OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 39. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk	221
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines	187
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators	164
Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene	109
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture	90
Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies	87
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?	71
Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment	70
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean	68
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030	68
Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?	66
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication	66
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation	63
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait	58
Genome size evolution: towards new model systems for old questions	57
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef	56
Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations	52
Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators	51
Maximum CO₂diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size	50
Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene	50
Body shape diversification along the benthic–pelagic axis in marine fishes	50
Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model	50
Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries	50
Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction	49
Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature	48

Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters	46
Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages	46
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment	45
A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies	45
Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction	44
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2	44
Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees	44
Why do bugs perish? Range size and local vulnerability traits as surrogates of Odonata extinction risk	43
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages	43
Network ecology in dynamic landscapes	43
The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia	42
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities	41
Optimizing adaptive cancer therapy: dynamic programming and evolutionary game theory	40
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off	40
A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference	39
Rapid behavioural response of urban birds to COVID-19 lockdown	39
Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia	39
Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals	39
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas	39