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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Silica in a state of shock	580
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	409
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	247
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments	211
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	199
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	192
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	171
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	166
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	150
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	140
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	138
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	138
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	133
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	128
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	125
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	122
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites	122
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	113
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	112
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	111
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	109
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply	104
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	102
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	100
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	99

Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	98
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming	98
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	96
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	94
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	94
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	93
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion	91
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	91
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	90
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	89
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	89
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	89
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	83
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation	80
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	78
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	77
Complexities of coastal resilience	75
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	74
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep	74
The bedrock of forest drought	73
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	73
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	72
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics	72
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States	71
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming	68
A conversation on air pollution in India	68
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	67
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	67
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	66
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	66
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle	65
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	65
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	64
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening	64
Galactic messages carried by moissanite	64
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires	61