OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ecology is 33. 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
Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers	268
A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review	113
Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species	78
Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability	70
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology	67
The diversity of post‐fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer	59
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming	57
Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna	56
The importance of extreme rainfall events and their timing in a semi‐arid grassland	55
Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests	51
Local‐scale climatic refugia offer sanctuary for a habitat‐forming species during a marine heatwave	49
Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content	48
Do bark beetle outbreaks amplify or dampen future bark beetle disturbances in Central Europe?	48
Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition	47
Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities	46
Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes	43
Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology	42
Evolution and biogeography of actinorhizal plants and legumes: A comparison	40
Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands	40
Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession	40
Facilitation and the invasibility of plant communities	40
Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities	38
Intraspecific variation in Phragmites australis: Clinal adaption of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity vary with latitude of origin	38
Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post‐drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics	37
Climate seasonality drives ant–plant–herbivore interactions via plant phenology in an extrafloral nectary‐bearing plant community	37

Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability	35
Biomass partitioning in response to intraspecific competition depends on nutrients and species characteristics: A study of 43 plant species	35
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?	34
Seasonal succession of functional traits in phytoplankton communities and their interaction with trophic state	34
Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient	34
Phylogenetic relatedness mediates persistence and density of soil seed banks	34
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification	34
The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation	33