OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Applied Ecology is 35. 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
Long‐term heavy grazing increases community‐level foliar fungal diseases by shifting plant composition	126
Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration	79
Barriers to restoration: Pollution alters nurse effects for an ecosystem engineer	67
Soil fertility as a mediator of interactions between an introduced specialist beetle and a native generalist nematode on an exotic invasive plant and its native congener	66
Multifunctional soil recovery during the restoration of Brazil's Atlantic Forest after bauxite mining	65
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines	63
Linking landscape structure, floral resource distribution, pollen use and movement distances of a generalist predator	57
Assessing the exposure of UK habitats to 20th‐ and 21st‐century climate change, and its representation in ecological monitoring schemes	55
Cover Picture and Issue Information	55
Restoration temporarily supports the resilience of sagebrush‐steppe ecosystems subjected to repeated fires	54
Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential	54
Accounting for bias in prevalence estimation: The case of a globally emerging pathogen	54
Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small‐scale oil palm farming	50
Managed honeybee hives negatively affect the reproduction of native plants in a dryland nature reserve	50
Modelling short‐term energetic costs of sonar disturbance to cetaceans using high‐resolution foraging data	50
Increased connections among soil microbes and microfauna enhances soil multifunctionality along a long‐term restoration chronosequence	50
Prioritizing areas for ecological restoration: A participatory approach based on cost‐effectiveness	47
Shade tree trait diversity and functions in agroforestry systems: A review of which traits matter	46
Wildflower plantings and honeybee competition impact nutritional quality of wild bee diets	45
Making plant–pollinator data collection cheaper for restoration and monitoring	43
Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands	43
The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure	43
Large African herbivore diversity is essential in transformed landscapes for conserving dung beetle diversity	42
Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: Lessons from a long‐term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic Forest	40
Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management	39

Salmon louse infestation levels on sea trout can be predicted from a hydrodynamic lice dispersal model	39
Microplastics promote the invasiveness of invasive alien species under fluctuating water regime	38
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Dung beetles maintain phylogenetic divergence but functional convergence across a highly fragmented tropical landscape	38
Primary forest loss and degradation reduces biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A global meta‐analysis using dung beetles as an indicator taxon	38
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes	38
Correspondence among multiple methods provides confidence when measuring marine protected area effects for species and assemblages	36
Long‐term captivity is associated with changes to sensory organ morphology in a critically endangered insect	36
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