OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 55. 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
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson	301
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold	230
New York’s carbon emissions	227
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	224
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	191
State of the world’s kelp forests	178
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	158
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	154
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	127
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	114
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	110
Variations on a theme	110
Pursuing a net-zero carbon future for all: Challenges for commercial real estate	109
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	106
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource	101
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	98
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	95
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	94
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	92
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	91
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	91
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	90
Less plastic used longer	89
Quality control	85
Hot tropics	84

Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	82
Pyrexia	82
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	78
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	75
Benchmarking for soil health improvement	75
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	73
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	73
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	70
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	70
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	69
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	68
Research priorities for climate mobility	68
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries	67
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	67
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	67
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	66
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	65
Building sustainability into battery value chains	65
The Great Ape House	65
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	64
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	64
Earth Poetica	63
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	63
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis	60
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals	60
Moving on	60
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios	59
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes	59
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty	56
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water	56
Trends in the clean energy research and innovation landscape on the path to net zero	55