OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	63
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	45
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	37
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	35
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	35
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	34
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	34
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	34
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	33
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	29
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	25
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	25
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	21
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	20
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	20
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	19
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	19
Resource review: Environmental problem solving in an age of climate change: Volume one: Basic tools and techniques (Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment) Springer Champ: Swi	19
Weir removal for river restoration; observations on best practice and issues for a lowland UK river	18
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	18