OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Anthropocene is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	56
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	54
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	51
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	49
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	48
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	34
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	33
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	30
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	30
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)	28
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	27
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	27
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	26
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	23
Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	18
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	18
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	18
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	17
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	16
Human-induced marine degradation in anoxic coastal sediments of Beppu Bay, Japan, as an Anthropocene marker in East Asia	16
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	15
Exceptionally high foraminiferal dissolution in the western Bay of Bengal	15
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	15
InSAR Shows Extensive Subsidence of Agricultural Land in New Zealand	15
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	15

Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?	14
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	14
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China	12
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX)	12
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	12
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	12
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding	11
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa	10
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	9
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	9
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	9
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	9
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration	9
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	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
Spatiotemporal variability of fluvial carbon components under different land use types in a mountainous karst region, Southwest China	8
Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning	8
Reconstructing butterfly-pollen interaction networks through periods of anthropogenic drought in the Great Basin (USA) over the past century	8
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Drivers, trends, and implications for sustainable development	8
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	8
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	8