OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 56. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters	421
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project	184
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	178
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation	171
Identification of a spatial distribution threshold for the development of a solar radiation model using deep neural networks	162
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning	155
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina	142
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia	141
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals	121
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction	107
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations	105
Predicting compound coastal inundation in 2100 by considering the joint probabilities of landfalling tropical cyclones and sea-level rise	104
Estimating the effects of functional diversity and composition on the spatial variability of ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region	103
Sustainable negative emissions in Europe: evaluating scenarios to meet carbon neutrality by 2050	101
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters	98
Two decades of aerosol trends over India: seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics	94
Hydrological sustainability of international virtual water trade	93
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process	92
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change	84
Characteristics of population exposure to climate extremes from regional to global 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming in CMIP6 models	81
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion	80
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events	79
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/2000	79
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic	78
Association of ambient ozone exposure with anxiety and depression among middle-aged and older adults in China: exploring modification by high temperature	77

A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia	76
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest	73
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe	73
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences	73
Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance	73
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM_2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method	72
Influences of stratospheric intrusions to high summer surface ozone over a heavily industrialized region in northern China	72
Long-term carbon dioxide removal potential from the application of wood biochar and basanite rock powder in sandy soil using the LiDELSv2 process-based modeling approach	70
Ocean liming can help achieve the Paris climate target	68
Theoretical evaluation on CO₂ removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model	67
Highly inhomogeneous interactions between background climate and urban warming across typical local climate zones in heatwave and non-heatwave days	67
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans	66
Climate change, air pollution and human health	64
Does Central Asian forest growth benefit from a warming-wetting climate? Insights from tree-ring records	64
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region	63
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia	62
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems	62
‘Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making	61
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States	61
A century of variations in extreme flow across Finnish rivers	61
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM_2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin	60
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil	60
Substantial increase in population exposure to multiple environmental burdens in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2019)	60
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk	59
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas	59
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	59
How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts	59
Drivers of historical and projected changes in diverse boreal ecosystems: fires, thermokarst, riverine dynamics, and humans	58
Wildfire activity is driving summertime air quality degradation across the western US: a model-based attribution to smoke source regions	58
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)	57
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps	57