OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is 33. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing sea level, changing shorelines: integration of remote-sensing observations at the Terschelling barrier island	82
The Cambodian Mekong floodplain under future development plans and climate change	70
Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities	66
Modeling of indoor ²²²Rn in data-scarce regions: an interactive dashboard approach for Bogotá, Colombia	63
Transferability of machine-learning-based modeling frameworks across flood events for hindcasting maximum river water depths in coastal watersheds	62
Characterizing hail-prone environments using convection-permitting reanalysis and overshooting top detections over south-central Europe	58
GTDI: a game-theory-based integrated drought index implying hazard-causing and hazard-bearing impact change	56
Ground motion variability in Israel from 3-D simulations of M 6 and M 7 earthquakes	56
Temporal changes in rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for post-wildfire flash floods in southern California	48
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of b values revealed by a data-driven approach for the 17 June 2019 M_S 6.0 Changning earthquake sequence, Sichuan, China	48
The 2017 Split wildfire in Croatia: evolution and the role of meteorological conditions	45
Assessing flooding impact to riverine bridges: an integrated analysis	44
The influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis: a case study from Xichang and the surrounding areas	44
A new regionally consistent exposure database for Central Asia: population and residential buildings	44
Brief communication: Western Europe flood in 2021 – mapping agriculture flood exposure from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)	44
Assessing flood hazard changes using climate model forcing	44
Characteristics of precipitation extremes over the Nordic region: added value of convection-permitting modeling	43
Wind-wave characteristics and extremes along the Emilia-Romagna coast	42
Does a convection-permitting regional climate model bring new perspectives on the projection of Mediterranean floods?	42
Storm surge hazard over Bengal delta: a probabilistic–deterministic modelling approach	41
Climatology of large hail in Europe: characteristics of the European Severe Weather Database	41
Are heavy-rainfall events a major trigger of associated natural hazards along the German rail network?	40
Uncovering the veil of night light changes in times of catastrophe	40
Insights into thunderstorm characteristics from geostationary lightning jump and dive observations	40
Automated determination of landslide locations after large trigger events: advantages and disadvantages compared to manual mapping	39

CHILDA – Czech Historical Landslide Database	38
Dynamic response and breakage of trees subject to a landslide-induced air blast	37
The record-breaking precipitation event of December 2022 in Portugal	37
Review article: Towards improved drought prediction in the Mediterranean region – modeling approaches and future directions	37
Assessing the relationship between weather conditions and rockfall using terrestrial laser scanning to improve risk management	36
Insights into the vulnerability of vegetation to tephra fallouts from interpretable machine learning and big Earth observation data	35
Idealized simulations of Mei-yu rainfall in Taiwan under uniform southwesterly flow using a cloud-resolving model	34
The M_w 7.5 Tadine (Maré, Loyalty Islands) earthquake and related tsunami of 5 December 2018: seismotectonic context and numerical modeling	33