OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking sufficiency and the protection of biodiversity: An issue of political implications, framing, descriptiveness and interdisciplinarity?	30
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	21
Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China	15
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	14
The scale of the problem: understanding the demand for medicinal pangolin products in China	13
The trail less traveled: Envisioning a new approach to identifying key food resources for threatened Hawaiian arboreal snails	12
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	12
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	11
A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide	9
Waterbird assemblages of inland wetlands in Chile: A meta-analysis	9
Implementing wildlife fences along highways at the appropriate spatial scale: A case study of reducing road mortality of Florida Key deer	8
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	8
Use of linear transportation infrastructure rights-of-way as an ecological shelter: National asset estimate and stakeholder involvement	8
Corrigendum: Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program. Nature Conservation 51: 155–166. doi	8
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	7
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	7
Mainstreaming biodiversity into transport networks by connecting stakeholders across sectors	7
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	7
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	7
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	7
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	6
Termites’ diversity in a protected park of the northern Sudanian savanna of Togo (West Africa)	6
The greater the proportion of Robinia pseudoacacia in a stand the greater its effect on the population characteristics of Erythronium dens-canis	6
Harvest quotas, free markets and the sustainable trade in pythons	6
Distribution, conservation assessment and management perspectives of Chilean micro-snails of the family Charopidae	5

Paleoclimate changes and ecosystem responses of the Bulgarian Black Sea zone during the last 26000 years	5
Exploring life-history traits of an endangered plant (Vicia biennis L.) to support the conservation of marginal populations	5
Dynamic change of habitat quality and its key driving factors in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China	5
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	5
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	5
On the path to extinction: Helix godetiana Kobelt, 1878, the only threatened Helix species in Greece	5
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	5
Reencounter with the past: occurrence of sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) in an old hunting area in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean	4
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	4
Structural diversity and conservation implications of Parrotia subaequalis (Hamamelidaceae), a rare and endangered tree species in China	4
Hope is the last thing lost: Colombian captive-bred population of the critically endangered Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a genetic reservoir that could help to save the species from	4
Traffic mortality of wild forest reindeer Rangifer tarandus fennicus in Finland	4
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	4
Natural strongholds for red squirrel conservation in Scotland	3
Temporal and spatial changes of biodiversity in Caverns of Heaven and Places of Blessing, Zhejiang Province, China from 1990 to 2020	3
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	3
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	3
The illegal hunting and exploitation of porcupines for meat and medicine in Indonesia	3
An analysis of the inter-state similarity of the herpetofaunas of Mexican states	3
Zoos consenting to the illegal wildlife trade – the earless monitor lizard as a case study	3
Preliminary results on the bird protection effectiveness of animal deflectors on railway overhead lines based on electrical current evaluation	3
Small reserve but high diversity: butterfly community across an altitudinal gradient in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	3
Influence of land use intensity on ecological corridors and wildlife crossings’ effectiveness: comparison of 2 pilot areas in Austria	3
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	3
The contribution to wildlife conservation of an Italian Recovery Centre	3
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	3
Environmental characteristics, including soil and vegetation composition, in relation to the occurrence patterns of an endangered lizard, Eremias argus, in a fluvial island, South Korea	3
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3