OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 63. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	582
Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies	260
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses	233
Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms	214
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed	213
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base	170
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire	168
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming	165
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance	154
Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe	154
The CO₂ reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)	148
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects	145
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	145
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation: a global evidence map of academic literature	123
Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal	122
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?	113
The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: a systematic and comprehensive review	113
Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trapping in coastal zones	112
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature	112
Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil	109
Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1	108
Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models	104
Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming	99
Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts	96
Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record	90

A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration	89
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	89
Future changes in precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: insights from CMIP6 multi-model ensemble	88
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how	86
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	85
Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: a review of evidence and potential implications for CO₂ mitigation	83
Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective	83
A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance	82
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100	81
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters	80
Climate change mitigation through dietary change: a systematic review of empirical and modelling studies on the environmental footprints and health effects of ‘sustainable diets’	78
Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing	76
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks	76
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	75
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?	75
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	74
How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?	72
Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production	72
The relationship between land surface temperature and artificial impervious surface fraction in 682 global cities: spatiotemporal variations and drivers	71
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth	71
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability	70
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map	70
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security	70
Distribution and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb) in fish: influence of the aquatic environment and climate	69
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	69
A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios	68
Decent living gaps and energy needs around the world	68
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)	68
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability	67
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	67
Trends and drivers of African fossil fuel CO₂ emissions 1990–2017	66
All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal	66
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO₂ emissions and economic growth	64
Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges	64
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods	64
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	64
Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection	63
Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback	63