OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is 48. 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
Food Security and the Dynamics of Wheat and Maize Value Chains in Africa and Asia	281
Rhizosphere Engineering With Plant Growth-Promoting Microorganisms for Agriculture and Ecological Sustainability	230
Rethinking Crop Nutrition in Times of Modern Microbiology: Innovative Biofertilizer Technologies	186
Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors	182
Successful Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes: Inoculation Methods and Abiotic Factors	173
Climate Change Effects on Aquaculture Production: Sustainability Implications, Mitigation, and Adaptations	166
PGPR Mediated Alterations in Root Traits: Way Toward Sustainable Crop Production	158
Essential Oils and Their Application in Food Safety	156
PGPR in Agriculture: A Sustainable Approach to Increasing Climate Change Resilience	155
Lessons From the Aftermaths of Green Revolution on Food System and Health	140
Climate Change and Salinity Effects on Crops and Chemical Communication Between Plants and Plant Growth-Promoting Microorganisms Under Stress	128
Insight Into the Role of PGPR in Sustainable Agriculture and Environment	125
Recent Developments in Smart Food Packaging Focused on Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers	119
UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems	113
Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)	89
Biopesticides in Sustainable Agriculture: A Critical Sustainable Development Driver Governed by Green Chemistry Principles	84
Rhizobia as a Source of Plant Growth-Promoting Molecules: Potential Applications and Possible Operational Mechanisms	82
Valorization of Seafood Processing Discards: Bioconversion and Bio-Refinery Approaches	79
Application of Gene Editing for Climate Change in Agriculture	75
Nanoemulsion-Based Technologies for Delivering Natural Plant-Based Antimicrobials in Foods	75
Social and Economic Opportunities and Challenges of Plant-Based and Cultured Meat for Rural Producers in the US	73
Agroecology in Large Scale Farming—A Research Agenda	71
Contribution, Utilization, and Improvement of Legumes-Driven Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Agricultural Systems	69
Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review	67
Agro-Industrial Residues: Eco-Friendly and Inexpensive Substrates for Microbial Pigments Production	67

Land-use and food security in energy transition: Role of food supply	66
Seed Priming: A Potential Supplement in Integrated Resource Management Under Fragile Intensive Ecosystems	66
Transgenic Crops for Biofortification	62
New Insights on the Use of Polyphenols as Natural Preservatives and Their Emerging Safety Concerns	61
A Research Road Map for Responsible Use of Agricultural Nitrogen	60
COVID-19 and Sustainable Food Systems: What Should We Learn Before the Next Emergency	60
Utilization of Food Processing By-products in Extrusion Processing: A Review	58
Climate Change, Land, Water, and Food Security: Perspectives From Sub-Saharan Africa	57
Potential Use of Beneficial Microorganisms for Soil Amelioration, Phytopathogen Biocontrol, and Sustainable Crop Production in Smallholder Agroecosystems	57
Native Grasslands at the Core: A New Paradigm of Intensification for the Campos of Southern South America to Increase Economic and Environmental Sustainability	56
Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability	55
Effect of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) on Salt Stress Tolerance of Casuarina obesa (Miq.)	54
Restoring Soil Fertility on Degraded Lands to Meet Food, Fuel, and Climate Security Needs via Perennialization	53
Responses of Soil Carbon Pools, Enzymatic Activity, and Crop Yields to Nitrogen and Straw Incorporation in a Rice-Wheat Cropping System in North-Western India	53
Legumes as a Cornerstone of the Transition Toward More Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Diets in Europe	52
Olive Leaf Waste Management	52
Mycorrhizal-Bacterial Amelioration of Plant Abiotic and Biotic Stress	51
Impacts of Surface Ozone Pollution on Global Crop Yields: Comparing Different Ozone Exposure Metrics and Incorporating Co-effects of CO2	51
Agronomic Biofortification of Zinc in Pakistan: Status, Benefits, and Constraints	49
Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn]: An Orphan Crop With a Potential to Alleviate the Calcium Deficiency in the Semi-arid Tropics of Asia and Africa	49
Application of Streptomyces Antimicrobial Compounds for the Control of Phytopathogens	49
Climate Change, Flood Disaster Risk and Food Security Nexus in Northern Ghana	48
Effects of Crop Rotation on Spring Wheat Yield and Pest Occurrence in Different Tillage Systems: A Multi-Year Experiment in Finnish Growing Conditions	48
Herbage Yield, Lamb Growth and Foraging Behavior in Agrivoltaic Production System	48
Narrow and Brittle or Broad and Nimble? Comparing Adaptive Capacity in Simplifying and Diversifying Farming Systems	48