OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of One Earth is 58. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Variations on a theme	337
Is the emerging systemic reliance on brownfield expansion a mining “bubble”?	281
Interrupting the cascade	191
Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond	159
A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery	141
Dispossession, displacement, and disease: The global land squeeze and infectious disease emergence	135
A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions	125
A software package for assessing terrestrial planetary boundaries	125
Wetlands at the interface of ambition and action	123
Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities	122
State of the world’s kelp forests	119
Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia	114
Responsibility for emissions and mitigation capability should guide use of carbon removal offsets	113
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains	112
Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts	108
ARMS-to-Arks: Trophic rewiring of viral, microbial, and functional networks through reef ecosystem seeding	105
Atmospheric aerosol spatial variability: Impacts on air quality and climate change	104
Flood exposure contributes to under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries	104
Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios	104
Toward a fundamental understanding of ecosystem metabolism responses to global warming	102
Robust strategies to end global poverty and reduce environmental pressures	101
Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play	100
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options	96
The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems	93
The ammonia moment	92

Benchmarking for soil health improvement	91
Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence	91
Hot tropics	90
Stewardship under shifting drought baselines	86
Less plastic used longer	86
Gambling with offsets	84
China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems	83
Improving the US municipal waste system: Toward a circular future	83
Beyond inundation: A water-table-driven framework is needed to quantify tropical wetland methane emissions	80
Climate-smart wetlands can mitigate the wetland-methane feedback loop	79
Research priorities for climate mobility	77
Possible but rare: Safe and just satisfaction of national human needs in terms of ecosystem services	76
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment	75
Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming	74
Vegetation dynamics offset nearly 30% of precipitation’s impact on runoff and are amplified by aridity	74
Weighing consequences of action and inaction in invasive insect management	74
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
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change	70
An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration	70
Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots	66
Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems	65
Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future	65
The Great Ape House	65
Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet	64
Multiphase particle formation in industrial plumes corrects missing sulfate in the urban atmosphere	62
A governance framework to manage the food-environment-livelihood trilemma of alternative proteins	62
Distributed desalination using renewable energy: A paradigm shift toward affordable and sustainable clean water	61
Socio-demographic factors shape mortality risk linked to compound drought-heatwave events under climate change in China	61
Earth Poetica	60
Turning the tide on high-seas plastic pollution	59
The Hive II	58
Q&A with Nancy Vandycke: Toward sustainable mobility	58
Moving on	58
Tipping points: Both problem and solution	58