OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Hazards is 39. 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
Fire-danger modeling and mapping in natural ecosystems of northeastern Iran: application of physiographic, vegetative, climatic and human-made indicators	160
Estimation of maximum seasonal tropical cyclone damage in the Atlantic using climate models	112
An urban drought categorization framework and the vulnerability of a lowland city to groundwater urban droughts	100
Hydrological and hydrodynamic reconstruction of a flood event in a poorly monitored basin: a case study in the Rolante River, Brazil	89
An assessment of Dungale landslide using remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS), ground penetration radar (GPR), and Slide & RS2 Softwares	77
Evaluation of flood hazard vulnerabilities and innovative management strategies in Afghanistan’s central region	72
Multi-topographical landscape: comparative vulnerability of climate-induced disaster-prone rural area of Pakistan	69
Pantanal wetland wildfires are associated with drought in interconnected biomes	68
FDI and CO2 emissions in developing countries: the role of human capital	67
Lightning characteristics and associated microphysical parameters in a strong thunderstorm with an extreme gale	65
Probabilistic and deterministic-based approach for liquefaction potential assessment of layered soil	63
Integrated landslide analysis using petrological investigation and drone based high resolution geospatial assessment: Irshalwadi landslide- A case study from Western Ghats of India	63
Numerical simulation of the Qulong Paleolandslide Dam event in the late pleistocene using the finite volume type shallow water model	61
Environmental factors in tsunami evacuation simulation: topography, traffic jam, human behaviour	59
Influence analysis of spatially variable cohesion on flow process and run-out distance of landslides	54
Linkages between riverine flooding risk and economic damage over the continental United States	54
Understanding the environmental conditions of the extreme precipitation event on June 20, 2015, in the city of Douala, Cameroon	53
An improved azimuth-dependent Holland model for typhoons along the Zhejiang coast prior to landfall based on WRF–ARW simulations	53
Spatio-temporal analysis of subsiding districts in Balochistan, Pakistan using Multi-Sensor SBAS InSAR and GNSS	52
Evolution trend of the Huangyanwo rock mass under the action of reservoir water fluctuation	51
Damage analysis of retired typhoons in mainland China from 2009 to 2019	51
A model test method for simulating the decrease in slope soil strength: application to an excavation slope	51
Sudden wave flooding on steep rock shores: a clear but hidden danger	51
Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities and Housing Reconstruction in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria	51
Evolution of flood protection levels and flood vulnerability in Europe since 1950 estimated with vine-copula models	50

Explaining urban communities’ adaptation strategies for climate change risk: novel evidence from Rawalpindi, Pakistan	49
Mean rainfall characteristics of tropical cyclones over the North Indian Ocean using a merged satellite-gauge daily rainfall dataset	48
Site amplification and rupture velocity in EXSIM and updated EXSIM during the 2017 Mw6.6 Jiuzhaigou, China earthquake	48
Forest fire distribution standard in the south of Amazonas state	45
Optimal machine learning techniques for meteorological modeling of $${\textrm{PM}}_{2.5}$$ concentration in five major polluted cities of South-East Asia	42
Influence of aerosols on tropical cyclone dynamics during landfall over Indian region	42
Fragility and damage functions for production forests exposed to volcanic ashfall and flood hazards in Aotearoa-New Zealand	41
Enhancing earthquake disaster risk assessment: insights from pandemic circumstances, case studies, and lessons learned	41
Examining the potential of natural disaster monuments as surrogate indicators for disaster hazards in Japan	40
The potential seismic hazard of the Tarímbaro-Álvaro Obregón fault, a major structure of the Morelia-Acambay fault system in central México	40
A comparative Bayesian optimization-based machine learning and artificial neural networks approach for burned area prediction in forest fires: an application in Turkey	40
Study on the evolutionary mechanisms driving deformation damage of dry tailing stack earth–rock dam under short-term extreme rainfall conditions	39
Projections patterns of precipitation concentration under climate change scenarios	39
Collapsible characteristics and prediction model of remodeled loess	39
Slope failures and safety index assessment of waste rock dumps in Nigeria’s major mines	39
Dynamic determination of landslide stability and thrust force considering slip zone evolution	39