OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 53. 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
Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence	303
Beyond organic farming – harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes	272
Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour	230
Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant–Soil Interactions	191
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics	180
Addressing context dependence in ecology	161
Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics	153
The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems	152
Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?	147
Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world	132
The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness	122
Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods	118
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring	116
Plant phosphorus-acquisition and -use strategies affect soil carbon cycling	113
Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle	111
Emerging Perspectives on Resource Tracking and Animal Movement Ecology	111
Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution	107
On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology	98
Environmental RNA: A Revolution in Ecological Resolution?	97
Understanding 'Non-genetic' Inheritance: Insights from Molecular-Evolutionary Crosstalk	94
Plant–Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity–Productivity Relationships	93
Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions	91
Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data	84
Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals	80
Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency	79

Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems	79
Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming	78
Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs	77
Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments	76
The cold range limit of trees	75
Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry	75
Making ecology really global	74
Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale	74
Integrating Behavior in Life-History Theory: Allocation versus Acquisition?	73
How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?	73
Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk	73
The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution	71
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses	70
A Darwinian Laboratory of Multiple Contact Zones	69
Winner–Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes	68
Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation	66
Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?	65
Decoding the Evolution of Melanin in Vertebrates	63
Identifying Microbiome-Mediated Behaviour in Wild Vertebrates	63
Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate	62
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation	58
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors	58
Unraveling the Zoonotic Origin and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2	57
Ecosystem consequences of herbicides: the role of microbiome	57
Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats	56
The mismeasure of conservation	54
Protected areas and the future of insect conservation	53
Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution	53
Improving Predictions of Climate Change–Land Use Change Interactions	53
The Power of Infochemicals in Mediating Individualized Niches	53
Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge	53