OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of CATENA is 59. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A strategy for modelling sediment distribution along slope lengths of an ephemeral gully through the simulated scouring experiments	211
Geographic factors explain soil nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry in the Chinese wetlands	162
Ion solubilization in surface soil layers of montane region with heavy snowfall	137
15 years ecohydrological long-term monitoring of the artificial catchment Chicken Creek – A brief summary	125
Bryophyte diversity and soil organic carbon content in contrasting Northern Appalachian vernal pools	125
Response of soil aggregate stability and rill erodibility to soil electric field	124
Land use change effect on organic matter dynamics and soil carbon sequestration in the Brazilian Cerrado: A study case in Mato Grosso do Sul state (Midwest-Brazil)	124
Enzymatic stoichiometry in degraded soils after two decades of restoration in a Brazilian semiarid region	112
Landslide susceptibility prediction in the loess tableland considering geomorphic evolution	109
Contrasting global patterns of soil microbial quotients of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems	108
Influence of geochemistry and topography on vegetation in tropical Nigeria: Geochemistry and soil thickness surpass topographic position	104
Hydro-sedimentary dysfunctions as a key factor for the storage of contaminants in mountain rivers (Bienne River, Jura Mountains, France)	103
Editorial Board	102
Long-term changes in soil composition in unmanaged central European mountain spruce forests after decreased acidic deposition and a bark beetle outbreak	100
Updated soil salinity with fine spatial resolution and high accuracy: The synergy of Sentinel-2 MSI, environmental covariates and hybrid machine learning approaches	96
Profile distribution of soil organic carbon and its isotopic value following long term land-use changes	95
Combination of statistical and conceptual approaches for debris-flow susceptibility modelling at a regional scale, British Columbia, Canada	91
Amino acid nitrogen trends in paddy soils under long-term rice cultivation in southeast coast of China	90
Soil nutrients and nutrient ratios influence the ratios of soil microbial biomass and metabolic nutrient limitations in mountain peatlands	89
Flooding lowers the emissions of CO2 and CH4 during the freeze-thaw process in a lacustrine wetland	88
Systematic identification of factors influencing the spatial distribution of soil organic matter in croplands within the black soil region of Northeastern China across multiple scales	85
Organic amendment effects on cropland soil organic carbon and its implications: A global synthesis	84
Coastal soil texture controls soil organic carbon distribution and storage of mangroves in China	83
Spatiotemporal variability of rainfall erosivity and its teleconnection with atmospheric circulation in monsoon-driven climate region	82
Gully erosion susceptibility assessment based on machine learning-A case study of watersheds in Tuquan County in the black soil region of Northeast China	79

Evolution of pore structure and cement composition during weathering of conglomerate at Mogao Grottoes in alkaline and arid regions, NW China	77
Contrasting impacts of grassland restoration methods on soil greenhouse gases emissions under warming conditions in Northern Tibet	75
The impact of natural and anthropogenic factors on erosion in the Northeastern loess Plateau, China, during the past 10,000 years	75
River, tide and morphology interaction in a macro-tidal estuary with active morphological evolutions	74
Contributions of mycorrhizal fungi to soil aggregate formation during subalpine forest succession	72
Improving monitoring Karst rocky desertification using high-frequency Landsat observations: A generalized framework and its application to a typical karst region in southeast China	72
A performance comparison of SRTM v. 3.0, AW3D30, ASTER GDEM3, Copernicus and TanDEM-X for tectonogeomorphic analysis in the South American Andes	72
Changes in the microbial necromass carbon and iron-bound organic carbon following land use and salinity in estuary soils	71
Assessing the impacts of lithology on short-term gully evolution within the karst Mediterranean area	71
Exploring the impact of rainfall spatial differentiation on sediment yield of a typical watershed in the Loess Plateau of China	70
Effects of slope aspect and tillage type on soil microbial biomass and its stoichiometric ratios in karst trough valley	70
Corrigendum to “Carbon storage in typical ecosystems of coastal wetlands in Jiangsu, China: Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms” [Catena 254 (2025) 108882]	68
Continental–scale distribution and source identification of boron in soils of China	68
Integrative analysis of nutrient dynamics and its hydrological pathways in a tropical montane forest watershed: Implications for landscape management	67
Spatial variation in soil aggregate stability and erodibility at different slope positions in four hilly regions of northeast China	67
Spatial prediction of soil sand content at various sampling density based on geostatistical and machine learning algorithms in plain areas	67
Forest soil nutrient stocks along altitudinal range of Uttarakhand Himalayas: An aid to Nature Based Climate Solutions	66
Indices accounting for rainstorm erosivity – Theory and practice	65
The impact of sampling depths on quantification of soil organic carbon stock in mangrove environments	64
Sediment yield in a basin in Brazilian Semiarid Regions: A discussion on positive allometry	64
Use of multifractal parameters to determine soil particle size distribution and erodibility of a physical soil crust in the Loess Plateau, China	63
Fault-related basins as carbon reservoirs: Soil CO2 emissions in the SE Korean Peninsula	63
A matrix for estimating the unfrozen water content of freezing soils	63
Low-severity fire promote carbon emissions in permafrost peatlands of the Great Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	62
Using a novel vector length stability index (VLSI) to evaluate soil aggregate stability: A preliminary study	62
Unravelling chemical and physical processes in Fourier transform spectra of low frequency dissolved oxygen time series in Swiss lakes	61
Multiple forcing on Late Miocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability in NE Tibetan Plateau	61
Rock glaciers in the Gangdise Mountains, southern Tibetan Plateau: Morphology and controlling factors	61
Effects of thinning on soil water content and water use characteristics of artificial forest in the Loess Plateau of China	61
The role of detention storage of sediment on erosion by rain-impacted flows	61
Temperature and precipitation effects on soil nitrogen availability and cycling in Chinese fir plantations across subtropical China	61
Background concentrations and accumulation rates in sediments of pristine tropical environments	60
Development of an argillic horizon in polygenetic paleosols in the Marília Formation (Maastrichtian), Brazil: Precautions for paleoenvironmental interpretation	60
Clay mineralogy fingerprinting of loess-mantled soils on different underlying substrates in the south-western Poland	59
An improved spatial case-based reasoning considering multiple spatial drivers of geographic events and its application in landslide susceptibility mapping	59