OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 55. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Advancing climate services: Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio	383
Warming-driven changes in Arctic fish communities must not leave local Indigenous communities out in the cold	285
A data-driven approach to water treatment in low-resource communities: Andrea Johnson	217
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	189
State of the world’s kelp forests	181
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	179
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	179
Pursuing a net-zero carbon future for all: Challenges for commercial real estate	160
New York’s carbon emissions	145
Variations on a theme	136
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	133
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	124
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	119
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	118
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	114
Reshaping the European agro-food system and closing its nitrogen cycle: The potential of combining dietary change, agroecology, and circularity	114
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	105
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	104
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	92
Habitat fragmentation amplifies threats from habitat loss to mammal diversity across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions	91
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	89
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	88
Biomass—Critical limits to a vital resource	86
Quality control	85
Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries	84

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	83
Transforming toward sustainability through financial markets: Four challenges and how to turn them into opportunities	83
Less plastic used longer	80
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	80
Life cycle assessment shows that retrofitting coal-fired power plants with fuel cells will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions	77
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	76
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	76
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	72
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	70
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	69
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	69
Pyrexia	68
Hot tropics	68
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	67
Research priorities for climate mobility	67
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	65
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	65
Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making	64
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	64
Ecosystem coupling: A unifying framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems	63
Building sustainability into battery value chains	60
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	60
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	60
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	59
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China	58
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet	57
Analysis of children’s questions on climate change reveals that they are most concerned about how to take action	56
The Great Ape House	56
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water	56
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	55
Ozone-related acute excess mortality projected to increase in the absence of climate and air quality controls consistent with the Paris Agreement	55