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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	591
Hazard perception	491
Carbonate record of temporal change in oxygen fugacity and gaseous species in asteroid Ryugu	332
Rapid loss of complex polymers and pyrogenic carbon in subsoils under whole-soil warming	285
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	272
Seismic methodologies key to unlocking Earth’s lowermost mantle	217
My journey out of fossil fuel-funded research	188
Amphibole interlocking into jade	188
Tetrataenite’s magnetic personality	177
A conversation on air pollution in China	166
Meteorological phenomena on Mars observed by the Perseverance rover	144
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation	141
Reconstruction of Patagonia’s glacial history informs key global climate drivers	136
Evolution of Earth’s oxygenation and temperature depends on surface carbonate accumulation	136
Bubble bursts increase melt rates of tidewater glaciers	122
Plants rooted in rocks	120
Minerals matter	119
Hidden rivers under Antarctica impact ice flow and stability	111
Advancing geoscience with AI	111
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches	108
Mantle driven mountains	108
Planting trees to combat drought	107
Rare-earth-rich rhabdophane	106
Dichotomy retreat and aqueous alteration on Noachian Mars recorded in highland remnants	106
Sulfur speciation matters	105

Publisher Correction: Megathrusts exhumed	100
Daytime urban heat stress in North America reduced by irrigation	100
Synthesis of 13C-depleted organic matter from CO in a reducing early Martian atmosphere	96
Hydrothermal flow and serpentinization in oceanic core complexes controlled by mafic intrusions	89
Evidence of strong aerosol cooling implies great efficacy of marine cloud brightening	89
Deep mantle water prefers slabs	87
Intrusions induce global warming before continental flood basalt volcanism	86
A step forward to mitigate ozone	86
Atmospheric impacts of the space industry require oversight	85
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	83
A weak and active surface of Bennu	81
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries	80
Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation	79
Surface warming and wetting due to methane’s long-wave radiative effects muted by short-wave absorption	78
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	77
Links between large igneous province volcanism and subducted iron formations	77
Publisher Correction: Direct observation of Earth’s spectral long-wave feedback parameter	74
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost	74
Recent state transition of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre	74
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	74
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	74
Cooler forests in clean air	73
Response of stratospheric water vapour to warming constrained by satellite observations	73
Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland	72
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving	72
Forming the oldest-surviving crust	72
How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience	68
Author Correction: Frequent marine heatwaves hidden below the surface of the global ocean	67
Pervasive fluorinated chemicals	66
Lateral expansion of northern peatlands calls into question a 1,055 GtC estimate of carbon storage	66
Granular decoherence precedes ice mélange failure and glacier calving at Jakobshavn Isbræ	65
The number and location of Jupiter’s circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics	65
Author Correction: Large subglacial source of mercury from the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	63
Author Correction: Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	63
Top-down control on water subduction	62
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments	62
Author Correction: An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya	61