OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 35. 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
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean	84
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication	79
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?	77
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030	76
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait	70
Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction	68
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation	68
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages	53
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2	53
Maximum CO₂diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size	52
A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference	51
The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia	50
Network ecology in dynamic landscapes	49
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas	49
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters	48
Rapid behavioural response of urban birds to COVID-19 lockdown	47
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities	47
Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of Pacific hake abundance and distribution in the open ocean	47
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off	46
Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems	46
Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia	44
Census of heat tolerance among Florida's threatened staghorn corals finds resilient individuals throughout existing nursery populations	42
Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices	42
Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice	41
Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments	40

Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation	39
Bumblebees moving up: shifts in elevation ranges in the Pyrenees over 115 years	39
Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming	39
Introduction of probiotic bacterial consortia promotes plant growth via impacts on the resident rhizosphere microbiome	39
‘Inert’ ingredients are understudied, potentially dangerous to bees and deserve more research attention	39
Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy	38
The extensibility of the plantar fascia influences the windlass mechanism during human running	38
Long-term gene–culture coevolution and the human evolutionary transition	38
Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications	36
Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour	36
Trophic consequences of terrestrial eutrophication for a threatened ungulate	35