OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Earth Surface Dynamics is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sand mining far outpaces natural supply in a large alluvial river	44
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	25
Inferring potential landslide damming using slope stability, geomorphic constraints, and run-out analysis: a case study from the NW Himalaya	24
Growing topography due to contrasting rock types in a tectonically dead landscape	24
Beyond 2D landslide inventories and their rollover: synoptic 3D inventories and volume from repeat lidar data	23
Interactions between deforestation, landscape rejuvenation, and shallow landslides in the North Tanganyika–Kivu rift region, Africa	21
Combining seismic signal dynamic inversion and numerical modeling improves landslide process reconstruction	21
Relevance of acoustic methods to quantify bedload transport and bedform dynamics in a large sandy-gravel-bed river	20
Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply	20
The relative influence of dune aspect ratio and beach width on dune erosion as a function of storm duration and surge level	20
A temperature-dependent mechanical model to assess the stability of degrading permafrost rock slopes	19
Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition	17
Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain	17
Dynamics of salt intrusion in the Mekong Delta: results of field observations and integrated coastal–inland modelling	16
Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway – new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling	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	16
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?	15
Escarpment retreat rates derived from detrital cosmogenic nuclide concentrations	15
The effect of lithology on the relationship between denudation rate and chemical weathering pathways – evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	15
Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate	15
Volume, evolution, and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century	14
Precise water level measurements using low-cost GNSS antenna arrays	14
Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers	14
Convolutional neural networks for image-based sediment detection applied to a large terrestrial and airborne dataset	14

Development of smart boulders to monitor mass movements via the Internet of Things: a pilot study in Nepal	13
Locating rock slope failures along highways and understanding their physical processes using seismic signals	13
Comparison of soil production, chemical weathering, and physical erosion rates along a climate and ecological gradient (Chile) to global observations	13
A 4000-year debris flow record based on amphibious investigations of fan delta activity in Plansee (Austria, Eastern Alps)	13
Reconstructing the dynamics of the highly similar May 2016 and June 2019 Iliamna Volcano (Alaska) ice–rock avalanches from seismoacoustic data	13
Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes	12
Evaluating optically stimulated luminescence rock surface exposure dating as a novel approach for reconstructing coastal boulder movement on decadal to centennial timescales	12
Controls on the grain size distribution of landslides in Taiwan: the influence of drop height, scar depth and bedrock strength	12
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models	12
The landslide velocity	12
Coastal change patterns from time series clustering of permanent laser scan data	11
Hilltop curvature as a proxy for erosion rate: wavelets enable rapid computation and reveal systematic underestimation	11
Grain size of fluvial gravel bars from close-range UAV imagery – uncertainty in segmentation-based data	11
Pulsed carbon export from mountains by earthquake-triggered landslides explored in a reduced-complexity model	11
Characterization of morphological units in a small, forested stream using close-range remotely piloted aircraft imagery	11
Groundwater erosion of coastal gullies along the Canterbury coast (New Zealand): a rapid and episodic process controlled by rainfall intensity and substrate variability	11
Short communication: Runout of rock avalanches limited by basal friction but controlled by fragmentation	11
Computing water flow through complex landscapes – Part 3: Fill–Spill–Merge: flow routing in depression hierarchies	10
Landslide-lake outburst floods accelerate downstream hillslope slippage	10
The push and pull of abandoned channels: how floodplain processes and healing affect avulsion dynamics and alluvial landscape evolution in foreland basins	10
Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 4: Philosophy	10
Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion	10
Sediment size on talus slopes correlates with fracture spacing on bedrock cliffs: implications for predicting initial sediment size distributions on hillslopes	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
Sediment export in marly badland catchments modulated by frost-cracking intensity, Draix–Bléone Critical Zone Observatory, SE France	9
Development of the morphodynamics on Little Ice Age lateral moraines in 10 glacier forefields of the Eastern Alps since the 1950s	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
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
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
GERALDINE (Google Earth Engine supRaglAciaL Debris INput dEtector): a new tool for identifying and monitoring supraglacial landslide inputs	9
The rate and extent of wind-gap migration regulated by tributary confluences and avulsions	9
Intensified paraglacial slope failures due to accelerating downwasting of a temperate glacier in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau	9
Triggering and propagation of exogenous sediment pulses in mountain channels: insights from flume experiments with seismic monitoring	9
Size, shape and orientation matter: fast and semi-automatic measurement of grain geometries from 3D point clouds	8
Short communication: Multiscalar roughness length decomposition in fluvial systems using a transform-roughness correlation (TRC) approach	8
Earthquake-induced debris flows at Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico	8
Quantifying thresholds of barrier geomorphic change in a cross-shore sediment-partitioning model	8
Erosional response of granular material in landscape models	8
The enigma of relict large sorted stone stripes in the tropical Ethiopian Highlands	8
Modeling deadwood for rockfall mitigation assessments in windthrow areas	7
Complementing scale experiments of rivers and estuaries with numerically modelled hydrodynamics	7
Short communication: Analytical models for 2D landscape evolution	7
The formation and geometry characteristics of boulder bars due to outburst floods triggered by overtopped landslide dam failure	7
Biophysical controls of marsh soil shear strength along an estuarine salinity gradient	7
Sedimentary architecture and landforms of the late Saalian (MIS 6) ice sheet margin offshore of the Netherlands	7
Toward a general calibration of the Swiss plate geophone system for fractional bedload transport	7
Effect of debris-flow sediment grain-size distribution on fan morphology	7