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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	181
The Science of Peer Review: Grant Review Feedback	169
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	150
Science for the People, by the People	144
Calendar of meetings	139
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	133
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	130
Calendar of meetings	112
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	91
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	89
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	87
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	65
Does nature select to maximize power?	63
Calendar of meetings	58
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	57
Science and battlefields	57
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	54
Corrigendum: Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap	54
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	54
Crisis of Communication	53
A Life's Journey	52
Calendar of Meetings	52
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	51
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	44
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	40

Artificial light at night: A research field in action	39
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	39
Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	38
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	37
Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	37
In Their Own Words: Nalini Nadkarni	36
A Brief Biological History of Quarantine	35
Lessons from Pandemic Education	32
Calendar of Meetings	32
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	30
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	30
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	30
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	30
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	30
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	28
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	28
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	27
Calendar of Meetings	27
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	25
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	25
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	24
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	24
Heroines in HERpetology	24
A Minimally Nonanthropocentric Economics: What Is It, Is It Necessary, and Can It Avert the Biodiversity Crisis?	24
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	24
The omission of seed banks in demography as an example of bias in ecology	23
Wild harvests could aid food insecurity and reduce wildlife hyperabundance	23
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	23
True sustainability is sustanimalism	23
The Emergence of eDNA	22
Calendar of meetings	21
Connecting DNA and Development	21
Calendar of meetings	21
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	20
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	20
Rewilding the American West	20
Hurdles and opportunities in implementing marine biosecurity systems in data-poor regions	20
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021	20
Viewing Emerging Human Infectious Epidemics through the Lens of Invasion Biology	19
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	19
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	18
Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide	18
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	17
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	17
Learning Evolution by Collaboration	17
Prediction in ecology and evolution	17
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	17
What's the Rush?	17
Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	16
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	16

An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	16
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	16
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	15
Why Coordinated Distributed Experiments Should Go Global	15
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	14
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	14
Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna	14
Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems	14
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	14
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	14
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	13
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	13
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	13
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	13
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	13
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	13
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	13
A New Chapter for BioScience	12
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	12
A Hero for Our Time	12
Correction to: Predatory journals	12
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	12
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	11
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	11
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	11
Lingua franca or lingua cultura? Understanding the language of biodiversity	11
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project	11
The AIBS IDEA Conference	11
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Reversing the Lens on Public Engagement with Science: Positive Benefits for Participating Scientists	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats	10
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	10
Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	10
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	9
Calendar of Meetings	9
August	9
Amazon projects pose risks to Brazil and the World	9
Fires in the Petrocene	9
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	9
Calendar of meetings	9
River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits	8
The coming of age of evolvability	8
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	8
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	8
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	8
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	8
Response to Basile	8
Biological Field Stations Promote Science Literacy through Outreach	8
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	8
Origin of the Term Biodiversity	8
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	7
Calendar of meetings	7
Pandemic Policy in the Vaccine Era: The Long Haul Approach	7
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	7
Time to Move On	7
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	7
Exploring the Effects of Geopolitical Shifts on Global Wildlife Trade	7