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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	37
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	33
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	33
Infilled lakes (Pampas) of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Inventory, sediment storage, and paleo outbursts	30
Combined use of environmental and spectral variables with vegetation archives for large-scale modeling of grassland habitats	29
Acoustic methods in physical geography: Applications and future development	29
Limited impacts of global warming on rockfall activity at low elevations: Insights from two calcareous cliffs from the French Prealps	28
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	25
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	23
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	23
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	21
Research resource review	20
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	20
Producing climate boundary maps using GIS interface model designed with Python	19
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	19
A discussion on the plausible role of ice streams in carving Martian outflow channels: Revisiting the earliest hypothesis by Lucchitta et al. (1981)	19
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	19
Application of fractal and multifractal analysis on Blue Nile drainage patterns in the morphostructural analysis of the Ethiopian highlands, Ethiopia	15
Corrigendum to Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models	14
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	13
Resource review: Geospatial analysis applied to mineral exploration: Remote sensing, GIS, geochemical, and geophysical applications to mineral resources	12
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	12
Resource review: Assessing, mapping and modeling of mangrove ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific region	12
Corrigendum to The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	11
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	11

The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	11
The water, food, energy, and ecosystem nexus in the Asian Alpine Belt: Research progress and future directions for achieving sustainable development goals	11
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	10
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	10
Nitrogen cycling in aquatic environments of China: Progress and future challenges	10
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	10
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	9
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	9
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	9
Tree rings, forest composition, and LiDAR reveal historical forests and past agricultural land use at George Washington’s Mount Vernon	9
A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994)	8
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	8
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	8
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	8
The evolution of open biomass burning during summer crop harvest in the North China Plain	7
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	7
Comprehensive evaluation of urban development suitability based on constraints and development factors: A case study of the central urban area of Zhengzhou, China	7
Impact of the Mediterranean oscillation on total lightning activity	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	6
Sources and concentration of DOC, DIC, and POC in the Lianjiang River: A representative karst tributary of the Beijiang River	6
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	6
Assessing the effectiveness of alternative landslide partitioning in machine learning methods for landslide prediction in the complex Himalayan terrain	6
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	5
Modelling differential geomorphic effectiveness in neighbouring upland catchments: implications for sediment and flood risk management in a wetter world	5
Drought and water management in ancient Maya society	5
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	5
Formation and evolution of mountainous aeolian sediments in the northern Tibet Plateau and their links to the Asian winter monsoon and westerlies since the Last Glacial Maximum	5
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	5
Fragility curves for road embankments exposed to adjacent debris flow	4
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	4
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	4
A conceptual hydrological model of semiarid Andean headwater systems in Chile	4
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	4
Peat definitions: A critical review	4
River science and flood risk management policy in England	4
Predicting the supply–demand of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Middle Reaches Urban Agglomeration	4
An inverse relationship between moisture and grazing intensity in an arid mountain-basin system	4
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	4
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	4
Remote sensing of the mountain cryosphere: Current capabilities and future opportunities for research	3
Estimation of recent peat accumulation with tree saplings	3
Soil as part of the Earth system	3
Tree-ring hydrological research in the Himalaya: State of the art and future directions	3
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	3
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Contributions of Kenneth Mason to the physical geography of Himalaya and Karakoram	3
Fluvial encounters: Experimenting with a ‘River’s voice’ amidst light-based datafication	3

Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	3
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of depositional environment and vegetational cover in a salt flat of the Lickan Antay Territory of Toconao, Northern Chile	3
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	3
Soil stabilization by integrating dust particles with calcium lignosulphanate	3
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	3
The Lasting Legacy of Hazard and Choice Perception in Flood Plain Management by Robert Kates	3
A review of flash flood hazards influenced by various solid material sources in mountain environment	3
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	2
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	2
Articulation of the cross-boundary effects of China’s ecological conservation redline program: A perspective on the ecological security network and ecological radiation	2
Research resource review	2
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	2
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	2
Impacts of irrigation-climate interactions on irrigated soybean yields in the US Arkansas Delta from 2003 to 2017	2
Nitrogen dynamics in the Critical Zones of China	2
Why can China maintain a high crop diversity? A spatial-temporal dynamic analysis	2
Fitting limit lines (envelope curves) to spreads of geoenvironmental data	2
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	2
Global assessment of wind erosion based on a spatially distributed RWEQ model	2
The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the relationship between PM_2.5 concentrations and the surface urban heat island effect in Beijing, China	2
Spatial assessment of flow and benefit of tropical cyclone hazard mitigation service	2
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	2
Coastal development in southwestern Bangladesh: understanding the interplay between storms and sea level rise	2
Regional disparities and social-ecological constraints of soil antibiotic pollution in urban agglomerations of China	2
Soil erosion on arable land: An unresolved global environmental threat	2