OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 56. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold	441
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson	295
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	211
Variations on a theme	210
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	207
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	199
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	165
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	156
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	150
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	144
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	116
New York’s carbon emissions	111
State of the world’s kelp forests	104
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	104
Pursuing a net-zero carbon future for all: Challenges for commercial real estate	102
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource	101
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	100
Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions	99
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	94
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	93
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	93
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	92
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	92
Quality control	91
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries	84

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	82
Research priorities for climate mobility	81
Less plastic used longer	81
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	75
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	75
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	73
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	73
Pyrexia	73
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	73
Hot tropics	71
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	69
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	69
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	67
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	66
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	64
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	64
Building sustainability into battery value chains	63
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	63
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	63
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	63
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	60
The Great Ape House	60
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	60
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	59
Food systems in transition: Agnes Kalibata	59
Earth Poetica	58
Clinicians for Planetary Health	57
Moving on	57
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C	57
Trends in the clean energy research and innovation landscape on the path to net zero	57
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future	56
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty	56