OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Arid Environments is 21. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Groundwater abstraction and woodland mortality: Lessons from Namibia	320
Analyzing land use/land cover changes and aridity dynamics in the Nile river basin, Northeastern Africa	82
Devices to measure the impacts on groundwater salinity from irrigating halophytic crops with brackish waters in a hyper-arid environment	74
Trade-off dynamics in a rare cactus: What are the demographic consequences of temporal variation in fitness?	48
Editorial Board	43
Proactive policy options for drought resilience in the Sahel region	42
Coyotes in the Great Basin desert do not exhibit a spatial response following the removal of anthropogenic water sources	39
Accelerating collapse of freshwater ecosystems and fish communities in North Africa's Middle Atlas under combined climatic and anthropogenic pressures	32
Determining the response of riparian vegetation and river morphology to drought using Google Earth Engine and machine learning	31
Geospatial distribution of qanats in middle eastern countries: Potential for sustainable groundwater system	30
Synergistic pathways to promote nature-based Solutions: How policy and peer collaboration shape herder decisions on artificial pasture cultivation in Qinghai, China	28
Understanding resource use of an invasive species: Diet of the common warthog in Eastern Cape succulent thicket	26
Wind tunnel experimental investigation on microtopography of vegetation regions and its relationship with sand transport rate and sand flux	25
Constraints and incidence of camel calf morbidity and mortality in Borana rangeland, Southern Ethiopia	25
Climatic variations along an aridity gradient drive significant trait intraspecific variability in Mediterranean plant species	25
Additive and substitutable prey responses to feral and native predator combinations	25
Multi-scenario land use simulation and sustainability assessment in arid lanzhou: Ecological-economic trade-offs in Northwest China	23
Editorial Board	22
Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation cover in Egypt and its nonlinear climate responses: Insights from interpretable machine learning	22
Reduced moisture caused by short-term grazing prohibition results in a significant decrease of fungi abundance	22
Food habits of the Lesser grison Galictis cuja (Molina, 1782) in the Huasco coastal desert, Los Choros, northern Chile	21
Miners' diet in the Naḥal ‘Amram copper mines (southern ‘Arabah Valley) during the Roman-Byzantine periods	21
Characterizing fungal communities on Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in Arizona to uncover potential pathogens	21