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The role of cover crops in irrigated systems: Soil salinity and salt leaching

Publicated to: AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT. 158 200-207 - 2012-09-01 158(), DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.06.012

Authors:

Gabriel, JL; Almendros, P; Hontoria, C; Quemada, M
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingenieros Agr, Avd Complutense S-N, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Soil salinity and salt leaching are a risk for sustainable agricultural production in many irrigated areas. This study was conducted over 3.5 years to determine how replacing the usual winter fallow with a cover crop (CC) affects soil salt accumulation and salt leaching in irrigated systems. Treatments studied during the period between summer crops were: barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), vetch (Vicia villosa L.) and fallow. Soil water content was monitored daily to a depth of 1.3 m and used with the numerical model WAVE to calculate drainage. Electrical conductivity (EC) was measured in soil solutions periodically, and in the soil saturated paste extracts before sowing CC and maize. Salt leaching was calculated multiplying drainage by total dissolved salts in the soil solution, and use to obtain a salt balance. Total salt leaching over the four winter fallow periods was 26 Mg ha(-1), whereas less than 18 Mg ha(-1) in the presence of a CC. Periods of salt gain occurred more often in the CC than in the fallow. By the end of the experiment, net salt losses occurred in all treatments, owing to occasional periods of heavy rainfall. The CC were more prone than the fallow to reduce soil salt accumulation during the early growth stages of the subsequent cash crop. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Keywords

Catch cropsCornDiffuse pollutionDrainageGrowthManagementNumerical modelsQualitySalt leachingSchedulesSoil salinityWater

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2012, it was in position 41/136, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Ecology.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.92. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 2.03 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-24, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 47
  • Scopus: 53
  • Europe PMC: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 96.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 91 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/15984/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 622
  • Downloads: 649
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GABRIEL PÉREZ, JOSÉ LUIS) and Last Author (QUEMADA SAENZ-BADILLOS, MIGUEL).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been QUEMADA SAENZ-BADILLOS, MIGUEL.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was funded by the Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia of Sapin and by the Comunidad de Madrid (project AGRISOST, S2009/AGR-1630). We would like to thank the staff from La Chimnea field station (Instituto Madrileno de Investigacion y Desarrollo Agrario) for their helpful assistance.
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