OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Research Letters is 50. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters	198
The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project	192
Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	141
Sustainable nutrition: a spatially explicit modeling approach for urban land use planning	129
Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia	124
Probabilistic explanation for episodic ecological events	121
How stocks judge COPs: market impacts of climate conferences	104
Towards an atmosphere more favourable to firestorm development in Europe	97
Subsurface constraints amplify vegetation stress during extreme heat and drought in a Mediterranean forest	92
Assessing the nonlinearity of wintertime PM_2.5 formation in response to precursor emission changes in North China with the adjoint method	87
Quantifying vehicle restriction related PM_2.5 reduction using field observations in an isolated urban basin	77
Disentangling regional climate change: assessing the contribution of global- and regional-scale anthropogenic factors to observed regional warming	73
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non-forest land conversion	72
A seesaw in the South Pacific western and eastern subtropical mode waters	71
Conceptualising global cultural transformation—developing deep institutional scenarios for whole of society change	71
Unpacking satellite pixels: UAVs reveal fine-scale drivers of land surface phenology in a winter rainfall shrubland	71
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk	67
Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	67
Large-scale historical land use mapping in Vietnam and Laos using military topographic maps	67
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures	65
Welfare-based allocation of telecoupled biodiversity loss in global crop trade	62
Theoretical evaluation on CO₂ removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model	61
Evolving institutions of sustainability: a dynamic model of historical water governance transformations in Central Asia	60
Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems	60
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation downstream teleconnection: insights from large-ensemble climate model simulations	59

Fashion fades, microplastics are eternal: a critical systematic literature review to assess microplastic fibre colours in environmental samples	59
Quantifying the role of tropical Indian Ocean observations to central Pacific El Niño prediction	58
Strengthened impact of late autumn Arctic sea ice on Asian winter cold extremes after 1999/2000	58
Effect of regional marine cloud brightening on land climate	58
Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation	58
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets	57
Assessing alternative methane emission metrics conducive to quantifying global warming and setting near-term climate goals	57
Limited evidence for the impact of climate change on the recent range expansion of the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa	57
Evaluating the contribution of methanotrophy kinetics to uncertainty in the soil methane sink	56
Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina	56
Downscaled CMIP5 projections of physical fire risk understate historical trends	56
A clustering-based multi-model ensemble projection of near-term precipitation changes over East China and its uncertainty	55
Understanding the 2023 compound dry hazard events across the pan-Asian region	55
Characterising the range and outliers in CMIP6 multi-model climate projections of extremes	55
Satellite observations reveal a significant poleward expansion of the multiyear sea ice replenishment in the heart region of Arctic Ocean	55
Corrigendum: The economics of a circular urban water system (2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 094024)	54
Lagged effect of Southern Annular Mode on chlorophyll-a in the mid-latitude South Pacific and Indian Oceans	54
Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease	53
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	53
Helping the climate by replacing liquefied natural gas with liquefied hydrogen or ammonia?	51
Subseasonal swing of cold and warm extremes between Eurasia and North America in winter of 2020/21: initiation and physical process	51
Using perceived impacts, governance and social indicators to explain support for protected areas	50
How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia	50
A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia	50
Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil	50
Foreign yield shocks and domestic price variability: the case of maize in developing countries	50