OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment is 62. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	2180
Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition	227
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	202
Sustainably intensified fresh-market vegetable production with compact bed plasticulture	196
High-resolution soybean tracing for deforestation-free supply chains	191
Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China	187
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	154
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	147
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	140
Greening urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can reduce premature mortality	131
Short-term recovery of inland and marine environments after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna flood	131
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	128
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	128
Bedrock-soil geochemistry dominates free-living nitrogen fixation in soils but not in litter via interspecific microbial associations	115
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	115
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	114
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	106
Author Correction: Subsurface structure and impact process of Yilan Crater, northeastern China	106
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	106
Author Correction: Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation	105
Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	101
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	98
Author Correction: Field in the frame: flying over the Ocean	98
Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes	96
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	95

Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	95
Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	94
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	94
Stress variations and non-shear earthquakes before the 2021 Iceland eruption trace magmatic fluid flow	94
Biochar-based catalytic upgrading of plastic waste into liquid fuels towards sustainability	89
An indicator framework for post-2030 international development goals	88
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	87
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	85
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	85
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	84
Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation	83
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	83
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	79
Alternative rainfall storylines for the Western European July 2021 floods from ensemble boosting	79
Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence	79
Andean volcanism, ocean fertilization, marine ecosystem turnover, and global cooling in the Late Miocene	78
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	76
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	76
Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture	75
Defining national net zero goals is critical for food and land use policy	75
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	75
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	75
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	75
Two distinct types of turbidity currents observed in the Manila Trench, South China Sea	73
Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage	72
Global patterns and drivers of coupling between anammox and denitrification processes across inland aquatic ecosystems	71
Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland	70
Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production	69
A composite index framework for compound flood risk assessment	69
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	68
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	67
Controls of root-system overlap on hillslope stability	66
Vertical transitions of marine heatwaves influenced by seasonally varying atmospheric forcing and coastal upwelling system	63
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	63
Thermodynamic insights into the reliability of mineral-based thermobarometers	63
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	62
Field in the frame: fossilised Ediacaran faunal diversity	62
Intensified annual cycle of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature regulates Pacific cooling	62
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	62
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	62
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	62
Distinct glacial-interglacial amplitudes of Asian monsoon water isotopes during the last deglaciation	62