OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Restoration Ecology is 27. 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
Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration	122
Priority effects and ecological restoration	96
The present and future of grassland restoration	95
Grasslands and savannahs in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration	73
The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy	61
Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives	56
Precision restoration: a necessary approach to foster forest recovery in the 21st century	55
A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas	54
Six priorities to advance the science and practice of coral reef restoration worldwide	51
An Australian blue carbon method to estimate climate change mitigation benefits of coastal wetland restoration	49
International principles and standards for the ecological restoration and recovery of mine sites	49
Prediction and uncertainty in restoration science	45
Traditional ecological knowledge in restoration ecology: a call to listen deeply, to engage with, and respect Indigenous voices	39
Restoration of mine degraded land for sustainable environmental development	39
Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”	36
Need of transdisciplinary research for accelerating land restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration	36
Ecological countermeasures for preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks: when ecological restoration is a human health imperative	35
Ten people‐centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration	33
Reflecting on twenty years of forest landscape restoration	32
Equity in ecosystem restoration	32
Improving restoration success through a precision restoration framework	31
Marine ecosystem restoration in a changing ocean	30
Forest landscape restoration: building on the past for future success	30
Applying systematic conservation planning to improve the allocation of restoration actions at multiple spatial scales	29
The reduction of harmful algae on Caribbean coral reefs through the reintroduction of a keystone herbivore, the long‐spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum	29

Differential survival of nursery‐reared Acropora cervicornis outplants along the Florida reef tract	29
Super‐abundant C₄ grasses are a mixed blessing in restored prairies	28