OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 47. 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
Cover Image	595
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Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	150
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	141
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Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	118
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	111
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Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	93
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	93
Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	92
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	90
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	88
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	87
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	86
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	85
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	82
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	78
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	77
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	77
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	74
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	74
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	73
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	69

Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	66
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	65
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	64
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	64
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	64
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	62
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	61
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	59
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	56
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	56
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	56
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	54
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	54
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	53
Corrigendum	53
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	53
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	52
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	52
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	49
Persistent soil seed banks promote naturalisation and invasiveness in flowering plants	49
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	48
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	47