Most-cited Agriculture and Biology papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Agriculture and Biology research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
   Caspar A. Hallmann, Martin Sorg et al. · 2017 · 3,500 citations · Free PDF
2. Big Data in Smart Farming – A review
   J. Wolfert, Lan Ge et al. · 2017 · 3,378 citations
3. Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates
   Chuang Zhao, Bing Liu et al. · 2017 · 3,277 citations · Free PDF
4. An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion
   Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson et al. · 2017 · 2,796 citations · Free PDF
5. Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options
   Shah Fahad, Ali Ahsan Bajwa et al. · 2017 · 2,614 citations · Free PDF
6. Effects of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics on Human Health
   Paulina Markowiak‐Kopeć, Katarzyna Śliżewska · 2017 · 2,387 citations · Free PDF
7. Microbial diversity and soil functions
   P. Nannipieri, Judith Ascher‐Jenull et al. · 2017 · 1,729 citations
8. Plant Responses to Salt Stress: Adaptive Mechanisms
   José Ramón Acosta‐Motos, María Fernanda Ortuño et al. · 2017 · 1,697 citations · Free PDF
9. Microbial Phosphorus Solubilization and Its Potential for Use in Sustainable Agriculture
   Elizabeth Temitope Alori, Bernard R. Glick et al. · 2017 · 1,670 citations · Free PDF
10. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms mediating plant salt‐stress responses
    Yongqing Yang, Yan Guo · 2017 · 1,639 citations
11. A Robust Deep-Learning-Based Detector for Real-Time Tomato Plant Diseases and Pests Recognition
    Alvaro Fuentes, Sook Yoon et al. · 2017 · 1,582 citations · Free PDF
12. Antimicrobial Activity of Some Essential Oils—Present Status and Future Perspectives
    Sonam Chouhan, Kanika Sharma et al. · 2017 · 1,567 citations · Free PDF
13. How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?
    Nigel E. Stork · 2017 · 1,553 citations
14. LTR_retriever: A Highly Accurate and Sensitive Program for Identification of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons
    Shujun Ou, Ning Jiang · 2017 · 1,517 citations · Free PDF
15. Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use
    Jonathan Sanderman, Tomislav Hengl et al. · 2017 · 1,492 citations
16. Biostimulants in Plant Science: A Global Perspective
    Oleg I. Yakhin, A. A. Lubyanov et al. · 2017 · 1,459 citations · Free PDF
17. A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome
    Martin Mascher, Heidrun Gundlach et al. · 2017 · 1,458 citations · Free PDF
18. Soil Salinity: Effect on Vegetable Crop Growth. Management Practices to Prevent and Mitigate Soil Salinization
    Rui Machado, Ricardo P. Serralheiro · 2017 · 1,439 citations · Free PDF
19. The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Plant Mineral Nutrition—Current Knowledge and Future Directions
    Richard P. Jacoby, Manuela Peukert et al. · 2017 · 1,426 citations · Free PDF
20. Fungal Diversity Revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 Million Species
    David L. Hawksworth, Robert Lücking · 2017 · 1,336 citations
21. Occurrence, Toxicity, and Analysis of Major Mycotoxins in Food
    Ahmad F. Alshannaq, Jae‐Hyuk Yu · 2017 · 1,273 citations · Free PDF
22. The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls
    Robert B. Jackson, Kate Lajtha et al. · 2017 · 1,261 citations
23. Improved maize reference genome with single-molecule technologies
    Yinping Jiao, Paul S. Peluso et al. · 2017 · 1,232 citations · Free PDF
24. Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome
    John L. Bowman, Takayuki Kohchi et al. · 2017 · 1,215 citations · Free PDF
25. Microaggregates in soils
    Kai Uwe Totsche, Wulf Amelung et al. · 2017 · 1,187 citations · Free PDF

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