OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropocene 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	67
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	65
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	61
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	38
Impacts of the humid climate on the development of two ancient civilizations on the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau	38
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	36
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	36
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	34
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	31
Palaeoecological signals from floodplain and terrace peatlands decipher ancient land use in the Mid-Kama Valley (cis-Ural, Russia)	28
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	24
Identification of alkaline amendment sources (slash and burn versus marling) for cereal crops grown in the North of France: A multiple isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr, δ44/40Ca, δ88/86Sr)	22
Reconstruction of climatic and socio-economic impacts on the landscape of Northern Tuscany (Italy) over the last 2000 years based on palaeoecological and historical evidence	21
Anthropogenically driven deterioration of water quality in macrophyte-dominated freshwater lakes from Yangtze River basin, Eastern China	21
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	20
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	20
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	19
Spatiotemporal Trends and Urban-Climate Interactions of Land Surface Temperature Dynamics Across Bangladesh	19
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	17
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	17
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	16
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	14
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	14
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	14
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	13

InSAR shows extensive subsidence of agricultural land in New Zealand	13
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	13
Leaching of legacy paper mill sludge induces lithification by cementation of fluvial sediment	13
Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?	12
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	12
Varve record reveals rapid development of hypolimnetic anoxia in a Northern European lake resulting from urban activities	10
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding	10
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	10
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	10
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	10
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX)	10
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	9
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China	9
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa	9
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	9
Quantifying the past and future hydrological consequences of climate change and human activities on the upstream of the Anzali Wetland	9
Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India	9
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	9
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	9
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration	8
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty	7
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	7
Spatiotemporal variability of fluvial carbon components under different land use types in a mountainous karst region, Southwest China	7
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	7
Sediment magnetism records of anthropogenic impact on a typical alpine lake in southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
Impacts of precipitation shifts and warming trends in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	7
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Drivers, trends, and implications for sustainable development	7
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	7
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	7
Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt	6
Cropland abandonment and flood risks: Spatial analysis of a case in North Central Vietnam	6
Response of vegetation dynamics in environmentally sensitive and fragile areas to natural and anthropogenic factors: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China	6
Projected changes in sea ice and the navigability of the Arctic Passages under global warming of 2 ℃ and 3 ℃	6
The impact of species invasion and nutrient dynamics on organic carbon burial in lake ecosystems	6
Herbivore rewilding does not promote biodiversity in Argentine Andean peatlands	6
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	6
Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction	6
Chloride hydrogeochemistry of the finger lakes in Central and Western New York, USA	5
Optimization of functional zoning and spatial patterns of water conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau under different SSP-RCP scenarios	5
Sediment magnetic records of human activities in Lake Chaohu Basin over the past 166 years	5
Removal notice to “Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill” [Anthropocene 39 (2022) 100344]	5
A Community-Based Nature Understanding Framework for exploring socio-ecological dynamics in rural Romania	5
South Caucasus greening and Neolithisation: What happened 8200 years ago?	5
Lipid biomarkers in high mountain lakes from the Cantabrian range (Northern Spain): Coupling the interplay between natural and anthropogenic drivers	5
Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves	5
Crop response pattern to several drought timescales and its possible determinants: A global-scale analysis during the last decades	5
Knowledge influences perceptions and values of nature-based solutions: The example of soil and water bioengineering techniques applied to urban rivers	4
Riverine nutrient differentiation patterns and pollutant flux behavior affecting the mainstream-tributary coupling environment in a mega drainage basin, PR China	4
Comparative analysis of historical human and biogeomorphic interactions in large river-floodplain systems under different climate contexts	4
Sedimentation on the Siberian Arctic Shelf as an indicator of the arctic hydrological cycle	4

20th century climate warming and human disturbance triggered high aquatic production and strong water-column mixing in maar Lake Xiaolongwan, northeastern China	4
The sedimentary signature of plastics: Geological materials and stratigraphic markers of the Anthropocene	4
Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone	4
Human-induced landscape modification in the in the last two centuries in the Po delta plain (Northern Italy)	4
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies	4
Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market	4
Corrigendum to: “Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts” [Anthropocene 40, 100350]	3
Mining tailings severely impact plant communities in a rainforest watershed	3
Enhanced hydrological disturbance and atmospheric pollution on an ombrotrophic peatland (Greater Khingan Mountains, Northeast China) since 1950s inferred from diatom records	3
Local and broad-scale anthropogenic controls on sediment transport in the Western Ghats rivers, India	3
Long-term changes of agricultural land over the last century in Romania. The showcase of Romanian plain	3
Legacy impacts and recovery of δ15N, δ13C and C/N storage in soils due to historic land use	3
Linking prescribed fire, nutrient deposition and cyanobacteria dominance through pyroeutrophication in a subtropical lake ecosystem from the mid Holocene to present	3
Chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland	3
Integrating biodiversity and key ecosystem services into the optimization of multi-scenario land use simulation in the Three-River-Source National Park region, China	3
Sedimentary records from an alpine wetland in southwestern China reveal the timing of Anthropocene human impact	3
Patagonia's Late Holocene lake sediments reveal no major black carbon sources for Antarctica	3
Tracking the warning signal of extreme rainstorm and flood events in Haihe River Basin through historical documents	3
Chronostratigraphic grounds for the decision against formalizing an Anthropocene Epoch	3
Unprecedented shift in Canadian High Arctic polar bear food web unsettles four millennia of stability	3
Assessment of pleisto-holocene environmental changes vs. anthropogenic modifications. A case study: The Nalón estuary (North-West Spain)	3
Differential impact of climate and land use change on habitat suitability of migrant passerines according to habitat preferences	3
Nature-based solutions for leveed river corridors	3
Hard coal mining spoil heaps in recent landscape: A physical geography perspective	3