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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	305
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	246
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	237
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	219
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	200
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	169
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson	163
Variations on a theme	144
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	122
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	114
New York’s carbon emissions	111
State of the world’s kelp forests	106
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	106
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions	105
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	102
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	100
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	97
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	97
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	97
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource	95
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	94
Hot tropics	92
Less plastic used longer	87
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	87
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	86

Quality control	85
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries	85
Research priorities for climate mobility	83
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	78
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	77
Benchmarking for soil health improvement	76
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	76
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	74
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	73
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	72
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	72
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	72
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	71
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	71
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	70
Why integrated assessment models alone are insufficient to navigate us through the polycrisis	69
The Great Ape House	69
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems	68
A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty	68
Clinicians for Planetary Health	67
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	67
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future	65
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	64
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C	63
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet	62
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals	62
CoBacFM: Core bacteria forecast model for global grassland pH dynamics under future climate warming scenarios	62
Critical overview of the implications of a global protein transition in the face of climate change: Key unknowns and research imperatives	61
The Hive II	58
Building sustainability into battery value chains	56
Earth Poetica	56
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success	56