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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	39
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	35
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	33
The water, food, energy, and ecosystem nexus in the Asian Alpine Belt: Research progress and future directions for achieving sustainable development goals	30
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	30
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	29
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	29
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	26
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	25
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	25
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	23
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	22
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	21
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	21
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	20
Four decades of understanding Martian geomorphology: Revisiting Baker’s ‘The geomorphology of Mars’	19
Coastal erosion in sandy beaches along a tectonically active coast: The Chile study case	19
Spatial assessment of flow and benefit of tropical cyclone hazard mitigation service	17
Comparative study of multiple heat indices in revisiting summer heat across China based on meteorological observations	16
The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the relationship between PM_2.5 concentrations and the surface urban heat island effect in Beijing, China	15
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
Investigation of sedimentary records of Hurricane Irma in sinkholes, Big Pine Key, Florida	13
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	12
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	12
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	11
Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model	11
Reviewing controls of wetland water temperature change across scales and typologies	11
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	11
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	10
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	10
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	10
A modern perspective on Meinecke’s 1929 assessment of tourist impacts on redwoods	10
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	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
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	9
Enhancing physical geography schools outreach: Insights from co-production and storytelling narratives	9
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	8
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	8
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	7
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	7
Projected climate change impacts on tropical life zones in Costa Rica	7
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	7
Corrigendum to Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models	7
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	6
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	6
Prediction of winter wheat yield at county level in China using ensemble learning	6
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	6
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	5
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	5
A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area	5
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	5
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	5
The Lasting Legacy of Hazard and Choice Perception in Flood Plain Management by Robert Kates	5
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	5
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	5
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	4
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	4
Inland wetlands in Africa: A review of their typologies and ecosystem services	4
Unoccupied aerial vehicle-assisted monitoring of benthic vegetation in the coastal zone enhances the quality of ecological data	4
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	4
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	4
Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China	4
A new formula for predicting movable bed roughness coefficient in the Middle Yangtze River	4
On the emerging global relevance of atmospheric rivers and impacts on landscapes and water resources	4
Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China	4
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	4
Tree species on environmental gradients in subtropical forest of northwest Belize, in the Maya Lowlands	4
Exploring the relationships between 3D urban landscape patterns and PM_2.5 pollution using the multiscale geographic weighted regression model	4
River science and flood risk management policy in England	3
A conceptual beachhead: “Beaches and dunes of human-altered coasts” by Karl F. Nordstrom (1994)	3
Combined use of environmental and spectral variables with vegetation archives for large-scale modeling of grassland habitats	3
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	3
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	3
Peat definitions: A critical review	3

Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	3
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	3
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	3
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	3
Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Long-term mass-balance monitoring and evolution of ice in caves through structure from motion–multi-view stereo and ground-penetrating radar techniques	3
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	3
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	3
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	2
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	2
Rock varnish revisited	2
Intra-gully mapping of the largest documented gully network in South Africa using UAV photogrammetry: Implications for restoration strategies	2
Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst	2
The continental and regional synoptic background favorable for hailstorms occurrence in North-Eastern Romania	2
Declining honey production and beekeeper adaptation to climate change in Chile	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
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	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	2
Resource review	2
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	2
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	2
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
Sources and concentration of DOC, DIC, and POC in the Lianjiang River: A representative karst tributary of the Beijiang River	2
Resource review: Assessing, mapping and modeling of mangrove ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific region	2
Research resource review	2
Resource review	2
Ensemble learning based on remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural drought in major winter wheat-producing areas of China	2
Research resource review	2
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	2
Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	2