OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	57
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	47
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	36
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	36
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	35
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	34
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	34
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	32
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	30
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	28
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	28
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	24
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	24
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	21
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	21
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	20
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	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	18
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	18
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	17
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	17
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	17
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	15
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	14
Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	14

A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	13
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	13
Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model	13
An excess-work approach to assessing channel instability potential within urban streams of Chicago, Illinois: Relative importance of spatial variability in hydraulic conditions and stormwater mitigati	12
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	12
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	12
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	12
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	11
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	11
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	11
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	10
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	9
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	9
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	9
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	9
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	9
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	9
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	8
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	8
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	8
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	7
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	7
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	7
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	7
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	7
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	6
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	6
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	6
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	6
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	6
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	6
Atmospheric buoyancy is likely to influence the amount and intensity of precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	6
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
Inland wetlands in Africa: A review of their typologies and ecosystem services	5
Exploring the relationships between 3D urban landscape patterns and PM_2.5 pollution using the multiscale geographic weighted regression model	5
Timing of Late Pleistocene marine terrace exposure using OSL and ¹⁰ Be dating: Constraints on the tectonic uplift of the southeastern Korean Peninsula	5
A new formula for predicting movable bed roughness coefficient in the Middle Yangtze River	5
Tree species on environmental gradients in subtropical forest of northwest Belize, in the Maya Lowlands	5
On the emerging global relevance of atmospheric rivers and impacts on landscapes and water resources	5
Soil erosion in geomorphological studies: Recent trends and future directions	4
Study on the response of glaciers and climate change in the eastern Himalayas in recent 30 years	4
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	4
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	4
Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	4
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	4
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	4
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	4
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	4

More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	4
Long-term mass-balance monitoring and evolution of ice in caves through structure from motion–multi-view stereo and ground-penetrating radar techniques	4
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	4
A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994)	4
Peat definitions: A critical review	4
19th-century afforestation policies have predisposed mountain slopes to forest expansion under recent climate warming in the southern French Alps	4
Resource review	3
The application of satellite remote sensing to coastal dune environments: A systematic review	3
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	3
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	3
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	3
Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	3
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	3
Research on the evaluation of landslide susceptibility based on the integration of endogenic and exogenic driving forces: A case study of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Hengduan Mountains	3
Effects of sustained tectonic uplift on groundwater systems in the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from hydrochemistry and isotopes	3
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	3
Rock varnish revisited	3
Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst	3
Groundwater nitrate contamination in agroecosystems: A comprehensive review of detection methods, pollution mechanisms, and policy implications	3
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
Snowpatch nomenclature and definitions for a changing climate	2
The roles of environmental conditions in the pollutant emission-induced gross primary production change: Co-contribution of meteorological fields and regulation of its background gradients	2
Sources and concentration of DOC, DIC, and POC in the Lianjiang River: A representative karst tributary of the Beijiang River	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
Intra-gully mapping of the largest documented gully network in South Africa using UAV photogrammetry: Implications for restoration strategies	2
Resource review: Assessing, mapping and modeling of mangrove ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific region DasguptaRajarshiHashimotoShizukaSaitoOsamu, Assessing, Mapping and Modeling of Mangrove Ecosy	2
Geomorphology of the Lidder Basin, Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Deciphering the interplay of glacial, fluvial, and tectonic processes	2
Resource review	2
Understanding forest sap flow velocity through satellite based remote sensing platforms: A time series analysis	2
Flood frequency characterization of the Nhecolândia region (Pantanal) based on high spatial and temporal resolution PlanetScope satellite images	2