OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology is 37. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	182
Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water and Spawning Season in European Cisco	99
Extremes of snow and temperature affect patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation in the alpine butterfly Parnassius smintheus	90
Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in hares	80
Diving into the diversity of colour patterns in reef fishes	77
Community‐wide correlations between species richness, abundance and population genomic diversity in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot	74
Understanding the role of temperature in seasonal timing: Effects on behavioural, physiological and molecular phenotypes	73
Association between parasite microbiomes and caste development and colony structure in a social trematode	69
Demographic modelling helps track the rapid and recent divergence of a conifer species pair from Central Mexico	66
The effect of divergent and parallel selection on the genomic landscape of divergence	63
Cryptic Barriers to Gene Flow Driven by Deep‐Sea Reproductive Strategy in Direct‐Developing Pandalid Shrimp	60
Issue Information	59
Massive Genomic and Transcriptomic Changes Within a Young Inversion Polymorphism in the Absence of Degeneration	58
Evolutionary roles of polyploidization‐derived structural variations in the phenotypic diversification of Panax species	55
The transcriptional state and chromatin landscape of cichlid jaw shape variation across species and environments	53
Positive selection in gamete interaction proteins in Carnivora	50
The impacts of positive selection on genomic variation in Drosophila serrata: Insights from a deep learning approach	49
Combined Evidence Reveals the Origin of a Rapid Range Expansion Despite Retained Genetic Diversity and a Weak Founder Effect	48
Out of the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau: Genomic biogeography of the alpine monospecific genus Megadenia (Biscutelleae, Brassicaceae)	47
Bacterial communities in a subarctic stream network: Spatial and seasonal patterns of benthic biofilm and bacterioplankton	46
DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Unexpected Predator–Prey–Microbial Dynamics in the Southern Right Whale ( Eubalaena australis )	45
Evolutionary History and Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition in Domesticated Hops ( Humulus lupulus L .	45
Organellar DNA continues to provide a rich source of information in the genomics era	45
DNA Methylation Dynamics Reflect Sex and Status Differences in Mortality Rates in a Polygynous Bat	45
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Genomic, morphological and physiological data support fast ecotypic differentiation and incipient speciation in an alpine diving beetle	44
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	42
More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)	41
Museomics Sheds Light on Evolutionary Diversity in a Critically Endangered Cockatoo Species From Wallacea	40
Clones on the run: The genomics of a recently expanded partially clonal species	40
Long‐read sequencing in ecology and evolution: Understanding how complex genetic and epigenetic variants shape biodiversity	38
A genomic assessment of the marine‐speciation paradox within the toothed whale superfamily Delphinoidea	38
Ecology Not Genetic Covariance Explains Correlated Trait Divergence During Speciation	38
Acclimatory gene expression of primed clams enhances robustness to elevated pCO₂	37
Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude	37
Genome‐wide SNP assessment of contemporary European red deer genetic structure highlights the distinction of peripheral populations and the main admixture zones in Europe	37
Decoding plant‐induced transcriptomic variability and consistency in two related polyphagous mites differing in host ranges	37