OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aeolian Research is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	110
Surface wind strength and sea surface temperature connections along the south peruvian coast during the last 150 years	26
Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of heavy metals in windborne sediments from a residential area (Case study: Tabas, Iran)	25
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	23
Quantifying dust emission potential of playa and desert surfaces in the Salton Sea Air Basin, California, United States	18
Limitations of applying grain weight similitude in aeolian studies with NASA Mars Wind Tunnel	17
On the relationship between air pollution indices and risk level of dust-related diseases and associated hospitalization	16
Editorial Board	15
Investigating threshold wind velocity for movement of sparsely distributed gravels in a wind tunnel: Effect of surface coarseness	15
Dune bistability identified by remote sensing in a semi-arid dune field of northern China	14
High resolution luminescence chronology of coastal dune deposits near Chumphon, Western Gulf of Thailand	13
Aeolian sand cover on a granite peninsula (Hammeren, Bornholm, Baltic Sea) formed in three episodes during the past 11,600 years	13
Meteorological and geological controls on dust devil activity: Initial results from a field study at Smith Creek Valley, Nevada, USA	12
Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	12
A classification scheme for sedimentary architectures arising from aeolian-fluvial system interactions: Permian examples from southeast Utah, USA	11
The influences of boundary layer thickness on the characteristics of saltation sand flow – A large eddy simulation study	10
Transport and deposition of microplastics and microrubbers during a dust storm (Sarakhs, northeast Iran)	10
Magnetic characteristics and source analysis of modern snow dust from the Tianshan Mountains	9
Dune behavior in the Source Area of the Yellow River under climate changes observed from various remote sensing datasets	9
Dust transport pathways from The Great Basin	9
Influence of crop rotation, irrigation, fertilization, and tillage on the aggregate property and soil wind erosion potential in the floodplain of the Yellow River	9
Aeolian influences on gully erosion in clay-rich soils in a humid subtropical climate, Southeast USA	8
Automatic identification of saltating tracks driven by strong wind in high-speed video using multiple statistical quantities of instant particle velocity	8
Development and validation of vegetation indicators for the occurrence of saltation that consider the spatial distribution of vegetation	8
Vortex core regions of nebkhas and their implications on shadow dune formation	8

Use of digital photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques to quantify time-series dune volume estimates of the Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	8
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	8
Characterization of potential fugitive dust emissions within the Keeler Dunes, an inland dune field in the Owens Valley, California, United States	8
Experimental evidence of dust flux size distribution variation along two consecutive erosion seasons	8
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	8
Editorial Board	8
Morphological dynamics of a trough-shaped blowout on a fixed dune in China	7
Dust transport pathways from the Mesopotamian Marshes	7
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	7
Reconstructing star dune dynamics using ground penetrating radar – How movement shapes complex surface structures	7
ZIBARS: Distribution, morphology and environmental controls	7
Numerical study on the bearing response trend of perforated sheet-type sand fences	7
Charges of individual sand grains in natural windblown sand fluxes	7
Late Quaternary eolian dune-field mobilization and stabilization near the Laurentide Ice Sheet limit, New Jersey Pine Barrens, eastern USA	7
Vertical flux density and frequency profiles of wind-blown sand as a function of the grain size over gobi and implications for aeolian transport processes	7
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	7
Editorial Board	6
A new wind erosion sampler called “Mendeźs trap (MT)”. Description and field performance test in a loamy sand soil	6
Spatiotemporal model for the evolution of a mega-yardang system in the foreland of the Russian Altai	6
Potential PM10 emission from soil affected by different temperatures in a Caldén Forest of semiarid Pampas, Argentina	6
Editorial Board	6
Assessing the PM10 emission potential of sandy, dryland soils in South Africa using the PI-SWERL	5
Editorial Board	5
The indicative significance of grain size end-members and quartz surface microtextural features in Beglitsa loess sections at the Sea of Azov	5
Regional differences in the grain size characteristics of surface sediments from typical barchan dunes in arid zones	5
Editorial Board	5
Characterizing variability in geochemistry and mineralogy of western US dust sources	4
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	4
Atmospheric particle adsorption rates of plants in an industrial city of southwest Iran	4
Climate changes revealed from the aeolian sediments in the Menyuan Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
The influence of backdune morphology on air flow dynamics through an excavated foredune notch	4
How wind direction and building spacing influences airflow patterns and sediment transport patterns around a row of beach buildings: A numerical study	4
The effect of wind speed averaging time on the study of soil wind erosion on typical land surfaces	4
The role of abrasion and resident fines in dust production from aeolian sands as measured by the Portable in situ Wind Erosion Laboratory (PI-SWERL)	4
Effect of the gravel-vegetation combination on shear-stress partitioning and sand transport rate	4
A contrasting seasonality of wind erosivity and wind erosion between Central and Western Sahel	4
Nebkhas: An essay in aeolian biogeomorphology	3
Variations in the aeolian sequence Zr/Rb ratios in the Mu Us Desert during the Holocene and their implications for the East Asian monsoon	3
Experimental investigation on the erosion-deposition characteristics around isolated plants of different shapes in a wind tunnel	3
Cellular automaton modelling of the effects of buildings on aeolian bedform dynamics	3
New research on the origin of the late Quaternary Old Red Sand in the coastal area of South China	3
Morphology and distribution of Martian wedge dunes and their terrestrial analogs	3
Combined use of HYSPLIT model and MODIS aerosols optical depth to study the spatiotemporal circulation patterns of Saharan dust events over Central Europe	3
Property values as affected by loess thickness and texture	3
Editorial Board	3