OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Climatic Change is 33. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How do people change their beliefs about climate change? A qualitative study on opinion shift in the U.S. Midwest	160
Public financial institutions in the energy transition: the impact of export credit agencies	128
How climate change affects agricultural clean productivity in China: roles of agri-structure and digital technology	120
Quantifying the individual and combined influence of climate change, land cover transition, and internal climate variability on the hydrology of a snow-dominated forested watershed	81
The first 20 years at the Cape of Good Hope (1652–1671): weather, climate and society	77
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate extremes in west and southwest Showa zones, Ethiopia	75
ENSO and volcanic forcing of winter and summer interannual temperature variability in East Asia over the past six centuries	69
Strengthening local siting authority for utility-scale solar: effects on regulatory decisions and public opposition	65
Changes in bioclimatic conditions on the coast of the Labrador Peninsula in the second half of the 18th century	63
Past and future rainfall change in sub-regions of Victoria, Australia	62
Municipal perspectives on managed retreat and flood mitigation: A case analysis of Merritt, Canada after the 2021 British Columbia flood disaster	61
Public opinion about solar radiation management: A cross-cultural study in 20 countries around the world	61
Unilateral climate policies can substantially reduce national carbon pollution	58
There is no word for ‘nature’ in our language: rethinking nature-based solutions from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples located in Canada	54
Introduction: Critical and historical perspectives on usable climate science	51
How do climate anomalies affect the duration of land transfers? Evidence from China	45
Equitable mitigation to achieve the 1.5 °C goal in the Mediterranean Basin	44
Meteorological drought and its large-scale climate patterns in each season in Central Asia from 1901 to 2015	42
Long-term variations in ocean acidification indices in the Northwest Pacific from 1993 to 2018	41
Seasonally dependent precipitation changes and their driving mechanisms in Southwest Asia	41
Introduction to topical collection: social science and sustainability technology	38
Impact of climate change on the agriculture sector and household welfare in Mozambique: an analysis based on a dynamic computable general equilibrium model	36
Flooding in the Peace-Athabasca Delta: climatic and hydrologic change and variation over the past 120 years	36
Changing minds about global warming: vicarious experience predicts self-reported opinion change in the USA	35
New insights into projected Arctic sea road: operational risks, economic values, and policy implications	35

Public opinion on climate change in the USA: to what extent can it be nudged by questionnaire design features?	34
Assessing the impacts of climate change on irrigation diversion water requirement in the Philippines	34
Modelling climate analogue regions for a central European city	34
Improving the usability of climate indicator visualizations through diagnostic design principles	34
An IPCC that listens: introducing reciprocity to climate change communication	33
Knowledge generation via social-knowledge network co-evolution: 30 years (1990–2019) of adaptation, mitigation and transformation related to climate change	33
Multi-model ensemble projections of soil moisture drought over North Africa and the Sahel region under 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming	33
The role of biomaterials for the energy transition from the lens of a national integrated assessment model	33
Climate effects on US infrastructure: the economics of adaptation for rail, roads, and coastal development	33