OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 41. 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
Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk	214
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines	169
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators	141
An introduction to phylosymbiosis	126
Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene	95
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture	83
Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies	83
Deconstructing sociality: the types of social connections that predict longevity in a group-living primate	81
The ecology of human–nature interactions	78
Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism	76
Role of the intestinal microbiome in low-density polyethylene degradation by caterpillar larvae of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella	65
A comparison of eDNA to camera trapping for assessment of terrestrial mammal diversity	64
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030	63
The force–length–velocity potential of the human soleus muscle is related to the energetic cost of running	61
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?	60
Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship,h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia	59
Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment	59
Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?	59
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean	58
Fast diversification through a mosaic of evolutionary histories characterizes the endemic flora of ancient Neotropical mountains	57
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation	55
Continent-wide effects of urbanization on bird and mammal genetic diversity	52
Diet contributes to urban-induced alterations in gut microbiota: experimental evidence from a wild passerine	52
Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs	52
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication	52

Genome size evolution: towards new model systems for old questions	50
Three-dimensional digital mapping of ecosystems: a new era in spatial ecology	49
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef	49
Evolution of a multifunctional trait: shared effects of foraging ecology and thermoregulation on beak morphology, with consequences for song evolution	48
Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene	47
Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries	47
Body shape diversification along the benthic–pelagic axis in marine fishes	47
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait	46
The deteriorating soma and the indispensable germline: gamete senescence and offspring fitness	46
Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators	46
Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature	45
Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model	44
Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations	44
Gradual replacement of wild bees by honeybees in flowers of the Mediterranean Basin over the last 50 years	44
Maximum CO₂diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size	43
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment	42
Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction	41
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages	41
Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages	41
Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant–hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes	41
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters	41