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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	49
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	36
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	33
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	32
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	30
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	29
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	29
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	28
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	27
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	26
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	23
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	21
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	20
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	20
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	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	17
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	17
Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	17
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	16
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	16
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	16
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	15
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	13
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	12

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
Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model	12
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	11
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	11
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	11
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	11
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	11
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	10
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	10
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	10
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	10
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	9
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	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
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	9
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	8
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	8
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	7
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	6
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	6
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	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	6
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	6
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	6
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	6
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