OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology is 36. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	167
Discovery of XY Sex Chromosomes in Mauremys mutica Provides Insights Into the Role of KDM6B Gene in Coexistence of Temperature‐Dependent and Genetic Sex Determination	87
Decoding plant‐induced transcriptomic variability and consistency in two related polyphagous mites differing in host ranges	82
Genomic divergence and introgression between cryptic species of a widespread North American songbird	71
Genetic and telomeric variability: Insights from a tropical avian hybrid zone	71
Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water and Spawning Season in European Cisco	70
Hybrid enrichment of adaptive variation revealed by genotype–environment associations in montane sedges	64
Extremes of snow and temperature affect patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation in the alpine butterfly Parnassius smintheus	60
Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in hares	59
Genomic, morphological and physiological data support fast ecotypic differentiation and incipient speciation in an alpine diving beetle	58
Acclimatory gene expression of primed clams enhances robustness to elevated pCO₂	57
Organellar DNA continues to provide a rich source of information in the genomics era	56
Diving into the diversity of colour patterns in reef fishes	56
Community‐wide correlations between species richness, abundance and population genomic diversity in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot	55
Understanding the role of temperature in seasonal timing: Effects on behavioural, physiological and molecular phenotypes	53
Association between parasite microbiomes and caste development and colony structure in a social trematode	47
Interspecies genome divergence is predominantly due to frequent small scale rearrangements in Eucalyptus	46
Ecology Not Genetic Covariance Explains Correlated Trait Divergence During Speciation	44
Long‐read sequencing in ecology and evolution: Understanding how complex genetic and epigenetic variants shape biodiversity	44
Grassland ecosystem type drives AM fungal diversity and functional guild distribution in North American grasslands	44
Genome‐wide SNP assessment of contemporary European red deer genetic structure highlights the distinction of peripheral populations and the main admixture zones in Europe	43
Traits and tradeoffs among non‐native ectomycorrhizal fungal symbionts affect pine seedling establishment in a Hawaiian coinvasion landscape	43
Bacterial communities in a subarctic stream network: Spatial and seasonal patterns of benthic biofilm and bacterioplankton	42
Massive Genomic and Transcriptomic Changes Within a Young Inversion Polymorphism in the Absence of Degeneration	41
Issue Information	41

DNA Methylation Dynamics Reflect Sex and Status Differences in Mortality Rates in a Polygynous Bat	41
Cryptic Barriers to Gene Flow Driven by Deep‐Sea Reproductive Strategy in Direct‐Developing Pandalid Shrimp	41
Evolutionary roles of polyploidization‐derived structural variations in the phenotypic diversification of Panax species	41
On the origin and structure of haplotype blocks	40
The transcriptional state and chromatin landscape of cichlid jaw shape variation across species and environments	40
Museomics Sheds Light on Evolutionary Diversity in a Critically Endangered Cockatoo Species From Wallacea	40
Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude	39
Positive selection in gamete interaction proteins in Carnivora	38
Clones on the run: The genomics of a recently expanded partially clonal species	38
The impacts of positive selection on genomic variation in Drosophila serrata: Insights from a deep learning approach	37
Demographic modelling helps track the rapid and recent divergence of a conifer species pair from Central Mexico	36