OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Marine microplastics as vectors of major ocean pollutants and its hazards to the marine ecosystem and humans	225
Earth-affecting solar transients: a review of progresses in solar cycle 24	56
Global and Arctic effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic gases and aerosols in MRI-ESM2.0	55
Nationwide urban ground deformation monitoring in Japan using Sentinel-1 LiCSAR products and LiCSBAS	50
d4PDF: large-ensemble and high-resolution climate simulations for global warming risk assessment	50
A review of theoretical salt weathering studies for stone heritage	45
Ensemble flash flood predictions using a high-resolution nationwide distributed rainfall-runoff model: case study of the heavy rain event of July 2018 and Typhoon Hagibis in 2019	39
Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)	35
Subducted oceanic crust as the origin of seismically slow lower-mantle structures	32
Evaluation of the contribution of tropical cyclone seeds to changes in tropical cyclone frequency due to global warming in high-resolution multi-model ensemble simulations	29
Impact of climate change on flood inundation in a tropical river basin in Indonesia	29
Applications of soft computing models for predicting sea surface temperature: a comprehensive review and assessment	28
Deep mantle melting, global water circulation and its implications for the stability of the ocean mass	26
A full sequence of the Matuyama–Brunhes geomagnetic reversal in the Chiba composite section, Central Japan	26
Sensitivity study for ICON tidal analysis	24
The dynamic evolution of compaction bands in highly porous carbonates: the role of local heterogeneity for nucleation and propagation	23
Anthropogenic climate change has changed frequency of past flood during 2010-2013	23
Estimation of temporal and spatial variation of sound speed in ocean from GNSS-A measurements for observation using moored buoy	22
Evaluation of aerosol iron solubility over Australian coastal regions based on inverse modeling: implications of bushfires on bioaccessible iron concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere	22
Solar evolution and extrema: current state of understanding of long-term solar variability and its planetary impacts	22
Development of high-resolution future ocean regional projection datasets for coastal applications in Japan	20
Formation, preservation and extinction of high-pressure minerals in meteorites: temperature effects in shock metamorphism and shock classification	19
Assessing the effects of climate change on flood inundation in the lower Mekong Basin using high-resolution AGCM outputs	19
A new insight into isotopic fractionation associated with decarboxylation in organisms: implications for amino acid isotope approaches in biogeoscience	18
Climatic zonation of Egypt based on high-resolution dataset using image clustering technique	18

From desert to monsoon: irreversible climatic transition at ~ 36 Ma in southeastern Tibetan Plateau	18
Flood inundation simulations based on GSMaP satellite rainfall data in Jakarta, Indonesia	18
Detection of the Oyashio and Kuroshio fronts under the projected climate change in the 21st century	18
Model improvement and future projection of permafrost processes in a global land surface model	17
Natural and experimental high-pressure, shock-produced terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials	17
Compositional variations along the route of Chang’e-3 Yutu rover revealed by the lunar penetrating radar	16
Future projection of greenhouse gas emissions due to permafrost degradation using a simple numerical scheme with a global land surface model	16
Geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle at final spreading stage of Shikoku Basin: an example of Mado Megamullion	16
Scalability of future climate changes across Japan examined with large-ensemble simulations at + 1.5 K, +2 K, and + 4 K global warming levels	16
Dynamics of the terrestrial radiation belts: a review of recent results during the VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact) era, 2014–2018	16
Widespread distribution of radiocesium-bearing microparticles over the greater Kanto Region resulting from the Fukushima nuclear accident	16
A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench	15
What did determine the warming trend in the Indonesian sea?	14
Boring bivalve traces in modern reef and deeper-water macroid and rhodolith beds	14
Infiltration metasomatism of the Allende coarse-grained calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions	14
Mapping simulated circum-Arctic organic carbon, ground ice, and vulnerability of ice-rich permafrost to degradation	14
Automated collection of single species of microfossils using a deep learning–micromanipulator system	14
Strength models of the terrestrial planets and implications for their lithospheric structure and evolution	14
Role Of the Sun and the Middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere In Climate (ROSMIC): a retrospective and prospective view	13
Typhoon-induced precipitation characterization over northern Japan: a case study for typhoons in 2016	12
Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications for sea-su	12
Provenance of terrigenous sediments in the central Bay of Bengal and its relationship to climate changes since 25 ka	12
A development of reduction scenarios of the short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) for mitigating global warming and environmental problems	12
Identifying key processes and sectors in the interaction between climate and socio-economic systems: a review toward integrating Earth–human systems	11
Enstatite chondrites: condensation and metamorphism under extremely reducing conditions and contributions to the Earth	11
Spatial accuracy assessment of unmanned aerial vehicle-based structures from motion multi-view stereo photogrammetry for geomorphic observations in initiation zones of debris flows, Ohya landslide, Ja	11
Review of the Early–Middle Pleistocene boundary and Marine Isotope Stage 19	11
Terrestrial planet compositions controlled by accretion disk magnetic field	11
A review of the SCOSTEP’s 5-year scientific program VarSITI—Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact	10
Evaluation of earth system model and atmospheric inversion using total column CO2 observations from GOSAT and OCO-2	10
Biogeophysical and biogeochemical impacts of land-use change simulated by MIROC-ES2L	10
Development of Integrated Land Simulator	10
A potential suite of climate markers of long-chain n-alkanes and alkenones preserved in the top sediments from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean	9
Continuous multi-component MAX-DOAS observations for the planetary boundary layer ozone variation analysis at Chiba and Tsukuba, Japan, from 2013 to 2019	8
Seismicity distribution in the Tonankai and Nankai seismogenic zones and its spatiotemporal relationship with interplate coupling and slow earthquakes	8
Mineralogical and physico-chemical properties of halloysite-bearing slip surface material from a landslide during the 2018 Eastern Iburi earthquake, Hokkaido	8
The response of the hydrological cycle to temperature changes in recent and distant climatic history	8
Biotic and environmental changes in the Panthalassa Ocean across the Norian (Late Triassic) impact event	8
Development of a global sediment dynamics model	8
Reconstruction of monsoon evolution in southernmost Sumatra over the past 35 kyr and its response to northern hemisphere climate changes	8
A coupled core-mantle evolution: review and future prospects	7
Formation of undulating topography and gravel beds at the bases of incised valleys: Last Glacial Maximum examples beneath the lowlands facing Tokyo Bay	7
Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview	7
Ocean carbon pump decomposition and its application to CMIP5 earth system model simulations	7
A new mechanical perspective on a shallow megathrust near-trench slip from the high-resolution fault model of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake	7
Impact of stratospheric ozone on the subseasonal prediction in the southern hemisphere spring	7
Multiproxy sedimentological and geochemical analyses across the Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary: chemostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Chiba composite section, central Japan	7
Paleoceanography of the northwestern Pacific across the Early–Middle Pleistocene boundary (Marine Isotope Stages 20–18)	7
Prediction of soil erosion and sediment transport in a mountainous basin of Taiwan	7
Spatial and temporal variations in depositional systems in the Kazusa Group: insights into the origins of deep-water massive sandstones in a Pleistocene forearc basin on the Boso Peninsula, Japan	7

In situ occurrence of Muong Nong-type Australasian tektite fragments from the Quaternary deposits near Huai Om, northeastern Thailand	6
Atmospheric resuspension of insoluble radioactive cesium-bearing particles found in the difficult-to-return area in Fukushima	6
Crustal deformation detection capability of the GNSS-A seafloor geodetic observation array (SGO-A), provided by Japan Coast Guard	6
Evaluation of geochemical records as a paleoenvironmental proxy in the hypercalcified demosponge Astrosclera willeyana	6
X-ray fluorescence core scanning, magnetic signatures, and organic geochemistry analyses of Ryukyu Trench sediments: turbidites and hemipelagites	6
Development of particle swarm clustered optimization method for applications in applied sciences	6
Saildrone-observed atmospheric boundary layer response to winter mesoscale warm spot along the Kuroshio south of Japan	6
Back-transformation processes in high-pressure minerals: implications for planetary collisions and diamond transportation from the deep Earth	6
NanoSIMS and EPMA dating of lunar zirconolite	6
Increase of organic carbon burial response to mangrove expansion in the Nanliu River estuary, South China Sea	6
Classification of imbalanced cloud image data using deep neural networks: performance improvement through a data science competition	6
Forensic investigation of flowslides triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake	5
How large peak ground acceleration by large earthquakes could generate turbidity currents along the slope of northern Japan Trench	5
Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review	5
Self-similar stochastic slip distributions on a non-planar fault for tsunami scenarios for megathrust earthquakes	5
The message of oldhamites from enstatite chondrites	5
A paleomagnetic record of the early Matuyama chron including the Réunion subchron and the onset Olduvai boundary: High-resolution magnetostratigraphy and insights from transitional geomagnetic fields	5
Geomorphological processes and their connectivity in hillslope, fluvial, and coastal areas in Bangladesh: A review	5
Classification of topography for ground vulnerability assessment of alluvial plains and mountains of Japan using 30 m DEM	5
Millennial-scale oscillations in the Kuroshio–Oyashio boundary during MIS 19 based on the radiolarian record from the Chiba composite section, central Japan	5
Heterogeneous rheology of Japan subduction zone revealed by postseismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake	5
Half-graben inversion tectonics revealed by gravity modeling in the Mikawa Bay Region, Central Japan	5
Effects of snow manipulation on larch trees in the taiga forest ecosystem in northeastern Siberia	5
Global polygons for terrain classification divided into uniform slopes and basins	5
Paleoceanography and dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy across the Lower–Middle Pleistocene Subseries (Calabrian–Chibanian Stage) boundary at the Chiba composite section, Japan	5
Toward a long-term atmospheric CO2 inversion for elucidating natural carbon fluxes: technical notes of NISMON-CO2 v2021.1	4
Phylogenetic positions of “pico-sized” radiolarians from middle layer waters of the tropical Pacific	4
Evolution of the geological structure and mechanical properties due to the collision of multiple basement topographic highs in a forearc accretionary wedge: insights from numerical simulations	4
River discharge prediction for ungauged mountainous river basins during heavy rain events based on seismic noise data	4
Application of Soil Water Index to landslide prediction in snowy regions: sensitivity analysis in Japan and preliminary results from Tomsk, Russia	4
Future dynamic sea level change in the western subtropical North Pacific associated with ocean heat uptake and heat redistribution by ocean circulation under global warming	4
Hadean/Eoarchean tectonics and mantle mixing induced by impacts: a three-dimensional study	4
Climate, vegetation and fire history during the past 18,000 years, recorded in high altitude lacustrine sediments on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains (Ethiopia)	4
A possible mechanism for spontaneous cyclic back-arc spreading	4
An Almahata Sitta EL3 fragment: implications for the complex thermal history of enstatite chondrites	4
Comparison of regional characteristics of land precipitation climatology projected by an MRI-AGCM multi-cumulus scheme and multi-SST ensemble with CMIP5 multi-model ensemble projections	4
Experimental simulations of shock textures in BCC iron: implications for iron meteorites	4
Upper and lower plane bed definitions revised	4
Liquid and supercritical CO2 as an organic solvent in Hadean seafloor hydrothermal systems: implications for prebiotic chemical evolution	4
The sound velocity of wüstite at high pressures: implications for low-velocity anomalies at the base of the lower mantle	4
Detection of Martian dust storms using mask regional convolutional neural networks	4
Quantitative evaluation of mixed biomass burning and anthropogenic aerosols over the Indochina Peninsula using MERRA-2 reanalysis products validated by sky radiometer and MAX-DOAS observations	4
Three thousand year paleo-tsunami history of the southern part of the Japan Trench	4
Surface and aloft NO2 pollution over the greater Tokyo area observed by ground-based and MAX-DOAS measurements bridged by kilometer-scale regional air quality modeling	4
A three-dimensional atmospheric dispersion model for Mars	4
High-resolution flow simulation in Typhoon 21, 2018: massive loss of submerged macrophytes in Lake Biwa	4
Simulated decadal variations of surface and subsurface phytoplankton in the upstream Kuroshio Extension region	4
Detection of planktonic coenzyme factor 430 in a freshwater lake: small-scale analysis for probing archaeal methanogenesis	3
Bubbles to Chondrites-I. Evaporation and condensation experiments, and formation of chondrules	3
Spatiotemporal vertical velocity variation in the western tropical Pacific and its relation to decadal ocean variability	3
Development of a snowdrift model with the lattice Boltzmann method	3
Submarine paleoseismology in the Japan Trench of northeastern Japan: turbidite stratigraphy and sedimentology using paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses	3
A centennial-resolution terrestrial climatostratigraphy and Matuyama–Brunhes transition record from a loess sequence in China	3
Identifying tsunami traces beyond sandy tsunami deposits using terrigenous biomarkers: a case study of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in a coastal pine forest, northern Japan	3
Sedimentary facies analysis of the fluvial environment in the Siwalik Group of eastern Nepal: deciphering its relation to contemporary Himalayan tectonics, climate and sea-level change	3
Millennial paleotsunami history at Minna Island, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan	3
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: I—motivation and selected examples	3
Quantitative determination of the lowest density domain in major fault zones via medical X-ray computed tomography	3
Complex rupture process on the conjugate fault system of the 2014 Mw 6.2 Thailand earthquake	3
Can quasicrystals survive in planetary collisions?	3
Lithological structure of western Pacific lithosphere reconstructed from mantle xenoliths in a petit-spot volcano	3
Deep-sea bottom-water environment change caused by sediment resuspension on the continental slope off Sanriku, Japan, before and after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake	3
Time difference between the 1854 CE Ansei–Tokai and Ansei–Nankai earthquakes estimated from distant tsunami waveforms on the west coast of North America	3
Stalagmite evidence for East Asian winter monsoon variability and 18O-depleted surface water in the Japan Sea during the last glacial period	3
Impact of air–sea coupling on the probability of occurrence of heat waves in Japan	3
Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications	3
Short-wave run-ups of the 1611 Keicho tsunami along the Sanriku Coast	3
Depth profile of frictional properties in the inner Nankai accretionary prism using cuttings from IODP Site C0002	3
Characterization of water masses around the southern Ryukyu Islands based on isotopic compositions	3
Washover deposits related to tsunami and storm surge along the north coast of the Shimokita Peninsula in northern Japan	3
Sr isotopic ratios of hydrothermal fluids from the Okinawa Trough and the implications of variation in fluid–sediment interactions	3
The vertical structure of annual wave energy flux in the tropical Indian Ocean	3
Changes in surface water masses in the northern East China Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum based on diatom assemblages	3
Comparison of length and dynamics of wood pieces in streams covered with coniferous and broadleaf forests mapped using orthophotos acquired by an unmanned aerial vehicle	3
The role of hydrogen bonds in hydrous minerals stable at lower mantle pressure conditions	3
Coupled investigations of ionosphere variations over European and Japanese regions: observations, comparative analysis, and validation of models and facilities	3
Rapid water parcel transport across the Kuroshio Extension in the lower thermocline from dissolved oxygen measurements by Seaglider	3