OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Invasions is 22. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Allelopathy is pervasive in invasive plants	93
Are the “100 of the world’s worst” invasive species also the costliest?	59
Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide	53
Managing biological invasions: the cost of inaction	52
The rise and fall of an alien: why the successful colonizer Littorina saxatilis failed to invade the Mediterranean Sea	44
Plant invasion as an emerging challenge for the conservation of heritage sites: the spread of ornamental trees on ancient monuments in Rome, Italy	39
Lake morphometry determines Dreissena invasion dynamics	38
Oh the places they’ll go: improving species distribution modelling for invasive forest pests in an uncertain world	38
Invasive alien species as simultaneous benefits and burdens: trends, stakeholder perceptions and management	36
Differential and interacting impacts of invasive plants and white-tailed deer in eastern U.S. forests	33
The second wave of earthworm invasions in North America: biology, environmental impacts, management and control of invasive jumping worms	32
Introduction pathways of economically costly invasive alien species	32
Allelopathic and competitive interactions between native and alien plants	30
Alien fish fauna of southeastern Brazil: species status, introduction pathways, distribution and impacts	30
Alien plant invasions in Mediterranean habitats: an assessment for Sicily	29
Assessing changes to ecosystem structure and function following invasion by Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis: a meta-analysis	26
Massive economic costs of biological invasions despite widespread knowledge gaps: a dual setback for India	26
Non-linear physiological responses to climate change: the case of Ceratitis capitata distribution and abundance in Europe	26
The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum): autecology and management of a global invader	25
Negative impacts of invasive predators used as biological control agents against the pest snail Lissachatina fulica: the snail Euglandina ‘rosea’ and the flatworm Platydemus manokwari	25
The role of disturbance in invasive plant establishment in a changing climate: insights from a drought experiment	25
Urban sprawl facilitates invasions of exotic plants across multiple spatial scales	22
Breathing space: deoxygenation of aquatic environments can drive differential ecological impacts across biological invasion stages	22
Trait positions for elevated invasiveness in adaptive ecological networks	22
A review of the impacts of biological invasions in South Africa	22

Multiple lionfish (Pterois spp.) new occurrences along the Brazilian coast confirm the invasion pathway into the Southwestern Atlantic