OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Anthropocene 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of the humid climate on the development of two ancient civilizations on the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau	72
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	72
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	46
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	42
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	40
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	40
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	32
Palaeoecological signals from floodplain and terrace peatlands decipher ancient land use in the Mid-Kama Valley (cis-Ural, Russia)	29
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	25
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	24
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	24
Ecological risk assessment of dredged sediments from a tropical urban lagoon: Is Brazilian law sufficient for protecting aquatic and soil biota?	24
Anthropogenically driven deterioration of water quality in macrophyte-dominated freshwater lakes from Yangtze River basin, Eastern China	23
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	23
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	21
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)	21
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	17
Application of magnetic proxies to reconstruct historical environmental change in catchments of shallow lakes from the Yangtze River Basin, Eastern China	16
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	15
Spatiotemporal trends and urban-climate interactions of land surface temperature dynamics across Bangladesh	15
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	15
Anthropogenic inlet modification redirected the centennial evolution of a tropical coastal lagoon: Quantitative evidence from foraminiferal salinity transfer functions and dual sediment cores	15
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	13
InSAR shows extensive subsidence of agricultural land in New Zealand	13
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	13

Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	13
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	12
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	11
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	11
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	11
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	11
Spanish colonization triggered 17th-century landscape dust regime shift in the Southwestern United States	11
Leaching of legacy paper mill sludge induces lithification by cementation of fluvial sediment	11
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	11
Quantifying the past and future hydrological consequences of climate change and human activities on the upstream of the Anzali Wetland	10
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	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
High-impact low-probability events: Exposure to potential large-magnitude explosive volcanic eruptions	9
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX)	9
From Fragmentation to Integration: A Review of Data–Model Integration in Land Subsidence Research	8
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	8
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	8
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	8
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	7
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	7
Spatiotemporal variability of fluvial carbon components under different land use types in a mountainous karst region, Southwest China	7
Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction	7
Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India	7
Impacts of precipitation shifts and warming trends in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	7
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	7
Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin	7
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	7
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	7
Enhanced heatwaves exacerbate survival risks for vulnerable populations	7
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	7