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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology	97
Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species	95
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming	71
Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession	58
Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition	55
Local‐scale climatic refugia offer sanctuary for a habitat‐forming species during a marine heatwave	54
Facilitation and the invasibility of plant communities	52
Evolution and biogeography of actinorhizal plants and legumes: A comparison	51
Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology	51
Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes	49
The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation	48
Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands	47
Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities	47
Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales	47
Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability	45
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem	43
Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post‐drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics	42
Biomass partitioning in response to intraspecific competition depends on nutrients and species characteristics: A study of 43 plant species	41
Fast invasives fastly become faster: Invasive plants align largely with the fast side of the plant economics spectrum	41
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?	41
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification	40
Multi‐dimensionality as a path forward in plant‐soil feedback research	40
Litter decomposition and nutrient release from monospecific and mixed litters: Comparisons of litter quality, fauna and decomposition site effects	39
Long‐term empirical evidence, early warning signals and multiple drivers of regime shifts in a lake ecosystem	38
Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient	38

Allometry rather than abiotic drivers explains biomass allocation among leaves, stems and roots of Artemisia across a large environmental gradient in China	38
Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits	36
Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands	35
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	35
Crown‐fire severity is more important than ground‐fire severity in determining soil fungal community development in the boreal forest	35
Functional diversity and trait composition of vascular plant and Sphagnum moss communities during peatland succession across land uplift regions	35
The experimental manipulation of atmospheric drought: Teasing out the role of microclimate in biodiversity experiments	34
Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires	34
Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐ and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms	33
Functional diversity of decomposers modulates litter decomposition affected by plant invasion along a climate gradient	33