OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment is 44. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979	681
Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia	351
Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts	196
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat	151
The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude	144
Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere	136
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to monthly temperature and precipitation extremes	119
Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production	113
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	110
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch	102
Country-based rate of emissions reductions should increase by 80% beyond nationally determined contributions to meet the 2 °C target	101
Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites	100
Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness	97
Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization	86
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change	85
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria	83
Stop blaming the climate for disasters	75
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis	74
Microplastics distribution in the Eurasian Arctic is affected by Atlantic waters and Siberian rivers	74
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management	73
An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes	72
Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth’s surface	66
Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation	64
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship	60
Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading	58

Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased	58
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability	58
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China	57
Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf	55
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	54
Surface rupture and shallow fault reactivation during the 2019 Mw 4.9 Le Teil earthquake, France	53
An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget	52
Ice dynamics will remain a primary driver of Greenland ice sheet mass loss over the next century	52
Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales	51
Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea	50
Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula	49
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario	49
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes	49
Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves	47
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling	47
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts	46
Training machine learning models on climate model output yields skillful interpretable seasonal precipitation forecasts	46
Acceleration of ocean warming, salinification, deoxygenation and acidification in the surface subtropical North Atlantic Ocean	45
Carboxyl-richness controls organic carbon preservation during coprecipitation with iron (oxyhydr)oxides in the natural environment	44
The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022	44