OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	1728
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	212
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	196
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	184
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	174
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	141
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	134
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation	134
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	124
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	103
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	101
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	95
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	93
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	91
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture	91
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	90
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	87
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals	85
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	84
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	84
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	83
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	83
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping	83
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	82
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	80

Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	80
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	79
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins	77
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	77
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	75
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	74
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints	72
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	71
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	71
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	70
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	69
Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate	68
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	67
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	67
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	66
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation	66
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	65
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	65
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	65
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	64
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	63
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	62
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	61
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	61
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	61
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	60
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	60
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	59
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	58
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	58
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China	57
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	56
China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests	56