OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 54. 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
Pathways to planetary health	378
A natural Swiss knife for multiple challenges	371
Variations on a theme	282
Power dynamics shape sustainability transitions in a modeled food system	213
Underestimating global land greening: Future vegetation changes and their impacts on terrestrial water loss	182
Nose to tail mining: A circular solution for sand supply and tailings reduction at scale	178
Advancing climate services: Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio	173
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson	172
Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests	155
Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell	139
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	138
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (N2O, CH4, CO) and the ocean	133
Environmental law toward sustainability targets	130
Knowns and unknowns of novel entities	117
Ecosystematic Lunch	114
The lure of novel biological and chemical entities in food-system transformations	113
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	112
The challenges of dam-induced displacement: Reducing risks and rethinking hydropower	105
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold	104
Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies	103
Identifying crucial emission sources under low forcing scenarios by a comprehensive attribution analysis	90
Climate change reduces the conservation benefits of tropical coastal ecosystems	88
The limits of biomass	88
Close the carbon loophole	85
Pursuing safety and sustainability at the nanoscale	83

Metaphorming Nature’s NanoWorld	80
Q&A with Betty Kibaara: Innovations that can deliver “good food” for Africa	79
Q&A with Patrick Schröder and Jack Barrie	79
Climate change and infectious diseases: Research and policy actions needed to address an inequitable health crisis	79
When early warning is not enough	78
Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours	76
Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010–2019	74
Resilience through climate services	73
Coupling net-zero modeling with sustainability transitions can reveal co-benefits and risks	72
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	69
Secure local aquatic food systems in the face of declining coral reefs	67
Negligible impacts of early COVID-19 confinement on household carbon footprints in Japan	66
Multi-criteria decision approaches for prioritizing air-quality-management policies	66
Millipede	65
Large-scale land acquisitions, agricultural trade, and zoonotic diseases: Overlooked links	63
Nine Earths	63
Achieving effective climate action in cities by understanding behavioral systems	62
The specter of mass climate migration across international borders: Dismantling an unscientific expectation	62
From drumbeating to marching: Assessing non-state and subnational climate action using data	62
Formalizing artisanal and small-scale gold mining: A grand challenge of the Minamata Convention	62
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	61
Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification	60
Agricultural market integration preserves future global water resources	60
Whose perspective counts? A critical look at definitions of terms used for natural and near-natural forests	59
Fire risk in a warming world	57
Investment suitability and path dependency perpetuate inequity in international mitigation finance toward developing countries	57
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	57
Equity in global conservation policy varies in clarity and comprehensiveness	55
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	55
Mapping flows of blue economy finance: Ambitious narratives, opaque actions, and social equity risks	54
State of the world’s kelp forests	54