OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Urban Ecosystems is 19. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	60
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	53
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	46
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	44
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	44
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	41
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	39
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	38
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	37
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	35
An assessment of the condition of flowing waters in predominantly urban areas of the conterminous U.S. and its relationship to measures of environmental justice	32
Wildlife recovery during a COVID-19 closure in a Semi-Urban landscape	30
Monument protection as a limiting factor for large scale vertical greening system implementation to counteract indoor heat stress – a GIS-based analysis for Berlin, Germany	25
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	24
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	22
Functional traits mediate pollinator community responses to urban development in Central Arkansas	22
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	20
Urban trees as biodiversity scaffolds: patterns and drivers of epiphyte diversity in a tropical city	20
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	19
Little things in the cities: green spaces management shapes species centrality in ant-diaspore network in a vast Tropical City	19
Silent extinctions: how neglecting the ecological value of habitat trees threatens urban biodiversity and ecosystem services	19