OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 52. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges	586
Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions	277
Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities	147
National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics	143
Transposable elements as a potent source of diverse cis -regulatory sequences in mammalian genomes	129
Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states	129
Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018	120
Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities	109
Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions	105
The importance of intrinsic postzygotic barriers throughout the speciation process	103
‘Hierarchy’ in the organization of brain networks	102
Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials	94
Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action	92
The role of motile cilia in the development and physiology of the nervous system	82
A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought	82
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics	79
How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis	77
Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying patterns of phylosymbiosis in host-associated microbial communities	76
Life in fluctuating environments	75
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates	71
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions	71
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species	70
Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers	69
TheDrosophilaseminal proteome and its role in postcopulatory sexual selection	68
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals	65

The ecology of heterogeneity: soil bacterial communities and C dynamics	64
Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera	64
Understanding the evolution of interspecies interactions in microbial communities	64
Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe	64
Tipping positive change	64
Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs	61
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?	60
Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 2018	59
The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning	59
The evolution of mechanisms involved in vertebrate endothermy	59
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review	59
Multiple global change stressor effects on phytoplankton nutrient acquisition in a future ocean	58
Microbiome-mediated plasticity directs host evolution along several distinct time scales	57
The study of host–microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection	57
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters	57
Plant community diversity will decline more than increase under climatic warming	56
Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology	56
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies	55
Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets	55
Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change	54
Community coalescence: an eco-evolutionary perspective	54
Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond	54
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals	54
Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome	53
Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing	53
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach	53
Uncoupling of sarcoendoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pump activity by sarcolipin as the basis for muscle non-shivering thermogenesis	53