OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology is 41. 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
Population genomics for wildlife conservation and management	316
The long‐standing significance of genetic diversity in conservation	157
A beginner's guide to low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for population genomics	149
Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results	125
Environmental adaptation is stronger for abundant rather than rare microorganisms in wetland soils from the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	104
Meta‐analysis shows both congruence and complementarity of DNA and eDNA metabarcoding to traditional methods for biological community assessment	103
A framework for understanding gene expression plasticity and its influence on stress tolerance	92
Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance	77
Suppression gene drive in continuous space can result in unstable persistence of both drive and wild‐type alleles	75
The genetic architecture of target‐site resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in the African malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii	72
Trade‐offs between reducing complex terminology and producing accurate interpretations from environmental DNA: Comment on “Environmental DNA: What's behind the term?” by Pawlowski et al., (2020)	72
Insights into invasive species from whole‐genome resequencing	71
Diversity of gut microbiomes in marine fishes is shaped by host‐related factors	70
Fishing for fish environmental DNA: Ecological applications, methodological considerations, surveying designs, and ways forward	64
Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish	55
Stochastic community assembly decreases soil fungal richness in arid ecosystems	54
The importance of alternative splicing in adaptive evolution	52
Environmental DNA for biomonitoring	52
Genotype–Environment mismatch of kelp forests under climate change	51
Polygenic and major‐locus contributions to sexual maturation timing in Atlantic salmon	51
Steeper spatial scaling patterns of subsoil microbiota are shaped by deterministic assembly process	50
Benefits and costs of hosting facultative symbionts in plant‐sucking insects: A meta‐analysis	50
Vertical diversity and association pattern of total, abundant and rare microbial communities in deep‐sea sediments	50
Nuclear eDNA estimates population allele frequencies and abundance in experimental mesocosms and field samples	50
Inversion breakpoints and the evolution of supergenes	49

Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays	49
Large‐scale genome sampling reveals unique immunity and metabolic adaptations in bats	48
An overview of current population genomics methods for the analysis of whole‐genome resequencing data in eukaryotes	47
The problem of omnivory: A synthesis on omnivory and DNA metabarcoding	47
Functional redundancy and specific taxa modulate the contribution of prokaryotic diversity and composition to multifunctionality	47
Monitoring the ecological status of rivers with diatom eDNA metabarcoding: A comparison of taxonomic markers and analytical approaches for the inference of a molecular diatom index	46
Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories	46
Freshwater zooplankton microbiome composition is highly flexible and strongly influenced by the environment	45
Integrating physiology and environmental dynamics to operationalize environmental DNA (eDNA) as a means to monitor freshwater macro‐organism abundance	44
Monitoring of spatiotemporal occupancy patterns of fish and amphibian species in a lentic aquatic system using environmental DNA	44
Creating space for Indigenous perspectives on access and benefit‐sharing: Encouraging researcher use of the Local Contexts Notices	43
Population genomics in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti reveals the genomic architecture and evolution of endogenous viral elements	43
Prevalence and polymorphism of a mussel transmissible cancer in Europe	43
Microbial generalist or specialist: Intraspecific variation and dormancy potential matter	41
Unlocking the phylogenetic diversity, primary habitats, and abundances of free‐living Symbiodiniaceae on a coral reef	41
Describing the current status of Plasmodium falciparum population structure and drug resistance within mainland Tanzania using molecular inversion probes	41
The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: Evidence from European butterfly sister species	41