OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of CATENA is 61. 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
15 years ecohydrological long-term monitoring of the artificial catchment Chicken Creek – A brief summary	324
Ontogenetic shifts in alfalfa root distribution and morphology drive soil water depletion and productivity decline in Loess Plateau pastures	159
Comparison of distinctive diversities, co-occurrence patterns and potential ecological functions of microbial communities in heterogeneous soil areas in typical subtropical forests, southeast China	152
Climatic control on the Holocene hydrology of a playa-lake system in the western Mediterranean	148
Improving monitoring Karst rocky desertification using high-frequency Landsat observations: A generalized framework and its application to a typical karst region in southeast China	147
A strategy for modelling sediment distribution along slope lengths of an ephemeral gully through the simulated scouring experiments	130
Rainfall erosivity variability over the United States associated with large-scale climate variations by El Niño/southern oscillation	125
A performance comparison of SRTM v. 3.0, AW3D30, ASTER GDEM3, Copernicus and TanDEM-X for tectonogeomorphic analysis in the South American Andes	122
Sediment yield in a basin in Brazilian Semiarid Regions: A discussion on positive allometry	112
Contrasting impacts of grassland restoration methods on soil greenhouse gases emissions under warming conditions in Northern Tibet	111
Parent materials influence in the formation of vertical textural differentiation in humid tropical landscapes	110
Climate dynamics during the last 3000 years forced environmental and sedimentation changes in southern Spain: The Laguna Grande de Archidona record	108
Editorial Board	107
Rock glaciers in the Gangdise Mountains, southern Tibetan Plateau: Morphology and controlling factors	105
Implications of geomorphometric parameters on the occurrence of landslides in the Kali Valley, Kumaun Himalaya, India	99
Unravelling chemical and physical processes in Fourier transform spectra of low frequency dissolved oxygen time series in Swiss lakes	99
Geographic factors explain soil nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry in the Chinese wetlands	92
Contrasting soil dynamics in a formerly glaciated and non-glaciated Mediterranean mountain plateau (Serra da Estrela, Portugal)	91
Hydro-sedimentary dysfunctions as a key factor for the storage of contaminants in mountain rivers (Bienne River, Jura Mountains, France)	87
Boreal soil homogenization after conversion to agricultural use is constrained by carbon dynamics and soil health	86
Indices accounting for rainstorm erosivity – Theory and practice	86
Contributions of mycorrhizal fungi to soil aggregate formation during subalpine forest succession	85
Isoerodent surfaces of the continental US for conservation planning with the RUSLE2 water erosion model	83
Fertile island effects across developmental stages of Caragana korshinskii nebkhas drive microbial nutrient cycling in arid ecosystems	83
Assessing the impacts of lithology on short-term gully evolution within the karst Mediterranean area	82

Dissolved organic matter movements from forests influence downstream soil CO2 flux during thawing	82
Contrasting global patterns of soil microbial quotients of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems	81
Response of hydrological processes to event- and annual-scale precipitation extremes in a rocky mountainous area of northern China	81
Spatiotemporal dynamics of river dissolved organic matter in small watershed with vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau	81
Effects of slope aspect and tillage type on soil microbial biomass and its stoichiometric ratios in karst trough valley	80
Low-severity fire promote carbon emissions in permafrost peatlands of the Great Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	79
Coupling effects of soil and vegetation from an ecosystem service perspective	79
Long-term changes in soil composition in unmanaged central European mountain spruce forests after decreased acidic deposition and a bark beetle outbreak	79
Gully erosion susceptibility assessment based on machine learning-A case study of watersheds in Tuquan County in the black soil region of Northeast China	79
Integrative analysis of nutrient dynamics and its hydrological pathways in a tropical montane forest watershed: Implications for landscape management	76
Influence of geochemistry and topography on vegetation in tropical Nigeria: Geochemistry and soil thickness surpass topographic position	75
Spatiotemporal variability of rainfall erosivity and its teleconnection with atmospheric circulation in monsoon-driven climate region	75
Increased radiocarbon age offset of crater lake sediments linked to cool-dry intervals during the past 40,000 yr	74
Wildfire reshapes the composition and symbiotic networks of soil microbial communities in alpine marshy meadows	73
Fault-related basins as carbon reservoirs: Soil CO2 emissions in the SE Korean Peninsula	73
Microtopography and surface features of the mid-Pleistocene Kalkkop impact crater and Palaeolake, South Africa	71
Divergent contributions of plant- and microbial-derived carbon to soil organic matter fractions in mangrove wetland along a salinity gradient	69
Corrigendum to “Carbon storage in typical ecosystems of coastal wetlands in Jiangsu, China: Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms” [Catena 254 (2025) 108882]	68
Direct rain splash and downwearing of internal surfaces as an important erosion process in alluvial gully development	67
Historical and future runoff changes and their impacts on stormflow characteristics in the upper Yangtze River basin, China	67
Exploring underlying drivers of coarse above- and below-ground carbon sequestration in China's plantations	67
Runoff–sediment coupling in low vegetation coverage scenario: Insights from plot scale experiment in the loess environment	65
Continental–scale distribution and source identification of boron in soils of China	65
Species identity outweighs richness in shaping soil microbial resource limitation in subtropical mixed Pinus massoniana-broadleaved plantations	65
Amino acid nitrogen trends in paddy soils under long-term rice cultivation in southeast coast of China	65
Transition of soil microbial abundances and functions from passive response to active adaptation over 15 repeated freeze-thaw cycles	64
Long-term succession and driving mechanisms of soil microbial communities in reclaimed farmland	63
Spatial variation in soil aggregate stability and erodibility at different slope positions in four hilly regions of northeast China	63
Prescribed burning of scrubland only affects very sensitive topsoil properties: A decadal-scale study in encroached grasslands of the southern Pyrenees	63
Evaluation of soil erosion rates in the hilly-gully region of the Loess Plateau in China in the past 60 years using global fallout plutonium	63
Clay mineral assemblages of the Luojiawopeng Formation red bed in the Songnen Plain, NE China and their paleoenvironment implications	63
The impact of sampling depths on quantification of soil organic carbon stock in mangrove environments	62
Effects of warming and precipitation reduction on soil respiration in Horqin sandy grassland, northern China	62
Contribution of herbaceous energy crops in maintaining runoff and reducing soil loss on the loess slopes under natural rainfall in the semi-arid area	62
The difference in leaf color quality of Cotinus coggygria during the coloration peak period affected by soil and topographic heterogeneity	61
Exploring the impact of rainfall spatial differentiation on sediment yield of a typical watershed in the Loess Plateau of China	61
Fluctuating nature of prehistoric settlement and land use preserved in sedimentary record of vanished gully	61
Relationships between livestock density and soil phosphorus contents – County and farm level analyses	61