| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Big Data in Smart Farming – A review | Agricultural Systems | 2017 | 1,555 |
| 2 | The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture | Agricultural Systems | 2012 | 718 |
| 3 | The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know | Agricultural Systems | 2009 | 668 |
| 4 | APSIM: a novel software system for model development, model testing and simulation in agricultural systems research | Agricultural Systems | 1996 | 666 |
| 5 | Stakeholder methodologies in natural resource management: a review of principles, contexts, experiences and opportunities | Agricultural Systems | 1997 | 576 |
| 6 | Assessment of the adequacy of mathematical models | Agricultural Systems | 2006 | 512 |
| 7 | Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 505 |
| 8 | APSIM's water and nitrogen modules and simulation of the dynamics of water and nitrogen in fallow systems | Agricultural Systems | 1998 | 453 |
| 9 | Organic farming and the sustainability of agricultural systems | Agricultural Systems | 2001 | 444 |
| 10 | The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 420 |
| 11 | A framework for evaluating ecosystem services provided by cover crops in agroecosystems | Agricultural Systems | 2014 | 420 |
| 12 | Brief history of agricultural systems modeling | Agricultural Systems | 2017 | 403 |
| 13 | Integrated assessment of agricultural systems – A component-based framework for the European Union (SEAMLESS) | Agricultural Systems | 2008 | 401 |
| 14 | Crop residue management and soil health: A systems analysis | Agricultural Systems | 2015 | 382 |
| 15 | An assessment of the total external costs of UK agriculture | Agricultural Systems | 2000 | 378 |
| 16 | The economics of risk, uncertainty and learning in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: where are we on the learning curve? | Agricultural Systems | 2003 | 365 |
| 17 | A review of agricultural research issues raised by the system of rice intensification (SRI) from Madagascar: opportunities for improving farming systems for resource-poor farmers | Agricultural Systems | 2002 | 357 |
| 18 | The properties of agroecosystems | Agricultural Systems | 1987 | 350 |
| 19 | Soil organic carbon dynamics, functions and management in West African agro-ecosystems | Agricultural Systems | 2007 | 345 |
| 20 | GEPIC – modelling wheat yield and crop water productivity with high resolution on a global scale | Agricultural Systems | 2007 | 341 |
| 21 | Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development | Agricultural Systems | 2011 | 339 |
| 22 | Assessing farm innovations and responses to policies: A review of bio-economic farm models | Agricultural Systems | 2007 | 338 |
| 23 | Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system | Agricultural Systems | 2017 | 338 |
| 24 | Comparative life cycle environmental impacts of three beef production strategies in the Upper Midwestern United States | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 329 |
| 25 | Is agricultural sustainability a useful concept? | Agricultural Systems | 1996 | 328 |
| 26 | Resource use efficiency in agriculture | Agricultural Systems | 1992 | 319 |
| 27 | Life cycle assessment of conventional and organic milk production in the Netherlands | Agricultural Systems | 2008 | 315 |
| 28 | Decision support tools for agriculture: Towards effective design and delivery | Agricultural Systems | 2016 | 314 |
| 29 | GRAZPLAN: Decision support systems for Australian grazing enterprises—II. The animal biology model for feed intake, production and reproduction and the GrazFeed DSS | Agricultural Systems | 1997 | 311 |
| 30 | An evaluation of the structure and function of tropical homegardens | Agricultural Systems | 1986 | 310 |
| 31 | Changing systems for supporting farmers' decisions: problems, paradigms, and prospects | Agricultural Systems | 2002 | 302 |
| 32 | A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems | Agricultural Systems | 2019 | 302 |
| 33 | Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from beef production in western Canada: A case study | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 299 |
| 34 | The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa – A typology of smallholder farms | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 296 |
| 35 | CropSyst, a cropping systems simulation model: Water/nitrogen budgets and crop yield | Agricultural Systems | 1994 | 293 |
| 36 | Opportunities and constraints for farmers of west Africa to use seasonal precipitation forecasts with Burkina Faso as a case study | Agricultural Systems | 2002 | 290 |
| 37 | The ‘School of de Wit’ crop growth simulation models: A pedigree and historical overview | Agricultural Systems | 1996 | 283 |
| 38 | Realizing the potential benefits of climate prediction to agriculture: issues, approaches, challenges | Agricultural Systems | 2002 | 276 |
| 39 | Motivations, risk perceptions and adoption of conservation practices by farmers | Agricultural Systems | 2009 | 275 |
| 40 | Exploring changes in world ruminant production systems | Agricultural Systems | 2005 | 274 |
| 41 | How much land is needed for global food production under scenarios of dietary changes and livestock productivity increases in 2030? | Agricultural Systems | 2010 | 274 |
| 42 | Simulation of phenological development of wheat crops | Agricultural Systems | 1998 | 273 |
| 43 | Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science | Agricultural Systems | 2017 | 261 |
| 44 | Measuring the costs of African animal trypanosomosis, the potential benefits of control and returns to research | Agricultural Systems | 1999 | 260 |
| 45 | Factors influencing farmers’ adoption of modern rice technologies and good management practices in the Philippines | Agricultural Systems | 2012 | 260 |
| 46 | Artificial neural networks for corn and soybean yield prediction | Agricultural Systems | 2005 | 258 |
| 47 | Comparing annual and perennial energy cropping systems with different management intensities | Agricultural Systems | 2008 | 255 |
| 48 | Beyond agricultural innovation systems? Exploring an agricultural innovation ecosystems approach for niche design and development in sustainability transitions | Agricultural Systems | 2018 | 255 |
| 49 | Modelling the impacts of pests and diseases on agricultural systems | Agricultural Systems | 2017 | 248 |
| 50 | Simulating the impact of climate change on rice production in Asia and evaluating options for adaptation | Agricultural Systems | 1997 | 247 |
