OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 53. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest 404: Using a BBC drama series to explore the impact of nature’s changing soundscapes on human wellbeing and behavior	230
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States	172
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	134
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19	133
Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain	124
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	122
Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness	118
Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis	118
Assessing the state of traditional knowledge at national level	117
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom	103
Editorial Board	103
Editorial Board	102
Editorial Board	102
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	100
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates	98
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	97
Editorial Board	95
Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories	94
Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance	85
How do natural resource dependent firms gain and lose a social licence?	85
Commentary: Food choices and environmental impacts: Achievements and challenges	82
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	81
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict	81
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	80
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures	78

Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	77
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	76
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade	76
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	73
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?	72
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments	71
Scaling patterns of human diseases and population size in Colombia	70
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response	69
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species	69
Editorial Board	68
Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR	67
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries	65
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy	63
Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England	62
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets	62
Commentary : Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change	61
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China	59
Air pollutions and loan decision bias	58
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	56
Mapping public appraisals of carbon dioxide removal	56
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	56
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	55
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia	55
Adaptive capacity within tropical marine protected areas – Differences between men- and women-headed households	55
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	54
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe	53
Policies to bring about social-ecological tipping points in coal and carbon intensive regions	53
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities	53
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	53