservation practices using coupled SWAT model and evolutionary algorithm	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
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)	29
Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau	29
Effects of a check dam system on the runoff generation and concentration processes of a catchment on the Loess Plateau	28
Prediction of sediment yield of the Inxu River catchment (South Africa) using the MUSLE	28
Cadmium speciation as influenced by soil water content and zinc and the studies of kinetic modeling in two soils textural classes	28
Resident rhizosphere microbiome’s ecological dynamics and conservation: Towards achieving the envisioned Sustainable Development Goals, a review	27
Fingerprinting sediment sources in a typical karst catchment of southwest China	27
Monitoring gully erosion in the European Union: A novel approach based on the Land Use/Cover Area frame survey (LUCAS)	27
GIS-based soil maps as tools to evaluate land capability and suitability in a coastal reclaimed area (Ravenna, northern Italy)	26
Effect of time resolution of rainfall measurements on the erosivity factor in the USLE in China	25
Effect of Polyacrylamide integrated with other soil amendments on runoff and soil loss: Case study from northwest Ethiopia	25
Assessing soil thickness in a black soil watershed in northeast China using random forest and field observations	25
Double mulching improves soil properties and productivity of maize-based cropping system in eastern Indian Himalayas	25
Small dams/reservoirs site location analysis in a semi-arid region of Mozambique	24
Human and climatic drivers of land and water use from 1997 to 2019 in Tarim River basin, China	24
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	23
Monitoring the variation of soil quality with sewage sludge application rates in absence of rhizosphere effect	23
Spatial distribution of water and wind erosion and their influence on the soil quality at the agropastoral ecotone of North China	23
Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns	22
Evolution of river course and morphometric features of the River Ganga: A case study of up and downstream of Farakka Barrage	22
Remote sensing vs. field-based monitoring of agricultural terrace degradation	21
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
Changes of soil quality induced by different vegetation restoration in the collapsing gully erosion areas of southern China	20
Protective effect of multi-row HDPE board sand fences: A wind tunnel study	20
Assessment of gully erosion susceptibility using different DEM-derived topographic factors in the black soil region of Northeast China	20
Microbiome analysis reveals soil microbial community alteration with the effect of animal excretion contamination and altitude in Tibetan Plateau of China	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
Erosion risk assessment: A contribution for conservation priority area identification in the sub-basin of Lake Tana, north-western Ethiopia	19
Ecological intensification of cropping systems enhances soil functions, mitigates soil erosion, and promotes crop resilience to dry spells in the Brazilian Cerrado	19
Primary environmental factors controlling gully distribution at the local and regional scale: An example from Northeastern China	19
Determination of runoff coefficient (C) in catchments based on analysis of precipitation and flow events	18
Mapping soil erodibility in southeast China at 250 m resolution: Using environmental variables and random forest regression with limited samples	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
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
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
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)	17
Ephemeral gully recognition and accuracy evaluation using deep learning in the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in China	17
A new definition of soil to promote soil awareness, sustainability, security and governance	16
Rainfall partitioning in young clonal plantations Eucalyptus species in a subtropical environment, and implications for water and forest management	16
Invasion of Prosopis juliflora and its effects on soil physicochemical properties in Afar region, Northeast Ethiopia	16