OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 88. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement	1260
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	481
Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic	383
Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather	361
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects	359
Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires	350
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19	347
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	325
Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion	314
Carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow amidst slowly emerging climate policies	293
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	293
The hydrogen solution?	270
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	265
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	264
Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world	245
Understanding and managing connected extreme events	232
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production	221
The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale	201
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	200
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	198
Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change	196
Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion	186
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	186
Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic	184
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	178

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	175
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	173
Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction	171
Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region	167
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century	165
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt	161
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	161
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	149
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	149
Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway	144
Latest climate models confirm need for urgent mitigation	142
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	139
Climate migration myths	139
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	136
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	135
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	135
Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems	133
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale	132
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation	131
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	131
Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean	130
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	130
Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions	129
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts	129
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	128
Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes	127
A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration	123
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage	120
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	119
Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100	118
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	118
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	116
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic	116
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	114
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	111
More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers	111
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	109
Changing risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure	109
Crafting strong, integrated policy mixes for deep CO2 mitigation in road transport	108
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change	107
Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients	107
Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa	105
Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation	103
An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands	103
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	102
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	102
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade	99
Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise	98
Electrification of light-duty vehicle fleet alone will not meet mitigation targets	96
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets	95

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	94
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	93
Food–energy–water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future	93
Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate	91
Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom	91
Climate and health damages from global concrete production	91
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	91
Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts	90
Embodied carbon emissions in the supply chains of multinational enterprises	90
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	89
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	89
Increased global nitrous oxide emissions from streams and rivers in the Anthropocene	88
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	88
Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia	88