OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 87. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of water quality index models and their use for assessing surface water quality	525
Linking economic globalization, economic growth, financial development, and ecological footprint: Evidence from symmetric and asymmetric ARDL	323
Impacts of urbanization and landscape pattern on habitat quality using OLS and GWR models in Hangzhou, China	292
Coupling coordination analysis of rural production-living-ecological space in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	214
Applying Geodetector to disentangle the contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to NDVI variations in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin	211
GIS-based comparative assessment of flood susceptibility mapping using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach, naïve Bayes tree, bivariate statistics and logistic regression: A case of Topľa b	207
Dynamic simulation of land use change and assessment of carbon storage based on climate change scenarios at the city level: A case study of Bortala, China	195
Assessment of spatial–temporal changes of ecological environment quality based on RSEI and GEE: A case study in Erhai Lake Basin, Yunnan province, China	189
Multi-scenario simulation of ecosystem service value for optimization of land use in the Sichuan-Yunnan ecological barrier, China	172
Towards environmental Sustainability: Devolving the influence of carbon dioxide emission to population growth, climate change, Forestry, livestock and crops production in Pakistan	171
Application of remote sensing and machine learning algorithms for forest fire mapping in a Mediterranean area	170
Integrated phenology and climate in rice yields prediction using machine learning methods	161
Evaluation of ecological city and analysis of obstacle factors under the background of high-quality development: Taking cities in the Yellow River Basin as examples	160
Spatial-temporal pattern analysis of landscape ecological risk assessment based on land use/land cover change in Baishuijiang National nature reserve in Gansu Province, China	147
Promoting landscape connectivity of highly urbanized area: An ecological network approach	146
Does the low-carbon city policy make a difference? Empirical evidence of the pilot scheme in China with DEA and PSM-DID	145
Spatial-temporal characteristics of carbon emissions from land use change in Yellow River Delta region, China	144
The coupling curve between urbanization and the eco-environment: China’s urban agglomeration as a case study	139
Ecological vulnerability assessment based on AHP-PSR method and analysis of its single parameter sensitivity and spatial autocorrelation for ecological protection – A case of Weifang City, China	137
Ecological stability of microbial communities in Lake Donghu regulated by keystone taxa	132
Exploration of eco-environment and urbanization changes in coastal zones: A case study in China over the past 20 years	132
Spatio-temporal changes of ecological vulnerability across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	128
Urban sustainability assessment: An overview and bibliometric analysis	128
Constructing and optimizing urban ecological network in the context of rapid urbanization for improving landscape connectivity	127
Landscape ecological risk projection based on the PLUS model under the localized shared socioeconomic pathways in the Fujian Delta region	124

Analyzing ecological environment change and associated driving factors in China based on NDVI time series data	123
Urban heat islands and their effects on thermal comfort in the US: New York and New Jersey	121
Development tendency analysis for the water resource carrying capacity based on system dynamics model and the improved fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method in the Changchun city, China	119
Membrane inlet mass spectrometry method (REOX/MIMS) to measure 15N-nitrate in isotope-enrichment experiments	116
Water quality assessment of rivers in Lake Chaohu Basin (China) using water quality index	116
Fine root biomass and morphology in a temperate forest are influenced more by the nitrogen treatment approach than the rate	116
Effect of land-use change and optimization on the ecosystem service values of Jiangsu province, China	115
Constructing and optimizing ecological network at county and town Scale: The case of Anji County, China	115
Integrated assessment of land-use/land-cover dynamics on carbon storage services in the Loess Plateau of China from 1995 to 2050	114
Assessment of the variation and influencing factors of vegetation NPP and carbon sink capacity under different natural conditions	114
Evaluation and prediction of the level of high-quality development: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China	112
Construction of an ecological security pattern based on ecosystem sensitivity and the importance of ecological services: A case study of the Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration, China	111
Construction and optimization of ecological security pattern in Ebinur Lake Basin based on MSPA-MCR models	111
Geospatial mapping of groundwater potential zones using multi-criteria decision-making AHP approach in a hardrock basaltic terrain in India	111
Spatial-temporal differentiation of the coupling coordinated development of regional energy-economy-ecology system: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt	110
Scientific research on ecosystem services and human well-being: A bibliometric analysis	109
Spatial pattern of China’s agricultural carbon emission performance	108
Land-use changes lead to a decrease in carbon storage in arid region, China	107
An analysis of land use conflict potentials based on ecological-production-living function in the southeast coastal area of China	106
A framework for the assessment of marine litter impacts in life cycle impact assessment	106
Land-use change in Changli County, China: Predicting its spatio-temporal evolution in habitat quality	105
Analysis and prediction of vegetation dynamic changes in China: Past, present and future	104
Decoupling water environment pressures from economic growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	103
Land use/cover predictions incorporating ecological security for the Yangtze River Delta region, China	103
Renewable energy consumption, environmental degradation and economic growth: the greener the richer?	102
Comparison of random forest and multiple linear regression models for estimation of soil extracellular enzyme activities in agricultural reclaimed coastal saline land	101
Conflict or Coordination? Multiscale assessment of the spatio-temporal coupling relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services: The case of the Jingjinji Region, China	101
The complex ecological network’s resilience of the Wuhan metropolitan area	101
Impact of urbanization on ecological efficiency in China: An empirical analysis based on provincial panel data	100
Modeling fragmentation probability of land-use and land-cover using the bagging, random forest and random subspace in the Teesta River Basin, Bangladesh	100
Exploration of coupling effects in the Economy–Society–Environment system in urban areas: Case study of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	99
NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and their responses to climate change and human activities from 1982 to 2020: A case study in the Mu Us Sandy Land, China	99
Analysis of the distribution pattern of Chinese Ziziphus jujuba under climate change based on optimized biomod2 and MaxEnt models	98
Evolution of habitat quality and association with land-use changes in mountainous areas: A case study of the Taihang Mountains in Hebei Province, China	98
Coupling coordination analysis and spatio-temporal heterogeneity between urbanization and eco-environment along the Silk Road Economic Belt in China	97
Spatial and wavelet analysis of precipitation and river discharge during operation of the Three Gorges Dam, China	97
Pollution characteristics, spatial distributions, and source apportionment of heavy metals in cultivated soil in Lanzhou, China	96
Indicators for urban sustainability: Key lessons from a systematic analysis of 67 measurement initiatives	95
Spatiotemporal change of ecologic environment quality and human interaction factors in three gorges ecologic economic corridor, based on RSEI	94
Construction and optimization strategy of ecological security pattern in a rapidly urbanizing region: A case study in central-south China	94
The response and simulation of ecosystem services value to land use/land cover in an oasis, Northwest China	94
Contribution of karst ecological restoration engineering to vegetation greening in southwest China during recent decade	94
Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition	94
Use time series NDVI and EVI to develop dynamic crop growth metrics for yield modeling	92
A state-of-the-art review on birds as indicators of biodiversity: Advances, challenges, and future directions	91
Honey bees as biomonitors of environmental contaminants, pathogens, and climate change	91
The key role of zooplankton in ecosystem services: A perspective of interaction between zooplankton and fish recruitment	91
Spatiotemporal change and driving factors of the Eco-Environment quality in the Yangtze River Basin from 2001 to 2019	91
Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China	90
Estimating the maize biomass by crop height and narrowband vegetation indices derived from UAV-based hyperspectral images	90

Is there a ripple effect in environmental regulation in China? – Evidence from the local-neighborhood green technology innovation perspective	89
Detection of vegetation coverage changes in the Yellow River Basin from 2003 to 2020	89
Sentinel species selection for monitoring microplastic pollution: A review on one health approach	88
Optimizing ecological security pattern in the coal resource-based city: A case study in Shuozhou City, China	88
Linking forest management and biodiversity indicators to strengthen sustainable forest management in Europe	88
The effect of global value chain position on green technology innovation efficiency: From the perspective of environmental regulation	88
Evaluation and analysis of ecosystem service value based on land use/cover change in Dongting Lake wetland	87
Delimitation of ecological corridors in a highly urbanizing region based on circuit theory and MSPA	87
Assessing the dynamic landscape ecological risk and its driving forces in an island city based on optimal spatial scales: Haitan Island, China	87
Levels of toxic metals in edible fish species of the Tigris River (Turkey); Threat to public health	87
Decoupling economic growth from water consumption in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	87
Water pollution index – A new integrated approach to rank water quality	87
Research on the spatial differences of pollution-intensive industry transfer under the environmental regulation in China	87