OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Carbon Balance and Management is 9. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Afforestation as a mitigation strategy: countering climate-induced risk of forest carbon sink in China	45
Predicting the spatial variation in cost-efficiency for agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation programs in the U.S.	32
Effects of forest degradation classification on the uncertainty of aboveground carbon estimates in the Amazon	25
Long-term farmland abandonments remarkably increased the phytolith carbon sequestration in soil	24
How to maximize the joint benefits of timber production and carbon sequestration for rural areas? A case study of larch plantations in northeast China	23
Model error propagation in a compatible tree volume, biomass, and carbon prediction system	23
Response of soil respiration to changes in soil temperature and water table level in drained and restored peatlands of the southeastern United States	21
The default methods in the 2019 Refinement drastically reduce estimates of global carbon sinks of harvested wood products	20
China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance during the 20th century: an analysis with a process-based biogeochemistry model	19
Change and relationship between growing season metrics and net primary productivity in forestland and grassland in China	19
Forecasting CO2 emissions in BRICS countries using the grey breakpoint prediction models	19
Changes in the net primary production of ecosystems across Western Europe from 2015 to 2022 in response to historic drought events	19
Impact of high-speed rail opening on the site selection of renewable energy enterprises: empirical evidence from China	19
Carbon sequestration potential of plantation forests in New Zealand - no single tree species is universally best	18
Maximizing tree carbon in croplands and grazing lands while sustaining yields	17
Spatiotemporal variations in urban CO2 flux with land-use types in Seoul	17
Evaluation of climate change mitigation strategies for Irish forests using the CBM-CFS3 model	16
The business case for carbon farming in the USA	16
Comparative analysis of soil organic matter fractions, lability, stability ratios, and carbon management index in various land use types within bharatpur catchment, Chitwan District, Nepal	15
An integrated view of correlated emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in China	14
Changes of lake organic carbon sinks from closed basins since the Last Glacial Maximum and quantitative evaluation of human impacts	13
Improved aboveground biomass estimation and regional assessment with aerial lidar in California’s subalpine forests	13
Analyzing temporal and spatial forest carbon storage using Google Plus Code: a case study of Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, China	12
Nitrogen addition enhances soil carbon and nutrient dynamics in Chinese croplands: a machine learning and nationwide synthesis	12
Carbon, climate, and natural disturbance: a review of mechanisms, challenges, and tools for understanding forest carbon stability in an uncertain future	12

The influence of agricultural drought on carbon emissions across the four sub-regions of China	12
Construction of land-use change matrix and estimation of greenhouse gas inventory focusing on settlements in South Korea	11
What is the global causality between geopolitical risks, government governance, and energy transition? Empirical evidence from cross-country data	11
Spatial heterogeneity and scenario simulation of carbon budget on provincial scale in China	11
Towards sustainable urban development: decoding the spatiotemporal relationship between urban spatial structure and carbon emissions	11
Estimating carbon stocks and woody perennials diversity in cropland agroforestry on three different land ecosystems in Bangladesh	11
Integrating spaceborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 images to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Northern China	10
Land-use change, no-net-loss policies, and effects on carbon dioxide removals	10
Correction to: Multi‑predictor mapping of soil organic carbon in the alpine tundra: a case study for the central Ecuadorian páramo	9
Changes of soil carbon along precipitation gradients in three typical vegetation types in the Alxa desert region, China	9
The Greenhouse gas Observations of Biospheric and Local Emissions from the Upper sky (GOBLEU): a mission overview, instrument description, and results from the first flight	9