OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biogeosciences 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

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	88
Growth rate rather than temperature affects the B∕Ca ratio in the calcareous red alga Lithothamnion corallioides	83
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	70
Effects of peatland management on aquatic carbon concentrations and fluxes	69
Impact of dust addition on Mediterranean plankton communities under present and future conditions of pH and temperature: an experimental overview	63
Examining the role of environmental memory in the predictability of carbon and water fluxes across Australian ecosystems	61
Soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical coastal wetlands and alternative agricultural land uses	58
Spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) cause up to 700 times higher bark BVOC emission rates compared to healthy Norway spruce (Picea abies)	55
Ice nucleating properties of the sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its exudates	52
Synergistic use of Sentinel-2 and UAV-derived data for plant fractional cover distribution mapping of coastal meadows with digital elevation models	51
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	49
Sun-induced fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance of vegetation track the seasonal dynamics of gross primary production over Africa	48
Grazing behavior and winter phytoplankton accumulation	43
Theoretical insights from upscaling Michaelis–Menten microbial dynamics in biogeochemical models: a dimensionless approach	41
Particulate biogenic barium tracer of mesopelagic carbon remineralization in the Mediterranean Sea (PEACETIME project)	40
Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of blue intensity on multiple conifer species from Tasmania and New Zealand	39
Climate pathways behind phytoplankton-induced atmospheric warming	38
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)	37
Modeling polar marine ecosystem functions guided by bacterial physiological and taxonomic traits	35
Impact of temperature and water availability on microwave-derived gross primary production	34
Decomposing the Tea Bag Index and finding slower organic matter loss rates at higher elevations and deeper soil horizons in a minerogenic salt marsh	34
Assessment framework to predict sensitivity of marine calcifiers to ocean alkalinity enhancement – identification of biological thresholds and importance of precautionary principle	34
Thermal stratification and meromixis in four dilute temperate zone lakes	32
Subsurface oxygen maximum in oligotrophic marine ecosystems: mapping the interaction between physical and biogeochemical processes	31
Origin, transport, and retention of fluvial sedimentary organic matter in South Africa's largest freshwater wetland, Mkhuze Wetland System	30

Composition and niche-specific characteristics of microbial consortia colonizing Marsberg copper mine in the Rhenish Massif	30
Mapping soil organic carbon fractions for Australia, their stocks, and uncertainty	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
Warming accelerates belowground litter turnover in salt marshes – insights from a Tea Bag Index study	30