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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls	43
Sand mining far outpaces natural supply in a large alluvial river	40
Mātauranga Māori in geomorphology: existing frameworks, case studies, and recommendations for incorporating Indigenous knowledge in Earth science	34
Growing topography due to contrasting rock types in a tectonically dead landscape	23
A 6-year lidar survey reveals enhanced rockwall retreat and modified rockfall magnitudes/frequencies in deglaciating cirques	21
Evolution of events before and after the 17 June 2017 rock avalanche at Karrat Fjord, West Greenland – a multidisciplinary approach to detecting and locating unstable rock slopes in a remote Arctic ar	20
Interactions between deforestation, landscape rejuvenation, and shallow landslides in the North Tanganyika–Kivu rift region, Africa	20
Beyond 2D landslide inventories and their rollover: synoptic 3D inventories and volume from repeat lidar data	20
Inferring potential landslide damming using slope stability, geomorphic constraints, and run-out analysis: a case study from the NW Himalaya	20
Relevance of acoustic methods to quantify bedload transport and bedform dynamics in a large sandy-gravel-bed river	19
The relative influence of dune aspect ratio and beach width on dune erosion as a function of storm duration and surge level	19
Timing of exotic, far-traveled boulder emplacement and paleo-outburst flooding in the central Himalayas	19
Morphometric properties of alternate bars and water discharge: a laboratory investigation	19
Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply	18
Topographic controls on divide migration, stream capture, and diversification in riverine life	17
Scale breaks of suspended sediment rating in large rivers in Germany induced by organic matter	16
A temperature-dependent mechanical model to assess the stability of degrading permafrost rock slopes	16
Measurement of rock glacier surface change over different timescales using terrestrial laser scanning point clouds	16
Identification of rock and fracture kinematics in high alpine rockwalls under the influence of elevation	15
Modelling impacts of spatially variable erosion drivers on suspended sediment dynamics	15
Dynamics of salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta: results of field observations and integrated coastal–inland modelling	15
The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways – evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	15
Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain	14
Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers	14
Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway – new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling	14

Combining seismic signal dynamic inversion and numerical modeling improves landslide process reconstruction	14
Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition	14
Escarpment retreat rates derived from detrital cosmogenic nuclide concentrations	14
Reconstructing the dynamics of the highly similar May 2016 and June 2019 Iliamna Volcano (Alaska) ice–rock avalanches from seismoacoustic data	13
Development of smart boulders to monitor mass movements via the Internet of Things: a pilot study in Nepal	13
Transport-limited fluvial erosion – simple formulation and efficient numerical treatment	12
The role of frost cracking in local denudation of steep Alpine rockwalls over millennia (Eiger, Switzerland)	12
Evaluating optically stimulated luminescence rock surface exposure dating as a novel approach for reconstructing coastal boulder movement on decadal to centennial timescales	12
Locating rock slope failures along highways and understanding their physical processes using seismic signals	12
Volume, evolution, and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century	12
Comparison of soil production, chemical weathering, and physical erosion rates along a climate and ecological gradient (Chile) to global observations	12
Alluvial cover on bedrock channels: applicability of existing models	12
Precise water level measurements using low-cost GNSS antenna arrays	12
Experimental study of sediment supply control on step formation, evolution, and stability	12
The landslide velocity	11
Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate	11
Hilltop curvature as a proxy for erosion rate: wavelets enable rapid computation and reveal systematic underestimation	11
Convolutional neural networks for image-based sediment detection applied to a large terrestrial and airborne dataset	11
How do modeling choices and erosion zone locations impact the representation of connectivity and the dynamics of suspended sediments in a multi-source soil erosion model?	11
Pulsed carbon export from mountains by earthquake-triggered landslides explored in a reduced-complexity model	11
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models	11
Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes	11
Holocene sea-level change on the central coast of Bohai Bay, China	10
Controls on the grain size distribution of landslides in Taiwan: the influence of drop height, scar depth and bedrock strength	10
Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion	10
A 4000-year debris flow record based on amphibious investigations of fan delta activity in Plansee (Austria, Eastern Alps)	10
A bed load transport equation based on the spatial distribution of shear stress – Oak Creek revisited	10
Characterization of morphological units in a small, forested stream using close-range remotely piloted aircraft imagery	10
Groundwater erosion of coastal gullies along the Canterbury coast (New Zealand): a rapid and episodic process controlled by rainfall intensity and substrate variability	10
Last-glacial-cycle glacier erosion potential in the Alps	10
Different coastal marsh sites reflect similar topographic conditions under which bare patches and vegetation recovery occur	9
Probabilistic estimation of depth-resolved profiles of soil thermal diffusivity from temperature time series	9
Effect of rock uplift and Milankovitch timescale variations in precipitation and vegetation cover on catchment erosion rates	9
Multi-sensor monitoring and data integration reveal cyclical destabilization of the Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier	9
Effect of stress history on sediment transport and channel adjustment in graded gravel-bed rivers	9
Grain size of fluvial gravel bars from close-range UAV imagery – uncertainty in segmentation-based data	9
Sediment export in marly badland catchments modulated by frost-cracking intensity, Draix–Bléone Critical Zone Observatory, SE France	9
Short communication: Runout of rock avalanches limited by basal friction but controlled by fragmentation	9
Triggering and propagation of exogenous sediment pulses in mountain channels: insights from flume experiments with seismic monitoring	9
GERALDINE (Google Earth Engine supRaglAciaL Debris INput dEtector): a new tool for identifying and monitoring supraglacial landslide inputs	9
Sediment size on talus slopes correlates with fracture spacing on bedrock cliffs: implications for predicting initial sediment size distributions on hillslopes	9
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 4: Philosophy	9
Comparative analysis of the Copernicus, TanDEM-X, and UAV-SfM digital elevation models to estimate lavaka (gully) volumes and mobilization rates in the Lake Alaotra region (Madagascar)	9
Erosional response of granular material in landscape models	8
Short communication: Multiscalar roughness length decomposition in fluvial systems using a transform-roughness correlation (TRC) approach	8
Quantifying thresholds of barrier geomorphic change in a cross-shore sediment-partitioning model	8
Computing water flow through complex landscapes – Part 3: Fill–Spill–Merge: flow routing in depression hierarchies	8
Development of the morphodynamics on Little Ice Age lateral moraines in 10 glacier forefields of the Eastern Alps since the 1950s	8
Coastal change patterns from time series clustering of permanent laser scan data	8
Intensified paraglacial slope failures due to accelerating downwasting of a temperate glacier in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau	8

Landslide-lake outburst floods accelerate downstream hillslope slippage	8
Earthquake-induced debris flows at Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico	7
The rate and extent of wind-gap migration regulated by tributary confluences and avulsions	7
Toward a general calibration of the Swiss plate geophone system for fractional bedload transport	7
Biophysical controls of marsh soil shear strength along an estuarine salinity gradient	7
Ice sheet and palaeoclimate controls on drainage network evolution: an example from Dogger Bank, North Sea	7
Short communication: Analytical models for 2D landscape evolution	7
Modeling deadwood for rockfall mitigation assessments in windthrow areas	7
The enigma of relict large sorted stone stripes in the tropical Ethiopian Highlands	7
The push and pull of abandoned channels: how floodplain processes and healing affect avulsion dynamics and alluvial landscape evolution in foreland basins	7
The impact of earthquakes on orogen-scale exhumation	7
Dominant process zones in a mixed fluvial–tidal delta are morphologically distinct	7
Complementing scale experiments of rivers and estuaries with numerically modelled hydrodynamics	7
Size, shape and orientation matter: fast and semi-automatic measurement of grain geometries from 3D point clouds	6
The formation and geometry characteristics of boulder bars due to outburst floods triggered by overtopped landslide dam failure	6
The imprint of erosion by glacial lake outburst floods in the topography of central Himalayan rivers	6
Autogenic knickpoints in laboratory landscape experiments	6
A hybrid data–model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes	6
Modeling glacial and fluvial landform evolution at large scales using a stream-power approach	6
Multi-objective optimisation of a rock coast evolution model with cosmogenic <sup>10</sup>Be analysis for the quantification of long-term cliff retreat rates	6
Effect of debris-flow sediment grain-size distribution on fan morphology	6
Sedimentary architecture and landforms of the late Saalian (MIS 6) ice sheet margin offshore of the Netherlands	6
Automated quantification of floating wood pieces in rivers from video monitoring: a new software tool and validation	6
Transmissivity and groundwater flow exert a strong influence on drainage density	6
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 1: Theory	5
Alpine rock glacier activity over Holocene to modern timescales (western French Alps)	5
Short communication: Forward and inverse analytic models relating river long profile to tectonic uplift history, assuming a nonlinear slope–erosion dependency	5
Linking levee-building processes with channel avulsion: geomorphic analysis for assessing avulsion frequency and channel reoccupation	5
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 2: Analysis	5
Coupling threshold theory and satellite-derived channel width to estimate the formative discharge of Himalayan foreland rivers	5
Sediment shell-content diminishes current-driven sand ripple development and migration	5
Relationship between meteoric <sup>10</sup>Be and NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> concentrations in soils along Shackleto	5
Implications of the ongoing rock uplift in NW Himalayan interiors	5
Vibration of natural rock arches and towers excited by helicopter-sourced infrasound	5
Controls on the rates and products of particle attrition by bed-load collisions	5
Short communication: Field data reveal that the transport probability of clasts in Peruvian and Swiss streams mainly depends on the sorting of the grains	5
Controls on the hydraulic geometry of alluvial channels: bank stability to gravitational failure, the critical-flow hypothesis, and conservation of mass and energy	5
Topographic disequilibrium, landscape dynamics and active tectonics: an example from the Bhutan Himalaya	5
Erosion and weathering in carbonate regions reveal climatic and tectonic drivers of carbonate landscape evolution	5
Breaking down chipping and fragmentation in sediment transport: the control of material strength	4
Investigation of stochastic-threshold incision models across a climatic and morphological gradient	4
Exploring exogenous controls on short- versus long-term erosion rates globally	4
Bedrock river erosion through dipping layered rocks: quantifying erodibility through kinematic wave speed	4
Coupling between downstream variations of channel width and local pool–riffle bed topography	4
Inverse modeling of turbidity currents using an artificial neural network approach: verification for field application	4
Estuarine morphodynamics and development modified by floodplain formation	4
Geospatial modelling of large-wood supply to rivers: a state-of-the-art model comparison in Swiss mountain river catchments	4
Quantification of post-glacier bedrock surface erosion in the European Alps using¹⁰Be and optically stimulated luminescence exposure dating	4
Particle size dynamics in abrading pebble populations	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
Drainage reorganization induces deviations in the scaling between valley width and drainage area	4
Modelling the effects of ice transport and sediment sources on the form of detrital thermochronological age probability distributions from glacial settings	4
An overview of sedimentary volcanism on Mars	3
Testing the sensitivity of the CAESAR-Lisflood landscape evolution model to grid cell size	3
Patterns and rates of soil movement and shallow failures across several small watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska	3
Geomorphic signature of segmented relief rejuvenation in the Sierra Morena, Betic forebulge, Spain	3
An analytical model for beach erosion downdrift of groins: case study of Jeongdongjin Beach, Korea	3
From apex to shoreline: fluvio-deltaic architecture for the Holocene Rhine–Meuse delta, the Netherlands	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
Transitional rock glaciers at sea level in northern Norway	3
A photogrammetry-based approach for soil bulk density measurements with an emphasis on applications to cosmogenic nuclide analysis	3
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 3: Entropy	3
A multi-proxy assessment of terrace formation in the lower Trinity River valley, Texas	3
Stochastic alluvial fan and terrace formation triggered by a high-magnitude Holocene landslide in the Klados Gorge, Crete	3
An update on techniques to assess normal-mode behavior of rock arches by ambient vibrations	3
Unraveling the hydrology and sediment balance of an ungauged lake in the Sudano-Sahelian region of West Africa using remote sensing	3
Automated classification of seismic signals recorded on the Åknes rock slope, Western Norway, using a convolutional neural network	3
Climate changes and the formation of fluvial terraces in central Amazonia inferred from landscape evolution modeling	3
Probabilistic description of bedload fluxes from the aggregate dynamics of individual grains	3
Rapid Holocene bedrock canyon incision of Beida River, North Qilian Shan, China	3
Pristine levels of suspended sediment in large German river channels during the Anthropocene?	3
Landslides as geological hotspots of CO<sub>2</sub> emission: clues from the instrumented Séchilienne landslide, western European Alps	3
Comparison of rainfall generators with regionalisation for the estimation of rainfall erosivity at ungauged sites	3