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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	73
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	61
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	42
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	42
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	39
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	39
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	33
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	33
Flood risk and economic losses in Earth-water systems: The role of resilience and institutional governance under climate variability	31
PhenoCams on the roof of the world: community-maintained timelapse trail cameras for monitoring vegetation dynamics at high altitude (proof-of-concept)	30
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	22
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	22
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	21
New approaches, old ideas: The subtle revolution of physical geography	21
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	20
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	20
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	19
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	18
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	18
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	15
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	15
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	14
Weir removal for river restoration; observations on best practice and issues for a lowland UK river	14
Paleoclimate reconstruction and topographic drivers of piedmont glaciers during the LGM: Insights from the Yarlung Zangbo River source region, Central Himalayas	14
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	13

A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	12
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	12
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	12
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	12
Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	12
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	12
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	11
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	11
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	11
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	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
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	9
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	9
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	9
Novel parameters for sinkhole mapping in the anthropocene: Example from a karst-dominated landscape of the Missouri Ozarks, USA	8
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	8
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	8
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	8
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	8
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	8
Quantifying bulk density of boreal peat using X-ray computed tomography	7
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	7
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	7
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	6
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	6
Glacial landforms as palaeo-environmental archives in the Eastern Himalaya: A case study of Changme Khangpu glacial valley in Sikkim Himalaya, India	6
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	6
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	6
Atmospheric buoyancy is likely to influence the amount and intensity of precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	6
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	6
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	6
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
Historical analysis of glacier surges and ice-dammed lake outburst floods in the Kumdan group, Karakoram	6
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	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
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	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
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	5
Exploring the relationships between 3D urban landscape patterns and PM_2.5 pollution using the multiscale geographic weighted regression model	5
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	5
Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	4
Study on the response of glaciers and climate change in the eastern Himalayas in recent 30 years	4
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	4
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	4
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	4

19th-century afforestation policies have predisposed mountain slopes to forest expansion under recent climate warming in the southern French Alps	4
Soil erosion in geomorphological studies: Recent trends and future directions	4
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	4
Remote sensing monitoring of glacier changes and analysis of climate response on the northern slope of the Western Himalayas from 1990 to 2024	3
LiDAR accuracy on North American mountain summits	3
Peat definitions: A critical review	3
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	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
Groundwater nitrate contamination in agroecosystems: A comprehensive review of detection methods, pollution mechanisms, and policy implications	3
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	3
Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	3
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	3
Climate change-driven hydroclimatic shifts and energy prospects: Insights from a snow-fed river basin in Western Himalaya	3
Holocene peat accumulation rate, hiatus events, and hummock development affected by climate, tephra deposition, and geomorphic setting	3
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	3
Rock varnish revisited	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	3
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Padam Valley, Ladakh Himalaya: A comparative assessment of dynamics and mass changes	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
Effects of sustained tectonic uplift on groundwater systems in the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from hydrochemistry and isotopes	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	2
Geomorphology of the Lidder Basin, Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Deciphering the interplay of glacial, fluvial, and tectonic processes	2
The application of satellite remote sensing to coastal dune environments: A systematic review	2
Intra-gully mapping of the largest documented gully network in South Africa using UAV photogrammetry: Implications for restoration strategies	2
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	2
Understanding forest sap flow velocity through satellite based remote sensing platforms: A time series analysis	2
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	2
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	2
An anthrome-based perspective of the traditional biogeographic units: Argentina as a case study	2