OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 57. 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
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	327
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	295
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	242
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	198
Variations on a theme	173
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions	134
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	129
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets	119
State of the world’s kelp forests	118
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	114
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	110
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	108
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?	107
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	105
Interrupting the cascade	105
New York’s carbon emissions	105
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	102
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	100
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	98
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	96
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	93
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	93
The ammonia moment	92
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity	92
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	92

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	91
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	90
Hot tropics	88
Less plastic used longer	86
Gambling with offsets	84
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	84
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	83
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	83
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	82
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	80
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	79
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	78
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	73
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	73
Research priorities for climate mobility	72
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	72
Earth Poetica	70
The Great Ape House	70
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	68
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	68
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	67
Moving on	67
The Hive II	66
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis	66
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	64
Novel contaminants, novel solutions	63
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	63
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals	61
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios	60
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C	60
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action	60
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere	57
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water	57
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems	57
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success	57