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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing sea level, changing shorelines: integration of remote-sensing observations at the Terschelling barrier island	122
Characterizing hail-prone environments using convection-permitting reanalysis and overshooting top detections over south-central Europe	110
Uncovering the veil of night light changes in times of catastrophe	98
The influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis: a case study from Xichang and the surrounding areas	98
Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities	90
Seismic signal characterization of snow avalanches using distributed acoustic sensing in Grasdalen, western Norway	85
Brief communication: Western Europe flood in 2021 – mapping agriculture flood exposure from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)	79
GTDI: a game-theory-based integrated drought index implying hazard-causing and hazard-bearing impact change	68
Wind-wave characteristics and extremes along the Emilia-Romagna coast	67
Modeling of indoor ²²² Rn in data-scarce regions: an interactive dashboard approach for Bogotá, Colombia	66
Insights into thunderstorm characteristics from geostationary lightning jump and dive observations	66
Insights into tectonic zonation models from the clustering analysis of seismicity in southern and south-eastern Spain	64
Qualitative risk assessment of sensitive infrastructures at the local level: flooding and heavy rainfall	63
Severe beach erosion induced by shoreline deformation after a large-scale reclamation project for the Samcheok liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in South Korea	60
Temporal persistence of postfire flood hazards under present and future climate conditions in southern Arizona, USA	58
A new regionally consistent exposure database for Central Asia: population and residential buildings	57
The 2017 Split wildfire in Croatia: evolution and the role of meteorological conditions	56
Does a convection-permitting regional climate model bring new perspectives on the projection of Mediterranean floods?	54
Transferability of machine-learning-based modeling frameworks across flood events for hindcasting maximum river water depths in coastal watersheds	50
Reask UTC: a machine learning modeling framework to generate climate-connected tropical cyclone event sets globally	49
Hazard potential of compound flooding from rainfall, storm surge, and groundwater in coastal New York and Connecticut	47
Assessing flood hazard changes using climate model forcing	46
The relationships between extreme winter North Atlantic extratropical cyclone hazards and modes of seasonal climate variability	44
Flood damage functions for rice: synthesizing evidence and building data-driven models	43
Extreme heat and mortality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in November 2023: attribution to climate change and ENSO	41

Storm surge hazard over Bengal delta: a probabilistic–deterministic modelling approach	41
Insights into the vulnerability of vegetation to tephra fallouts from interpretable machine learning and big Earth observation data	39
Climatology of large hail in Europe: characteristics of the European Severe Weather Database	39
Idealized simulations of Mei-yu rainfall in Taiwan under uniform southwesterly flow using a cloud-resolving model	38
Are heavy-rainfall events a major trigger of associated natural hazards along the German rail network?	37
Storm characteristics influence nitrogen removal in an urban estuarine environment	37
Quantifying the influence of coastal flood hazards on building habitability following Hurricane Irma	36
Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany	36
The record-breaking precipitation event of December 2022 in Portugal	36
Individual flood risk adaptation in Germany: exploring the role of different types of flooding	35