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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	75
Flood risk and economic losses in Earth-water systems: The role of resilience and institutional governance under climate variability	63
PhenoCams on the roof of the world: community-maintained timelapse trail cameras for monitoring vegetation dynamics at high altitude (proof-of-concept)	44
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	42
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	39
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	35
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	33
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	30
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	24
New approaches, old ideas: The subtle revolution of physical geography	22
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	22
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	21
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	21
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	20
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	20
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	18
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	18
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	18
Investigation of spatio-temporal patterns of bark beetle outbreaks by multispectral satellite remote sensing time series	16
Paleoclimate reconstruction and topographic drivers of piedmont glaciers during the LGM: Insights from the Yarlung Zangbo River source region, Central Himalayas	15
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	14
Reply to the comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	13
Weir removal for river restoration; observations on best practice and issues for a lowland UK river	13
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	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

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
Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	12
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	12
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	11
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	11
Enhanced removal of microplastics from wastewater hydrological pathways using a magnetically recoverable Fe ₃ O ₄	11
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	11
Exploring the evolution of the human–nature relationship through the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC): City-level evidence from China	10
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
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	10
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	9
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	9
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	9
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	9
Novel parameters for sinkhole mapping in the anthropocene: Example from a karst-dominated landscape of the Missouri Ozarks, USA	8
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	8
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	8
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	8
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	7
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	7
Cave morphometric analysis: A review	7
Quantifying bulk density of boreal peat using X-ray computed tomography	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
Automatic recognition of active landslides by surface deformation and deep learning	7
Remote sensing approaches to identify trees to species-level in the urban forest: A review	6
Historical analysis of glacier surges and ice-dammed lake outburst floods in the Kumdan group, Karakoram	6
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	6
The magnitude rule in geoheritage site inventories	6
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	6
Anatomy of a storm: A review of shape analysis research that fuses form and function in weather forecasting and analysis	6
Glacial landforms as palaeo-environmental archives in the Eastern Himalaya: A case study of Changme Khangpu glacial valley in Sikkim Himalaya, India	6
Hydrological evolution and differential response of the eco-environment recorded in Lake Maozangtianchi, eastern Qilian Mountains, over the last 900 years	5
Considering the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China	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
Atmospheric buoyancy is likely to influence the amount and intensity of precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	5
Potential of dynamic features derived from temporally dense Sentinel-1/2 imagery for improved floodplain wetland mapping	5
How do spatial factors of green spaces contribute to flood regulation in urban areas? A systematic mapping approach	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
Influences of urbanization on algal community and water clarity in lakes in typical international Wetland cities: Evidence from Wuhan, Central China	4
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy)	4
The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes	4
Study on the response of glaciers and climate change in the eastern Himalayas in recent 30 years	4
Soil erosion in geomorphological studies: Recent trends and future directions	4
19th-century afforestation policies have predisposed mountain slopes to forest expansion under recent climate warming in the southern French Alps	4
More accurate less meaningful? Why quality indicators do not unveil the socio-technical practices inscribed into land use maps	4

Identification, computation, and mapping of anthropogenic landforms in urban areas: Case studies in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage)	3
Terrestrial carbon uptake response to altered temperature and precipitation based on land surface model: A case study in Guizhou province, China	3
LiDAR accuracy on North American mountain summits	3
Climate change-driven hydroclimatic shifts and energy prospects: Insights from a snow-fed river basin in Western Himalaya	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
Role of Andean tropical montane soil organic carbon in the deglacial carbon budget	3
Groundwater nitrate contamination in agroecosystems: A comprehensive review of detection methods, pollution mechanisms, and policy implications	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
Peat definitions: A critical review	3
Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments I: Inputs and accumulation	3
Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index	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
Progress of physical geography in China: Toward elements correlated, processes coupled, and spatial integrated research	3
Progress of studies on satellite-based terrestrial vegetation production models in China	3
Experimental and numerical investigation on the hydraulic design criteria for a step-pool nature-like fishway	2
The application of satellite remote sensing to coastal dune environments: A systematic review	2
Dynamic bundles to detect the spatiotemporal characteristics and impact factors of ecosystem services in northern China	2
An anthrome-based perspective of the traditional biogeographic units: Argentina as a case study	2
Observing coastal wetland transitions using national land cover products	2
Flood frequency characterization of the Nhecolândia region (Pantanal) based on high spatial and temporal resolution PlanetScope satellite images	2
Rock varnish revisited	2
Ecosystem services dynamics towards SDGs in the Belt and Road Initiative cities	2
Effects of sustained tectonic uplift on groundwater systems in the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from hydrochemistry and isotopes	2
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
Prehistoric human occupation and adaptation on the hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene	2
Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy	2
Geomorphology of the Lidder Basin, Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Deciphering the interplay of glacial, fluvial, and tectonic processes	2
More-than-human geomorphologies	2
Understanding forest sap flow velocity through satellite based remote sensing platforms: A time series analysis	2