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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	50
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	49
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	46
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	46
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	42
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	33
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	32
Varved lake sediments as indicators of recent cultural eutrophication and hypolimnetic hypoxia in lakes	30
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	28
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	28
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)	26
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	26
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	24
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	23
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	23
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	22
Unravelling the role of vegetation on the different trends between climatic and hydrologic drought in headwater catchments of Spain	22
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	21
Anthropogenic impacts and implications for ecological restoration in the Karoo, South Africa	19
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	18
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	17
Human-induced marine degradation in anoxic coastal sediments of Beppu Bay, Japan, as an Anthropocene marker in East Asia	17
Plastics as a stratigraphic marker in fluvial deposits	16
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience	16
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	15

Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	15
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	15
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	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
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	13
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China	12
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	12
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding	12
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa	12
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
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	10
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	10
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
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	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
Ecosystem turnover in an urbanized subtropical seascape driven by climate and pollution	9
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	8
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	8
Spatiotemporal variability of fluvial carbon components under different land use types in a mountainous karst region, Southwest China	8
Reconstructing butterfly-pollen interaction networks through periods of anthropogenic drought in the Great Basin (USA) over the past century	8
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	8
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	7
Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction	7
Cropland abandonment and flood risks: Spatial analysis of a case in North Central Vietnam	7
Sediment magnetism records of anthropogenic impact on a typical alpine lake in southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Drivers, trends, and implications for sustainable development	7
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty	7
The impact of species invasion and nutrient dynamics on organic carbon burial in lake ecosystems	7
Projected changes in sea ice and the navigability of the Arctic Passages under global warming of 2 ℃ and 3 ℃	7
Spatial patterns of soil salinity in the central Argentinean Dry Chaco	6
Chloride hydrogeochemistry of the finger lakes in Central and Western New York, USA	6
Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves	6
Lipid biomarkers in high mountain lakes from the Cantabrian range (Northern Spain): Coupling the interplay between natural and anthropogenic drivers	6
Herbivore rewilding does not promote biodiversity in Argentine Andean peatlands	6
A Community-Based Nature Understanding Framework for exploring socio-ecological dynamics in rural Romania	6
Crop response pattern to several drought timescales and its possible determinants: A global-scale analysis during the last decades	6
Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt	6
Response of vegetation dynamics in environmentally sensitive and fragile areas to natural and anthropogenic factors: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China	6
Optimization of functional zoning and spatial patterns of water conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau under different SSP-RCP scenarios	6
Removal notice to “Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill” [Anthropocene 39 (2022) 100344]	6
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	6
Knowledge influences perceptions and values of nature-based solutions: The example of soil and water bioengineering techniques applied to urban rivers	5
Comparative analysis of historical human and biogeomorphic interactions in large river-floodplain systems under different climate contexts	5
Sedimentation on the Siberian Arctic Shelf as an indicator of the arctic hydrological cycle	5
20th century climate warming and human disturbance triggered high aquatic production and strong water-column mixing in maar Lake Xiaolongwan, northeastern China	5
Sediment magnetic records of human activities in Lake Chaohu Basin over the past 166 years	5
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies	5
Local and broad-scale anthropogenic controls on sediment transport in the Western Ghats rivers, India	5

Human-induced landscape modification in the in the last two centuries in the Po delta plain (Northern Italy)	5
Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone	5
Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market	5
Differential impact of climate and land use change on habitat suitability of migrant passerines according to habitat preferences	4
Enhanced hydrological disturbance and atmospheric pollution on an ombrotrophic peatland (Greater Khingan Mountains, Northeast China) since 1950s inferred from diatom records	4
Declining chironomid diversity in relation to human influences in southwest China	4
Epidemics in pre-industrial Europe: Impacts of climate change, economic well-being, and population	4
Long-term changes of agricultural land over the last century in Romania. The showcase of Romanian plain	4
Patagonia's Late Holocene lake sediments reveal no major black carbon sources for Antarctica	4
Nature-based solutions for leveed river corridors	4
Engaging society and building participatory governance in a rural landscape restoration context	4
Tracking the warning signal of extreme rainstorm and flood events in Haihe River Basin through historical documents	4