OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropocene is 4. 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
How ecosystems services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions	56
Recent global land cover dynamics and implications for soil erosion and carbon losses from deforestation	46
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration	35
Spatial prioritization for biodiversity conservation in a megadiverse country	26
Users’ views on cultural ecosystem services of urban parks: An importance-performance analysis of a case in Beijing, China	24
Deciphering centurial anthropogenic pollution processes in large lakes dominated by socio-economic impacts	21
Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene: Multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change in a Maya agroecosystem	21
Ambient air quality of a less industrialized region of India (Kerala) during the COVID-19 lockdown	20
Engaging society and building participatory governance in a rural landscape restoration context	19
Human-driven atoll island expansion in the Maldives	19
How do anthropogenic pressures affect the provision of ecosystem services of small mountain lakes?	19
Global-scale changes in the area of atoll islands during the 21st century	18
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	18
Plastics as a stratigraphic marker in fluvial deposits	18
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience	17
Tropical peatlands in the anthropocene: Lessons from the past	16
Anthropogenic impacts and implications for ecological restoration in the Karoo, South Africa	15
Projected changes in sea ice and the navigability of the Arctic Passages under global warming of 2 ℃ and 3 ℃	15
To dam or not to dam in an age of anthropocene: Insights from a genealogy of media discourses	15
Trends in the succession of synanthropic vegetation on a reclaimed landfill in Poland	15
Paleoecological evidence for a multi-trophic regime shift in a perialpine lake (Lake Joux, Switzerland)	14
Reconstructing two millennia of copper and silver metallurgy in the Lake Titicaca region (Bolivia/Peru) using trace metals and lead isotopic composition	14
Deciphering human and climatic controls on soil erosion in intensively cultivated landscapes after 1950 (Loire Valley, France)	14
Modeling the geomorphic response to early river engineering works using CAESAR-Lisflood	13
The role of indigenous practices in expanding waterbird habitat in the face of rising seas	13

Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	13
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation	13
Flood risk related to changing rainfall regimes in arterial traffic systems of the Yangtze River Delta	12
Unravelling the role of vegetation on the different trends between climatic and hydrologic drought in headwater catchments of Spain	12
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	12
Recent anthropogenic climate change exceeds the rate and magnitude of natural Holocene variability on the Balearic Islands	12
Changes in extent of open-surface water bodies in China's Yellow River Basin (2000–2020) using Google Earth Engine cloud platform	12
Atmospheric sources of anthropogenic and geogenic trace metals in Australian lichen and fungi	11
New archaeobotanical evidence reveals synchronous rice domestication 7600 years ago on south Hangzhou Bay coast, eastern China	11
Viability of greenhouse gas removal via artificial addition of volcanic ash to the ocean	11
Ecosystem turnover in an urbanized subtropical seascape driven by climate and pollution	11
Sediment carbon storage increases in tropical, oligotrophic, high mountain lakes	10
Early anthropogenic change in western Mediterranean mountains (Sierra Nevada, SE Spain)	10
A more complete accounting of greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration in urban landscapes	10
Socio-ecological drivers of long-term ecosystem carbon stock trend: An assessment with the LUCCA model of the French case	10
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	9
The future of Southeast Asia's tropical peatlands: Local and global perspectives	9
Spatio-temporal dynamics of forest ecosystems revealed by the LiDAR-based characterization of medieval field systems (Vosges Mountains, France)	9
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies	9
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	9
Spatial patterns of soil salinity in the central Argentinean Dry Chaco	9
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	9
Historical pond systems as long-term composite archives of anthropogenic contamination in the Vrchlice River, Czechia	9
Anthropogenic records in a fluvial depositional system: The Odra River along The Czech-Polish border	9
Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change	8
Predicting the future of coastal marine ecosystems in the rapidly changing Arctic: The potential of palaeoenvironmental records	8
Human-induced marine degradation in anoxic coastal sediments of Beppu Bay, Japan, as an Anthropocene marker in East Asia	8
Of marsh and mangrove: coupled biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of 20th century wetland conversion in Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida (USA)	8
Varved lake sediments as indicators of recent cultural eutrophication and hypolimnetic hypoxia in lakes	7
On the time lag between human activity and biodiversity in Europe at the national scale	7
Cropland abandonment and flood risks: Spatial analysis of a case in North Central Vietnam	7
Sedimentation on the Siberian Arctic Shelf as an indicator of the arctic hydrological cycle	7
Potential sediment supply fluxes associated with greenfield residential construction	7
Changes in carbon storage since the pre-industrial era: A national scale analysis	7
Persistent, multi-sourced lead contamination in Central Europe since the Bronze Age recorded in the Füramoos peat bog, Germany	6
Understanding human-environment interrelationships under constrained land-use decisions with a spatially explicit agent-based model	6
How the environment became global	6
Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market	6
The meanings of the Critical Zone	6
A meta-analysis of temporal shifts in environmental concern between 1994 and 2017: An examination of the new environmental paradigm	6
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	6
Fossil pigments and environmental conditions in the oligotrophic Laja Lake in the Chilean Andes	5
Assessing human impacts on soil organic carbon change in the Lower Namoi Valley, Australia	5
Assessing the effects of urban heat islands and air pollution on human quality of life	5
Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt	5
Spatial variability in nearshore sediment pollution in Lake Tanganyika (East Africa) and implications for fisheries conservation	5
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	5
Late Holocene periods of copper mining in the Eisenerz Alps (Austria) deduced from calcareous lake deposits	4
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	4
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	4

Nature-based solutions for leveed river corridors	4
Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone	4
Declining chironomid diversity in relation to human influences in southwest China	4
Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Highland Areas in Kastamonu, Turkey	4
Long-term sediment storage and flux in a small, catastrophically aggraded mountain catchment	4
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	4