OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global and Planetary Change is 30. 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
Editorial Board	99
The Central Paratethys Sea – Part of the tropical eastern Atlantic rather than gate into the Indian Ocean	81
Warming and drying increased the interspecies consistency of tree-ring lignin methoxy δ2H variability at the alpine treeline	74
Editorial Board	70
Reactivated deformation structure induced by Early Cretaceous magmatism in the Sulu Orogen rift basin, eastern China	65
Sediment provenance and foraminiferal isotope records reveal eccentricity-paced African monsoon variability in the Early Miocene	64
Four decades of glacier changes in Karzok, Ladakh regulated by climatic and non-climatic drivers (1980–2023)	52
Glaucony formation during warm phases of Earth history: Lessons learnt from Upper Cretaceous greensand giants	48
Constraints on Earth-Moon dynamical parameters from Eocene cyclostratigraphy	47
Monsoon variability and high latitude climate signals in the central Mediterranean at the Pliocene – Pleistocene transition: the Gelasian stratotype section (Monte San Nicola, Sicily)	46
Population migration with improved productivity caused a heterogeneity pattern of Holocene vegetation succession in typical areas of the lower Yangtze region	44
Exploring the impact of the Great Green Wall on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone activity	42
Temperature signal instability of tree-ring width chronologies from the upper treelines in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau	41
Dual carbon isotopes constrain the sources and age variations of terrestrial organic carbon in the middle Okinawa Trough since the last deglaciation	40
A link between the paleoenvironment and PETM via trace element proxies in Southwest Atlantic sediments	39
Reconciling inconsistent trends of geochemical and environmental magnetic records from East Asian sediments based on modern calibration	37
A strong influence of the precession and northern high latitudinal climate on the monsoon seasonality and productivity in the Andaman Sea	36
Plant trait spectrum and its climatic drivers across global realms and biomes	36
Spatiotemporal variation of vegetation cover thresholds for soil loss and its driving factors in forested areas of China's Loess Plateau	35
Anaerobic oxidation of methane and greigite formation: Evidence of isotopically heavy pyrite in Pleistocene coastal sediments from the South Yellow Sea	35
Orbital eccentricity and inclination metronomes in Middle Miocene lacustrine mudstones of Jiuxi Basin, Tibet: Closing an astrochronology time gap and calibrating global cooling events	34
Mid-Piacenzian and future changes in South Asian precipitation under global warming	33
Cenozoic mountain building of the West Qinling and its correlation with formation of the earliest eolian red clays in the Chinese Loess Plateau	32
Local sulfur sources control the development of Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn deposits worldwide	32
Unveiling shallow marine redox context for the first Phanerozoic mass extinction event	32

Benzo[ghi]fluoranthene and benz[a]anthracene as potentially useful wildfire temperature indicators	32
Affinity and underestimated Precambrian crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from the North Alxa Block	32
Geodynamic evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotopic evidence from Paleozoic ophiolites and arc igneous rocks in the Central Tianshan, Northwest China	32
Nature of Devonian anoxic events based on multiproxy records from Panthalassa, NW Canada	31
Vegetation greening reduces land surface temperature differences between high and low elevations in the Northern Hemisphere	30