OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropocene 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	56
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	54
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	51
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	49
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	48
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	34
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	33
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	30
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	30
Identification of alkaline amendment sources (slash and burn versus marling) for cereal crops grown in the North of France: A multiple isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr, δ44/40Ca, δ88/86Sr)	28
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	27
Reconstruction of climatic and socio-economic impacts on the landscape of Northern Tuscany (Italy) over the last 2000 years based on palaeoecological and historical evidence	27
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	26
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	23
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	18
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	18
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	18
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	17
Human-induced marine degradation in anoxic coastal sediments of Beppu Bay, Japan, as an Anthropocene marker in East Asia	16
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	16
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	15
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	15
InSAR Shows Extensive Subsidence of Agricultural Land in New Zealand	15
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	15
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	15

Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	14
Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?	14
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX)	12
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	12
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	12
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China	12
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding	11
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa	10
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	9
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	9
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	9
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration	9
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	9
Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India	9
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	9
Spatiotemporal variability of fluvial carbon components under different land use types in a mountainous karst region, Southwest China	8
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	8
Reconstructing butterfly-pollen interaction networks through periods of anthropogenic drought in the Great Basin (USA) over the past century	8
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Drivers, trends, and implications for sustainable development	8
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	8
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	8
Lipid biomarkers in high mountain lakes from the Cantabrian range (Northern Spain): Coupling the interplay between natural and anthropogenic drivers	7
The impact of species invasion and nutrient dynamics on organic carbon burial in lake ecosystems	7
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	7
Response of vegetation dynamics in environmentally sensitive and fragile areas to natural and anthropogenic factors: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China	7
Sediment magnetism records of anthropogenic impact on a typical alpine lake in southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction	7
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty	7
Cropland abandonment and flood risks: Spatial analysis of a case in North Central Vietnam	7
Projected changes in sea ice and the navigability of the Arctic Passages under global warming of 2 ℃ and 3 ℃	7
Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt	6
A Community-Based Nature Understanding Framework for exploring socio-ecological dynamics in rural Romania	6
Optimization of functional zoning and spatial patterns of water conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau under different SSP-RCP scenarios	6
Sediment magnetic records of human activities in Lake Chaohu Basin over the past 166 years	6
Herbivore rewilding does not promote biodiversity in Argentine Andean peatlands	6
Removal notice to “Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill” [Anthropocene 39 (2022) 100344]	6
Crop response pattern to several drought timescales and its possible determinants: A global-scale analysis during the last decades	6
Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves	6
Chloride hydrogeochemistry of the finger lakes in Central and Western New York, USA	6
Spatial patterns of soil salinity in the central Argentinean Dry Chaco	6
Knowledge influences perceptions and values of nature-based solutions: The example of soil and water bioengineering techniques applied to urban rivers	6
20th century climate warming and human disturbance triggered high aquatic production and strong water-column mixing in maar Lake Xiaolongwan, northeastern China	5
Riverine nutrient differentiation patterns and pollutant flux behavior affecting the mainstream-tributary coupling environment in a mega drainage basin, PR China	5
Human-induced landscape modification in the in the last two centuries in the Po delta plain (Northern Italy)	5
Comparative analysis of historical human and biogeomorphic interactions in large river-floodplain systems under different climate contexts	5
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies	5
Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone	5
Differential impact of climate and land use change on habitat suitability of migrant passerines according to habitat preferences	4
Sedimentary records from an alpine wetland in southwestern China reveal the timing of Anthropocene human impact	4
Enhanced hydrological disturbance and atmospheric pollution on an ombrotrophic peatland (Greater Khingan Mountains, Northeast China) since 1950s inferred from diatom records	4

Sedimentation on the Siberian Arctic Shelf as an indicator of the arctic hydrological cycle	4
Local and broad-scale anthropogenic controls on sediment transport in the Western Ghats rivers, India	4
Epidemics in pre-industrial Europe: Impacts of climate change, economic well-being, and population	4
Patagonia's Late Holocene lake sediments reveal no major black carbon sources for Antarctica	4
Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market	4
Nature-based solutions for leveed river corridors	4
Long-term changes of agricultural land over the last century in Romania. The showcase of Romanian plain	4
Engaging society and building participatory governance in a rural landscape restoration context	4
Corrigendum to: “Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts” [Anthropocene 40, 100350]	3
Linking prescribed fire, nutrient deposition and cyanobacteria dominance through pyroeutrophication in a subtropical lake ecosystem from the mid Holocene to present	3
The coupling of agricultural water footprint and socioeconomic development in ecological functional zones: A case study of Gansu Province, China	3
Tracking the warning signal of extreme rainstorm and flood events in Haihe River Basin through historical documents	3
Legacy impacts and recovery of δ15N, δ13C and C/N storage in soils due to historic land use	3
Mining tailings severely impact plant communities in a rainforest watershed	3
Chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland	3
REMOVED:Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill	3
Assessing human impacts on soil organic carbon change in the Lower Namoi Valley, Australia	3
Spatio-temporal dynamics of forest ecosystems revealed by the LiDAR-based characterization of medieval field systems (Vosges Mountains, France)	3
Hard coal mining spoil heaps in recent landscape: A physical geography perspective	3
Aggregated multivariate environmental risk (AMER) index and predictive models for heavy metal pollution trends in ecosystems	3
Unprecedented shift in Canadian High Arctic polar bear food web unsettles four millennia of stability	3
Assessment of pleisto-holocene environmental changes vs. anthropogenic modifications. A case study: The Nalón estuary (North-West Spain)	3