OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 62. 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
Global biogeography of N₂-fixing microbes: nifH amplicon database and analytics workflow	2165
Reactive nitrogen fluxes over peatland and forest ecosystems using micrometeorological measurement techniques	1818
An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493–4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017–2020)	1095
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)	971
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets	665
A year of attenuation data from a commercial dual-polarized duplex microwave link with concurrent disdrometer, rain gauge, and weather observations	597
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)	234
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015	210
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)	171
North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry	158
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????)³ aircraft campaign	124
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries	123
Aircraft measurements of water vapor heavy isotope ratios in the marine boundary layer and lower troposphere during ORACLES	121
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll-a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet	121
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites	117
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures	117
Coastal complexity of the Antarctic continent	116
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies	116
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean	111
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset	109
HCPD-CA: high-resolution climate projection dataset in central Asia	109
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach	108
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium	106
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020	104
FORMS: Forest Multiple Source height, wood volume, and biomass maps in France at 10 to 30 m resolution based on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data with a d	103

A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau	102
Rates and timing of chlorophyll-a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes	101
Bias-corrected and spatially disaggregated seasonal forecasts: a long-term reference forecast product for the water sector in semi-arid regions	98
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N₂ fixation	96
Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)	95
Status of the Tibetan Plateau observatory (Tibet-Obs) and a 10-year (2009–2019) surface soil moisture dataset	95
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses	92
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset	92
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 2022	90
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs	90
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine	90
Weight-to-weight conversion factors for benthic macrofauna: recent measurements from the Baltic and the North seas	86
In situ airborne measurements of atmospheric parameters and airborne sea surface properties related to offshore wind parks in the German Bight during the project X-Wakes	85
PM_2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 2022	83
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC	81
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean	81
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types	79
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery	79
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning	79
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region	77
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 2023	77
Turbulence dissipation rate estimated from lidar observations during the LAPSE-RATE field campaign	75
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana	75
Observations of the lower atmosphere from the 2021 WiscoDISCO campaign	74
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom	72
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS	71
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years	70
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations	69
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 1761	69
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea	69
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica	68
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)	67
OCTOPUS database (v.2)	66
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile	65
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand	65
A 30 m terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine	64
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations	62