OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology is 42. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Population genomics for wildlife conservation and management	246
Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: A review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap	137
Environmental DNA: What's behind the term? Clarifying the terminology and recommendations for its future use in biomonitoring	134
The long‐standing significance of genetic diversity in conservation	125
eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals fine‐scale coral reef community variation across a remote, tropical island ecosystem	122
A beginner's guide to low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for population genomics	112
Multiple chromosomal inversions contribute to adaptive divergence of a dune sunflower ecotype	95
Biases in bulk: DNA metabarcoding of marine communities and the methodology involved	86
Environmental adaptation is stronger for abundant rather than rare microorganisms in wetland soils from the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	84
Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results	83
Meta‐analysis shows both congruence and complementarity of DNA and eDNA metabarcoding to traditional methods for biological community assessment	74
The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates	70
A framework for understanding gene expression plasticity and its influence on stress tolerance	67
Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance	67
Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula	66
The relationship between eDNA particle concentration and organism abundance in nature is strengthened by allometric scaling	66
Suppression gene drive in continuous space can result in unstable persistence of both drive and wild‐type alleles	65
Copy number variants outperform SNPs to reveal genotype–temperature association in a marine species	61
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)	59
Meta‐analysis of the coral environmental stress response: Acropora corals show opposing responses depending on stress intensity	58
Beyond DNA barcoding: The unrealized potential of genome skim data in sample identification	57
Insights into invasive species from whole‐genome resequencing	56
Diversity of gut microbiomes in marine fishes is shaped by host‐related factors	55
Variation in recombination rate affects detection of outliers in genome scans under neutrality	52
Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes	52

The genetic architecture of target‐site resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in the African malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii	51
Global patterns of population genetic differentiation in seed plants	51
Environmental DNA effectively captures functional diversity of coastal fish communities	50
Estimating fish population abundance by integrating quantitative data on environmental DNA and hydrodynamic modelling	48
Gene flow creates a mirage of cryptic species in a Southeast Asian spotted stream frog complex	48
Environmental DNA surveys detect distinct metazoan communities across abyssal plains and seamounts in the western Clarion Clipperton Zone	48
The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole‐community haplotype‐level metabarcoding	48
Genome‐wide SNP analysis reveals an increase in adaptive genetic variation through selective breeding of coral	46
Allopatric divergence and hybridization within Cupressus chengiana (Cupressaceae), a threatened conifer in the northern Hengduan Mountains of western China	46
Marine biomonitoring with eDNA: Can metabarcoding of water samples cut it as a tool for surveying benthic communities?	45
Shared ancestral polymorphisms and chromosomal rearrangements as potential drivers of local adaptation in a marine fish	44
Evolutionary trade‐offs of insecticide resistance — The fitness costs associated with target‐site mutations in the nAChR of Drosophila melanogaster	44
Nuclear eDNA estimates population allele frequencies and abundance in experimental mesocosms and field samples	44
Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish	44
Stochastic community assembly decreases soil fungal richness in arid ecosystems	43
Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays	43
Steeper spatial scaling patterns of subsoil microbiota are shaped by deterministic assembly process	42
Supervised machine learning is superior to indicator value inference in monitoring the environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture using eDNA metabarcodes	42
Genetic evidence for the origin of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, in the southwestern Indian Ocean	42
The balance between deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring lake bacterioplankton community over time	42