OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 60. 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
Inconsistent ENSO teleconnections over East Asia in early and late winter: role of Siberian land-atmosphere coupling	683
Potential and costs required for methane removal to compete with BECCS as a mitigation option	274
Sustainable water reuse for water security	246
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia	206
Footprints of cocaine: a bibliometric analysis and systematic review of the environmental impacts of the cocaine value chain in Latin America	188
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems	181
We have to talk about overconsumption (in three different ways)	181
Decline of Antarctic Circumpolar Current due to polar ocean freshening	176
Nationwide projections of heat- and cold-related mortality impacts under various climate change and population development scenarios in Switzerland	144
Black carbon in the Southern Andean snowpack	132
Impact of anthropogenic warming on emergence of extreme precipitation over global land monsoon area	132
Crop diversity buffers the impact of droughts and high temperatures on food production	124
Thermal energy communities: what, why and how to formulate complex collective action for the thermal energy transition in Europe	118
The role of green roofs as urban habitats for biodiversity modulated by their design: a review	116
Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States	115
Separating internal and forced contributions to near term SST predictability in the CESM2-LE	108
Quantitative assessment of the potential benefits of global afforestation on ecosystem productivity	105
CMIP6 near-term and long-term projections of Eurasian winter cooling trend and cold extremes	105
The warming winter accelerated methane emissions during subsequent rice growing season from paddy fields	104
The fate of the Caspian Sea under projected climate change and water extraction during the 21st century	99
Reusing wastewater for agricultural irrigation: a water-energy-food Nexus assessment in the North Western Sahara Aquifer System	97
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols	96
Observed and simulated local climate responses to tropical deforestation	93
Understanding human–water feedbacks of interventions in agricultural systems with agent based models: a review	91
Mitigation of non-CO₂ greenhouse gases from Indian agriculture sector	91

Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease	87
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	85
Widespread deepening of the active layer in northern permafrost regions from 2003 to 2020	83
Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): a citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa	82
Interdecadal changes in three-dimensional atmospheric circulation patterns related to summer temperature variability in Eastern China modulated by the interdecadal Pacific Oscillation	79
Arctic sea ice melting has produced distinct sea ice-atmosphere coupled patterns	78
Community stakeholder perspectives for empowering EJ initiatives through Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS)	77
Corrigendum: provincial-scale assessment of direct air capture to meet China’s climate neutrality goal under limited bioenergy supply (2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 114021)	77
Assessing the robustness and implications of econometric estimates of climate sensitivity	76
Reduced aerosols and intensified summertime rainfall in India during the pandemic suggest potentially more amplified precipitation in the future	75
How much multilateralism do we need? Effectiveness of unilateral agricultural mitigation efforts in the global context	70
Association of exposure to extreme rainfall events with cause-specific mortality in North Carolina, US	70
Canopy responses of Swedish primary and secondary forests to the 2018 drought	69
Global methane pledge versus carbon dioxide emission reduction	69
Estimating aboveground biomass density using hybrid statistical inference with GEDI lidar data and Paraguay’s national forest inventory	69
Nutrients and sea surface temperature drive harmful algal blooms in China’s coastal waters over the past decades	68
Spatiotemporal dynamics of landslide susceptibility under future climate change and land use scenarios	68
Contrasting East Asian climate extremes in 2020 and 2022 tied to zonal flow	68
Distinct roles of land cover in regulating spatial variabilities of temperature responses to radiative effects of aerosols and clouds	67
East African population exposure to precipitation extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming levels based on CMIP6 models	65
The trend shift caused by ecological restoration accelerates the vegetation greening of China’s drylands since the 1980s	64
Assessment of ecological water scarcity in China	64
Drivers of the rare persistence of sea ice in the western Chukchi Sea in summer 2024	63
Enhancement of Arctic surface ozone during the 2020–2021 winter associated with the sudden stratospheric warming	63
Historical evaluation and future projections of compound heatwave and drought extremes over the conterminous United States in CMIP6 ^*	63
Sustainable alternative futures for agriculture in India—the energy, emissions, and resource implications	62
High-resolution observations of NO₂ and CO₂ emission plumes from EnMAP satellite measurements	62
Recent changes in cropland area and productivity indicate unsustainable cropland expansion in Malawi	62
Moisture-modulated heatwaves: tracking 3D evolution patterns and projected changes	62
Carbon pricing – perceived strengths, weaknesses and knowledge gaps according to a global expert survey	61
Rethinking blue carbon: unlocking invisible carbon sinks	61
Microplastics interact with benthic biostabilization processes	61
The direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades	61
Do we need more research on the environmental impacts of plastics?	60
Unprecedented snow-drought conditions in the Italian Alps during the early 2020s	60