OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 61. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Silica in a state of shock	566
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	397
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	238
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments	208
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	187
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	185
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	166
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	156
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	141
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	135
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	132
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	128
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	122
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	119
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	119
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	118
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	117
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	110
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	106
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	105
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	104
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	98
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements	98
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	96
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	96

Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	94
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming	93
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	90
The bedrock of forest drought	89
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	88
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	87
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation	87
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	86
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	85
Complexities of coastal resilience	85
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	82
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	81
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	79
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	78
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	78
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	77
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	75
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	72
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	71
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	70
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	70
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics	69
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific	67
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols	67
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States	66
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	65
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming	65
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	65
A conversation on air pollution in India	65
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	63
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle	62
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs	62
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	62
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	62
Galactic messages carried by moissanite	62