OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology	168
The misuse of ratios in ecological stoichiometry	106
Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment	97
EpiList 1.0: a global checklist of vascular epiphytes	83
Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of range expansion	78
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony	74
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time	63
Ecological traits and the spatial structure of competitive coexistence among carnivores	59
Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter	56
Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa	54
A framework and standardized terminology to facilitate the study of predation‐risk effects	53
Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversity	52
COMBINE: a coalesced mammal database of intrinsic and extrinsic traits	50
Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants	47
Response diversity in corals: hidden differences in bleaching mortality among cryptic Pocillopora species	46
Ectomycorrhizal fungi drive positive phylogenetic plant–soil feedbacks in a regionally dominant tropical plant family	44
Lignin lags, leads, or limits the decomposition of litter and soil organic carbon	44
Year effects: Interannual variation as a driver of community assembly dynamics	44
Assessment of the impacts of an unprecedented heatwave on intertidal shellfish of the Salish Sea	38
How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability	38
Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships across space and over time	37
Abiotic factors and plant biomass, not plant diversity, strongly shape grassland arthropods under drought conditions	37
The dynamics and stoichiometry of dissolved organic carbon release by kelp	37
Remote sensing: generation of long‐term kelp bed data sets for evaluation of impacts of climatic variation	37
Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs	37

The indirect paths to cascading effects of extinctions in mutualistic networks	36
Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C₃ grasslands	35
Nitrogen enrichment buffers phosphorus limitation by mobilizing mineral‐bound soil phosphorus in grasslands	35
Toward quantitative metabarcoding	35
Soil nutrients and precipitation are major drivers of global patterns of grass leaf silicification	35
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality	35
SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States	34
Do plant–microbe interactions support the Stress Gradient Hypothesis?	34
Greater root phosphatase activity of tropical trees at low phosphorus despite strong variation among species	34
Co‐occurrence history increases ecosystem stability and resilience in experimental plant communities	34