OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Climatic Change is 32. 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
Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events	128
Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates	100
Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution	99
Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change	69
Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence	68
Increasing maximum lake surface temperature under climate change	55
Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse	52
Future surface temperatures over Europe according to CMIP6 climate projections: an analysis with original and bias-corrected data	50
Global scenarios of residential heating and cooling energy demand and CO2 emissions	48
Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity	48
Communications in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report cycle	47
Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021	46
Evapotranspiration and water availability response to climate change in the Middle East and North Africa	45
Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos	45
Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward	44
On climate anxiety and the threat it may pose to daily life functioning and adaptation: a study among European and African French-speaking participants	44
Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation	43
Observations of greenhouse gases as climate indicators	43
Advances and challenges in climate modeling	41
Mass balance calibration and reservoir representations for large-scale hydrological impact studies using SWAT+	41
Future changes to high impact weather in the UK	40
Conceptual framing to link climate risk assessments and climate-migration scholarship	38
Investigating similarities and differences in individual reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis	37
Comprehensive evaluation of hydrological models for climate change impact assessment in the Upper Yangtze River Basin, China	37
Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities	37

Financial development and macroeconomic sustainability: modeling based on a modified environmental Kuznets curve	35
Changing opinions on a changing climate: the effects of natural disasters on public perceptions of climate change	34
Livelihood diversification strategies and resilience to climate change in semi-arid northern Ghana	34
The climate responsibilities of industrial meat and dairy producers	34
Evidence of climate-driven changes on atmospheric, hydrological, and oceanographic variables along the Chilean coastal zone	33
The existential risk space of climate change	33
‘Seeing with Empty Eyes’: a systems approach to understand climate change and mental health in Bangladesh	32
How adaptive capacity shapes the Adapt, React, Cope response to climate impacts: insights from small-scale fisheries	32
A large-scale bibliometric analysis of global climate change research between 2001 and 2018	32