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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	79
Resource review: Artificial Intelligence Oceanography Xiaofeng Li and Fan Wang (Editors), Artificial Intelligence Oceanography, Springer Nature: Singapore, 2023, xii + 346 pp., open access (eBook), IS	78
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	52
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	41
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	37
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	32
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	25
PhenoCams on the roof of the world: community-maintained timelapse trail cameras for monitoring vegetation dynamics at high altitude (proof-of-concept)	24
Flood risk and economic losses in Earth-water systems: The role of resilience and institutional governance under climate variability	22
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	21
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	21
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	18
New approaches, old ideas: The subtle revolution of physical geography	18
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	17
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	16
Tracing the pathways from drought to wildfire: Compound and cascading hot-dry hazard processes in a Mediterranean climate	15
Investigation of spatio-temporal patterns of bark beetle outbreaks by multispectral satellite remote sensing time series	14
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	13
Resource review: Environmental problem solving in an age of climate change: Volume one: Basic tools and techniques (Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment) Springer Champ: Swi	13
Paleoclimate reconstruction and topographic drivers of piedmont glaciers during the LGM: Insights from the Yarlung Zangbo River source region, Central Himalayas	13
Weir removal for river restoration; observations on best practice and issues for a lowland UK river	13
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	13
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	13
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	12
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	12

Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	12
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	12
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	11
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	10
An excess-work approach to assessing channel instability potential within urban streams of Chicago, Illinois: Relative importance of spatial variability in hydraulic conditions and stormwater mitigati	10
Exploring the evolution of the human–nature relationship through the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC): City-level evidence from China	10
Enhanced removal of microplastics from wastewater hydrological pathways using a magnetically recoverable Fe ₃ O ₄	10
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	10
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	10
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	9
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	9
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	9
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	9
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	9
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	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
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	8
Quantifying bulk density of boreal peat using X-ray computed tomography	8
Novel parameters for sinkhole mapping in the anthropocene: Example from a karst-dominated landscape of the Missouri Ozarks, USA	8
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	7
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	7
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	7
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	6
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	6
Glacial landforms as palaeo-environmental archives in the Eastern Himalaya: A case study of Changme Khangpu glacial valley in Sikkim Himalaya, India	6
Historical analysis of glacier surges and ice-dammed lake outburst floods in the Kumdan group, Karakoram	6
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	5
Potential of dynamic features derived from temporally dense Sentinel-1/2 imagery for improved floodplain wetland mapping	5
Tree species on environmental gradients in subtropical forest of northwest Belize, in the Maya Lowlands	5
Exploring the relationships between 3D urban landscape patterns and PM _2.5 pollution using the multiscale geographic weighted regression model	5
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	5
Atmospheric buoyancy is likely to influence the amount and intensity of precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Timing of Late Pleistocene marine terrace exposure using OSL and ¹⁰ Be dating: Constraints on the tectonic uplift of the southeastern Korean Peninsul	5
Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	4
Detecting rainfall-induced landslides with Sentinel-1 SAR: Evidence from the Andes	4
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	4
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	4
19th-century afforestation policies have predisposed mountain slopes to forest expansion under recent climate warming in the southern French Alps	4
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	4
Soil erosion in geomorphological studies: Recent trends and future directions	4
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	4
Study on the response of glaciers and climate change in the eastern Himalayas in recent 30 years	4
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	4
Geomorphic changes in the Coca River Watershed due to the construction of a run of the river dam	3
Integrating explainable AI with machine learning for water quality assessment: Unveiling physical drivers and spatial dynamics	3
Remote sensing monitoring of glacier changes and analysis of climate response on the northern slope of the Western Himalayas from 1990 to 2024	3

Holocene peat accumulation rate, hiatus events, and hummock development affected by climate, tephra deposition, and geomorphic setting	3
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	3
The application of satellite remote sensing to coastal dune environments: A systematic review	3
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Climate change-driven hydroclimatic shifts and energy prospects: Insights from a snow-fed river basin in Western Himalaya	3
Groundwater nitrate contamination in agroecosystems: A comprehensive review of detection methods, pollution mechanisms, and policy implications	3
Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	3
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	3
Peat definitions: A critical review	3
Research on the evaluation of landslide susceptibility based on the integration of endogenic and exogenic driving forces: A case study of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Hengduan Mountains	3
LiDAR accuracy on North American mountain summits	3
Rock varnish revisited	3
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
Geomorphology of the Lidder Basin, Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Deciphering the interplay of glacial, fluvial, and tectonic processes	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
Lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Padam Valley, Ladakh Himalaya: A comparative assessment of dynamics and mass changes	2
More-than-human geomorphologies	2
An anthrome-based perspective of the traditional biogeographic units: Argentina as a case study	2
Crowd-sourced glacier mapping as a tool for enhancing climate literacy and data generation	2
Resource review: Assessing, mapping and modeling of mangrove ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific region DasguptaRajarshiHashimotoShizukaSaitoOsamu, Assessing, Mapping and Modeling of Mangrove Ecosy	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	2
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	2
Effects of sustained tectonic uplift on groundwater systems in the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from hydrochemistry and isotopes	2
Reducing subjectivity in landslide susceptibility mapping: machine learning-informed multi-criteria analysis with spatial uncertainty assessment	2