OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Conservation is 46. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved	307
COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation	177
The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country	173
Genetic rescue: A critique of the evidence supports maximizing genetic diversity rather than minimizing the introduction of putatively harmful genetic variation	137
Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance	135
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network	134
A global parasite conservation plan	119
The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil	117
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment	101
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival	90
Connectivity metrics for conservation planning and monitoring	86
Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life	86
A global assessment of amphibian and reptile responses to land-use changes	78
Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19	75
Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency	74
Sewage pollution, declining ecosystem health, and cross-sector collaboration	73
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots	72
Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient	70
Emerging diseases, livestock expansion and biodiversity loss are positively related at global scale	69
Cryobiotechnologies: Tools for expanding long-term ex situ conservation to all plant species	67
Power of the people: A review of citizen science programs for conservation	66
Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation	64
Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review	59
Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey	58
How does the beach ecosystem change without tourists during COVID-19 lockdown?	58

COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks	58
Conservation implications of COVID19: Effects via tourism and extractive industries	57
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees	57
Global trends in urban wildlife ecology and conservation	56
Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	55
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	54
No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks	54
Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea	54
Wildlife-vehicle collisions - Influencing factors, data collection and research methods	54
Navigating coasts of concrete: Pervasive use of artificial habitats by shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific	53
The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics	51
People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon	50
A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity	49
Mapping biodiversity conservation priorities for protected areas: A case study in Xishuangbanna Tropical Area, China	49
COVID-19 lockdown reveals tourists as seabird guardians	48
Capitalizing on opportunistic citizen science data to monitor urban biodiversity: A multi-taxa framework	48
Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats	47
A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome	47
Status and priority conservation actions for Australian frog species	47
iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers	47
Overprediction of species distribution models in conservation planning: A still neglected issue with strong effects	46
The scale of biodiversity impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia	46