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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Large floods on the lower Ohio River inferred from slackwater deposits	73
Resource review: Water conservation in the era of global climate change	61
A horizon scan for novel and impactful areas of physical geography research in 2023 and beyond	42
Rural outmigration generates a carbon sink in South China karst	42
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	39
Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation	39
The origins of modern urban climate science: reflections on ‘A numerical model of the urban heat island’	33
Human impacts on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 2000	33
Flood risk and economic losses in Earth-water systems: The role of resilience and institutional governance under climate variability	31
PhenoCams on the roof of the world: community-maintained timelapse trail cameras for monitoring vegetation dynamics at high altitude (proof-of-concept)	30
Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20^th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway	22
Book Review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error	22
New approaches, old ideas: The subtle revolution of physical geography	21
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modelling: A case study of Slovakia from 1990 to 2018	21
Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection	20
Post-seismic topographic shifts and delayed vegetation recovery in the epicentral area of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake	20
Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates	19
Variations in glacial area in the middle Himalayas over the past 30 years	18
Impacts of floods on Colombo during two decades: Looking back and thinking forward	18
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
Communicating science from the Arctic: A collaborative protocol to mitigate harm	15
Paleoclimate reconstruction and topographic drivers of piedmont glaciers during the LGM: Insights from the Yarlung Zangbo River source region, Central Himalayas	14
Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review	14
Weir removal for river restoration; observations on best practice and issues for a lowland UK river	14
Occurrence and formation of clast-free circular depressions in the southern Namib Desert, Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia	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
A review of wildfire impacts on stream temperature and turbidity across scales	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	12
A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023	12
A conceptual and statistical framework for delineating the timing of a stratigraphic transition: Holocene-Anthropocene boundary as a case study	11
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	11
Book Review: Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering	11
High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	10
The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context	10
Enhanced removal of microplastics from wastewater hydrological pathways using a magnetically recoverable Fe ₃ O ₄	10
Book Review: Most unimaginably strange: An eclectic companion to the landscape of Iceland	9
Assessing hazards of ancient landslide clusters in the Lancang river basin using multi-temporal remote sensing: A case study of Chaya county	9
Identification of driving forces for windbreak and sand fixation services in semiarid and arid areas: A case of Inner Mongolia, China	9
Comments on Souza et al. (2022) “Recent geomorphological changes in the Paraiba do Sul delta, South America East Coast”	9
Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico	8
Spatial analysis guiding decision making in environmental conservation: Systematic conservation planning and ecosystem services	8
Novel parameters for sinkhole mapping in the anthropocene: Example from a karst-dominated landscape of the Missouri Ozarks, USA	8
Physical geography in the Maya Lowlands	8
Lithology controls drought sensitivity in southwest China	8
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data	8
Quantifying bulk density of boreal peat using X-ray computed tomography	7
Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands	7
Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning	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
Vegetation heterogeneity as an indicator of plant functional traits	7