OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Earth Surface Dynamics is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of debris-flow sediment grain-size distribution on fan morphology	40
Evolution of submarine canyons and hanging-wall fans: insights from geomorphic experiments and morphodynamic models	34
Using repeat UAV-based laser scanning and multispectral imagery to explore eco-geomorphic feedbacks along a river corridor	29
Discriminating fluvial fans and deltas: channel network morphometrics reflect distinct formative processes	29
Path length and sediment transport estimation from DEMs of difference: a signal processing approach	27
The direction of landscape erosion	27
Modeling the inhibition effect of straw checkerboard barriers on wind-blown sand	25
Modeling memory in gravel-bed rivers: a flow-history-dependent relation for evolving thresholds of motion	22
Quantification of post-glacier bedrock surface erosion in the European Alps using ¹⁰ Be and optically stimulated luminescence exposure dating	22
A simple model for faceted topographies at normal faults based on an extended stream-power law	21
Toward a general calibration of the Swiss plate geophone system for fractional bedload transport	21
Investigating controls on fluvial grain sizes in post-glacial landscapes using citizen science	18
Barchan swarm dynamics from a Two-Flank Agent-Based Model	18
A novel acoustic bedload monitoring system with phased microphone arrays and an accelerometer for particle localization and size estimation	18
Numerical modelling of the evolution of a river reach with a complex morphology to help define future sustainable restoration decisions	17
The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways – evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	17
Investigating the celerity of propagation for small perturbations and dispersive sediment aggradation under a supercritical flow	16
Post-glacial reshaping of Alpine topography induced by landsliding	16
Constraints on long-term cliff retreat and intertidal weathering at weak rock coasts using cosmogenic ¹⁰ Be, nearshore topography and numerical model	15
Investigation of stochastic-threshold incision models across a climatic and morphological gradient	14
Limited influence of bedrock strength on river profiles: the dominant role of sediment dynamics	14
Water level fluctuations drive bank instability in a hypertidal estuary	13
Dimensionless argument: a narrow grain size range near 2 mm plays a special role in river sediment transport and morphodynamics	13
Estimating surface water availability in high mountain rock slopes using a numerical energy balance model	13
The roles of surface processes in porphyry copper deposit preservation	12

Late Pleistocene–Holocene denudation, uplift, and morphology evolution of the Armorican Massif (western Europe)	12
Mineral surface area in deep weathering profiles reveals the interrelationship of iron oxidation and silicate weathering	12
Automated classification of seismic signals recorded on the Åknes rock slope, Western Norway, using a convolutional neural network	12
An overview of sedimentary volcanism on Mars	12
An efficient approach for inverting rock exhumation from thermochronologic age–elevation relationship	12
Experimental study on granite-weathered crust landslides with different residual layer thicknesses under heavy rainfall	11
A combined approach of experimental and numerical modeling for 3D hydraulic features of a step-pool unit	11
Development of a machine learning model for river bed load	11
Building a bimodal landscape: bedrock lithology and bed thickness controls on the morphology of Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico, USA	11
Cirque-like alcoves in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars as evidence of glacial erosion	11
Unraveling the hydrology and sediment balance of an ungauged lake in the Sudano-Sahelian region of West Africa using remote sensing	11
Erosion and weathering in carbonate regions reveal climatic and tectonic drivers of carbonate landscape evolution	10
Shape evolution of bulk sediment in headwater streams: effects of rock type and particle size	10
The influence of dune lee side shape on time-averaged velocities and turbulence	10
Statistical characterization of erosion and sediment transport mechanics in shallow tidal environments – Part 2: Suspended sediment dynamics	10
Morphological response to climate-induced flood-event variability in a subarctic river	10
Entrainment and deposition of boulders in a gravel bed river	10
Grain size dynamics using a new planform model – Part 1: GravelScape description and validation	10
Past anthropogenic land use change caused a regime shift of the fluvial response to Holocene climate change in the Chinese Loess Plateau	9
Stream laws in analog tectonic-landscape models	9
Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply	9
Use of simple analytical solutions in the calibration of shallow water equation debris flow models	9
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models	9
Downstream rounding rate of pebbles in the Himalaya	9
Geology and vegetation control landsliding on forest-managed slopes in scarplands	9
Shape still matters: rockfall interactions with trees and deadwood in a mountain forest uncover a new facet of rock shape dependency	9
Improving a multi-grain-size total sediment load model through a new standardized reference shear stress for incipient motion and an adjusted saltation height description	9
A physics-based model for fluvial valley width	9
Grain size dynamics using a new planform model – Part 2: Determining the relative control of autogenic processes and subsidence	9
Multi-sensor monitoring and data integration reveal cyclical destabilization of the Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier	9
Response of modern fluvial sediments to regional tectonic activity along the upper Min River, eastern Tibet	8
Massive sediment pulses triggered by a multi-stage 130 000 m ³ alpine cliff fall (Hochvogel, DE–AT)	8
Constraining the timing and processes of pediment formation and dissection: implications for long-term evolution in the Western Cape, South Africa	8
Comparison of calibration characteristics of different acoustic impact systems for measuring bedload transport in mountain streams	8
On the testing of grain shape corrections to bedload transport equations with grain-resolved numerical simulations	8
Reconstructing landscapes: an adjoint model of the stream power and diffusion erosion equation	8
Ice-buttressing-controlled rock slope failure on a cirque headwall, Lake District, UK	8
Short communication: Multiscale topographic complexity analysis with pyTopoComplexity	7
Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern central Andes	7
Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research	7
Rainfall and tectonic forcing lead to contrasting headwater slope evolutions	7
Optimization of passive acoustic bedload monitoring in rivers by signal inversion	7
Drainage rearrangement in an intra-continental mountain belt: a case study from the central South Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan	7
Bedload transport fluctuations, flow conditions, and disequilibrium ratio at the Swiss Erlenbach stream: results from 27 years of high-resolution temporal measurements	7
Short communication: Forward and inverse analytic models relating river long profile to tectonic uplift history, assuming a nonlinear slope–erosion dependency	7
Climate changes and the formation of fluvial terraces in central Amazonia inferred from landscape evolution modeling	7
Knickpoints and fixed points: the evolution of fluvial morphology under the combined effect of fault uplift and dam obstruction on a soft bedrock river	6
Quantifying the migration rate of drainage divides from high-resolution topographic data	6
Spatial and temporal variations in rockwall erosion rates derived from cosmogenic ¹⁰ Be in medial moraines at five valley glaciers around Pigne d'Aro	6
Flexural isostatic response of continental-scale deltas to climatically driven sea level changes	6

Experimental study of time-averaged flow and turbulence over asymmetric tidal dunes	6
On the relative role of abiotic and biotic controls in channel network development: insights from scaled tidal flume experiments	6
Sediment source and sink identification using Sentinel-2 and a small network of turbidimeters on the Vjosa River	6
Probabilistic description of bedload fluxes from the aggregate dynamics of individual grains	6
Episodic sediment supply to alluvial fans: implications for fan incision and morphometry	6
Self-organization of channels and hillslopes in models of fluvial landform evolution and its potential for solving scaling issues	6
At-a-site and between-site variability of bedload transport, inferred from continuous surrogate monitoring, and comparison to predictive equations	6
Modeling deadwood for rockfall mitigation assessments in windthrow areas	6
Progressive destabilization of a freestanding rock pillar in permafrost on the Matterhorn (Swiss Alps): Hydro-mechanical modeling and analysis	5
Size, shape and orientation matter: fast and semi-automatic measurement of grain geometries from 3D point clouds	5
Cosmogenic nuclide-derived downcutting rates of canyons within large limestone plateaus of southern Massif Central (France) reveal a different regional speleogenesis of karst networks	5
Spatial assessment of sediment production in a badland catchment using repeat LiDAR surveys, Draix, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France	5
Slow-moving rock glaciers in marginal periglacial environment of Southern Carpathians	5
Short communication: A tool for determining multiscale bedform characteristics from bed elevation data	5
Grain size of fluvial gravel bars from close-range UAV imagery – uncertainty in segmentation-based data	5
Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes	5
Modeling the formation of toma hills based on fluid dynamics with a modified Voellmy rheology	5
Mobile evaporite enhances the cycle of physical–chemical erosion in badlands	5
Scaling between volume and runout of rock avalanches explained by a modified Voellmy rheology	5
Machine learning prediction of the mass and the velocity of controlled single-block rockfalls from the seismic waves they generate	5
The probabilistic nature of dune collisions in 2D	5
Time-varying drainage basin development and erosion on volcanic edifices	5
Short communication: Concentrated impacts by tree canopy drips – hotspots of soil erosion in forests	5
The glacial paleolandscapes of Southern Africa: the legacy of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age	5
A numerical model for duricrust formation by laterisation	4
Translating deposition ages into erosion rates: inverse landscape evolution modelling and uncertainty analysis	4
Patterns and rates of soil movement and shallow failures across several small watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska	4
Old orogen–young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif	4
Spatially coherent variability in modern orographic precipitation produces asymmetric paleo-glacier extents in flowline models: Olympic Mountains, USA	4
GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models	4
Biomechanical parameters of marram grass ( Calamagrostis arenaria ) for advanced modeling of dune vegetation	4
Development of the morphodynamics on Little Ice Age lateral moraines in 10 glacier forefields of the Eastern Alps since the 1950s	4
Terrace formation linked to outburst floods at the Diexi palaeo-landslide dam, upper Minjiang River, eastern Tibetan Plateau	4
Role of the forcing sources in morphodynamic modelling of an embayed beach	4
The impact of bedrock meander cutoffs on 50 kyr scale incision rates, San Juan River, Utah	4
Identifying fracture-controlled resonance modes for structural health monitoring: insights from Hunter Canyon Arch (Utah, USA)	4
Analysis of autogenic bifurcation processes resulting in river avulsion	4
Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes	4
Combining seismic signal dynamic inversion and numerical modeling improves landslide process reconstruction	4
Higher sediment redistribution rates related to burrowing animals than previously assumed as revealed by time-of-flight-based monitoring	4
Localised geomorphic response to channel-spanning leaky wooden dams	4
Geospatial modelling of large-wood supply to rivers: a state-of-the-art model comparison in Swiss mountain river catchments	4
Effect of hydro-climate variation on biofilm dynamics and its impact in intertidal environments	4
Short communication: Potential of Sentinel-1 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and offset tracking in monitoring post-cyclonic landslide activities on Réunion	4
Stream hydrology controls on ice cliff evolution and survival on debris-covered glaciers	3
MPeat2D – a fully coupled mechanical–ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions	3
A landslide runout model for sediment transport, landscape evolution, and hazard assessment applications	3
Equilibrium distance from long-range dune interactions	3
Subaerial and subglacial seismic characteristics of the largest measured jökulhlaup from the eastern Skaftá cauldron, Iceland	3
New experiments to probe the role of fractures in bedrock on river erosion rate and processes	3
Evaluating the accuracy of binary classifiers for geomorphic applications	3
Feedbacks between the formation of secondary minerals and the infiltration of fluids into the regolith of granitic rocks in different climatic zones (Chilean Coastal Cordillera)	3
Testing floc settling velocity models in rivers and freshwater wetlands	3
Influence of network geometry on long-term morphodynamics of alluvial rivers	3
An extrapolation algorithm for estimating river bed grain size distributions across basins	3
Influence of cohesive clay on wave–current ripple dynamics captured in a 3D phase diagram	3
Automated riverbed composition analysis using deep learning on underwater images	3
Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Integrating laser scanning, InSAR, vibration monitoring and rockfall/granular flow runout modelling at the Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt	3
Spatiotemporal bedload transport patterns over two-dimensional bedforms	3
Width evolution of channel belts as a random walk	3
Optimising global landscape evolution models with ¹⁰ Be	3
Yukon River incision drove organic carbon burial in the Bering Sea during global climate changes at 2.6 and 1 Ma	3
Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges	3
Morphologic and morphometric differences between gullies formed in different substrates on Mars: new insights into the gully formation processes	3
Topographic metrics for unveiling fault segmentation and tectono-geomorphic evolution with insights into the impact of inherited topography, Ulsan Fault Zone, South Korea	3
Suspended sediment and discharge dynamics in a glaciated alpine environment: identifying crucial areas and time periods on several spatial and temporal scales in the Ötztal, Austria	3
Long-runout landslides with associated longitudinal ridges in Iceland as analogues of Martian landslide deposits	3
TerraceM-3: integrating machine learning and ICESat-2 altimetry to estimate deformation rates from wave-abrasion terraces	3
Geophysical evidence of massive hyperconcentrated push waves with embedded toma hills caused by the Flims rockslide, Switzerland	3
Multiple equilibrium configurations in river-dominated deltas	3
Decadal-scale decay of landslide-derived fluvial suspended sediment after Typhoon Morakot	3
Failure mode of rainfall-induced landslide of granite residual soil, southeastern Guangxi Province, China	3
Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks	3
Field monitoring of pore water pressure in fully and partly saturated debris flows at Ohya landslide scar, Japan	3
Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas	3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of Sentinel-2 NDVI as indicators of bio-hydromorphological interactions: implications for river management	3
Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: insights from the Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park, USA	3
An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids	3