OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 89. 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
Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement	1383
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	717
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	451
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	423
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19	387
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	368
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	354
The hydrogen solution?	352
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	284
Understanding and managing connected extreme events	283
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	281
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	261
The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale	260
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	257
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	254
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	245
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century	235
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	234
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	231
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	227
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	207
Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic	200
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	197
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	194
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	186

Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	174
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	173
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation	172
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	169
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	167
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	166
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	163
A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration	163
Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean	163
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts	163
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	154
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	153
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	151
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	151
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	149
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	144
Crafting strong, integrated policy mixes for deep CO2 mitigation in road transport	143
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change	143
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	143
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	142
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	140
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic	134
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	133
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	133
Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa	129
Food–energy–water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future	127
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	124
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets	123
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	122
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	121
Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise	120
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets	119
An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands	119
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade	119
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom	117
Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises	117
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	115
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	114
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	113
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	112
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	112
Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration	110
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	110
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	109
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	108
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	107
Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate	106
Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia	103
Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean	101
Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole	99

Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	99
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	99
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	99
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems	98
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth	97
Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming	96
Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming	95
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	95
Climate change risk to global port operations	94
Equity in allocating carbon dioxide removal quotas	94
The blue carbon wealth of nations	92
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	92
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	91
A near-term to net zero alternative to the social cost of carbon for setting carbon prices	90
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat	89