OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment is 6. 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
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
The spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the relationship between PM_2.5 concentrations and the surface urban heat island effect in Beijing, China	15
Investigation of sedimentary records of Hurricane Irma in sinkholes, Big Pine Key, Florida	13
Corrigendum to “A review of spatial statistical approaches to modeling water quality”	12
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

Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity	11
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
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
Corrigendum to Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models	7
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
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	6
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