OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of CATENA is 60. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
15 years ecohydrological long-term monitoring of the artificial catchment Chicken Creek – A brief summary	227
The impact of natural and anthropogenic factors on erosion in the Northeastern loess Plateau, China, during the past 10,000 years	166
Contrasting impacts of grassland restoration methods on soil greenhouse gases emissions under warming conditions in Northern Tibet	139
Corrigendum to “Carbon storage in typical ecosystems of coastal wetlands in Jiangsu, China: Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms” [Catena 254 (2025) 108882]	128
Effects of slope aspect and tillage type on soil microbial biomass and its stoichiometric ratios in karst trough valley	128
Continental–scale distribution and source identification of boron in soils of China	126
Assessing the impacts of lithology on short-term gully evolution within the karst Mediterranean area	125
A matrix for estimating the unfrozen water content of freezing soils	113
Exploring underlying drivers of coarse above- and below-ground carbon sequestration in China's plantations	112
Clay mineralogy fingerprinting of loess-mantled soils on different underlying substrates in the south-western Poland	110
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)	106
Background concentrations and accumulation rates in sediments of pristine tropical environments	105
Multiple forcing on Late Miocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability in NE Tibetan Plateau	105
Runoff and sediment effect of the soil-water conservation measures in a typical river basin of the Loess Plateau	97
The role of detention storage of sediment on erosion by rain-impacted flows	97
Increased radiocarbon age offset of crater lake sediments linked to cool-dry intervals during the past 40,000 yr	94
Spatiotemporal variability of rainfall erosivity and its teleconnection with atmospheric circulation in monsoon-driven climate region	92
Changes in the microbial necromass carbon and iron-bound organic carbon following land use and salinity in estuary soils	92
Improving monitoring Karst rocky desertification using high-frequency Landsat observations: A generalized framework and its application to a typical karst region in southeast China	89
Contrasting global patterns of soil microbial quotients of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems	86
Low-severity fire promote carbon emissions in permafrost peatlands of the Great Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	86
Rock glaciers in the Gangdise Mountains, southern Tibetan Plateau: Morphology and controlling factors	83
Spatial variations in water use efficiency across global terrestrial ecosystems	82
Direct rain splash and downwearing of internal surfaces as an important erosion process in alluvial gully development	81
Soil nutrients and nutrient ratios influence the ratios of soil microbial biomass and metabolic nutrient limitations in mountain peatlands	78

Flooding lowers the emissions of CO2 and CH4 during the freeze-thaw process in a lacustrine wetland	77
Contribution of physical and anthropogenic factors to gully erosion initiation	77
Comparison of distinctive diversities, co-occurrence patterns and potential ecological functions of microbial communities in heterogeneous soil areas in typical subtropical forests, southeast China	76
Landslide susceptibility prediction in the loess tableland considering geomorphic evolution	76
Clay mineral assemblages of the Luojiawopeng Formation red bed in the Songnen Plain, NE China and their paleoenvironment implications	73
Testing a low-complexity spatially distributed model to simulate the intra-annual dynamics of soil erosion and sediment delivery	73
Parent materials influence in the formation of vertical textural differentiation in humid tropical landscapes	72
Evaluating the effectiveness of four representative land uses in soil and water conservation on a typical rainfed Mediterranean agricultural landscape in La Rioja (Spain)	72
Fertile island effects across developmental stages of Caragana korshinskii nebkhas drive microbial nutrient cycling in arid ecosystems	72
Integrated soil water content and stable isotopes reveal contrasting soil water driving forces between seasons in hot-dry valleys	70
Climate dynamics during the last 3000 years forced environmental and sedimentation changes in southern Spain: The Laguna Grande de Archidona record	70
Fluctuating nature of prehistoric settlement and land use preserved in sedimentary record of vanished gully	70
Paleosols under kurgans and kurgan constructions of the bronze age as indicators of paleoenvironmental conditions in steppe area of russia	70
Exploring the impact of rainfall spatial differentiation on sediment yield of a typical watershed in the Loess Plateau of China	69
Dissolved organic matter movements from forests influence downstream soil CO2 flux during thawing	68
Indices accounting for rainstorm erosivity – Theory and practice	68
Unravelling chemical and physical processes in Fourier transform spectra of low frequency dissolved oxygen time series in Swiss lakes	67
Isoerodent surfaces of the continental US for conservation planning with the RUSLE2 water erosion model	66
Coupling effects of soil and vegetation from an ecosystem service perspective	66
Geographic factors explain soil nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry in the Chinese wetlands	65
A strategy for modelling sediment distribution along slope lengths of an ephemeral gully through the simulated scouring experiments	65
Carbon saturation deficit and litter quality drive the stabilization of litter-derived C in mineral-associated organic matter in long-term no-till soil	64
Implications of geomorphometric parameters on the occurrence of landslides in the Kali Valley, Kumaun Himalaya, India	64
Use of multifractal parameters to determine soil particle size distribution and erodibility of a physical soil crust in the Loess Plateau, China	64
Contrasting soil dynamics in a formerly glaciated and non-glaciated Mediterranean mountain plateau (Serra da Estrela, Portugal)	64
Development of an argillic horizon in polygenetic paleosols in the Marília Formation (Maastrichtian), Brazil: Precautions for paleoenvironmental interpretation	63
Hydro-sedimentary dysfunctions as a key factor for the storage of contaminants in mountain rivers (Bienne River, Jura Mountains, France)	62
Gully erosion susceptibility assessment based on machine learning-A case study of watersheds in Tuquan County in the black soil region of Northeast China	62
Fingerprinting sources of beach sands by grain-size, using mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIRS) and portable XRF. Implications for coastal recovery along a tsunami-struck delta coastline	62
Ion solubilization in surface soil layers of montane region with heavy snowfall	62
Sediment yield in a basin in Brazilian Semiarid Regions: A discussion on positive allometry	62
Rainfall erosivity variability over the United States associated with large-scale climate variations by El Niño/southern oscillation	62
Forest soil nutrient stocks along altitudinal range of Uttarakhand Himalayas: An aid to Nature Based Climate Solutions	61
Assessing anthropogenic contribution in highly magnetic forest soils developed on basalts using magnetic susceptibility and concentration of elements	61
Low-level nitrogen and short-term addition increase soil carbon sequestration in Chinese forest ecosystems	60
Profile distribution of soil organic carbon and its isotopic value following long term land-use changes	60
Effect of afforestation on soil water dynamics and water uptake under different rainfall types on the Loess hillslope	60
Climatic and hydrological variability as a driver of the Lake Gościąż biota during the Younger Dryas	60