OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Oikos is 22. 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
The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity	101
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings	80
Warming winters promote biodiversity through reduced mortality of a habitat‐forming species in soft‐sediment intertidal systems	45
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Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology	40
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche	35
Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects	35
Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie	34
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction	34
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change	29
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients	27
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management	25
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities	24
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles	24
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness	23
Why sex matters in phenological research	23
How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships	23
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities	23
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm	22
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways	22
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra	22
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics	22
The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology	22
Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection	22