OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biogeosciences is 29. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of mesoscale climate drivers on hypoxia in a fjord-like deep coastal inlet and its potential implications regarding climate change: examining a decade of water quality data	95
Biological production in two contrasted regions of the Mediterranean Sea during the oligotrophic period: an estimate based on the diel cycle of optical properties measured by BioGeoChemical-Argo profi	90
Impact of dust addition on Mediterranean plankton communities under present and future conditions of pH and temperature: an experimental overview	76
Examining the role of environmental memory in the predictability of carbon and water fluxes across Australian ecosystems	74
Spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) cause up to 700 times higher bark BVOC emission rates compared to healthy Norway spruce (Picea abies)	69
Ice nucleating properties of the sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its exudates	65
Ideas and perspectives: Ushering the Indian Ocean into the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (UNDOSSD) through marine ecosystem research and operational services – an early career	63
Grazing behavior and winter phytoplankton accumulation	60
Theoretical insights from upscaling Michaelis–Menten microbial dynamics in biogeochemical models: a dimensionless approach	57
Particulate biogenic barium tracer of mesopelagic carbon remineralization in the Mediterranean Sea (PEACETIME project)	54
Modeling polar marine ecosystem functions guided by bacterial physiological and taxonomic traits	43
Partitioning carbon sources between wetland and well-drained ecosystems to a tropical first-order stream – implications for carbon cycling at the watershed scale (Nyong, Cameroon)	43
Impact of temperature and water availability on microwave-derived gross primary production	42
Assessment framework to predict sensitivity of marine calcifiers to ocean alkalinity enhancement – identification of biological thresholds and importance of precautionary principle	41
Reviews and syntheses: Variable inundation across Earth's terrestrial ecosystems	39
Decomposing the Tea Bag Index and finding slower organic matter loss rates at higher elevations and deeper soil horizons in a minerogenic salt marsh	39
Thermal stratification and meromixis in four dilute temperate zone lakes	38
Earth observation reveals reduced winter wheat growth and the importance of plant available water during drought	35
Eddy-covariance fluxes of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O in a drained peatland forest after clear-cutting	35
Long-term spatiotemporal variations in and expansion of low-oxygen conditions in the Pearl River estuary: a study synthesizing observations during 1976–2017	34
Reviews and syntheses: VOC emissions from soil cover in boreal and temperate natural ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere	34
Quantification of potential methane emissions associated with organic matter amendments following oxic-soil inundation	34
Reviews and syntheses: Greenhouse gas emissions from drained organic forest soils – synthesizing data for site-specific emission factors for boreal and cool temperate regions	34
Evaluation of five models for constructing forest NPP–age relationships in China based on 3121 field survey samples	32
Subsurface oxygen maximum in oligotrophic marine ecosystems: mapping the interaction between physical and biogeochemical processes	31

Composition and niche-specific characteristics of microbial consortia colonizing Marsberg copper mine in the Rhenish Massif	30
Aerosol trace element solubility and deposition fluxes over the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea basins	30
Interannual variability of the initiation of the phytoplankton growing period in two French coastal ecosystems	30
A Numerical reassessment of the Gulf of Mexico carbon system in connection with the Mississippi River and global ocean	30
Combined effects of topography, soil moisture, and snow cover regimes on growth responses of grasslands in a low- mountain range (Vosges, France)	29
Inclusion of bedrock vadose zone in dynamic global vegetation models is key for simulating vegetation structure and function	29