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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	72
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	48
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	43
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	42
Complex interactions between local habitat features, landscape factors and seasonality shape soil microarthropod communities in urban green areas	41
Little things in the cities: green spaces management shapes species centrality in ant-diaspore network in a vast Tropical City	38
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	37
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	34
Plant diversity and uses in urban domestic gardens of Regla, Havana, Cuba	33
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	32
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	31
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	30
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	28
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	26
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	25
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	24
Urban trees as biodiversity scaffolds: patterns and drivers of epiphyte diversity in a tropical city	23
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	21
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	19
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	19
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	19
Wildlife recovery during a COVID-19 closure in a Semi-Urban landscape	19