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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	46
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	43
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	35
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	32
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	32
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	30
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	29
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	28
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	27
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	26
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	25
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	23
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	21
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	20
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	19
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	18
Spatial assessment of flow and benefit of tropical cyclone hazard mitigation service	17
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	17
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	17
The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the relationship between PM_2.5 concentrations and the surface urban heat island effect in Beijing, China	16
Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	16
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	15
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	15
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	12
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	12

Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	12
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	11
Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model	11
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	10
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	10
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	10
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	10
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	10
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	10
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	10
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	9
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	9
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	9
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	8
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	8
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	8
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	7
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	7
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	7
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	6
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	6
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	6
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	6
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	6
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	6
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	6
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	6
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	6
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	5
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	5
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	5
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	5
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	5
Atmospheric buoyancy is likely to influence the amount and intensity of precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Exploring the relationships between 3D urban landscape patterns and PM_2.5 pollution using the multiscale geographic weighted regression model	4
A new formula for predicting movable bed roughness coefficient in the Middle Yangtze River	4
Soil erosion in geomorphological studies: Recent trends and future directions	4
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	4
Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	4
Tree species on environmental gradients in subtropical forest of northwest Belize, in the Maya Lowlands	4
Inland wetlands in Africa: A review of their typologies and ecosystem services	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
Study on the response of glaciers and climate change in the eastern Himalayas in recent 30 years	4
Timing of Late Pleistocene marine terrace exposure using OSL and ¹⁰ Be dating: Constraints on the tectonic uplift of the southeastern Korean Peninsula	4
On the emerging global relevance of atmospheric rivers and impacts on landscapes and water resources	4
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	4
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	4
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	4
Groundwater nitrate contamination in agroecosystems: A comprehensive review of detection methods, pollution mechanisms, and policy implications	3

Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	3
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	3
Peat definitions: A critical review	3
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	3
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994)	3
River science and flood risk management policy in England	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	3
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	3
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	3
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	2
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	2
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	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
Snowpatch nomenclature and definitions for a changing climate	2
Drought and water management in ancient Maya society	2
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	2
Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst	2
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
Research resource review	2
Understanding forest sap flow velocity through satellite based remote sensing platforms: A time series analysis	2
Intra-gully mapping of the largest documented gully network in South Africa using UAV photogrammetry: Implications for restoration strategies	2
Rock varnish revisited	2
Resource review	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
Resource review	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
Modelling differential geomorphic effectiveness in neighbouring upland catchments: implications for sediment and flood risk management in a wetter world	2