OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 66. 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
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	341
Silica in a state of shock	296
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	267
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	253
Kaolinite’s many lives	237
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	233
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard	217
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction	216
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	184
Extreme weather event accountability	160
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	156
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	151
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	150
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	149
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	148
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies	140
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets	137
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	132
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	130
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	130
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	124
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	123
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	122
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites	121
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	110

Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	109
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	109
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	108
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	106
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	104
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	104
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	103
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	102
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep	102
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–2023	101
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	100
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean	96
Tightening the Sargassum belt	95
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation	94
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	91
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean	88
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	87
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	86
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	85
The bedrock of forest drought	85
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets	84
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	81
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout	80
Managing nitrogen for food and environment	80
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks	79
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	78
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe	76
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	76
Small but mighty sperrylite	75
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	75
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene	73
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	73
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	72
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	72
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle	71
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine	70
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers	70
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions	69
A conversation on air pollution in India	69
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires	67
Galactic messages carried by moissanite	66