OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 68. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway	456
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	408
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights	344
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California	311
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options	247
Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data	234
Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources	227
Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis	208
The world’s growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts	201
Regional determinants of China’s consumption-based emissions in the economic transition	197
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	187
The global distribution of seagrass meadows	182
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	158
Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short- and long-lived climate pollutants	156
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	146
A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking	143
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	130
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	127
Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions	125
Future changes in precipitation over Central Asia based on CMIP6 projections	121
Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications	120
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	118
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	117
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	114
The CO₂ reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	111

Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US	111
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	110
Global surface air temperatures in CMIP6: historical performance and future changes	110
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	105
Links between green space and public health: a bibliometric review of global research trends and future prospects from 1901 to 2019	102
Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society	100
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	96
Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture	96
Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature	96
Comparative assessment of environmental variables and machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction in the US Midwest	95
Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon	95
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	94
Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe	94
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping	90
Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions	89
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	87
Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions	86
Remote sensing of forest degradation: a review	85
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	85
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	84
Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life	84
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	83
Groundwater sustainability: a review of the interactions between science and policy	82
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	81
Intercomparison of annual precipitation indices and extremes over global land areas from in situ, space-based and reanalysis products	80
Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	80
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	80
Escalating global exposure to compound heat-humidity extremes with warming	79
Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US	79
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	79
Common but differentiated leadership: strategies and challenges for carbon neutrality by 2050 across industrialized economies	77
Predicting spatial and temporal variability in crop yields: an inter-comparison of machine learning, regression and process-based models	77
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	76
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	76
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	74
Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis	73
Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI	72
A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	71
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation	71
Permafrost degradation in the Western Russian Arctic	70
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	70
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis	69
The impact of COVID-19 control measures on air quality in China	68
Identifying the spatiotemporal changes of annual harvesting areas for three staple crops in China by integrating multi-data sources	68