OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 50. 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
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters	195
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project	186
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	180
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning	160
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia	138
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region	122
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters	116
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change	115
Can climate knowledge enable Warragamba Dam, Sydney, Australia to be used to manage flood risk?	101
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 2050	99
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance	97
Temporal variability in irrigated land and climate influences on salinity loading across the Upper Colorado River Basin, 1986-2017	89
A new perspective for assessing hydro-meteorological drought relationships at large scale based on causality analysis	87
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China	85
Fashion fades, microplastics are eternal: a critical systematic literature review to assess microplastic fibre colours in environmental samples	72
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink	71
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends	70
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations	69
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models	68
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events	66
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences	66
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest	65
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe	65
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM_2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method	61
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)	60

Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region	60
If you build it, will they come? Insect community responses to habitat establishment at solar energy facilities in Minnesota, USA	59
Shift of soil moisture-temperature coupling exacerbated 2022 compound hot-dry event in eastern China	58
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target	58
Surge of peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia	58
Source or sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands	56
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story	56
Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India's tropical dry woodlands	56
Deliberative polling increases non-expert confidence in assessments about carbon dioxide removal technologies	55
Lightning response to temperature and aerosols	55
Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary archives reveals ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes diversity increased over recent decades in the environment	55
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics	55
Strong increase in mortality attributable to ozone pollution under a climate change and demographic scenario	55
Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950	54
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States	54
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks	54
Transboundary emission contribution to PM_2.5 concentrations in Indian cities	54
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO₂ greenhouse gases	54
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records	53
How does urbanization process affect urban heat island effect? Interpretation of 31 cities in China based on local climate zones	52
Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth	51
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days	51
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia	50
Potential of wastewater reuse to alleviate water scarcity under future warming scenarios	50
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems	50
Minimizing emissions from grid-based hydrogen production in the United States	50
Theoretical evaluation on CO₂ removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model	50