OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropocene is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Predicting the future of coastal marine ecosystems in the rapidly changing Arctic: The potential of palaeoenvironmental records	64
Of marsh and mangrove: coupled biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of 20th century wetland conversion in Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida (USA)	64
Recent increase in sediment dry matter, carbon, and phosphorus accumulation in small boreal lakes with clayey catchments	42
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	35
Cropland abandonment and flood risks: Spatial analysis of a case in North Central Vietnam	27
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty	26
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	24
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	21
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	20
Toxicogenomics of persistent organic pollutants: Potential impacts on biodiversity and infectious diseases	19
Patagonia's Late Holocene lake sediments reveal no major black carbon sources for Antarctica	19
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	19
Long-term changes of agricultural land over the last century in Romania. The showcase of Romanian plain	19
Anthropogenic records in a fluvial depositional system: The Odra River along The Czech-Polish border	19
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	19
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	18
Natural and anthropogenic processes and landforms in the eastern sector of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (from Pleistocene to Anthropocene)	18
Catchment-wide interactive effects of anthropogenic structures and river levels on fish spawning migrations	17
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	17
Plastics as a stratigraphic marker in fluvial deposits	16
Sensitivity of a meandering lowland river to intensive landscape management: Lateral migration rates before and after watershed-scale agricultural development	15
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience	15
Projected changes in sea ice and the navigability of the Arctic Passages under global warming of 2 ℃ and 3 ℃	15
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	15
Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction	15

Adapting to a shifting planet: The future of Drosera species amidst global challenges and conservation imperatives	14
Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?	14
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	14
Corrigendum to: “Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts” [Anthropocene 40, 100350]	14
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation	13
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	13
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	12
Legacy impacts and recovery of δ15N, δ13C and C/N storage in soils due to historic land use	11
Identification and prioritisation of ecosystem services based on the socio-economic perspectives of local people in a trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India	11
Lipid biomarkers in high mountain lakes from the Cantabrian range (Northern Spain): Coupling the interplay between natural and anthropogenic drivers	11
Varved lake sediments as indicators of recent cultural eutrophication and hypolimnetic hypoxia in lakes	10
The role of indigenous practices in expanding waterbird habitat in the face of rising seas	9
Response of vegetation dynamics in environmentally sensitive and fragile areas to natural and anthropogenic factors: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China	9
Linking prescribed fire, nutrient deposition and cyanobacteria dominance through pyroeutrophication in a subtropical lake ecosystem from the mid Holocene to present	9
Late Holocene human-environment interactions on the central California coast, USA, inferred from Morro Bay salt marsh sediments	9
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	9
Herbivore rewilding does not promote biodiversity in Argentine Andean peatlands	9
Declining chironomid diversity in relation to human influences in southwest China	9
Climate mitigation and adaptation: Regional imbalance in research efforts	9
Spatial patterns of soil salinity in the central Argentinean Dry Chaco	9
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	9
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	9
Unprecedented shift in Canadian High Arctic polar bear food web unsettles four millennia of stability	8
How the environment became global	8
1100-years history of transformation of the East European forest-steppe into arable land: Case study from Kursk region (Russia)	8
Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt	8
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	8
Anthropogenic erosion-induced small-scale soil heterogeneity in South African rangelands	7
Sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorine pesticides to reconstruct anthropogenic activities in Lake Issyk-Kul region (Kyrgyzstan), and their effects on the lake envir	7
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)	7
Urbanization-driven Cladocera community shifts in the lake - a case study from Baltic region, Europe	7
Spatio-temporal dynamics of forest ecosystems revealed by the LiDAR-based characterization of medieval field systems (Vosges Mountains, France)	6
Deciphering human and climatic controls on soil erosion in intensively cultivated landscapes after 1950 (Loire Valley, France)	6
Crop response pattern to several drought timescales and its possible determinants: A global-scale analysis during the last decades	6
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	6
Chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland	6
Macroplastic colonization by macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean wetland: A biodiversity enrichment opportunity	5
Mining tailings severely impact plant communities in a rainforest watershed	5
Chloride hydrogeochemistry of the finger lakes in Central and Western New York, USA	5
Removal notice to “Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill” [Anthropocene 39 (2022) 100344]	5
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	4
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	4
Early historical forest clearance caused major degradation of water quality at Lake Væng, Denmark	4
Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves	4
How ecosystems services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions	4
How do anthropogenic pressures affect the provision of ecosystem services of small mountain lakes?	4
Long-term sediment storage and flux in a small, catastrophically aggraded mountain catchment	4
Factors affecting invasion process of a megadiverse country by two exotic bird species	4
Land cover flows and land use intensity in the three decades of the post-communist Czechia: Changing trends and driving forces	4
Anthropocene on the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A Holocene perspective from multiple sedimentary records	4

Trends in the succession of synanthropic vegetation on a reclaimed landfill in Poland	4
Reconstructing two millennia of copper and silver metallurgy in the Lake Titicaca region (Bolivia/Peru) using trace metals and lead isotopic composition	4
Potential sediment supply fluxes associated with greenfield residential construction	4
Understanding human-environment interrelationships under constrained land-use decisions with a spatially explicit agent-based model	4
Assessing human impacts on soil organic carbon change in the Lower Namoi Valley, Australia	4
The environmental consequences of rapid urbanization in central Florida reconstructed with high resolution 241Am and 210Pb dating in lake sediments	4