OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	1512
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	186
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	175
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	173
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	163
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	139
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	127
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	121
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	111
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	109
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	105
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	100
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	99
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	99
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	95
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	93
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	92
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	91
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	82
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	81
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	81
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	79
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	78
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	76
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	75

Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	75
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	74
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	74
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	73
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	73
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	70
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	68
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	68
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	67
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	66
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	64
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	63
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	63
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	62
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	62
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	61
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	61
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	59
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	58
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	57
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	56
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	56
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	56
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	55
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	55
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	55
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	55
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	54
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	54
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	54
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations	54