OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Conservation is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of YouTube videos on human tolerance of sharks	37
Estimating arboreality and the effects of forest structure on tropical tree‐dwelling mesomammals using arboreal camera traps	24
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From threatened to threatening: Impacts of a reintroduced predator on reintroduced prey	21
Genomic signatures of demographic declines in an imperiled amphibian inform conservation action	21
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Down‐listing pandas and upgrading conservation: China setting an example to preserve wildlife worldwide	20
How to reverse the rhino poaching crisis: a commentary on Nhleko et al. (2022)	20
The threat of Peters's Rock Agama (Agama picticauda) to reptile diversity across the Lesser Antilles	18
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Global review of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in wild mammalian carnivores	18
Identifying demographic and environmental drivers of population dynamics and viability in an endangered top predator using an integrated model	18
What to expect from alternative management strategies to conserve seabirds? Hints from a dynamic modelling framework applied to an endangered population	17
Outdoor recreation alters terrestrial vertebrate scavenger assemblage and carrion removal in a protected Mediterranean wetland	17
Improving population estimates of difficult‐to‐observe species: A dung decay model for forest elephants with remotely sensed imagery	17
Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece	16
Beyond the Big Five and Birds: Divergent ecotourism perspectives in rapidly changing Africa	16
Roadside provisioning threatens both humans and monkeys	16
Evaluation of tenrec population viability and potential sustainable management under hunting pressure in northeastern Madagascar	16
Effects of wind farms on raptors: A systematic review of the current knowledge and the potential solutions to mitigate negative impacts	15
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Life with big cats: local perceptions of big cat species	15
A multiple trait assessment provides insights into the short‐time viability of a newly founded population in an endangered island passerine	14
Long‐term conservation efforts at flyway scale can halt the population decline in a globally endangered migratory raptor	14

The distribution and current state of biobanking in Indonesian wildlife: a systematic review	13
Strengthening protection of endemic wildlife threatened by the international pet trade: The case of the Australian shingleback lizard	13
First records of margay on Cozumel Island: a conservation paradox	13
Simulated genetic efficacy of metapopulation management and conservation value of captive reintroductions in a rapidly declining felid	12
Silencing the call of the wild – howling behaviour and responses of the wolf to Anthropocene in India	11
Inferring dolphin population status: using unoccupied aerial systems to quantify age‐structure	11
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Predominant prevalence of Ranavirus in southern Brazil, a region with widespread occurrence of the amphibian chytrid	11
Improving evaluation of nonlethal tools for carnivore management and conservation: evaluating fladry to protect an endangered species from a generalist mesocarnivore	11
Why we went to the woods?: effects of human disturbance on species presence in a disturbed Myanmar forest ecosystem	10
Assessing the potential for successful translocation and co‐management of two endangered aquatic species	10
How do landscape and life history traits contribute to the threat context of Brazilian primates?	10
Will the new Chinese National Parks system save the world's rarest primate, the Hainan gibbon?	10
Exploring rangers' preferences for community‐based strategies to improve human‐elephant coexistence in African natural corridors	9
Subsidized Common Agricultural Policy grazing jeopardizes the protection of biodiversity and Natura 2000 targeted species	9
A probabilistic time geographic approach to quantifying seabird‐vessel interactions	9
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Using irregular ranger patrols to quantify elephant occupancy in non‐protected and community‐modified landscapes	9
Habitat management favouring duck hunting seems to prevent shifting distribution due to climate warming: Another avenue for hunting ‘greenwashing’?	8
Failure to account for behavioral variability significantly compromises accuracy in indirect population monitoring	8
Perilous state of critically endangered Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) across the Sudano‐Sahel	8
Identifying human–brown bear conflict hotspots for prioritizing critical habitat and corridor conservation in southwestern Iran	8
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Characterization and Extent of Illegal Trade in Jaguars and Other Felid Species via Social Media in Mexico	8
Priority conservation areas and a global population estimate for the critically endangered Philippine Eagle	8
Human impact and environmental conditions lead to a mass mortality event of David's Myotis (Myotis davidii) in Mongolia	8
Go where you know: range expansion and fidelity in mountain caribou following eight years of maternity penning	8
Instagram as a data source for sea turtle surveys in shipwrecks in Brazil	7
Opposite effects of climate and land‐use/cover change on Mediterranean herpetofauna: Insights from the southern Apennines	7
The effects of maternal penning on the movement ecology of mountain caribou	7
Genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from fecal samples reveal anthropogenic impacts on connectivity: case of a small carnivore in the central Indian landscape	7
Risk of bird electrocution in power lines: a framework for prioritizing species and areas for conservation and impact mitigation	7
Stable isotope analysis as a tool to detect illegal trade in critically endangered cockatoos	7
Wildlife mammal communities in post‐war Angola are depleted and simplified: Implications for biodiversity conservation	7
Common‐garden experiment reveals outbreeding depression and region‐of‐origin effects on reproductive success in a frequently translocated tortoise	7
Cumulative effects of low‐height barriers on distributions of catadromous Japanese eels in Japan	7
Ground‐based vegetation descriptions and remote sensing as complementary methods describing habitat requirements of a frugivorous primate in northern Madagascar: implications for forest restoration	6
Correlates of persistence in remnant populations of two Critically Endangered cockatoos	6
Where wolves were: setting historical baselines for wolf recovery in Spain	6
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The future of the barbary sheep and the dorcas gazelle populations in Algerian Sahara: On the brink of extinction?	6
Landscape connectivity and population density of snow leopards across a multi‐use landscape in Western Himalaya	6
Towards ecotourism that nurtures local visions for landscapes and wildlife	6
Raptor reintroductions: Cost‐effective alternatives to captive breeding	6
Source population and time spent in captivity affect survival and reproduction of long‐distance translocated northern bobwhites	6
The white rhino can again be a conservation success	6
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Using life history to predict outcomes of conservation translocations of herpetofauna	6
The value of coastal saltpans for migratory shorebirds: conservation insights from a stable isotope approach based on feeding guild and body size	6
Long‐term ecological data confirm and refine conservation assessment of critically endangered swift parrots	6

Distance to the edge and other landscape features influence nest predation in grey partridges	5
Mitigating anthropogenic barriers to facilitate distributional shifts helps reduce vulnerability of a large herbivore to climate change	5
Disentangling the Contributions to Phenotypic Change in Conservation Breeding: A Case Study in a Breeding Program of an Endangered Migratory Songbird	5
A country‐wide examination of effects of urbanization on common birds	5
Seabird bycatch in European waters	5
Age structure dynamics in an eastern collared lizard population from founding to demographic stability	5
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A 91% decline in a common anuran in an otherwise stable amphibian community inferred from 17 years of rapid road surveys	5
Ecological effects of a declining red wolf population	5
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The elephant in the farm: long‐term solutions are the key to coexistence	5
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Quantifying the impacts of stoat and cat incursions on reintroduced bird populations in a predator‐fenced wildlife sanctuary	5
Trending extinctions: online interest in recently extinct animals	5
Pheromones for amphibian conservation – considering new approaches in conservation breeding programmes	5
Landcover change and habitat quality mediate impacts of temperature and precipitation on population dynamics of a threatened aridland predator	5
A conservation policy as a conservation threat	5