OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Earth Surface Dynamics 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bedrock river erosion through dipping layered rocks: quantifying erodibility through kinematic wave speed	54
Using repeat UAV-based laser scanning and multispectral imagery to explore eco-geomorphic feedbacks along a river corridor	31
Evolution of submarine canyons and hanging-wall fans: insights from geomorphic experiments and morphodynamic models	30
From apex to shoreline: fluvio-deltaic architecture for the Holocene Rhine–Meuse delta, the Netherlands	28
The direction of landscape erosion	27
Modeling the inhibition effect of straw checkerboard barriers on wind-blown sand	27
Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion	26
Effect of debris-flow sediment grain-size distribution on fan morphology	25
Path length and sediment transport estimation from DEMs of difference: a signal processing approach	23
Quantification of post-glacier bedrock surface erosion in the European Alps using¹⁰Be and optically stimulated luminescence exposure dating	22
Barchan swarm dynamics from a Two-Flank Agent-Based Model	21
Landslide-lake outburst floods accelerate downstream hillslope slippage	21
Implications of the ongoing rock uplift in NW Himalayan interiors	21
Numerical modelling of the evolution of a river reach with a complex morphology to help define future sustainable restoration decisions	20
An update on techniques to assess normal-mode behavior of rock arches by ambient vibrations	19
The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways – evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	18
A simple model for faceted topographies at normal faults based on an extended stream-power law	18
Relationship between meteoric ¹⁰Be and NO₃⁻ concentrations in soils along Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica	17
Constraints on long-term cliff retreat and intertidal weathering at weak rock coasts using cosmogenic ¹⁰Be, nearshore topography and numerical modelling	17
Toward a general calibration of the Swiss plate geophone system for fractional bedload transport	17
Investigation of stochastic-threshold incision models across a climatic and morphological gradient	16
An overview of sedimentary volcanism on Mars	15
Automated quantification of floating wood pieces in rivers from video monitoring: a new software tool and validation	15
Estimating surface water availability in high mountain rock slopes using a numerical energy balance model	15
Comparing the transport-limited and ξ–q models for sediment transport	15

An efficient approach for inverting rock exhumation from thermochronologic age–elevation relationship	14
Mineral surface area in deep weathering profiles reveals the interrelationship of iron oxidation and silicate weathering	14
Development of a machine learning model for river bed load	14
Modeling glacial and fluvial landform evolution at large scales using a stream-power approach	13
Assessing the effect of topography on Cs-137 concentrations within forested soils due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, Japan	13
Automated classification of seismic signals recorded on the Åknes rock slope, Western Norway, using a convolutional neural network	13
Dimensionless argument: a narrow grain size range near 2 mm plays a special role in river sediment transport and morphodynamics	13
Water level fluctuations drive bank instability in a hypertidal estuary	13
Relevance of acoustic methods to quantify bedload transport and bedform dynamics in a large sandy-gravel-bed river	12
Statistical characterization of erosion and sediment transport mechanics in shallow tidal environments – Part 2: Suspended sediment dynamics	12
A combined approach of experimental and numerical modeling for 3D hydraulic features of a step-pool unit	12
Building a bimodal landscape: bedrock lithology and bed thickness controls on the morphology of Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico, USA	12
Unraveling the hydrology and sediment balance of an ungauged lake in the Sudano-Sahelian region of West Africa using remote sensing	12
A hybrid data–model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes	12
Entrainment and deposition of boulders in a gravel bed river	12
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models	11
Erosion and weathering in carbonate regions reveal climatic and tectonic drivers of carbonate landscape evolution	11
The influence of dune lee side shape on time-averaged velocities and turbulence	11
Stream laws in analog tectonic-landscape models	10
Short communication: Runout of rock avalanches limited by basal friction but controlled by fragmentation	10
A physics-based model for fluvial valley width	10
Downstream rounding rate of pebbles in the Himalaya	10
Past anthropogenic land use change caused a regime shift of the fluvial response to Holocene climate change in the Chinese Loess Plateau	9
Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply	9
Graphically interpreting how incision thresholds influence topographic and scaling properties of modeled landscapes	9
Massive sediment pulses triggered by a multi-stage 130 000 m³ alpine cliff fall (Hochvogel, DE–AT)	9
Shape still matters: rockfall interactions with trees and deadwood in a mountain forest uncover a new facet of rock shape dependency	9
Geology and vegetation control landsliding on forest-managed slopes in scarplands	9
Ice-buttressing-controlled rock slope failure on a cirque headwall, Lake District, UK	9
Multi-sensor monitoring and data integration reveal cyclical destabilization of the Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier	9
Comparison of calibration characteristics of different acoustic impact systems for measuring bedload transport in mountain streams	9
Bedload transport fluctuations, flow conditions, and disequilibrium ratio at the Swiss Erlenbach stream: results from 27 years of high-resolution temporal measurements	8
Optimization of passive acoustic bedload monitoring in rivers by signal inversion	8
The landslide velocity	8
Sediment source and sink identification using Sentinel-2 and a small network of turbidimeters on the Vjosa River	8
Short communication: Forward and inverse analytic models relating river long profile to tectonic uplift history, assuming a nonlinear slope–erosion dependency	8
Response of modern fluvial sediments to regional tectonic activity along the upper Min River, eastern Tibet	8
Flexural isostatic response of continental-scale deltas to climatically driven sea level changes	8
Constraining the timing and processes of pediment formation and dissection: implications for long-term evolution in the Western Cape, South Africa	8
Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern central Andes	8
Pulsed carbon export from mountains by earthquake-triggered landslides explored in a reduced-complexity model	8
Climate changes and the formation of fluvial terraces in central Amazonia inferred from landscape evolution modeling	8
Spatial and temporal variations in rockwall erosion rates derived from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in medial moraines at five valley glaciers around Pigne d'Arolla, Switzerland	7
Probabilistic description of bedload fluxes from the aggregate dynamics of individual grains	7
Self-organization of channels and hillslopes in models of fluvial landform evolution and its potential for solving scaling issues	7
Knickpoints and fixed points: the evolution of fluvial morphology under the combined effect of fault uplift and dam obstruction on a soft bedrock river	7
Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research	7
Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes	7
Modeling deadwood for rockfall mitigation assessments in windthrow areas	7
Controls on the grain size distribution of landslides in Taiwan: the influence of drop height, scar depth and bedrock strength	7

Drainage rearrangement in an intra-continental mountain belt: a case study from the central South Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan	7
Time-varying drainage basin development and erosion on volcanic edifices	6
Machine learning prediction of the mass and the velocity of controlled single-block rockfalls from the seismic waves they generate	6
Episodic sediment supply to alluvial fans: implications for fan incision and morphometry	6
Grain size of fluvial gravel bars from close-range UAV imagery – uncertainty in segmentation-based data	6
Cosmogenic nuclide-derived downcutting rates of canyons within large limestone plateaus of southern Massif Central (France) reveal a different regional speleogenesis of karst networks	6
Scaling between volume and runout of rock avalanches explained by a modified Voellmy rheology	6
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 1: Theory	6
The probabilistic nature of dune collisions in 2D	6
Breaking down chipping and fragmentation in sediment transport: the control of material strength	6
Short communication: A tool for determining multiscale bedform characteristics from bed elevation data	6
Modeling the formation of toma hills based on fluid dynamics with a modified Voellmy rheology	6
Inverse modeling of turbidity currents using an artificial neural network approach: verification for field application	6
On the relative role of abiotic and biotic controls in channel network development: insights from scaled tidal flume experiments	6
Quantifying the migration rate of drainage divides from high-resolution topographic data	6
Analysis of autogenic bifurcation processes resulting in river avulsion	5
Short communication: Potential of Sentinel-1 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and offset tracking in monitoring post-cyclonic landslide activities on Réunion	5
Size, shape and orientation matter: fast and semi-automatic measurement of grain geometries from 3D point clouds	5
Geospatial modelling of large-wood supply to rivers: a state-of-the-art model comparison in Swiss mountain river catchments	5
Last-glacial-cycle glacier erosion potential in the Alps	5
Development of the morphodynamics on Little Ice Age lateral moraines in 10 glacier forefields of the Eastern Alps since the 1950s	5
Identifying fracture-controlled resonance modes for structural health monitoring: insights from Hunter Canyon Arch (Utah, USA)	5
The impact of bedrock meander cutoffs on 50 kyr scale incision rates, San Juan River, Utah	5
Spatially coherent variability in modern orographic precipitation produces asymmetric paleo-glacier extents in flowline models: Olympic Mountains, USA	5
Landslides as geological hotspots of CO₂ emission: clues from the instrumented Séchilienne landslide, western European Alps	5
Autogenic knickpoints in laboratory landscape experiments	5
GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models	5
Short communication: Concentrated impacts by tree canopy drips – hotspots of soil erosion in forests	5
Mobile evaporite enhances the cycle of physical–chemical erosion in badlands	5
Effect of hydro-climate variation on biofilm dynamics and its impact in intertidal environments	5
Automated riverbed composition analysis using deep learning on underwater images	4
Terrace formation linked to outburst floods at the Diexi palaeo-landslide dam, upper Minjiang River, eastern Tibetan Plateau	4
Combining seismic signal dynamic inversion and numerical modeling improves landslide process reconstruction	4
Stream hydrology controls on ice cliff evolution and survival on debris-covered glaciers	4
Influence of cohesive clay on wave–current ripple dynamics captured in a 3D phase diagram	4
Morphologic and morphometric differences between gullies formed in different substrates on Mars: new insights into the gully formation processes	4
Long-runout landslides with associated longitudinal ridges in Iceland as analogues of Martian landslide deposits	4
Patterns and rates of soil movement and shallow failures across several small watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska	4
Role of the forcing sources in morphodynamic modelling of an embayed beach	4
Sediment shell-content diminishes current-driven sand ripple development and migration	4
The formation and geometry characteristics of boulder bars due to outburst floods triggered by overtopped landslide dam failure	4
Alpine hillslope failure in the western US: insights from the Chaos Canyon landslide, Rocky Mountain National Park, USA	4
Topographic metrics for unveiling fault segmentation and tectono-geomorphic evolution with insights into the impact of inherited topography, Ulsan Fault Zone, South Korea	4
Higher sediment redistribution rates related to burrowing animals than previously assumed as revealed by time-of-flight-based monitoring	4
Stochastic alluvial fan and terrace formation triggered by a high-magnitude Holocene landslide in the Klados Gorge, Crete	4
Suspended sediment and discharge dynamics in a glaciated alpine environment: identifying crucial areas and time periods on several spatial and temporal scales in the Ötztal, Austria	4
The effects of storms and a transient sandy veneer on the interannual planform evolution of a low-relief coastal cliff and shore platform at Sargent Beach, Texas, USA	4
Geophysical evidence of massive hyperconcentrated push waves with embedded toma hills caused by the Flims rockslide, Switzerland	4
An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids	4
Failure mode of rainfall-induced landslide of granite residual soil, southeastern Guangxi Province, China	3
Feedbacks between the formation of secondary minerals and the infiltration of fluids into the regolith of granitic rocks in different climatic zones (Chilean Coastal Cordillera)	3
Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges	3
MPeat2D – a fully coupled mechanical–ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions	3
Vibration of natural rock arches and towers excited by helicopter-sourced infrasound	3
Width evolution of channel belts as a random walk	3
Escarpment retreat rates derived from detrital cosmogenic nuclide concentrations	3
Decadal-scale decay of landslide-derived fluvial suspended sediment after Typhoon Morakot	3
Topographic disequilibrium, landscape dynamics and active tectonics: an example from the Bhutan Himalaya	3
Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas	3
Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks	3
Particle energy partitioning and transverse diffusion during rarefied travel on an experimental hillslope	3
Spatiotemporal bedload transport patterns over two-dimensional bedforms	3
Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway – new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling	3
Equilibrium distance from long-range dune interactions	3
Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate	3
Testing floc settling velocity models in rivers and freshwater wetlands	3
Yukon River incision drove organic carbon burial in the Bering Sea during global climate changes at 2.6 and 1 Ma	3
Evaluating the accuracy of binary classifiers for geomorphic applications	3
A landslide runout model for sediment transport, landscape evolution, and hazard assessment applications	3
Field monitoring of pore water pressure in fully and partly saturated debris flows at Ohya landslide scar, Japan	3
Short communication: Analytical models for 2D landscape evolution	3
Subaerial and subglacial seismic characteristics of the largest measured jökulhlaup from the eastern Skaftá cauldron, Iceland	3
Optimising global landscape evolution models with ¹⁰Be	3
Tectonically and climatically driven mountain-hopping erosion in central Guatemala from detrital ¹⁰Be and river profile analysis	3