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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Calendar of meetings	212
The world is flat, Professor Gangster	194
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats)	176
Calendar of meetings	165
Born to Roam: Tracking the Drama of Earth's Ungulate Migrations	131
Science for the People, by the People	124
Does nature select to maximize power?	117
Calendar of meetings	85
Calendar of meetings	80
The AIBS IDEA Conference 2.0	77
Community Action: Planning for Specimen Management in Funding Proposals	74
The Pocosin's Lesson: Translating respect for Indigenous knowledge systems in environmental research	73
Aquatic invasive species prevention in the live baitfish trade: the role of regulations, education, and inspections	71
Science and battlefields	66
Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias	65
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	61
Integrating Metaecosystem Framework with Ecosystem Service Dynamics in Sociohydrosystems	52
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	52
More than a Bit of Fun: The Multiple Outcomes of a Bioblitz	49
A Life's Journey	48
Calendar of Meetings	46
Artificial light at night: A research field in action	44
Summer issues are often lighter in content, but not this July issue!	42
Age-based scoring as a complementary approach to sustainable trophy hunting	39
To See Nature: A Window of Opportunity to Decrease the Risk of Depression and Anxiety	38

The national ecological observatory network: past, present, and future	38
Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs	36
Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection	35
Technological innovations enhance invasive species management in the anthropocene	34
Farming for solutions: Perennial plants and native prairie show promise for sustainability, climate goals	34
All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems	33
Using Stones for Bridges, Not Barriers: How Effective Dialogue Can Restore Harmony between Religion and Evolution	32
The panzootic potential of SARS-CoV-2	30
Trends in topics, use, and development procedures of biology concept inventories	28
Corrigendum: Synthetic Biology and Endangered Species: Should Scientists Genetically Rewire Nature to Save Species and Habitats?	28
Calendar of Meetings	28
Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment	28
Calendar of Meetings	28
Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution	27
Tragedy of the Commons: How Subtle, “Legal” Decisions Are Threatening One of the Largest Wetlands in the World	27
Heroines in HERpetology	27
Evolvability: progress and key questions	26
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	26
Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges	24
From the dining room table to the Galapagos	24
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	23
After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction	23
Where is the elusive primary ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find It?	23
Ecosystem services from wildlife harvests	23
Connecting DNA and Development	23
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	23
Calendar of meetings	23
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline	23
True sustainability is sustanimalism	22
Calendar of meetings	22
The omission of seed banks in demography as an example of bias in ecology	21
The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered	21
A Clear-Sighted Focus On Climate- Friendly Operations Will Enhance Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Approaches	21
Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	20
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	20
Rewilding the American West	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	19
What's the Rush?	19
Hurdles and opportunities in implementing marine biosecurity systems in data-poor regions	19
An Innu poem as a reflection on innovation within One Health initiative at the Université de Montréal	18
Restoring the indus river basin and its biodiversity	18
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable wildlife population recovery	18
The evolutionary dilemma of broad-spectrum insecticides	18
Advancing environmental research in the fight against data censorship	18
Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade	18
Is my research worth paying for?	17
Speciation by hybridization: the mind-boggling nature, educational, and research value of the largest group of unisexual vertebrates	16
City Nature Challenged: Reflections on the Experience of UK City Nature Challenge Organizers	16
Prediction in ecology and evolution	16

Inclusive language in biological sciences: A work in progress	16
Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration	16
Improving wild animal welfare through contraception	16
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	16
A vision of human–AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research	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
Scientists from Minority-Serving Institutions and Their Participation in Grant Peer Review	14
Beyond crisis and grief: Rethinking conservation narratives	14
iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research	14
Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life	14
AIBS Photo Contest: Capturing a moment in science	14
Cooling down the climate discourse: communicating about collapse	14
Expanding the historical baseline: using pre-modern archives to inform conservation from ecological and human perspectives	13
The relationship between genetic diversity, function, and stability in marine foundation species	13
Rethinking nomenclatural acts: Questions in taxonomy by the dedications to mythology and fictional monsters	13
The Geroscience Perspective on One Health	13
The AIBS IDEA Conference	12
A New Chapter for BioScience	12
Legitimizing Gaia: can biosphere evolution fit the Darwinian framework?	12
A Hero for Our Time	12
Global Climate Change and the Hidden Fate of African Grasslands	12
Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis	12
Correction to: Predatory journals	12
Dependencies, archivals, and package development in the R ecosystem	12
Bee pollination and bee decline: A study about university students’ Knowledge and its educational implication	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
Ecosystems have no thermostat: regulation misleads in ecology education and outreach	11
Correction to: Leveraging collective impact to characterize and identify solutions to cultural challenges within scientific societies	11
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project	10
Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats	10
Correction to: Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh	10
Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal	10
A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change	10
Calendar of meetings	10
Government agencies in the United States are obstructing native species restoration, creating regulatory pits for wildlife	10
Ecological risk assessment when species-specific data are scarce: how trait-based approaches and modeling can help	10
Calendar of meetings	10
August	9
Response to Basile	9
Amazon projects pose risks to Brazil and the World	9
Toward a more effective funding model for conservation	9
Calendar of Meetings	9
Future of coral bleaching research	9
Sentinels of biodiversity: In cemeteries around the world, the dead protect the living	9
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	9
The coming of age of evolvability	9
Searching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	9
What sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, and inclusive biology	9
Fires in the Petrocene	9
In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface	8
Calendar of meetings	8
As water levels recede, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate to protect Lake Titicaca and its high-altitude endemic species	8
An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive	8
Complex fish migrations call for Fukushima radioactivity monitoring beyond marine systems	8
Time to Move On	8
BioScience, a Global Biodiversity Journal, Seeks a Globally Diverse Editorial Board	8
River restoration can increase carbon storage but is not yet a suitable basis for carbon credits	8
Expanding Perspectives in BioScience	8
Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort	8
Déjà vu all over again (Yogi Berra)	7
A conceptual classification scheme of invasion science	7
Biocrusts: The secret world living at the surface of drylands	7
Exploring the Effects of Geopolitical Shifts on Global Wildlife Trade	7
Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network	6
The Productivity Puzzle in Invasion Science: Declining but Persisting Gender Imbalances in Research Performance	6
Water Indeed Has Many Values, but Context and Scale Are Key	6
The city nature challenge: A global citizen science phenomenon contributing to biodiversity knowledge and informing local government practices	6
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment	6
Correction to: How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	6
In the process of transformation: wildlife conservation in China in the postepidemic era	6
Considerations for developing and implementing a safe list for alien taxa	6
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes	6
A Blueprint and Vision for Aquatic Ecosystem Research at the US EPA Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure	6