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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fire exclusion, pyrogenic carbon, and ecosystem function: What have we lost?	69
Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China	69
Impacts of the humid climate on the development of two ancient civilizations on the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau	66
Rethinking the Anthropocene: Not a time-transgressive event but a sudden rupture on the geologic time scale	40
Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy	39
Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe	38
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of 250-years of industrial era pollution in Greenland ice	38
Ecological risk assessment of dredged sediments from a tropical urban lagoon: Is Brazilian law sufficient for protecting aquatic and soil biota?	35
Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform	31
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010)	28
Palaeoecological signals from floodplain and terrace peatlands decipher ancient land use in the Mid-Kama Valley (cis-Ural, Russia)	25
What motivates smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change? Insights from smallholder cropping in far-western Nepal	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
Effects of repeated drawdown flushing on riverbed fine sediment dynamics downstream from a dam	21
Anthropogenically driven deterioration of water quality in macrophyte-dominated freshwater lakes from Yangtze River basin, Eastern China	21
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
Potential for redistribution of DwH-impacted bottom sediments to down-slope depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico	20
Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil	20
Spatiotemporal trends and urban-climate interactions of land surface temperature dynamics across Bangladesh	18
Application of magnetic proxies to reconstruct historical environmental change in catchments of shallow lakes from the Yangtze River Basin, Eastern China	17
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability	16
Sedimentary indicators of anthropogenic impact in Fildes Peninsula lakes (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	15
Charcoal in the Clouds: Holocene Biomass Burning Records from the Himalayas and Implications for South Asian Atmospheric Systems	14
Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health	14
Under threat: Land use change, distribution and conservation of poorly-known endemic microsnails from the coast of Chile	13

Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia	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
Lead legacy of pre-industrial activities in lake sediments: The case study of the Lake Accesa (Southern Tuscany, Italy)	13
InSAR shows extensive subsidence of agricultural land in New Zealand	13
Did the charcoal-based iron industry really drive the forest cover decline in the Northern Pyrenees?	11
Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake sediments from the Lake Superior region, USA	11
Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians	10
Coupled socio-ecological changes in response to soybean expansion along the 2001–2010 decade in Argentina	10
Spanish colonization triggered 17th-century landscape dust regime shift in the Southwestern United States	10
Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries	10
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
Complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Holocene human activities revealed by pollen and Pb records from major monsoonal China	10
High-impact low-probability events: Exposure to potential large-magnitude explosive volcanic eruptions	9
Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard	9
Exploring the role of a Mediterranean transhumance drove road as shelter for amphibian breeding	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
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years	9
Engaging communities towards restoring hillslope seep wetlands in the Tsitsa River catchment of South Africa	8
Responses of lake diatoms to rapid 21st century warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	8
Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study	8
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future	8
Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India	8
Enhanced Heatwaves Exacerbate Survival Risks for Vulnerable Populations	7
Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts	7
Pastoralism and mining activities affecting timberline ecosystems in the Italian Alps during the last millennia	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
Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration	7
Past and future climate change in the Zagros region of western Iran	7
Impacts of precipitation shifts and warming trends in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	7