OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 57. 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
Variations on a theme	327
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions	249
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets	177
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	143
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?	134
Interrupting the cascade	125
New York’s carbon emissions	122
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	119
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	114
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	114
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	112
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	111
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	109
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	108
Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios	106
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	102
State of the world’s kelp forests	99
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	99
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	98
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	96
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	95
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	95
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	94
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity	92
The ammonia moment	92

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	91
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	89
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	89
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	86
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	84
Hot tropics	83
Less plastic used longer	83
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	81
Stewardship under shifting drought baselines	78
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	75
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	74
Gambling with offsets	74
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	74
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	73
Research priorities for climate mobility	73
Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change	71
Decreasing efficiency and slowdown of the increase in terrestrial carbon-sink activity	70
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	69
The Great Ape House	69
Global ecosystem accounting standard: A solution to monitor, mitigate, and transparently report global mining impacts in support of biodiversity goals	67
Rising to the challenge: Producing and sustaining a nutrient-dense and climate-resilient food basket for all	67
Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C	67
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	67
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations	64
Earth Poetica	62
The Hive II	62
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	61
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	60
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	60
Moving on	59
Novel contaminants, novel solutions	59
A tide of change: What we can learn from stories of marine conservation success	58
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China	57
Contrasting consequences of the Great Green Wall: Easing aridity while increasing heat extremes	57