OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Producing climate boundary maps using GIS interface model designed with Python	36
Infilled lakes (Pampas) of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Inventory, sediment storage, and paleo outbursts	30
Rainfall patterns and geomorphological controls driving inundation frequency in tropical wetlands: How does the Pantanal flood?	30
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	29
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	28
Acoustic methods in physical geography: Applications and future development	27
Resource review: Assessing, mapping and modeling of mangrove ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific region	27
The water, food, energy, and ecosystem nexus in the Asian Alpine Belt: Research progress and future directions for achieving sustainable development goals	26
Corrigendum to The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	26
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	23
A discussion on the plausible role of ice streams in carving Martian outflow channels: Revisiting the earliest hypothesis by Lucchitta et al. (1981)	22
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	21
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	20
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	20
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	19
Research resource review	19
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	18
Limited impacts of global warming on rockfall activity at low elevations: Insights from two calcareous cliffs from the French Prealps	18
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	17
Combined use of environmental and spectral variables with vegetation archives for large-scale modeling of grassland habitats	16
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	14
The roles of environmental conditions in the pollutant emission-induced gross primary production change: Co-contribution of meteorological fields and regulation of its background gradients	14
Assessing urbanization’s contribution to warming in mainland China using satellite-estimated air temperature data	13
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	12
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	11

Corrigendum to Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models	11
Nitrogen cycling in aquatic environments of China: Progress and future challenges	11
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	11
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	10
Resource review: Geospatial analysis applied to mineral exploration: Remote sensing, GIS, geochemical, and geophysical applications to mineral resources	10
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	10
Application of fractal and multifractal analysis on Blue Nile drainage patterns in the morphostructural analysis of the Ethiopian highlands, Ethiopia	10
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	9
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	9
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	8
Modelling differential geomorphic effectiveness in neighbouring upland catchments: implications for sediment and flood risk management in a wetter world	8
River science and flood risk management policy in England	8
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	8
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	8
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	8
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	7
Assessing the effectiveness of alternative landslide partitioning in machine learning methods for landslide prediction in the complex Himalayan terrain	7
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	7
Impact of the Mediterranean oscillation on total lightning activity	7
The evolution of open biomass burning during summer crop harvest in the North China Plain	7
Predicting the supply–demand of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Middle Reaches Urban Agglomeration	7
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
Peat definitions: A critical review	7
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	6
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	6
Fragility curves for road embankments exposed to adjacent debris flow	5
Formation and evolution of mountainous aeolian sediments in the northern Tibet Plateau and their links to the Asian winter monsoon and westerlies since the Last Glacial Maximum	5
An inverse relationship between moisture and grazing intensity in an arid mountain-basin system	5
A conceptual hydrological model of semiarid Andean headwater systems in Chile	5
Latest 30-m map of mature rubber plantations in Mainland Southeast Asia and Yunnan province of China: Spatial patterns and geographical characteristics	5
Drought and water management in ancient Maya society	5
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	5
Comprehensive evaluation of urban development suitability based on constraints and development factors: A case study of the central urban area of Zhengzhou, China	4
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	4
A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994)	4
The Lasting Legacy of Hazard and Choice Perception in Flood Plain Management by Robert Kates	4
Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models	4
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	4
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	4
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	4
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	4
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	3
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	3
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of depositional environment and vegetational cover in a salt flat of the Lickan Antay Territory of Toconao, Northern Chile	3
Research resource review	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
Fitting limit lines (envelope curves) to spreads of geoenvironmental data	3
A review of flash flood hazards influenced by various solid material sources in mountain environment	3
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	3

Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Why can China maintain a high crop diversity? A spatial-temporal dynamic analysis	3
Soil stabilization by integrating dust particles with calcium lignosulphanate	3
Regional disparities and social-ecological constraints of soil antibiotic pollution in urban agglomerations of China	3
Fluvial encounters: Experimenting with a ‘River’s voice’ amidst light-based datafication	3
Global assessment of wind erosion based on a spatially distributed RWEQ model	3
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	3
Morphodynamic modelling of dryland non-perennial riverscapes, with implications for environmental water allocation	3
Soil as part of the Earth system	3
Articulation of the cross-boundary effects of China’s ecological conservation redline program: A perspective on the ecological security network and ecological radiation	3
Problems and prospects of portmanteau titles and other neologisms for interface disciplines in the Earth and life sciences	2
Estimation of recent peat accumulation with tree saplings	2
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	2
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	2
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	2
Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst	2
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	2
Investigation of sedimentary records of Hurricane Irma in sinkholes, Big Pine Key, Florida	2
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	2
Coastal development in southwestern Bangladesh: understanding the interplay between storms and sea level rise	2
Remote sensing of the mountain cryosphere: Current capabilities and future opportunities for research	2
Contributions of Kenneth Mason to the physical geography of Himalaya and Karakoram	2
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	2
Geodiversity inclusiveness in biodiversity assessment	2
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	2
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	2
Tree-ring hydrological research in the Himalaya: State of the art and future directions	2
Soil erosion on arable land: An unresolved global environmental threat	2
Mainstreaming natural flood management: A proposed research framework derived from a critical evaluation of current knowledge	2
The interactions between wildfires, bamboo and aerosols in the south-western Amazon: A conceptual model	2
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	2
Quaternary glaciations in western China: A review of the chronologies established by absolute dating	2