Most cited papers in Irrigation Practices and Water Management
What are the most cited papers in Irrigation Practices and Water Management?
The most cited paper in Irrigation Practices and Water Management is "Properties of Porous Media Affecting Fluid Flow" (Royal H. Brooks, A. T. Corey, 1966), with 2,356 citations. Next come "Estimating Generalized Soil‐water Characteristics from Texture" (1,994) and "Root Architecture and Plant Productivity" (1,937).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 502 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Properties of Porous Media Affecting Fluid Flow Royal H. Brooks, A. T. Corey · Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division | Jun 1966 | 2,356 |
| 2 | Estimating Generalized Soil‐water Characteristics from Texture K. E. Saxton, W. J. Rawls, J. S. Romberger et al. · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Jul 1986 | 1,994 |
| 3 | Root Architecture and Plant Productivity Jonathan Paul Lynch · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | Sep 1995 | 1,937 |
| 4 | Estimating Potential Evapotranspiration George H. Hargreaves, Zohrab Samani · Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division | Sep 1982 | 1,928 |
| 5 | Deficit irrigation for reducing agricultural water use E. Fereres, María‐Auxiliadora Soriano · Journal of Experimental Botany | 6 Nov 2006 | 1,927 |
| 6 | The hydraulic architecture of trees and other woody plants Melvin Thomas Tyree, Frank W. Ewers · New Phytologist | Nov 1991 | 1,744 |
| 7 | Root traits contributing to plant productivity under drought Louise H. Comas, Steven R. Becker, Von Mark V. Cruz et al. · Frontiers in Plant Science | 2013 | 1,621 |
| 8 | Theory of Infiltration J. R. Philip · Advances in hydroscience | 1969 | 1,558 |
| 9 | Technical note: Inherent benchmark or not? Comparing Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiency scores Wouter Johannes Maria Knoben, Jim E. Freer, Ross A. Woods · Hydrology and earth system sciences | 25 Oct 2019 | 1,401 |
| 10 | A review of drought indices Amin Zargar, Rehan Sadiq, Bahman Naser et al. · Environmental Reviews | 13 Sep 2011 | 1,365 |
| 11 | Field water management to save water and increase its productivity in irrigated lowland rice Bas A. M. Bouman, To Phuc Tuong · Agricultural Water Management | Jul 2001 | 1,269 |
| 12 | Rainfall energy and its relationship to soil loss Walter H. Wischmeier, Dwight D. Smith · Transactions American Geophysical Union | Apr 1958 | 1,250 |
| 13 | An analysis of irreversible plant cell elongation James A. Lockhart · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Mar 1965 | 1,183 |
| 14 | Improving agricultural water productivity: Between optimism and caution David James Molden, Theib Oweis, Pasquale Steduto et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 11 Jun 2009 | 1,113 |
| 15 | Deficit irrigation as an on-farm strategy to maximize crop water productivity in dry areas Sam Geerts, Dirk Raes · Agricultural Water Management | 15 May 2009 | 1,099 |
| 16 | Evapotranspiration information reporting: I. Factors governing measurement accuracy Richard G. Allen, Luis Santos Pereira, Terry A. Howell et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 27 Jan 2011 | 1,070 |
| 17 | AquaCrop — The FAO Crop Model to Simulate Yield Response to Water: II. Main Algorithms and Software Description Dirk Raes, Pasquale Steduto, Theodore C. Hsiao et al. · Agronomy Journal | 7 Apr 2009 | 1,054 |
| 18 | Review of measured crop water productivity values for irrigated wheat, rice, cotton and maize Sander Jaap Zwart, W.G.M. Bastiaanssen · Agricultural Water Management | 30 Jul 2004 | 1,033 |
| 19 | The paradox of irrigation efficiency R. Quentin Grafton, John N. Williams, Chris Perry et al. · Science | 23 Aug 2018 | 1,026 |
| 20 | Irrigation management under water scarcity Luis Santos Pereira, Theib Oweis, Abdelaziz Zaïri · Agricultural Water Management | 8 Oct 2002 | 987 |
| 21 | Improving agricultural water use efficiency in arid and semiarid areas of China Xiping Deng, Shan Lun, Heping Zhang et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 19 Aug 2005 | 982 |
| 22 | Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System P. H. Nye, Peter B. Tinker, Charles Warren Boast · Soil Science | Apr 1979 | 977 |
| 23 | Water deficits and hydraulic limits to leaf water supply John S. Sperry, Uwe G. Hacke, Ram Oren et al. · Plant Cell & Environment | Feb 2002 | 922 |
| 24 | Traits and selection strategies to improve root systems and water uptake in water-limited wheat crops Anton Wasson, Richard A. Richards, Ravish Chatrath et al. · Journal of Experimental Botany | May 2012 | 911 |
| 25 | Enhancing Water Use Efficiency in Irrigated Agriculture Terry A. Howell · Agronomy Journal | Mar 2001 | 900 |
| 26 | Crop evapotranspiration estimation with FAO56: Past and future Luis Santos Pereira, Richard G. Allen, Martin Smith et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 27 Aug 2014 | 876 |
| 27 | ‘White revolution’ to ‘white pollution’—agricultural plastic film mulch in China E K Liu, Wenqing He, Chunhua Yan · Environmental Research Letters | Sep 2014 | 859 |
| 28 | Global modeling of irrigation water requirements Petra Döll, Stefan Siebert · Water Resources Research | Apr 2002 | 855 |
| 29 | A review of approaches for evapotranspiration partitioning Dilia Kool, Nurit Agam, Naftali Lazarovitch et al. · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 3 Oct 2013 | 847 |
| 30 | The ‘hydrology’ of leaves: co‐ordination of structure and function in temperate woody species Lawren Sack, Peter D. Cowan, Nikhil S. Jaikumar et al. · Plant Cell & Environment | 14 Jul 2003 | 826 |
| 31 | A mechanistic model for interpretation of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in tree-ring cellulose John S. Roden, Guanghui Lin, James R. Ehleringer · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 2000 | 812 |
| 32 | Remote Sensing and Control of an Irrigation System Using a Distributed Wireless Sensor Network Yunseop Kim, Robert G. Evans, William M. Iversen · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement | 29 May 2008 | 809 |
| 33 | An improved heat pulse method to measure low and reverse rates of sap flow in woody plants Stephen S. O. Burgess, Mark A. Adams, Neil C. Turner et al. · Tree Physiology | Jun 2001 | 796 |
| 34 | Hydraulic lift and water use by plants: implications for water balance, performance and plant-plant interactions Todd E. Dawson · Oecologia | Oct 1993 | 780 |
| 35 | Rice yields and water use under alternate wetting and drying irrigation: A meta-analysis Daniela R. Carrijo, Mark Lundy, Bruce A. Linquist · Field Crops Research | 9 Jan 2017 | 776 |
| 36 | Satellite-Based Energy Balance for Mapping Evapotranspiration with Internalized Calibration (METRIC)—Applications Richard G. Allen, Masahiro Tasumi, Anthony Morse et al. · Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering | 13 Jul 2007 | 773 |
| 37 | Water conservation in irrigation can increase water use Frank A. Ward, Manuel Pulido-Velázquez · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Nov 2008 | 766 |
| 38 | Advances in controlled-release fertilizers Avi Shaviv · Advances in agronomy | 2001 | 761 |
| 39 | Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice Shaozhong Kang, Xinmei Hao, Taisheng Du et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 28 May 2016 | 756 |
| 40 | IoT-Based Smart Irrigation Systems: An Overview on the Recent Trends on Sensors and IoT Systems for Irrigation in Precision Agriculture Laura García, Lorena Parra, Jose Miguel Jimenez et al. · Sensors | 14 Feb 2020 | 748 |
| 41 | Hydraulic lift: Substantial nocturnal water transport between soil layers by Artemisia tridentata roots James H. Richards, M. M. Caldwell · Oecologia | Oct 1987 | 743 |
| 42 | Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cereal Grain Production with Optical Sensing and Variable Rate Application W. R. Raun, John B. Solie, Gordon V. Johnson et al. · Agronomy Journal | Jul 2002 | 737 |
| 43 | A recommendation on standardized surface resistance for hourly calculation of reference ETo by the FAO56 Penman-Monteith method Richard G. Allen, William O. Pruitt, James L. Wright et al. · Agricultural Water Management | 24 Apr 2005 | 729 |
| 44 | Brief history of agricultural systems modeling James W. Jones, John M. Antle, Bruno Basso et al. · Agricultural Systems | 27 Jun 2016 | 711 |
| 45 | Increasing agricultural water use efficiency to meet future food production Jim Wallace · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | Dec 2000 | 706 |
| 46 | Drought effect on plant nitrogen and phosphorus: a meta‐analysis Mingzhu He, Feike A. Dijkstra · New Phytologist | 31 Jul 2014 | 704 |
| 47 | Effects of plastic mulching and plastic residue on agricultural production: A meta-analysis Haihe Gao, Changrong Yan, Qin Liu et al. · The Science of The Total Environment | 8 Sep 2018 | 702 |
| 48 | Recent advances in mulching materials and methods for modifying soil environment Mohammad Abdul Kader, Masateru Senge, Mohammad Abdul Mojid et al. · Soil and Tillage Research | 11 Jan 2017 | 702 |
| 49 | Water Deficits and Plant Growth Paul J. Kramer · Elsevier eBooks | 1983 | 701 |
| 50 | Measurement and estimation of actual evapotranspiration in the field under Mediterranean climate: a review Gianfranco Rana, Nader Katerji · European Journal of Agronomy | Jul 2000 | 690 |
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