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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Species diversity and microhabitat characteristics of bryophytes on different types of walls in a karst city Guiyang (SW China)	114
Wildlife resilience in an urban landscape: understanding land-use impacts in Cape Town	45
Morphological divergence, tail loss, and predation risk in urban lizards	37
Use of compost to improve Technosol properties and spontaneous plant-soil relationships of Mediterranean species potentially suitable for urban greening	30
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	28
Effect of exotic species management on the recovery of relict forests through citizen participation	28
Resilient plant species selection for urban green infrastructure development in arid regions: a case of Qom, Iran	27
Free-roaming dogs in Ushuaia City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. How many and why	25
Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander	25
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	23
Standing vegetation and seed bank patterns paint a bleak picture for urban grassland restoration	22
Influences of landscape structure on butterfly diversity in urban private gardens using a citizen science approach	22
Water in the city: visitation of animal wildlife to garden water sources and urban lakes	21
Dynamic occupancy analyses of native birds in an urban ecological reserve reveal seasonal changes in site occupancy and preference for adjacent urbanized areas	20
Urbanisation and land-cover change affect functional, but not compositional turnover of bird communities	20
Integrating biocultural diversity into urban school grounds through transdisciplinary curriculum design	20
Faunal homogenization in tropical cities: lessons from anuran assemblages of two small Amazonian municipalities	19
Soil microbial community of urban green infrastructures in a polar city	19
How butterfly communities are structured and have changed in urbanized areas of Marseille: a 12-year monitoring survey	19
Discovering urban nature: citizen science and biodiversity on a university campus	19
Importance of urban green areas’ connectivity for the conservation of pollinators	19