OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioscience is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	199
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	171
Science for the People, by the People	160
Calendar of meetings	148
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	144
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	112
Calendar of meetings	109
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	105
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	100
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	72
Calendar of meetings	70
Science and battlefields	69
Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias	68
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	67
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	66
Does nature select to maximize power?	64
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	60
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	58
Calendar of Meetings	58
A Life's Journey	56
Summer issues are often lighter in content, but not this July issue!	55
Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	47
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	45
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	43
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	42

Artificial light at night: A research field in action	42
Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	41
In Their Own Words: Nalini Nadkarni	39
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	39
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	39
A Brief Biological History of Quarantine	38
Calendar of Meetings	35
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	33
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	33
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	33
Lessons from Pandemic Education	33
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	32
Heroines in HERpetology	31
Calendar of Meetings	31
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	31
Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment	30
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	30
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	29
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	29
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	28
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline	27
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	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	24
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	24
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	24
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
Calendar of meetings	22
Connecting DNA and Development	22
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	21
True sustainability is sustanimalism	21
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	20
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	20
Wild harvests could aid food insecurity and reduce wildlife hyperabundance	20
Rewilding the American West	19
The Emergence of eDNA	19
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	19
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	19
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	19
What's the Rush?	19
Learning Evolution by Collaboration	19
An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	18
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	18
Is my research worth paying for?	17
The evolutionary dilemma of broad-spectrum insecticides	17
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	17
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	17
Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	17

Advancing environmental research in the fight against data censorship	16
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	16
iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research	16
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	16
Prediction in ecology and evolution	16
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	16
Principles for Leading, Learning, and Synthesizing in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research	15
Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna	15
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	15
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	14
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	14
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	14
Legitimizing Gaia: can biosphere evolution fit the Darwinian framework?	13
A New Chapter for BioScience	13
The Geroscience Perspective on One Health	13
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	13
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	13
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	13
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	13
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	13
A Hero for Our Time	13
Correction to: Predatory journals	12
Government agencies in the United States are obstructing native species restoration, creating regulatory pits for wildlife	12
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project	12
The AIBS IDEA Conference	12
Ecosystems have no thermostat: regulation misleads in ecology education and outreach	12
Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats	11
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	11
Lingua franca or lingua cultura? Understanding the language of biodiversity	11
Reversing the Lens on Public Engagement with Science: Positive Benefits for Participating Scientists	11
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	11
Correction to: Leveraging collective impact to characterize and identify solutions to cultural challenges within scientific societies	11
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	11
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	11
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	11
Calendar of meetings	10
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	10
Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	9
The coming of age of evolvability	9
Calendar of meetings	9
August	9
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	9
Calendar of Meetings	9
Response to Basile	9
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	8
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	8
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	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
Toward a more effective funding model for conservation	8
Future of coral bleaching research	8
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	8
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	8
Fires in the Petrocene	8
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	8
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	7
Complex fish migrations call for Fukushima radioactivity monitoring beyond marine systems	7
Calendar of meetings	7
Time to Move On	7
Expanding Perspectives in BioScience	7
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	7
A conceptual classification scheme of invasion science	7
Déjà vu all over again (Yogi Berra)	7
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa	6
The Productivity Puzzle in Invasion Science: Declining but Persisting Gender Imbalances in Research Performance	6
Exploring the Effects of Geopolitical Shifts on Global Wildlife Trade	6
Calendar of meetings	6
Correction to: How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	6
Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network	6
The city nature challenge: A global citizen science phenomenon contributing to biodiversity knowledge and informing local government practices	6
Biocrusts: The secret world living at the surface of drylands	6
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment	6
In the process of transformation: wildlife conservation in China in the postepidemic era	6
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes	6