OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 7. 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
New approaches, old ideas: The subtle revolution of physical geography	18
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	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
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	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
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
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
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
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
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
Book Review: The sun, energy, and climate change	7
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