OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ambio is 34. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere	322
The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown	176
Wildfires in the Siberian taiga	131
Nature and COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead	95
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital	92
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda	83
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding	82
Principles for urban nature-based solutions	82
Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity	76
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe	76
COVID-19: From health crises to food security anxiety and policy implications	67
Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines	64
The socioeconomic and environmental drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review	62
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic	57
The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review	56
The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications	56
A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures	53
From land-use/land-cover to land system science	51
Combined effects of human pressures on Europe’s marine ecosystems	50
Our evolved understanding of the human health risks of mercury	50
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science	50
Intensification, regulation and diversification: The changing face of inland aquaculture in China	49
Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework	49
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling	46
Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities	44

Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later	42
Incorporating stakeholders’ preferences into a multi-criteria framework for planning large-scale Nature-Based Solutions	41
Nitrogen and the future of agriculture: 20 years on	41
Governance models for nature-based solutions: Seventeen cases from Germany	41
Representative boreal forest habitats in northern Europe, and a revised model for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation	38
Public perception of air pollution sources across Europe	38
Driving factors for coordinating urbanization with conservation of the ecological environment in China	35
Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts	34
How does a nature-based solution for flood control compare to a technical solution? Case study evidence from Belgium	34