OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Earth Surface Dynamics is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Short communication: Landlab v2.0: a software package for Earth surface dynamics	58
Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls	41
Sand mining far outpaces natural supply in a large alluvial river	33
Mātauranga Māori in geomorphology: existing frameworks, case studies, and recommendations for incorporating Indigenous knowledge in Earth science	33
Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel	31
Parameterization of river incision models requires accounting for environmental heterogeneity: insights from the tropical Andes	28
Drainage divide networks – Part 1: Identification and ordering in digital elevation models	24
Drainage divide networks – Part 2: Response to perturbations	22
Growing topography due to contrasting rock types in a tectonically dead landscape	21
Hillslope denudation and morphologic response to a rock uplift gradient	20
Interactions between deforestation, landscape rejuvenation, and shallow landslides in the North Tanganyika–Kivu rift region, Africa	19
A 6-year lidar survey reveals enhanced rockwall retreat and modified rockfall magnitudes/frequencies in deglaciating cirques	18
Beyond 2D landslide inventories and their rollover: synoptic 3D inventories and volume from repeat lidar data	18
Timing of exotic, far-traveled boulder emplacement and paleo-outburst flooding in the central Himalayas	18
Relevance of acoustic methods to quantify bedload transport and bedform dynamics in a large sandy-gravel-bed river	18
Morphometric properties of alternate bars and water discharge: a laboratory investigation	17
Interactions between main channels and tributary alluvial fans: channel adjustments and sediment-signal propagation	17
Topographic controls on divide migration, stream capture, and diversification in riverine life	17
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	17
The relative influence of dune aspect ratio and beach width on dune erosion as a function of storm duration and surge level	16
Inferring potential landslide damming using slope stability, geomorphic constraints, and run-out analysis: a case study from the NW Himalaya	15
Scale breaks of suspended sediment rating in large rivers in Germany induced by organic matter	15
Measurement of rock glacier surface change over different timescales using terrestrial laser scanning point clouds	15
Dynamics of salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta: results of field observations and integrated coastal–inland modelling	14
Escarpment retreat rates derived from detrital cosmogenic nuclide concentrations	14

Identifying sediment transport mechanisms from grain size–shape distributions, applied to aeolian sediments	14
The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways – evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	14
Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply	14
Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers	14
Modelling impacts of spatially variable erosion drivers on suspended sediment dynamics	14
Reconstructing the dynamics of the highly similar May 2016 and June 2019 Iliamna Volcano (Alaska) ice–rock avalanches from seismoacoustic data	13
Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain	12
Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition	12
Transport-limited fluvial erosion – simple formulation and efficient numerical treatment	12
A temperature-dependent mechanical model to assess the stability of degrading permafrost rock slopes	12
Precise water level measurements using low-cost GNSS antenna arrays	12
Evaluating optically stimulated luminescence rock surface exposure dating as a novel approach for reconstructing coastal boulder movement on decadal to centennial timescales	12
Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway – new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling	11
Identification of rock and fracture kinematics in high alpine rockwalls under the influence of elevation	11
The role of frost cracking in local denudation of steep Alpine rockwalls over millennia (Eiger, Switzerland)	11
Convolutional neural networks for image-based sediment detection applied to a large terrestrial and airborne dataset	11
Alluvial cover on bedrock channels: applicability of existing models	11
Hilltop curvature as a proxy for erosion rate: wavelets enable rapid computation and reveal systematic underestimation	11
Pulsed carbon export from mountains by earthquake-triggered landslides explored in a reduced-complexity model	11
Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate	11
Locating rock slope failures along highways and understanding their physical processes using seismic signals	11
Development of smart boulders to monitor mass movements via the Internet of Things: a pilot study in Nepal	11
Comparison of soil production, chemical weathering, and physical erosion rates along a climate and ecological gradient (Chile) to global observations	11
A 4000-year debris flow record based on amphibious investigations of fan delta activity in Plansee (Austria, Eastern Alps)	10
The landslide velocity	10
Morphological evolution of bifurcations in tide-influenced deltas	10
Controls on the grain size distribution of landslides in Taiwan: the influence of drop height, scar depth and bedrock strength	10
Computing water flow through complex landscapes – Part 2: Finding hierarchies in depressions and morphological segmentations	10
Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion	10
Combining seismic signal dynamic inversion and numerical modeling improves landslide process reconstruction	10
Last-glacial-cycle glacier erosion potential in the Alps	10
Experimental study of sediment supply control on step formation, evolution, and stability	10
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?	9
Sediment size on talus slopes correlates with fracture spacing on bedrock cliffs: implications for predicting initial sediment size distributions on hillslopes	9
A bed load transport equation based on the spatial distribution of shear stress – Oak Creek revisited	9
Seismo-acoustic energy partitioning of a powder snow avalanche	9
Holocene sea-level change on the central coast of Bohai Bay, China	9
Grain size of fluvial gravel bars from close-range UAV imagery – uncertainty in segmentation-based data	9
Groundwater erosion of coastal gullies along the Canterbury coast (New Zealand): a rapid and episodic process controlled by rainfall intensity and substrate variability	9
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 4: Philosophy	9
Triggering and propagation of exogenous sediment pulses in mountain channels: insights from flume experiments with seismic monitoring	9
Effect of stress history on sediment transport and channel adjustment in graded gravel-bed rivers	9
Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes	9
Probabilistic estimation of depth-resolved profiles of soil thermal diffusivity from temperature time series	9
Multi-sensor monitoring and data integration reveal cyclical destabilization of the Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier	9
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models	9