OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Bioscience is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021	155
Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science	124
Global Commitments to Conserving and Monitoring Genetic Diversity Are Now Necessary and Feasible	120
Navigating Ecological Transformation: Resist–Accept–Direct as a Path to a New Resource Management Paradigm	98
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022	92
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	92
The Biological Deserts Fallacy: Cities in Their Landscapes Contribute More than We Think to Regional Biodiversity	91
A Comprehensive Overview of Technologies for Species and Habitat Monitoring and Conservation	90
Indigenous Systems of Management for Culturally and Ecologically Resilient Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchusspp.) Fisheries	83
The Invasion Ecology of Sleeper Populations: Prevalence, Persistence, and Abrupt Shifts	81
Climate-Friendly Seafood: The Potential for Emissions Reduction and Carbon Capture in Marine Aquaculture	72
Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Research	71
A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis	70
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	70
Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge	69
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory	58
Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing	57
Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide	55
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	53
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	48
Expanding the Impact of Citizen Science	47
RAD Adaptive Management for Transforming Ecosystems	47
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	46
The Concept, Practice, Application, and Results of Locally Based Monitoring of the Environment	43
Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems	43

Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet	40
Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters	39
The Evolutionary Consequences of Dams and Other Barriers for Riverine Fishes	36
Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future	36
Management Foundations for Navigating Ecological Transformation by Resisting, Accepting, or Directing Social–Ecological Change	35
Soil Seed Banks, Alternative Stable State Theory, and Ecosystem Resilience	35
A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation	34
Trading Animal Lives: Ten Tricky Issues on the Road to Protecting Commodified Wild Animals	33
The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring	33
Management Policies for Invasive Alien Species: Addressing the Impacts Rather than the Species	33
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	33