OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is 35. 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
Changing sea level, changing shorelines: integration of remote-sensing observations at the Terschelling barrier island	131
The influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis: a case study from Xichang and the surrounding areas	121
Uncovering the veil of night light changes in times of catastrophe	117
Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities	106
GTDI: a game-theory-based integrated drought index implying hazard-causing and hazard-bearing impact change	99
Wind-wave characteristics and extremes along the Emilia-Romagna coast	97
Modeling of indoor ²²² Rn in data-scarce regions: an interactive dashboard approach for Bogotá, Colombia	89
Insights into thunderstorm characteristics from geostationary lightning jump and dive observations	86
Insights into tectonic zonation models from the clustering analysis of seismicity in southern and south-eastern Spain	75
Qualitative risk assessment of sensitive infrastructures at the local level: flooding and heavy rainfall	71
Hazard potential of compound flooding from rainfall, storm surge, and groundwater in coastal New York and Connecticut	69
The relationships between extreme winter North Atlantic extratropical cyclone hazards and modes of seasonal climate variability	63
Flood damage functions for rice: synthesizing evidence and building data-driven models	62
Extreme heat and mortality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in November 2023: attribution to climate change and ENSO	61
Reask UTC: a machine learning modeling framework to generate climate-connected tropical cyclone event sets globally	59
Automated dock-based UAV systems for geohazard monitoring in mountainous terrain	53
Brief communication: Western Europe flood in 2021 – mapping agriculture flood exposure from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)	53
A new regionally consistent exposure database for Central Asia: population and residential buildings	50
Seismic signal characterization of snow avalanches using distributed acoustic sensing in Grasdalen, western Norway	49
Assessing flood hazard changes using climate model forcing	44
Severe beach erosion induced by shoreline deformation after a large-scale reclamation project for the Samcheok liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in South Korea	44
The 2017 Split wildfire in Croatia: evolution and the role of meteorological conditions	43
Characterizing hail-prone environments using convection-permitting reanalysis and overshooting top detections over south-central Europe	42
Climatology of large hail in Europe: characteristics of the European Severe Weather Database	42
Transferability of machine-learning-based modeling frameworks across flood events for hindcasting maximum river water depths in coastal watersheds	41

Does a convection-permitting regional climate model bring new perspectives on the projection of Mediterranean floods?	41
Temporal persistence of postfire flood hazards under present and future climate conditions in southern Arizona, USA	41
Insights into the vulnerability of vegetation to tephra fallouts from interpretable machine learning and big Earth observation data	39
Quantifying the influence of coastal flood hazards on building habitability following Hurricane Irma	38
Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany	38
Improving pluvial flood simulations with a multi-source digital elevation model super-resolution method	37
Simulating spatial multi-hazards with generative deep learning	37
Individual flood risk adaptation in Germany: exploring the role of different types of flooding	37
Using machine learning algorithms to identify predictors of social vulnerability in the event of a hazard: Istanbul case study	36
Unravelling wind-driven impact of storm clusters, a case study for the insurer Generali France	35
Precipitation extremes in Ukraine from 1979 to 2019: climatology, large-scale flow conditions, and moisture sources	35