OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropocene Review is 2. 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
Modelling the anthropogenic deformation and density of fragmentation in the urban settlement area of Ankara (Türkiye)	87
The abandonment of the ideal of wilderness: Rewilding as the consequence of the Anthropocene metaphysics on restoration ecology	86
The East Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	45
Ecomodernism: A clarifying perspective	24
The earth in the model: The nomothetic, idiographic, and plural epistemic aims of planetary modelling	22
Maintaining global biodiversity by developing a sustainable Anthropocene food production system	19
What does it mean that all is aflame? Non-axial Buddhist inspiration for an Anthropocene ontology	18
Hazardous waste in the Anthropocene: The comparative methods for asbestos roofs detection to assess the environmental risk	18
Global narcissistic collapse: A metaphorical lens on humanity’s ecological crisis	17
The Ernesto Cave, northern Italy, as a candidate auxiliary reference section for the definition of the Anthropocene series	16
Holocene utopias and dystopias: Views of the Holocene in the Anthropocene and their impact on defining the Anthropocene	16
Planetary environing: The return of boundaries as a category in global environmental governance	15
Quantitative and dynamic scenario analysis of SDGs outcomes upon global sustainability 1990–2050	13
Artificial radiation pollution in the Anthropocene: Human causality and responsibility	13
Evidence and experiment: Curating contexts of Anthropocene geology	12
Why the caged bird sings: Rethinking the Anthropocene with Gallus gallus	12
Terrestrial (re)forestations: The Laklãnõ-Xokleng struggle in Southern Brazil	12
The politics of eco-anxiety: Anthropocene dread from depoliticisation to repoliticisation	11
Beyond the epistemic crisis: A speculative turn for Earth System Science in the Anthropocene	11
Examining the role outdoor recreation systems play in changing small temperate aquatic ecosystem soundscapes	11
The 1862 companies act, the origins of the Anthropocene boundary-getting the genie back in the bottle	11
Greening Keynes? Productivist lineages of the Green New Deal	10
A mid-20th century stratigraphical Anthropocene is recognisable in the birth-area of the industrial revolution	9
The urban sediments of Karlsplatz, Vienna (Austria) as a reference section for the Anthropocene series	9
Introduction: The role of nature in the Anthropocene – Defining and reacting to a new geological epoch	9

Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest: Moving beyond ‘disturbance’ and ‘landscape domestication’ with concepts from African worldviews	9
Impact of farming on African landscapes	9
International climate targets are achievable, but only in models, not in the real world	9
Counter-modelling the Plantationocene	8
The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene	8
From the Anthropocene to the Capitalocene and beyond	8
The complex relationships between economic inequality and biodiversity: A scoping review	7
With or against the river? Tracing changes and relationships between social and ecological systems on the central Vistula floodplain over the last 200 years	7
The path of human civilization in the Anthropocene: Sustainable growth or sustainable development?	6
One atmosphere, many metaphysics: The philosophies of geoengineering	6
Ad Astra per aquam (to the stars, through water): The Kansas Aqueduct Project as a sociotechnical imaginary in the Anthropocene	6
Corrigendum to The complex relationships between economic inequality and biodiversity: A scoping review	6
Seasonality in the Anthropocene: On the construction of Southeast Asia’s ‘haze season’	6
Anthropocene mortality cycle convergence: Global pathogen spread eclipses climate	5
World population growth over millennia: Ancient and present phases with a temporary halt in-between	5
Beppu Bay, Japan, as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	5
Abundance and absence: Human-microbial co-evolution in the Anthropocene	5
The Palmer ice core as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	5
What the future ocean has in common with an asthma attack	5
Before the Great Acceleration: The Anthropocene, the modern world-system, and the formalisation debate	5
The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	5
In memory of Will Steffen, 1947–2023	4
Communication of solar geoengineering science: Forms, examples, and explanation of skewing	4
The Śnieżka peatland as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	4
Why the Anthropocene Epoch is a more pertinent concept than the Anthropocene event for understanding ongoing Earth system transition	3
A tale of two rivers – Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice	3
Sustainability beyond Earth: Integrating Anthropocene lessons into guiding principles for responsible space expansion	3
Energy transitions in the shadow of a dictator: Decarbonizing neoliberalism and lithium extraction in Chile	3
Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series	3
Tracing the depths: A narrative review on Blue Humanities and Oceanic Studies	3
Safety in an uncertain world within the Resilience Integrated Model of Climate and Economics (RIMCE)	3
Climate migration, resilience and adaptation in the Anthropocene: Insights from the migrating Frafra to Southern Ghana	3
North Flinders Reef (Coral Sea, Australia) Porites sp. corals as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series	2
Flows of air, flows of electrons	2
Geomorphic changes and socio-environmental impacts of recent sand mining in the Sakarya River, NW Turkey	2
Reinterpreting disasters and urban resilience in the Anthropocene: Disaster management or transforming with disasters?	2
From waste crisis to sustainable solutions: Lessons from Japan	2
Aristotle in the Anthropocene: The comparative benefits of Aristotelian virtue ethics over Utilitarianism and deontology	2
Ecology under the falling sky: Nature, ecology and entropy in Yanomami cosmology	2
Losing glaciers: A call for emotional engagement and expanded collaboration in research on the ecological crisis	2
The controllability of the Technosphere, an impossible question	2
Dynamic scenario modelling of the role and influence of Brundtland and vulnerability upon sustainability in the UK in the Anthropocene	2
The shape of Anthropocene: The early contribution of the water sciences	2
Predicting “Unprecedented change”: A crisis for analogs	2
Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas	2