OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 56. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)	386
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters	174
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project	159
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink	156
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	154
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation	140
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance	136
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?	132
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks	115
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning	100
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?	99
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950	97
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina	94
Exposure to ambient PM_2.5 and its association with the loss of labor productivity of manufacturing plants in India	93
The role of eddy-wind interaction in the eddy kinetic energy budget of the Agulhas retroflection region	90
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia	90
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM_2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin	87
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature	87
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia	84
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty	81
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters	78
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade	76
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease	76
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change	76
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics	76

Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process	73
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making	72
Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export	71
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans	70
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story	69
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios	69
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia	68
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences	66
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming	66
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO₂ greenhouse gases	65
Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration	65
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management	65
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia	63
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection	62
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 2050	61
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models	60
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion	60
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment	59
Status of agricultural water management practices in Africa: a review for the prioritisation and operationalisation of the Africa Union’s irrigation development and agricultural water management (AU-I	59
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/2000	59
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM_2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method	59
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland	58
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events	58
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth	58
Modelling the global photovoltaic potential on land and its sensitivity to climate change	58
Envisioning a sustainable agricultural water future across spatial scales	57
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries	57
Theoretical evaluation on CO₂ removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model	57
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic	56
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records	56
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans	56