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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of climate on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review of findings, and statistical and modelling techniques	103
Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China	49
Coastal dune mobility over the past century: A global review	48
Current trends and future directions in quantitative geodiversity assessment	38
Controls on dune scarping	32
Low-cost electronic sensors for environmental research: Pitfalls and opportunities	31
Global assessment of wind erosion based on a spatially distributed RWEQ model	26
Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing	24
Mainstreaming natural flood management: A proposed research framework derived from a critical evaluation of current knowledge	20
Sediment yield over glacial cycles: A conceptual model	19
A method for spatio-temporal process assessment of eco-geological environmental security in mining areas using catastrophe theory and projection pursuit model	19
Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model	18
Nitrogen dynamics in the Critical Zones of China	17
Remote sensing of the mountain cryosphere: Current capabilities and future opportunities for research	17
Predicting river channel pattern based on stream power, bed material and bank strength	17
Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst	16
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	16
The impact of river regulation in the Tigris and Euphrates on the Arvandroud Estuary	16
Debris flows originating in the mountain cryosphere under a changing climate: A review	15
Bedrock-associated belowground and aboveground interactions and their implications for vegetation restoration in the karst critical zone of subtropical Southwest China	15
Channel geomorphology and riparian vegetation interactions along four anabranching reaches of the Upper Yellow River	15
Peat definitions: A critical review	14
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	14
The effects of urbanization on vegetation conditions in coastal zone of China	13
Analysing and simulating spatial patterns of crop yield in Guizhou Province based on artificial neural networks	13

Geomorphology of old and abandoned underground mines: Review and future challenges	13
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	12
Rainfall intensity in geomorphology: Challenges and opportunities	12
More accurate less meaningful? A critical physical geographer’s reflection on interpreting remote sensing land-use analyses	12
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	11
Forestation does not necessarily reduce soil erosion in a karst watershed in southwestern China	11
Inland wetlands in Africa: A review of their typologies and ecosystem services	11
Predicting the supply–demand of ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Middle Reaches Urban Agglomeration	10
Latest 30-m map of mature rubber plantations in Mainland Southeast Asia and Yunnan province of China: Spatial patterns and geographical characteristics	10
Mapping microhabitat structure and connectivity on a tropical inselberg using UAV remote sensing	9
Review of vegetation phenology trends in China in a changing climate	9
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	9
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	8
Assessing the effectiveness of alternative landslide partitioning in machine learning methods for landslide prediction in the complex Himalayan terrain	8
The relevance of ecoregions and mountainous environments in the diversity and endemism of land gastropods	8
Assessing urbanization’s contribution to warming in mainland China using satellite-estimated air temperature data	8
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	7
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	7
Impact of bedrock geochemistry on vegetation productivity depends on climate dryness in the Guizhou karst of China	7
Rainfall patterns and geomorphological controls driving inundation frequency in tropical wetlands: How does the Pantanal flood?	7
Vegetation ecology with anthropic drivers and consequences	7
COVID-19, zoonoses, and physical geography	7
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments II: Release and downstream consequences	6
Morphodynamic modelling of dryland non-perennial riverscapes, with implications for environmental water allocation	6
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	6
Geodiversity inclusiveness in biodiversity assessment	6
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	6
A short-term decline in anthropogenic emission of CO₂in India due to COVID-19 confinement	6
Soil as part of the Earth system	6
The water, food, energy, and ecosystem nexus in the Asian Alpine Belt: Research progress and future directions for achieving sustainable development goals	5
Spatial optimization of watershed best management practice scenarios based on boundary-adaptive configuration units	5
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	5
Long-term mass-balance monitoring and evolution of ice in caves through structure from motion–multi-view stereo and ground-penetrating radar techniques	5
Pristinity, degradation and replacement: The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation	5
A conceptual hydrological model of semiarid Andean headwater systems in Chile	5
Intra-gully mapping of the largest documented gully network in South Africa using UAV photogrammetry: Implications for restoration strategies	5
Estimating the age and mechanism of boulder transport related with extreme waves using lichenometry	5
Responses of sedimentary proxy indicators to lake-level fluctuations on the central Tibetan Plateau since the last deglaciation	4
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	4
Modeling soil erosion between 1985 and 2014 in three watersheds on the carbonate-rock dominated Guizhou Plateau, SW China, using WaTEM/SEDEM	4
A wrapper feature selection approach for efficient modelling of gully erosion susceptibility mapping	4
Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast	4
Tracking the methodological evolution of climate change projections for UK river flows	4
Reconstructing glacial outburst floods (jökulhlaups) from geomorphology: Challenges, solutions, and an enhanced interpretive framework	4
Contextualizing lobate debris aprons and glacier-like forms on Mars with debris-covered glaciers on Earth	4
Four decades of understanding Martian geomorphology: Revisiting Baker’s ‘The geomorphology of Mars’	4
Enhancing physical geography schools outreach: Insights from co-production and storytelling narratives	3
Spatial and seasonal patterns of rainfall erosivity in the Lake Kivu region: Insights from a meteorological observatory network	3
A statistical-based reach scale classification for the lower Tapajós river channel, eastern Amazonia	3
Drought and water management in ancient Maya society	3

Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	3
Whale geography: A species-centric approach applied to migration	3
Quantitative analysis and spatial distribution of landform spatial structure on Loess Plateau	3
Determinants of ecosystem processes and services in the karst critical zone in south-west China	3
Why can China maintain a high crop diversity? A spatial-temporal dynamic analysis	3
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	3
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	3
The development process of the Korean coastal mountain range: Examination from spatial distribution of knickzones	3
Cross-continental hydroclimate proxies: Tree-rings in Central Chile reconstruct historical streamflow in Southeastern South American rivers	3
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	3
Coastal development in southwestern Bangladesh: understanding the interplay between storms and sea level rise	3
The Driftless Oaks: A new network of tree-ring chronologies to improve regional perspectives of drought in the Upper Midwest, USA	3
River science and flood risk management policy in England	3
Application of fractal and multifractal analysis on Blue Nile drainage patterns in the morphostructural analysis of the Ethiopian highlands, Ethiopia	3
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	2
Distinct response of high-latitude ecosystem and high-altitude alpine ecosystem to temperature and precipitation dynamics: A meta-analysis of experimental manipulation studies	2
Research resource review	2
The interactions between wildfires, bamboo and aerosols in the south-western Amazon: A conceptual model	2
An inverse relationship between moisture and grazing intensity in an arid mountain-basin system	2
Limited impacts of global warming on rockfall activity at low elevations: Insights from two calcareous cliffs from the French Prealps	2
Jennings’Karst(1971, MIT Press) and current critical zone science	2
Multi-source remote sensing data shows a significant increase in vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau since 2000	2
Spatial assessment of flow and benefit of tropical cyclone hazard mitigation service	2
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	2
Modelling differential geomorphic effectiveness in neighbouring upland catchments: implications for sediment and flood risk management in a wetter world	2
Combined use of environmental and spectral variables with vegetation archives for large-scale modeling of grassland habitats	2
The response of geographical processes to landscape restoration: China’s research progress	2
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	2
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	2
Nitrogen cycling in aquatic environments of China: Progress and future challenges	2