OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Hazards is 41. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Fire-danger modeling and mapping in natural ecosystems of northeastern Iran: application of physiographic, vegetative, climatic and human-made indicators	175
An urban drought categorization framework and the vulnerability of a lowland city to groundwater urban droughts	142
Hydrological and hydrodynamic reconstruction of a flood event in a poorly monitored basin: a case study in the Rolante River, Brazil	103
An assessment of Dungale landslide using remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS), ground penetration radar (GPR), and Slide & RS2 Softwares	98
Lightning characteristics and associated microphysical parameters in a strong thunderstorm with an extreme gale	83
Integrated landslide analysis using petrological investigation and drone based high resolution geospatial assessment: Irshalwadi landslide- A case study from Western Ghats of India	80
Explaining urban communities’ adaptation strategies for climate change risk: novel evidence from Rawalpindi, Pakistan	80
Probabilistic and deterministic-based approach for liquefaction potential assessment of layered soil	77
Influence analysis of spatially variable cohesion on flow process and run-out distance of landslides	75
Damage analysis of retired typhoons in mainland China from 2009 to 2019	74
Impact of dust storm on the atmospheric boundary layer: a case study from western India	73
Collapsibility deterioration mechanism and evaluation of compacted loess with sodium sulfate under drying–wetting cycles	72
Automated detection of damaged buildings in post-disaster scenarios: a case study of Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquakes on February 6, 2023	69
Flood resilience assessment from the perspective of urban (in)formality in Surat, India: Implications for sustainable development	63
FDI and CO2 emissions in developing countries: the role of human capital	62
Environmental factors in tsunami evacuation simulation: topography, traffic jam, human behaviour	57
Quantifying the realized and unrealized benefits of seismic interventions using causal inference	57
Post-dynamic behaviors of the saturated loess in the Zhongchuan slide triggered by the Jishishan M6.2 earthquake	57
Financial fund allocation in China's catastrophe insurance market: a game-theoretic analysis	57
Linkages between riverine flooding risk and economic damage over the continental United States	57
Flood susceptibility modelling of the Teesta River Basin through the AHP-MCDA process using GIS and remote sensing	57
Principal results of the Portoviejo (Ecuador) seismic microzonation project and importance for seismic hazard mitigation	56
Dynamic determination of landslide stability and thrust force considering slip zone evolution	55
Analysing agricultural drought resilience over Indian mainland at sub-basin level using long-term (2002-23) precipitation, soil moisture and ancillary datasets	54
A comparative Bayesian optimization-based machine learning and artificial neural networks approach for burned area prediction in forest fires: an application in Turkey	54

Historical and future trends in population exposed to landslides in Japan	53
The temporal clustering of storm surge, wave height, and high sea level exceedances around the UK coastline	51
Seismic and geomorphic assessment for coseismic landslides zonation in tropical volcanic contexts	51
Critical droughts extracted from dry periods	47
Fuzzy flash flood risk and vulnerability assessment for the city of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran	46
Evolution trend of the Huangyanwo rock mass under the action of reservoir water fluctuation	44
An improved azimuth-dependent Holland model for typhoons along the Zhejiang coast prior to landfall based on WRF–ARW simulations	44
Spatio-temporal analysis of subsiding districts in Balochistan, Pakistan using Multi-Sensor SBAS InSAR and GNSS	44
Understanding the environmental conditions of the extreme precipitation event on June 20, 2015, in the city of Douala, Cameroon	44
Site amplification and rupture velocity in EXSIM and updated EXSIM during the 2017 Mw6.6 Jiuzhaigou, China earthquake	43
A model test method for simulating the decrease in slope soil strength: application to an excavation slope	43
Influence of aerosols on tropical cyclone dynamics during landfall over Indian region	42
Mean rainfall characteristics of tropical cyclones over the North Indian Ocean using a merged satellite-gauge daily rainfall dataset	42
Forest fire distribution standard in the south of Amazonas state	42
Optimal machine learning techniques for meteorological modeling of $${\textrm{PM}}_{2.5}$$ concentration in five major polluted cities of South-East Asia	41
Enhancing earthquake disaster risk assessment: insights from pandemic circumstances, case studies, and lessons learned	41