OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioscience is 7. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	177
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	171
Science for the People, by the People	152
Calendar of meetings	151
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	125
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	116
Calendar of meetings	114
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	104
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	74
Does nature select to maximize power?	73
Science and battlefields	71
Calendar of meetings	71
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	68
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	68
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	66
Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias	65
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	62
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	62
Calendar of Meetings	59
A Life's Journey	55
Summer issues are often lighter in content, but not this July issue!	47
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	45
Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	45
Artificial light at night: A research field in action	43
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	42

Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	42
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	41
The national ecological observatory network: past, present, and future	40
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	39
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	35
Calendar of Meetings	35
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	35
Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment	33
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	33
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	33
Calendar of Meetings	33
Evolvability: progress and key questions	33
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	33
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	32
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	32
Heroines in HERpetology	29
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	29
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline	28
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	27
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	25
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	25
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	25
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	25
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	24
Connecting DNA and Development	23
Calendar of meetings	23
The omission of seed banks in demography as an example of bias in ecology	23
Hurdles and opportunities in implementing marine biosecurity systems in data-poor regions	22
True sustainability is sustanimalism	22
Calendar of meetings	22
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	21
Rewilding the American West	21
Wild harvests could aid food insecurity and reduce wildlife hyperabundance	21
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	20
The Emergence of eDNA	20
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	20
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	19
The evolutionary dilemma of broad-spectrum insecticides	19
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	19
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	19
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	19
What's the Rush?	19
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	19
An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	19
Is my research worth paying for?	18
Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	18
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	18
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	18
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	18
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	18

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research	17
Restoring the indus river basin and its biodiversity	17
Advancing environmental research in the fight against data censorship	17
Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna	17
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	16
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	16
Prediction in ecology and evolution	16
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	15
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	15
The Geroscience Perspective on One Health	14
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	14
Legitimizing Gaia: can biosphere evolution fit the Darwinian framework?	14
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	14
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	14
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	14
A Hero for Our Time	13
The AIBS IDEA Conference	13
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	13
Dependencies, archivals, and package development in the R ecosystem	13
A New Chapter for BioScience	13
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	13
Correction to: Predatory journals	13
Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats	12
Ecosystems have no thermostat: regulation misleads in ecology education and outreach	12
Reversing the Lens on Public Engagement with Science: Positive Benefits for Participating Scientists	12
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	12
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	12
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project	12
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	12
Lingua franca or lingua cultura? Understanding the language of biodiversity	12
Government agencies in the United States are obstructing native species restoration, creating regulatory pits for wildlife	11
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	11
Correction to: Leveraging collective impact to characterize and identify solutions to cultural challenges within scientific societies	11
Calendar of meetings	11
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	11
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	11
Calendar of meetings	10
Calendar of meetings	10
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Calendar of Meetings	10
August	10
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	10
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	9
Fires in the Petrocene	9
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	9
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	9
The coming of age of evolvability	9
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	9
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	9
Response to Basile	9
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	8
Time to Move On	8
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	8
Future of coral bleaching research	8
River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits	8
Amazon projects pose risks to Brazil and the World	8
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	8
Toward a more effective funding model for conservation	8
Complex fish migrations call for Fukushima radioactivity monitoring beyond marine systems	8
Biocrusts: The secret world living at the surface of drylands	7
In the process of transformation: wildlife conservation in China in the postepidemic era	7
Calendar of meetings	7
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment	7
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes	7
Expanding Perspectives in BioScience	7
Correction to: How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	7
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa	7
The Productivity Puzzle in Invasion Science: Declining but Persisting Gender Imbalances in Research Performance	7
Déjà vu all over again (Yogi Berra)	7