OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 58. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale	487
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources	409
Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity	372
Biochar in climate change mitigation	283
Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle	242
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017	210
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium	201
Amplified transboundary transport of haze by aerosol–boundary layer interaction in China	188
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability	179
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade	178
Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves	171
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	171
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China	141
Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change	135
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments	125
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement	122
The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements	120
The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers	116
Global distribution of sediment-hosted metals controlled by craton edge stability	116
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers	113
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	113
Critical role of water in the formation of continental crust	108
Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation	105
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings	105
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change	101

Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration	99
Corona structures driven by plume–lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus	96
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India	95
Artificial intelligence reconstructs missing climate information	94
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry	91
Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions	89
Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	86
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils	80
Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations	80
Arctic fires re-emerging	80
High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability	79
Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions	77
Widespread subsidence and carbon emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands	75
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion	74
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming	74
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation	74
Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas	73
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock	73
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing	72
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes	71
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy	70
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities	69
Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere	68
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems	68
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course	67
Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale	67
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks	66
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies	66
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars	66
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates	65
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system	65
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion	63
A shift in sulfur-cycle manipulation from atmospheric emissions to agricultural additions	60
A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction	58
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat	58
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming	58