OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 59. 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
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale	625
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources	525
Biochar in climate change mitigation	406
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade	270
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017	249
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium	231
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	224
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability	208
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement	173
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China	162
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers	151
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	150
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments	147
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration	140
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry	123
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings	123
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change	115
High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability	111
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils	105
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India	105
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways	98
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems	98
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion	98
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing	97
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock	96

Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas	95
Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions	95
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates	93
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation	88
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities	86
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport	84
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes	83
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course	82
Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage	81
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks	80
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars	78
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system	76
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies	74
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy	74
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris	73
Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom	73
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world	72
Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes	72
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion	70
Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions	70
Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19	70
Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period	69
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends	69
Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula	69
Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes	68
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe	68
Confronting the water potential information gap	67
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming	65
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat	65
Pacific shoreline erosion and accretion patterns controlled by El Niño/Southern Oscillation	63
Synergistic effects of four climate change drivers on terrestrial carbon cycling	61
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in Yedoma permafrost controlled by microbial functional limitations	60
Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability	59
Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon	59