OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 89. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement	1364
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	686
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	428
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	401
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19	385
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	348
The hydrogen solution?	343
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	340
Understanding and managing connected extreme events	270
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	268
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	264
The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale	249
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	243
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	243
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	240
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	236
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century	228
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	223
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	221
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	207
Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic	199
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	198
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt	186
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	186
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	184

Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	182
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	171
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	170
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	166
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	166
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	164
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation	163
A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration	159
Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean	159
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	157
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts	156
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	149
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	149
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	148
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	146
Crafting strong, integrated policy mixes for deep CO2 mitigation in road transport	137
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	136
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	136
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change	136
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	135
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	134
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic	132
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	131
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	126
Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa	126
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	125
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	124
Food–energy–water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future	118
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets	117
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets	117
Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise	117
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	117
Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises	116
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade	114
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	114
An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands	114
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom	111
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	109
Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts	109
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	109
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	108
Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration	106
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	105
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	105
Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate	104
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	103
The co-evolution of technological promises, modelling, policies and climate change targets	103
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	103
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	102
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	102

Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia	101
Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean	99
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	97
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	96
Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole	96
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems	96
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	94
Vegetation feedbacks during drought exacerbate ozone air pollution extremes in Europe	93
Light limitation regulates the response of autumn terrestrial carbon uptake to warming	93
Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming	92
Equity in allocating carbon dioxide removal quotas	91
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	89
The blue carbon wealth of nations	89
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	89
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	89