OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Local partners and social engagement strategies: Explaining public responses to Chinese investment in Myanmar	173
Nansen and Amundsen basins: Gradients of physico-chemical properties and biota composition with implications for future resource management of the central Arctic Ocean	131
Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa	79
Impacts of sea ice melting procedures on measurements of microbial community structure	39
Does the government procurement market favor corporate social responsibility in a weak institution? Evidence from China	39
Spatiotemporal changes in Iranian rivers’ discharge	36
Net heterotrophy in High Arctic first-year and multi-year spring sea ice	32
Plume dispersion from the Nelson and Hayes rivers into Hudson Bay using satellite remote sensing of CDOM and suspended sediment	27
Content in fatty acids and carotenoids in phytoplankton blooms during the seasonal sea ice retreat in Hudson Bay complex, Canada	25
Methane and ethane emission quantifications from onshore oil and gas sites in Romania, using a tracer gas dispersion method	22
Polar oceans and sea ice in a changing climate	22
Warm air intrusions reaching the MOSAiC expedition in April 2020—The YOPP targeted observing period (TOP)	21
Milpa ecologies: Transgenerational foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico	19
Social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for sustainability transitions: The China case	18
Smallholder participation in zero-deforestation supply chain initiatives in the Indonesian palm oil sector: Challenges, opportunities, and limitations	17
Agroforestry in temperate-climate commercial agriculture: Feedback from agroforestry practitioners in the Mid-Atlantic United States	17
High chemodiversity in the structural and enantiomeric composition of volatiles emitted by Kermes oak populations in Southern France	17
Creative arts for sustainability transformations—Exploring children’s theater for the UN Sustainable Development Goals	17
Advancing sustainable transitions: A spatial analysis of socio-environmental dynamics of landfills across the United States	17
Biogeochemical effects of a forest understory plant invasion depend more on dissimilar nutrient economies than invader biomass	16
Tethered balloon-borne profile measurements of atmospheric properties in the cloudy atmospheric boundary layer over the Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC: Overview and first results	16
Evaluation of the Coupled Arctic Forecast System’s representation of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer vertical structure during MOSAiC	14
The inclusiveness of China’s development finance: China’s hybrid approach to aid and poverty reduction in Africa	14
Influence of altered freshwater discharge on the seasonality of nutrient distributions near La Grande River, northeastern James Bay, Québec	14
The case for a Framework for UnderStanding Ice-Ocean iNteractions (FUSION) in the Antarctic-Southern Ocean system	13

Warmer, earlier, faster: Cumulative effects of Gulf of Alaska heatwaves on the early life history of Pacific cod	13
Yessotoxin production and aerosolization during the unprecedented red tide of 2020 in southern California	13
Dismantling agroecology: The coming of the genetically modified cotton-agrochemical complex in an Indian highland frontier	13
Can coastal and marine carbon dioxide removal help to close the emissions gap? Scientific, legal, economic, and governance considerations	13
Changing the culture of ecology from the ground up	11
Exploring controls on the timing of the phytoplankton bloom in western Baffin Bay, Canadian Arctic	11
Unpacking sustainability	11
CO2 fluxes of vegetation in the Greenbelt of Ontario and increased net ecosystem emissions associated with its removal	11
Distribution and spatial-temporal variation of organic matter along the Yangtze River-ocean continuum	11
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making	11
Enzyme-treated microalgal co-product diets for rainbow trout aquaculture: Supporting fish growth, phosphorus digestibility, and reducing phosphorus waste emission	11
Response to Bennett et al. Comment	11
Grounding a global tool—Principles and practice for agroecological assessments inspired by TAPE	10
For graduate students to become leaders in sustainability, we must transcend disciplinary boundaries	10
Observed versus simulated OH reactivity during KORUS-AQ campaign: Implications for emission inventory and chemical environment in East Asia	10
Satellite observations of NO2 indicate legacy impacts of redlining in U.S. Midwestern cities	9
Lipid transfers within the lower food web of western Arctic seas	9
A proposed seasonal cycle of dissolved iron-binding ligands in Antarctic sea ice	9
Quantifying false bottoms and under-ice meltwater layers beneath Arctic summer sea ice with fine-scale observations	9
Methane and volatile organic compounds and their influence on air quality in Boulder, Colorado	9
Trends in agroforestry research over 4 decades	9
The Eurasian Arctic Ocean along the MOSAiC drift in 2019–2020: An interdisciplinary perspective on physical properties and processes	9
Resource partitioning may limit interspecific competition among Arctic fish species during early life	8
Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice	8
Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features	8
Implementation of marine CO2 removal for climate mitigation: The challenges of additionality, predictability, and governability	8
Land sovereignty in depressed and contested agro-territories: The cases of Portugal and Brazil	8
Marine aerosol generation experiments in the High Arctic during summertime	8
Effects of early life history traits and warming on Arctic cod prewinter length and recruitment	7
On the phenology and seeding potential of sea-ice microalgal species	7
Seasonality of phytoplankton growth limitation by iron and manganese in subantarctic waters	7
Realizing common prosperity: The action logic of social entrepreneurship community mobilization in rural tourism	7
Elements of agroecological pest and disease management	7
Perspectives on shipping emissions and their impacts on the surface ocean and lower atmosphere: An environmental-social-economic dimension	7
Building sustainability research competencies through scaffolded pathways for undergraduate research experience	7
Different mechanisms of Arctic first-year sea-ice ridge consolidation observed during the MOSAiC expedition	7
Corrigendum: Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice: MOSAiC observations and model results	7
Strong correlations of sea ice cover with macroalgal cover along the Antarctic Peninsula: Ramifications for present and future benthic communities	7
Social entrepreneurship and sustainable development: The Yiwu case	7
Melt pond CO2 dynamics and fluxes with the atmosphere in the central Arctic Ocean during the summer-to-autumn transition	7
Pelagic ecosystem dynamics between late autumn and the post spring bloom in a sub-Arctic fjord	7
Impacts of ocean biogeochemistry on atmospheric chemistry	6
HELiPOD—Revolution and evolution of a helicopter-borne measurement system for multidisciplinary research in demanding environments	6
Multiple human activities in coastal benthic ecosystems: Introducing a metric of cumulative exposure	6
Anthropocene disorder and the transcultural search for common-ness	6
Snow redistribution onto young sea ice: Observations and implications for climate models	6
Mesquite-associated soil and phyllosphere microbial communities differ across land-use types in drylands	6
Characteristics and sources of fluorescent aerosols in the central Arctic Ocean	6
Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada	6
Sea ice mass balance during the MOSAiC drift experiment: Results from manual ice and snow thickness gauges	6

Regional characteristics of fine aerosol mass increase elucidated from long-term observations and KORUS-AQ campaign at a Northeast Asian background site	6
Soil surface flux measurements are a reliable means for assessing fugitive gas migration across soils and seasons	6
Low NOXand high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines	6
Tomato dry farming as an agroecological model for California’s drought resilient future: Farmers’ perspectives and experiences	6
From scientific authority to the court jester: Shedding light on epistemic pluralism within transdisciplinary research projects	6
Modelling the coupled mercury-halogen-ozone cycle in the central Arctic during spring	6