OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 64. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	458
Silica in a state of shock	278
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	257
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	253
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard	223
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	204
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	204
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	200
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	182
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	176
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	174
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction	164
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	150
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	140
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	136
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	132
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	131
Kaolinite’s many lives	130
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	126
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites	126
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	126
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	126
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	119
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	116
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	110

Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	109
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation	108
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	106
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	106
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	104
Complexities of coastal resilience	102
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	101
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep	99
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean	99
The bedrock of forest drought	94
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean	91
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout	91
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	90
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	88
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks	87
Tightening the Sargassum belt	85
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets	78
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	78
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	77
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	77
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	76
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	75
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	74
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	74
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	72
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe	72
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	71
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	71
Small but mighty sperrylite	69
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	69
A conversation on air pollution in India	68
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	67
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	66
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle	66
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific	66
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	66
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	65
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	65
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires	64
Galactic messages carried by moissanite	64
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements	64
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum	64