OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecography is 31. 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
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world	253
ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography	214
Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations	123
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity	112
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests	107
Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models	81
A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes	62
A quantitative review of abundance‐based species distribution models	54
Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic	48
Dispersal–niche continuum index: a new quantitative metric for assessing the relative importance of dispersal versus niche processes in community assembly	47
Ecological drivers of avian community assembly along a tropical elevation gradient	45
Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales	43
Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness	43
RangeShifter 2.0: an extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes	42
Warming‐induced shrubline advance stalled by moisture limitation on the Tibetan Plateau	41
Spatially explicit models for decision‐making in animal conservation and restoration	40
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions	39
A complete inventory of North American butterfly occurrence data: narrowing data gaps, but increasing bias	38
Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records	38
Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research	38
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness	37
Comprehensive estimation of spatial and temporal migratory connectivity across the annual cycle to direct conservation efforts	36
Multi‐taxa colonisation along the foreland of a vanishing equatorial glacier	36
Elevational patterns of bird functional and phylogenetic structure in the central Himalaya	36
A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses	35

From species sorting to mass effects: spatial network structure mediates the shift between metacommunity archetypes	35
A global perspective on the functional responses of stream communities to flow intermittence	34
Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity	34
Species interactions: next‐level citizen science	33
Soil fauna diversity and chemical stressors: a review of knowledge gaps and roadmap for future research	32
Using maps of biogeographical ignorance to reveal the uncertainty in distributional data hidden in species distribution models	31