OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Carbon Balance and Management is 10. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of forest degradation classification on the uncertainty of aboveground carbon estimates in the Amazon	48
Predicting the spatial variation in cost-efficiency for agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation programs in the U.S.	38
Setting the forest reference levels in the European Union: overview and challenges	28
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
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
Forecasting CO2 emissions in BRICS countries using the grey breakpoint prediction models	20
Changes in the net primary production of ecosystems across Western Europe from 2015 to 2022 in response to historic drought events	19
Carbon sequestration potential of plantation forests in New Zealand - no single tree species is universally best	19
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	17
Spatiotemporal variations in urban CO2 flux with land-use types in Seoul	17
Maximizing tree carbon in croplands and grazing lands while sustaining yields	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	16
Evaluation of climate change mitigation strategies for Irish forests using the CBM-CFS3 model	15
Contributions of economic growth, terrestrial sinks, and atmospheric transport to the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the Korean Peninsula	13
Changes of lake organic carbon sinks from closed basins since the Last Glacial Maximum and quantitative evaluation of human impacts	13
An integrated view of correlated emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in China	13
Analyzing temporal and spatial forest carbon storage using Google Plus Code: a case study of Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, China	13
The influence of agricultural drought on carbon emissions across the four sub-regions of China	13
Improved aboveground biomass estimation and regional assessment with aerial lidar in California’s subalpine forests	13
Carbon, climate, and natural disturbance: a review of mechanisms, challenges, and tools for understanding forest carbon stability in an uncertain future	13
Estimating carbon stocks and woody perennials diversity in cropland agroforestry on three different land ecosystems in Bangladesh	13
Spatial heterogeneity and scenario simulation of carbon budget on provincial scale in China	12

Construction of land-use change matrix and estimation of greenhouse gas inventory focusing on settlements in South Korea	11
Land-use change, no-net-loss policies, and effects on carbon dioxide removals	11
Integrating spaceborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 images to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Northern China	11
Changes of soil carbon along precipitation gradients in three typical vegetation types in the Alxa desert region, China	11
Projected soil organic carbon loss in response to climate warming and soil water content in a loess watershed	10
Methane cycling in temperate forests	10
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	10
Correction to: Multi‑predictor mapping of soil organic carbon in the alpine tundra: a case study for the central Ecuadorian páramo	10
Validating the regional estimates of changes in soil organic carbon by using the data from paired-sites: the case study of Mediterranean arable lands	10
Historical and future carbon stocks in forests of northern Ontario, Canada	10