OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Elementa-Science of the 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Biogeochemical effects of a forest understory plant invasion depend more on dissimilar nutrient economies than invader biomass	196
Response to Bennett et al. Comment	145
On the phenology and seeding potential of sea-ice microalgal species	89
Smallholder participation in zero-deforestation supply chain initiatives in the Indonesian palm oil sector: Challenges, opportunities, and limitations	47
Does the government procurement market favor corporate social responsibility in a weak institution? Evidence from China	45
Implementation of marine CO2 removal for climate mitigation: The challenges of additionality, predictability, and governability	42
The case for a Framework for UnderStanding Ice-Ocean iNteractions (FUSION) in the Antarctic-Southern Ocean system	35
Nansen and Amundsen basins: Gradients of physico-chemical properties and biota composition with implications for future resource management of the central Arctic Ocean	31
Changing the culture of ecology from the ground up	30
Methane and volatile organic compounds and their influence on air quality in Boulder, Colorado	28
Agroforestry in temperate-climate commercial agriculture: Feedback from agroforestry practitioners in the Mid-Atlantic United States	26
Can coastal and marine carbon dioxide removal help to close the emissions gap? Scientific, legal, economic, and governance considerations	25
Physical drivers of long-term chlorophyll-a variability in the Southern Ocean	24
Mesquite-associated soil and phyllosphere microbial communities differ across land-use types in drylands	22
Measuring agroecology: Introducing a methodological framework and a community of practice approach	22
Anthropocene disorder and the transcultural search for common-ness	21
Low NOXand high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines	21
Regional characteristics of fine aerosol mass increase elucidated from long-term observations and KORUS-AQ campaign at a Northeast Asian background site	20
How can China’s coal cities achieve high-quality development?—An empirical study based on the “resource curse” hypothesis	19
Elements of agroecological pest and disease management	19
Melt pond CO2 dynamics and fluxes with the atmosphere in the central Arctic Ocean during the summer-to-autumn transition	18
Building sustainability research competencies through scaffolded pathways for undergraduate research experience	17
Seasonality of spectral radiative fluxes and optical properties of Arctic sea ice during the spring–summer transition	17
The MOSAiC Distributed Network: Observing the coupled Arctic system with multidisciplinary, coordinated platforms	17
Modelling the coupled mercury-halogen-ozone cycle in the central Arctic during spring	17

Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography	16
Active and inactive oil and gas sites contribute to methane emissions in western Saskatchewan, Canada	15
The winter central Arctic surface energy budget: A model evaluation using observations from the MOSAiC campaign	14
Microbial extracellular enzyme activity with simulated climate change	14
Vanishing of the mighty tunales of central Mexico: A 5-century history of landscape change	14
Corrigendum: Low NOX and high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines	14
Low ozone dry deposition rates to sea ice during the MOSAiC field campaign: Implications for the Arctic boundary layer ozone budget	13
Climate change, young people, and the IPCC: The role of citizen science	13
Isotopic signatures of snow, sea ice, and surface seawater in the central Arctic Ocean during the MOSAiC expedition	13
Disposing of single use: Evaluating the effectiveness of Berkeley’s anti-single use disposable foodware ordinance	13
Algal enrichment process for newly formed sea ice in the Dalton polynya off East Antarctica during the late summer–early autumn	12
Evaluation of the emission inventory for large point emission sources in South Korea by applying measured data from the NASA/NIER KORUS-AQ aircraft field campaign	12
Seasonality and timing of sea ice mass balance and heat fluxes in the Arctic transpolar drift during 2019–2020	12
Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico	12
Fisheries-enhanced pressure on Mediterranean regions and pelagic species already impacted by climate change	12
An aerosol odyssey: Navigating nutrient flux changes to marine ecosystems	12
FTIR autecological analysis of bottom-ice diatom taxa across a tidal strait in the Canadian Arctic	12
The evolution of agroecology in Mexico, 1920–2023	12
Complexity of Arctic Ocean water isotope (δ18O, δ2H) spatial and temporal patterns revealed with machine learning	12
Analysis of an Arctic cold air outbreak during autumn and related air mass transformations forced by surface changes and advection in higher altitudes	12
Quantifying anomalies of air pollutants in 9 U.S. cities during 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdowns and wildfires based on decadal trends	12
Interannual variability of ozone fluxes in a broadleaf deciduous forest in Italy	11
Research perspectives on historical legacy of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.): Genes as the silent actor in the transformation of the Central European forests in the last 200 years	11
From access toward sovereignty: A scoping review of municipal land access policies for urban agriculture in the United States	11
Meeting dietary health objectives through farming: A feminist review of biofortification and potential for genome editing in sub-Saharan Africa	11
CH4 isotopic signatures of emissions from oil and gas extraction sites in Romania	11
Seasonality of zooplankton communities in the Hudson Bay system	11
Phenology metrics for ocean waters with application to future climate change in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean	11
How does digital financial inclusion affect green economic development? A perspective from regional competitions	10
Methane emission rate estimates of offshore oil platforms in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	10
Evaluation of simulations of near-surface variables using the regional climate model CCLM for the MOSAiC winter period	10
The phenology of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic does not trend with temperature	10
A cooperative model to lower cost and increase the efficiency of methane leak inspections at oil and gas sites	10
Land commoning in deagrarianized contexts: Potentials for agroecology?	10
Substantial microbial community shifts in response to an exceptional harmful algal bloom in coastal Southern California	10
Utilizing ecosystem services to support restorative marine economies	10
Relationships between summertime surface albedo and melt pond fraction in the central Arctic Ocean: The aggregate scale of albedo obtained on the MOSAiC floe	9
Discordant future climate-driven changes in winter PM2.5 pollution across India under a warming climate	9
Amphibian and reptile diversity in natural landscapes and human-modified habitats of the Sahara Desert of Algeria: A better understanding of biodiversity to improve conservation	9
An analysis of air-sea gas exchange for the entire MOSAiC Arctic drift	9
Assessing the bias and uncertainties in the aircraft mass balance technique for the determination of carbon dioxide emission rates	9
Structures of coexisting marine snow and zooplankton in coastal waters of Svalbard (European Arctic)	9
Anomalies of O3, CO, C2H2, H2CO, and C2H6 detected with multiple ground-based Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers and assessed with model simulation in 2020: COVID-19 lockdowns versus natural var	9
Snowmelt contribution to Arctic first-year ice ridge mass balance and rapid consolidation during summer melt	9
Insights on sources and formation mechanisms of liquid-bearing clouds over MOSAiC examined from a Lagrangian framework	9
Warm air intrusions reaching the MOSAiC expedition in April 2020—The YOPP targeted observing period (TOP)	8
Creative arts for sustainability transformations—Exploring children’s theater for the UN Sustainable Development Goals	8
Polar oceans and sea ice in a changing climate	8
Tomato dry farming as an agroecological model for California’s drought resilient future: Farmers’ perspectives and experiences	8
Global modeling of the socioeconomic, political, and environmental relations of farmer seed systems (FSS): Spatial analysis and insights for sustainable development	8

The inclusiveness of China’s development finance: China’s hybrid approach to aid and poverty reduction in Africa	8
Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice	8
Milpa ecologies: Transgenerational foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico	8
Different mechanisms of Arctic first-year sea-ice ridge consolidation observed during the MOSAiC expedition	8
The seascape of VOC production and cycling in a tropical coral reef	8
Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa	8
Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features	8
Advancing sustainable transitions: A spatial analysis of socio-environmental dynamics of landfills across the United States	8
Methane venting from uncontrolled production storage tanks at conventional oil wells—Temporal variability, root causes, and implications for measurement	7
High temporal resolution estimates of Arctic snowfall rates emphasizing gauge and radar-based retrievals from the MOSAiC expedition	7
Phytoplankton bloom distribution and succession driven by sea-ice melt in the Kong Håkon VII Hav	7
Low-cost fixed sensor deployments for leak detection in North American upstream oil and gas: Operational analysis and discussion of a prototypical program	7
Social entrepreneurship and sustainable development: The Yiwu case	7
Processes in the Kitikmeot Sea estuary constraining marine life	7
Single-blind determination of methane detection limits and quantification accuracy using aircraft-based LiDAR	7
Phytoplankton size-class contributions to new and regenerated production during the EXPORTS Northeast Pacific Ocean field deployment	7
Advances in understanding of air–sea exchange and cycling of greenhouse gases in the upper ocean	7
Bottom-up attempts at agroecological transitions in China: The comparative cases of Sanliwan and Sanggang villages	7
Between maintenance and transformation: Reading for difference in agricultural extension	7
Territorio-tierra: A community feminist perspective on land by Indigenous Xinka women from Guatemala	7
Climate and juvenile recruitment as drivers of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) dynamics in two Canadian Arctic seas	7
Arctic phytoplankton microdiversity across the marginal ice zone: Subspecies vulnerability to sea-ice loss	7