OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Botany is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Seed germination of Bromelia serra (Bromeliaceae): effects of the canopy openness where the mother plant lived and the light environment of the germination place	15
Seventy-five years of vegetation change after fire in Tasmanian alpine heathland	13
Predicting the seed germination response of four rare Grevillea species (Proteaceae) to current and future temperatures	12
Reductions in fitness due to an endoparasitic plant are comparable to the impacts of hemiparasites	12
Warm stratification and optimised temperatures improve conservation of the endangered orchid, Caladenia robinsonii (Orchidaceae)	10
Trajectories of ecology past and future	10
Species distribution modelling and climatic niche as tools to aid in the integrative taxonomy of a South American species complex in Chromolaena (Asteraceae, Eupatorieae)	9
The response of Nassella trichotoma (serrated tussock) seeds and seedlings to different levels of fire intensity	9
Improving weed management by targeting the seed ecology of blackberry (Rubus anglocandicans) in a biodiversity hotspot	9
Floral biology, pollination vectors and breeding system of Zieria granulata (Rutaceae), an endangered shrub endemic to eastern Australia	9
Impact of extreme heatwaves and life-history traits on seed germination responses in Cumberland Plain Woodland native plant species	8
Distribution, composition and environmental correlates of high-altitude gravelly pavement herbfields in north-eastern Victoria, Australia	8
Corrigendum to : Retention of an apparently functional plastome in an apparently mycoheterotrophic orchid, Dipodium roseum D.L	7
Seed science in Australasia: regionally important, globally relevant	7
Landscape-wide modelling of canopy tree crowns and heights using LiDAR: a case study in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia	7
Phosphite for the prevention of disease caused by Phytophthora species in six rare or threatened species. Will it kill or cure?	7
Lack of fire rather than pollinator absence may drive population decline in the critically endangered Banksia conferta (Proteaceae)	7
Determining the age and growth rate of Acacia harpophylla in central Queensland, Australia, using radiocarbon in trees lacking annual growth rings	6
Novel and emerging seed science research from early to middle career researchers at the Australasian Seed Science Conference, 2021	6
The use of lichen and fungal collections in Australian herbaria to identify temporal changes in air pollution and assist environmental management: challenges to conserving herbarium specimens for the	5
Plant life-history data as evidence of an historical mixed-severity fire regime in Banksia Woodlands	5
The ecology, evolution and management of mast reproduction in Australian plants	5
The susceptibility of rare and threatened NSW species to the root-rot pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi: 2. The identification of species requiring protection or further research	5
Root foraging in the leguminous zinc hyperaccumulator Crotalaria novae-hollandiae from Queensland, Australia	5
Sunlight and red to far-red ratio impact germination of tropical montane cloud forest species	5

Unusual, human-mediated prevalence of epiphytes in semi-arid New South Wales, Australia	5
Evaluation of management options for climate-change adaptation of threatened species: a case study of a restricted orchid	5
Determining the distributions of plant communities in subantarctic vegetation using species distribution models	5
Are orthodox Australian rainforest seeds short-lived in storage?	5
Awn length variation in Australia’s most widespread grass, Themeda triandra, across its distribution	5
Tasmania’s giant eucalypts: discovery, documentation, macroecology and conservation status of the world’s largest angiosperms	4
Can the galling Eriophyidae (Trombidiformes) manipulate leaf structural and histochemical profiles over environmental stressors?	4
The assembly of the vegetation near the treeline during the Late Glacial and Holocene in south-central Tasmania	4
Maintaining separate maternal lines increases the value and applications of seed collections	4
Collateral damage: epiphytic orchids at risk from myrtle rust	4
First records of Myxomycetes associated with members of the Cactaceae in Australia	3
Secondary branching in Wollemia nobilis (Araucariaceae), an unexpected occurrence	3
Mechanical control inadvertently increases risk of alien plant invasion: influence of stem fragmentation and inundation regimes on Arundo donax regeneration in Neotropical savanna	3
Robert F. (Bob) Parsons, PhD (University of Melbourne), Botanist, Plant Ecologist, Teacher (25 May 1941 to 4 May 2025)	3
Spatially variable recruitment response to fire severity in golden-top wattle (Acacia mariae, family: Fabaceae), a thicket-forming shrub of semi-arid forests	3
Multiple lines of evidence infer centurial-scale habitat change and resilience in a threatened plant species at Mount Dangar, Hunter Valley, New South Wales	3
Differential copper toxicity in Amazon tree species explained by seed germination and initial seedling growth	3
Frameworks for identifying priority plants and ecosystems most impacted by major fires	3
Applying resource-selection functions to assess host preference in the endemic endoparasite Pilostyles hamiltoniorum (Apodanthaceae) and its principal host Daviesia (Fabaceae)	3
Myxomycetes associated with the bark, cones and leaves of Australian cypress pines (Callitris spp.)	3
A systematic assessment of the metallome of selected plant families in the Queensland (Australia) flora by using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy	3
A handbook for standardised measurements of plant reproductive traits: from pollen grain to seedling	3