# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2766208183) · 3,500 citations · Free PDF
2. [Big Data in Smart Farming – A review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2587466508) · 3,378 citations
3. [Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2747319455) · 3,277 citations · Free PDF
4. [An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2772366318) · 2,796 citations · Free PDF
5. [Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2731951690) · 2,614 citations · Free PDF
6. [Effects of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics on Human Health](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2755198076) · 2,387 citations · Free PDF
7. [Microbial diversity and soil functions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2102288184) · 1,729 citations
8. [Plant Responses to Salt Stress: Adaptive Mechanisms](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2589732698) · 1,697 citations · Free PDF
9. [Microbial Phosphorus Solubilization and Its Potential for Use in Sustainable Agriculture](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2621263386) · 1,670 citations · Free PDF
10. [Elucidating the molecular mechanisms mediating plant salt‐stress responses](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2772780358) · 1,639 citations
11. [A Robust Deep-Learning-Based Detector for Real-Time Tomato Plant Diseases and Pests Recognition](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2753403518) · 1,582 citations · Free PDF
12. [Antimicrobial Activity of Some Essential Oils—Present Status and Future Perspectives](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2745288280) · 1,567 citations · Free PDF
13. [How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2759820149) · 1,553 citations
14. [LTR_retriever: A Highly Accurate and Sensitive Program for Identification of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2772231999) · 1,517 citations · Free PDF
15. [Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2745770579) · 1,492 citations
16. [Biostimulants in Plant Science: A Global Perspective](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2582935604) · 1,459 citations · Free PDF
17. [A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2610080502) · 1,458 citations · Free PDF
18. [Soil Salinity: Effect on Vegetable Crop Growth. Management Practices to Prevent and Mitigate Soil Salinization](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2610735241) · 1,439 citations · Free PDF
19. [The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Plant Mineral Nutrition—Current Knowledge and Future Directions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2755291024) · 1,426 citations · Free PDF
20. [Fungal Diversity Revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 Million Species](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2740085246) · 1,336 citations
21. [Occurrence, Toxicity, and Analysis of Major Mycotoxins in Food](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2625800782) · 1,273 citations · Free PDF
22. [The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2612845390) · 1,261 citations
23. [Improved maize reference genome with single-molecule technologies](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2623168030) · 1,232 citations · Free PDF
24. [Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2763628303) · 1,215 citations · Free PDF
25. [Microaggregates in soils](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2742336425) · 1,187 citations · Free PDF

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