OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of CATENA is 58. 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
A strategy for modelling sediment distribution along slope lengths of an ephemeral gully through the simulated scouring experiments	195
Geographic factors explain soil nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry in the Chinese wetlands	153
Ion solubilization in surface soil layers of montane region with heavy snowfall	133
Bryophyte diversity and soil organic carbon content in contrasting Northern Appalachian vernal pools	123
15 years ecohydrological long-term monitoring of the artificial catchment Chicken Creek – A brief summary	121
Rainfall erosivity variability over the United States associated with large-scale climate variations by El Niño/southern oscillation	119
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)	119
Assessment of suspended sediment dynamics in a small ungauged badland catchment in the Northern Apennines (Italy) using an in-situ laser diffraction method	108
Low-level nitrogen and short-term addition increase soil carbon sequestration in Chinese forest ecosystems	105
Response of soil aggregate stability and rill erodibility to soil electric field	103
Integrative analysis of nutrient dynamics and its hydrological pathways in a tropical montane forest watershed: Implications for landscape management	102
Influence of geochemistry and topography on vegetation in tropical Nigeria: Geochemistry and soil thickness surpass topographic position	102
Hydro-sedimentary dysfunctions as a key factor for the storage of contaminants in mountain rivers (Bienne River, Jura Mountains, France)	101
The difference in leaf color quality of Cotinus coggygria during the coloration peak period affected by soil and topographic heterogeneity	98
Long-term changes in soil composition in unmanaged central European mountain spruce forests after decreased acidic deposition and a bark beetle outbreak	96
Editorial Board	96
Contributions of mycorrhizal fungi to soil aggregate formation during subalpine forest succession	93
Spatiotemporal variability of rainfall erosivity and its teleconnection with atmospheric circulation in monsoon-driven climate region	93
Assessing two methods of defining rainfall intensity and duration thresholds for shallow landslides in data-scarce catchments of the Colombian Andean Mountains	88
Multiple forcing on Late Miocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability in NE Tibetan Plateau	87
Spatial prediction of soil sand content at various sampling density based on geostatistical and machine learning algorithms in plain areas	86
Comparison of distinctive diversities, co-occurrence patterns and potential ecological functions of microbial communities in heterogeneous soil areas in typical subtropical forests, southeast China	86
Climatic and hydrological variability as a driver of the Lake Gościąż biota during the Younger Dryas	82
Temperature and precipitation effects on soil nitrogen availability and cycling in Chinese fir plantations across subtropical China	81
Assessing anthropogenic contribution in highly magnetic forest soils developed on basalts using magnetic susceptibility and concentration of elements	81

Integrating the SLIDE model within CAESAR-Lisflood: Modeling the ‘rainfall-landslide-flash flood’ disaster chain mechanism under landscape evolution in a mountainous area	81
Climatic control on the Holocene hydrology of a playa-lake system in the western Mediterranean	79
Rock glaciers in the Gangdise Mountains, southern Tibetan Plateau: Morphology and controlling factors	76
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	76
Unravelling chemical and physical processes in Fourier transform spectra of low frequency dissolved oxygen time series in Swiss lakes	71
The role of detention storage of sediment on erosion by rain-impacted flows	71
Effects of thinning on soil water content and water use characteristics of artificial forest in the Loess Plateau of China	71
Low-severity fire promote carbon emissions in permafrost peatlands of the Great Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	70
Increased radiocarbon age offset of crater lake sediments linked to cool-dry intervals during the past 40,000 yr	69
Testing a low-complexity spatially distributed model to simulate the intra-annual dynamics of soil erosion and sediment delivery	68
Historical and future runoff changes and their impacts on stormflow characteristics in the upper Yangtze River basin, China	68
Dissolved organic matter movements from forests influence downstream soil CO2 flux during thawing	68
The effectiveness of sediment and phosphorus removal by a small constructed wetland in Norway: 18 years of monitoring and perspectives for the future	67
Simulating soil organic carbon stock under different climate change scenarios: A RothC model application to typical land-use systems of Goa, India	67
Implications of geomorphometric parameters on the occurrence of landslides in the Kali Valley, Kumaun Himalaya, India	66
Parent materials influence in the formation of vertical textural differentiation in humid tropical landscapes	65
Development of an argillic horizon in polygenetic paleosols in the Marília Formation (Maastrichtian), Brazil: Precautions for paleoenvironmental interpretation	65
The effect of altitude on the prediction of momentum for rainfall erosivity studies in Mexico	65
Clay mineralogy fingerprinting of loess-mantled soils on different underlying substrates in the south-western Poland	63
Carbon saturation deficit and litter quality drive the stabilization of litter-derived C in mineral-associated organic matter in long-term no-till soil	63
Background concentrations and accumulation rates in sediments of pristine tropical environments	63
Combination of statistical and conceptual approaches for debris-flow susceptibility modelling at a regional scale, British Columbia, Canada	62
Climate dynamics during the last 3000 years forced environmental and sedimentation changes in southern Spain: The Laguna Grande de Archidona record	62
Paleosols under kurgans and kurgan constructions of the bronze age as indicators of paleoenvironmental conditions in steppe area of russia	62
An improved spatial case-based reasoning considering multiple spatial drivers of geographic events and its application in landslide susceptibility mapping	61
Soil nutrients and nutrient ratios influence the ratios of soil microbial biomass and metabolic nutrient limitations in mountain peatlands	60
Gully erosion susceptibility assessment based on machine learning-A case study of watersheds in Tuquan County in the black soil region of Northeast China	60
Integrated soil water content and stable isotopes reveal contrasting soil water driving forces between seasons in hot-dry valleys	60
Using a novel vector length stability index (VLSI) to evaluate soil aggregate stability: A preliminary study	60
A matrix for estimating the unfrozen water content of freezing soils	60
Estimated nutrient leakage from arable land in different bioeconomy scenarios for two areas in central Sweden, determined using a leaching coefficient method	60
Improving monitoring Karst rocky desertification using high-frequency Landsat observations: A generalized framework and its application to a typical karst region in southeast China	59
Flooding lowers the emissions of CO2 and CH4 during the freeze-thaw process in a lacustrine wetland	58
Indices accounting for rainstorm erosivity – Theory and practice	58
Linking hydrological and landscape characteristics to suspended sediment-discharge hysteresis in Wudinghe River Basin on the Loess Plateau, China	58