OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 60. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Silica in a state of shock	530
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	358
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	299
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments	224
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	197
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	183
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	177
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	165
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	150
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	150
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	145
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	137
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	126
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	123
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	120
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	119
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	115
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements	114
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	112
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	110
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	101
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	98
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	97
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	95
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	95

Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	94
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	93
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	93
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	90
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation	89
The bedrock of forest drought	84
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	83
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	82
Complexities of coastal resilience	81
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	81
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	80
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	80
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	79
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	79
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming	78
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	78
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe	77
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	77
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	77
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	73
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific	72
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene	71
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols	70
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming	68
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity	67
A conversation on air pollution in India	66
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	65
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum	65
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	64
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood	64
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes	64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	62
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	62
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	60
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water	60