OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	1577
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	198
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	184
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	177
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	152
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	131
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	126
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	113
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	111
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	106
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	105
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	102
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	96
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	94
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	93
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	87
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	85
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	83
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	82
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	81
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	81
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	80
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	78
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	78
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	75

Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	74
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	74
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	73
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	73
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	71
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	68
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	67
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	67
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	67
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	65
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	65
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	64
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	64
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping	63
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	63
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	61
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	60
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	59
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	59
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	58
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	58
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	58
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	57
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	57
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	56
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	56
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	56
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	56
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	55
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate	55
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	55
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	55