OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment is 48. 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
Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones	1267
Ecosystem changes after Early Cretaceous seawater intrusion into the proto-South Atlantic Ocean	296
Geometric barriers impacted rupture processes and stress releases of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, earthquake doublet	156
Post-publication careers: lockdown to limelight	153
Extreme drought-heatwave events threaten the biodiversity and stability of aquatic plankton communities in the Yangtze River ecosystems	153
Genesis and timing of KREEP-free lunar Mg-suite magmatism indicated by the first norite meteorite Arguin 002	150
Cenozoic evolution of spring persistent rainfall in East Asia and North America driven by paleogeography	138
Dehydration-induced supralithostatic fluid overpressure in metapelites from Northern Korea	114
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	103
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	101
Reply to: Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster	95
Mixed-layer lipidomes suggest offshore transport of energy-rich and essential lipids by cyclonic eddies	88
Low-velocity anomaly in the Coral Sea associated with subducting slabs and the Woodlark rift	88
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	84
Climate change reduces the wind chill hazard across Alaska	83
Exceptional eruptive CO2 emissions from intra-plate alkaline magmatism in the Canary volcanic archipelago	82
On the spatial double peak of the 2023–2024 El Niño event	81
Past rainfall-driven erosion on the Chinese loess plateau inferred from archaeological evidence from Wucheng City, Shanxi	76
Andean headwater and piedmont streams are hot spots of carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the Amazon basin	75
Land use still matters after deforestation	74
Science-based targets miss the mark	73
Alpine wetlands degradation leads to soil nutrient imbalances that affect plant growth and microbial diversity	73
Terpene emissions from boreal wetlands can initiate stronger atmospheric new particle formation than boreal forests	70
Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations	67
The foundations of the Patagonian icefields	67

The shift to plant-based diets as a sustainable food strategy	66
Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	65
Helium reservoirs in iron nanoparticles on the lunar surface	65
Sensitivity of extreme precipitation to climate change inferred using artificial intelligence shows high spatial variability	64
Tremor clustering reveals pre-eruptive signals and evolution of the 2021 Geldingadalir eruption of the Fagradalsfjall Fires, Iceland	63
Pattern asymmetry in extreme Indian Ocean dipoles shapes marine heat-height compound extremes around coastal Indonesia	61
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	59
Intensified monsoonal rainstorm events over westerly-dominated Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene	59
Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes	59
Factors influencing underrepresented geoscientists' decisions to accept or decline faculty job offers in the US	58
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	57
Three pulses of breaths toward three evolutionary shifts	56
Thank you to all our reviewers in 2021	56
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	55
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	55
Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia	54
A topographic hinge-zone divides coastal and inland ice dynamic regimes in East Antarctica	53
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon	53
Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades	51
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	51
ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science	50
Anthropogenic eutrophication and stratification strength control hypoxia in the Yangtze Estuary	49
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	49
Discrepancies in lacustrine bacterial lipid temperature reconstructions explained by microbial ecology	48
Paris targets within reach by aligning, broadening and strengthening net-zero pledges	48
Active hydrothermal vents in the Woodlark Basin may act as dispersing centres for hydrothermal fauna	48
Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils	48