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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere	326
Silica in a state of shock	286
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard	253
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes	249
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets	243
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest	222
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies	221
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome	212
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction	211
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state	175
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion	157
Kaolinite’s many lives	150
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases	147
Extreme weather event accountability	147
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust	146
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source	144
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010	132
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure	132
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition	130
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life	125
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight	125
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs	123
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites	122
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments	121
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature	110

Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks	110
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs	107
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment	106
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers	105
Arctic rivers tell tales of change	104
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination	103
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US	101
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	99
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean	98
The bedrock of forest drought	96
Tightening the Sargassum belt	95
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling	94
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks	92
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes	91
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion	90
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill	89
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–2023	86
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation	86
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean	86
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep	83
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets	81
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue	81
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere	81
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout	79
Managing nitrogen for food and environment	78
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores	77
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe	75
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years	75
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies	74
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming	73
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction	73
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation	72
Small but mighty sperrylite	72
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe	70
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements	69
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening	68
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes	68
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas	67
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water	67
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene	67
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities	66