OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is 34. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing sea level, changing shorelines: integration of remote-sensing observations at the Terschelling barrier island	118
Climatology of large hail in Europe: characteristics of the European Severe Weather Database	105
Characterizing hail-prone environments using convection-permitting reanalysis and overshooting top detections over south-central Europe	94
The influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis: a case study from Xichang and the surrounding areas	90
Assessing flooding impact to riverine bridges: an integrated analysis	86
Does a convection-permitting regional climate model bring new perspectives on the projection of Mediterranean floods?	84
Wind-wave characteristics and extremes along the Emilia-Romagna coast	79
Reask UTC: a machine learning modeling framework to generate climate-connected tropical cyclone event sets globally	67
Modeling of indoor ²²² Rn in data-scarce regions: an interactive dashboard approach for Bogotá, Colombia	67
Insights into thunderstorm characteristics from geostationary lightning jump and dive observations	64
Insights into tectonic zonation models from the clustering analysis of seismicity in southern and south-eastern Spain	61
Qualitative risk assessment of sensitive infrastructures at the local level: flooding and heavy rainfall	60
Severe beach erosion induced by shoreline deformation after a large-scale reclamation project for the Samcheok liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in South Korea	60
Temporal persistence of postfire flood hazards under present and future climate conditions in southern Arizona, USA	59
Flood damage functions for rice: synthesizing evidence and building data-driven models	57
A new regionally consistent exposure database for Central Asia: population and residential buildings	56
The 2017 Split wildfire in Croatia: evolution and the role of meteorological conditions	54
Storm surge hazard over Bengal delta: a probabilistic–deterministic modelling approach	53
Brief communication: Western Europe flood in 2021 – mapping agriculture flood exposure from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)	48
Extreme heat and mortality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in November 2023: attribution to climate change and ENSO	48
Assessing flood hazard changes using climate model forcing	45
GTDI: a game-theory-based integrated drought index implying hazard-causing and hazard-bearing impact change	45
Uncovering the veil of night light changes in times of catastrophe	44
Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities	42
Seismic signal characterization of snow avalanches using distributed acoustic sensing in Grasdalen, western Norway	41

Transferability of machine-learning-based modeling frameworks across flood events for hindcasting maximum river water depths in coastal watersheds	40
Are heavy-rainfall events a major trigger of associated natural hazards along the German rail network?	39
Quantifying the influence of coastal flood hazards on building habitability following Hurricane Irma	38
Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany	38
The record-breaking precipitation event of December 2022 in Portugal	38
Insights into the vulnerability of vegetation to tephra fallouts from interpretable machine learning and big Earth observation data	36
Rapid amplification of Compound Drought and Heatwave risk over India: a regime shift from arid northwest to humid southern and eastern hotspots	36
Idealized simulations of Mei-yu rainfall in Taiwan under uniform southwesterly flow using a cloud-resolving model	35
Dynamic response and breakage of trees subject to a landslide-induced air blast	35
Storm characteristics influence nitrogen removal in an urban estuarine environment	34
Addressing class imbalance in soil movement predictions	34