OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 62. 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
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	618
Silica in a state of shock	436
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments	256
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	236
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	227
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	206
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	188
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	185
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	172
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	167
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	156
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	151
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites	144
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	132
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	132
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	128
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	126
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	122
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	121
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	120
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	118
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard	117
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	115
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	115
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	113

Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	112
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	108
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation	107
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	104
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	101
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	100
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	99
Complexities of coastal resilience	96
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	96
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep	95
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	94
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	93
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	86
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	83
The bedrock of forest drought	83
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming	82
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	82
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	81
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets	78
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean	77
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	77
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	76
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	76
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	75
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation	74
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	74
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs	73
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	72
Small but mighty sperrylite	71
A conversation on air pollution in India	70
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	67
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific	67
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	66
Methane’s unknowns better known	66
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	65
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	63
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle	63
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements	62
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	62