OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Communications Earth & Environment is 50. 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
Vegetation optimal temperature modulates global vegetation season onset shifts in response to warming climate	1321
Radiation damage allows identification of truly inherited zircon	305
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change	161
Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity	161
Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy	160
Publisher Correction: Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i	156
Improved estimates of net ecosystem exchanges in mega-countries using GOSAT and OCO-2 observations	145
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern Italy	116
The qualified prevalence of natural and planted tropical reforestation	112
Past rapid warmings as a constraint on greenhouse-gas climate feedbacks	105
Millennial-timescale quantitative estimates of climate dynamics in central Europe from earthworm calcite granules in loess deposits	97
Author Correction: Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality	95
Sulfur fertiliser use in the Midwestern US increases as atmospheric sulfur deposition declines with improved air quality	90
Untangling the environmental drivers of gross primary productivity in African rangelands	89
Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’	85
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis	85
A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning	85
Extreme drought and rainfall had a large impact on potato production in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2020	81
Spatially varying effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback on spring streamflow under future warming in China	80
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years	79
Author Correction: Weak influence of the secondary surface processes on the regolith of Chang’E-5 landing site	75
Realistic tropical cyclone wind and pressure fields can be reconstructed from sparse data using deep learning	75
Decadal increase in groundwater inorganic carbon concentrations across Sweden	70
Contribution of surface and cloud radiative feedbacks to Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production during 2002–2023	70
Substantial spatial variation in glacial erosion rates in the Dronning Maud Land Mountains, East Antarctica	69

Proximity to active volcanoes enhances glacier velocity	69
A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current	68
Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future	68
Thermochemical oxidation of methane by manganese oxides in hydrothermal sediments	66
Transient wave activity in snow avalanches is controlled by entrainment and topography	64
Careful selection of forest types in afforestation can increase carbon sequestration by 25% without compromising sustainability	63
Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines	62
Gravitational stability of iron-rich peridotite melt at Mars’ core-mantle boundary	61
Satellites reveal different stories of marine heatwaves in the sea-ice-covered pan-Arctic	60
Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation	60
Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China	59
Seismic visibility of carbonated subducted oceanic crust in the lower mantle	59
Strengthening atmospheric circulation and trade winds slowed tropical Pacific surface warming	58
Mangroves and their services are at risk from tropical cyclones and sea level rise under climate change	58
Oxygen isotope shifts reveal fluid-fluxed melting in continental anatexis	57
Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States	57
Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered mountain building	56
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles	55
Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments	54
Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins	53
Optimal Channel Networks accurately model ecologically-relevant geomorphological features of branching river networks	52
The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019	51
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability	51
Arctic deep-water anoxia and its potential role for ocean carbon sink during glacial periods	50
Tectonic control on great earthquake periodicity in south-central Chile	50
Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific	50
Constructing soils for climate-smart mining	50