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 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
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	70
A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis	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
Soil Seed Banks, Alternative Stable State Theory, and Ecosystem Resilience	35
Management Foundations for Navigating Ecological Transformation by Resisting, Accepting, or Directing Social–Ecological Change	35
A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation	34
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
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
Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks	30
Coding for Life: Designing a Platform for Projecting and Protecting Global Biodiversity	30
Long-Term Ecological Research on Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change	30
Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions	30
The Promise and Pitfalls of Environmental DNA and RNA Approaches for the Monitoring of Human and Animal Pathogens from Aquatic Sources	29
Climate-Mediated Changes to Linked Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Margin	28
Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data	28
Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests	27
Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction: Convergent or Divergent?	27
Viewing Emerging Human Infectious Epidemics through the Lens of Invasion Biology	27
The International Vertebrate Pet Trade Network and Insights from US Imports of Exotic Pets	27
Reciprocal Contributions between People and Nature: A Conceptual Intervention	27
Advancing Landscape and Seascape Ecology from a 2D to a 3D Science	26
The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	26
Responding to Ecological Transformation: Mental Models, External Constraints, and Manager Decision-Making	26
Not All Nitrogen Is Created Equal: Differential Effects of Nitrate and Ammonium Enrichment in Coastal Wetlands	26
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	26
Population Viability of Sea Turtles in the Context of Global Warming	26
Sea Change: Using Citizen Science to Inform Fisheries Management	26
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	24
Attracting Diverse Students to Field Experiences Requires Adequate Pay, Flexibility, and Inclusion	24
Eutrophication on Coral Reefs: What Is the Evidence for Phase Shifts, Nutrient Limitation and Coral Bleaching	24
The Open-Specimen Movement	23
Understanding Local Adaptation to Prepare Populations for Climate Change	23
Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change: Insights from Long-Term Ecological Research	22
Using the Past to Understand the Present: Coping with Natural and Anthropogenic Noise	22
A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and Ecosystem Service Models	22
A Framework for the Eltonian Niche of Humans	22
Great Expectations: Deconstructing the Process Pathways Underlying Beaver-Related Restoration	21
Convergence of Social Strategies in Carrion Breeding Insects	21
Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2	21
Sustaining Transmission in Different Host Species: The Emblematic Case ofSarcoptes scabiei	20
Reported Individual Costs and Benefits of Sharing Open Data among Canadian Academic Faculty in Ecology and Evolution	19
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	19
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	18
Data Proliferation, Reconciliation, and Synthesis in Viral Ecology	18
Data Sovereignty in Community-Based Environmental Monitoring: Toward Equitable Environmental Data Governance	17
Rewilding the Sea with Domesticated Seagrass	17
The Hierarchy-of-Hypotheses Approach: A Synthesis Method for Enhancing Theory Development in Ecology and Evolution	17

Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	17
Decline of Amateur Lepidoptera Collectors Threatens the Future of Specimen-Based Research	16
The Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making	16
Why Coordinated Distributed Experiments Should Go Global	16
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	16
The Drought Response of Eastern US Oaks in the Context of Their Declining Abundance	15
The Forest of Unintended Consequences: Anthropogenic Actions Trigger the Rise and Fall of Black Cherry	15
A Tool for Designing and Studying Student-Centered Undergraduate Field Experiences: The UFERN Model	15
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	14
Landsat 9 Satellite Continues Half-Century of Earth Observations	14
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	14
Mapping and Monitoring Zero-Deforestation Commitments	14
Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites	14
Six Principles for Embracing Gender and Sexual Diversity in Postsecondary Biology Classrooms	14
Look Who's Talking: Teaching and Discourse Practices across Discipline, Position, Experience, and Class Size in STEM College Classrooms	14
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	14
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	13
Provoking a Cultural Shift in Data Quality	13
Five Steps to Inject Transformative Change into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	13
Extinction Targets Are Not SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious, Realistic, and Time Bound)	13
Citizen Science in Postsecondary Education: Current Practices and Knowledge Gaps	13
Behavioral Causes, Ecological Consequences, and Management Challenges Associated with Wildlife Foraging in Human-Modified Landscapes	13
The Importance of Eco-evolutionary Potential in the Anthropocene	13
Advancing Equity in Faculty Hiring with Diversity Statements	13
Place-Based Bias in Environmental Scholarship Derived from Social–Ecological Landscapes of Fear	13
Impact Indicators for Biodiversity Conservation Research: Measuring Influence within and beyond Academia	12
Stoichiometric Ecotoxicology for a Multisubstance World	12
On the Challenges of Identifying Benthic Dominance on Anthropocene Coral Reefs	12
Greater Consideration of Animals Will Enhance Coastal Restoration Outcomes	12
Is Active Learning Enough? The Contributions of Misconception-Focused Instruction and Active-Learning Dosage on Student Learning of Evolution	11
Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network	11
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	11
Reconstructing Hominin Diets with Stable Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids: New Perspectives and Future Directions	11
The Impact of Field Courses on Undergraduate Knowledge, Affect, Behavior, and Skills: A Scoping Review	11
Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Biology	11
Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes	11
Context Matters: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Can Reduce Inequities in STEM	11
Culture and Quality Matter in Building Effective Mentorship Relationships with Native STEM Scholars	11
Online News Media Coverage of Sea Turtles and Their Conservation	10
Rewilding the American West	10
Endemic Population Response to Increasingly Severe Fire: A Cascade of Endangerment for the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel	10
Bridging the Research Gap between Live Collections in Zoos and Preserved Collections in Natural History Museums	9
From Cave Dragons to Genomics: Advancements in the Study of Subterranean Tetrapods	9
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment	9
Anthropogenic changes to the nighttime environment	9
Science and Management Advancements Made Possible by the USA National Phenology Network's Nature's Notebook Platform	9
Biotic Indicators for Ecological State Change in Amazonian Floodplains	9
Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network	9
Experimental evidence that behavioral nudges in citizen science projects can improve biodiversity data	9
Breaking the cycle: Reforming pesticide regulation to protect pollinators	9
The Future of Invasion Science Needs Physiology	9
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	9
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	9
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	8
Origin of the Term Biodiversity	8
Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values	8
Incorporating Biogeochemistry into Dryland Restoration	8
Exploring the Effects of Geopolitical Shifts on Global Wildlife Trade	8
Food security in high mountains of Central Asia: A broader perspective	7
On the Dynamic Nature of Omnivory in a Changing World	7
Evolutionary History Drives Biogeographic Patterns of Coral Reef Resilience	7
When You Put It that Way: Framing Gender Equality Initiatives to Improve Engagement among STEM Academics	7
A New Approach to Evaluate and Reduce Uncertainty of Model-Based Biodiversity Projections for Conservation Policy Formulation	7
Preparing Aquatic Research for an Extreme Future: Call for Improved Definitions and Responsive, Multidisciplinary Approaches	7
Open Data Practices among Users of Primary Biodiversity Data	7
Inclusive Sustainability Approaches in Common-Pool Resources from the Perspective of Blackologists	7
So overt it's covert: Wildlife coloration in the city	7
The Emergence of eDNA	7
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	7