OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Geoscience is 58. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale	519
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources	449
Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity	391
Biochar in climate change mitigation	308
Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle	244
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017	225
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium	210
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade	208
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter	190
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability	186
Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves	174
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China	152
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement	141
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments	135
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers	125
The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers	123
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide	120
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings	113
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration	110
Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation	110
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change	104
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India	101
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry	100
Corona structures driven by plume–lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus	97
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils	88

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability	86
Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions	85
Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations	83
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing	82
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion	81
Arctic fires re-emerging	81
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock	81
Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas	80
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming	79
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems	79
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities	79
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation	78
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes	75
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course	73
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy	72
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks	72
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates	72
Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale	71
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars	70
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies	69
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system	68
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion	65
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways	63
Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula	62
A shift in sulfur-cycle manipulation from atmospheric emissions to agricultural additions	62
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport	61
Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period	61
Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom	61
Slip-rate-dependent friction as a universal mechanism for slow slip events	60
Confronting the water potential information gap	60
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming	60
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat	60
A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction	60
Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage	58
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world	58