OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 6. 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
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
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
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
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	9
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
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	8
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	7
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	7
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
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
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	6