OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 50. 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
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	415
Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis	164
Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change	125
Biotic interactions are more often important at species’ warm versus cool range edges	123
Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models	122
Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales	119
A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research	111
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	111
A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest	97
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities	95
We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data	88
Root‐derived inputs are major contributors to soil carbon in temperate forests, but vary by mycorrhizal type	83
A tipping point in carbon storage when forest expands into tundra is related to mycorrhizal recycling of nitrogen	81
Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts	77
Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude	75
Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability	75
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	74
The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces	73
Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions	73
Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread	72
Future climate risks from stress, insects and fire across US forests	71
Latitudinal patterns of terrestrial phosphorus limitation over the globe	71
Dilution effects in disease ecology	70
A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection	68
The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification	68

Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone	68
Towards revealing the global diversity and community assembly of soil eukaryotes	66
Floral resource diversification promotes solitary bee reproduction and may offset insecticide effects – evidence from a semi‐field experiment	65
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	64
Grazing‐induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales	63
Landscape simplification increases vineyard pest outbreaks and insecticide use	62
Latitudinal gradient in the intensity of biotic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems: Sources of variation and differences from the diversity gradient revealed by meta‐analysis	59
Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions	58
Field‐realistic neonicotinoid exposure has sub‐lethal effects on non‐Apis bees: A meta‐analysis	58
Pesticides do not significantly reduce arthropod pest densities in the presence of natural enemies	57
Temporal changes in spatial variation: partitioning the extinction and colonisation components of beta diversity	56
When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments	56
Climate change transforms the functional identity of Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages	55
Shape matters: the relationship between cell geometry and diversity in phytoplankton	54
Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change	54
Landscape‐scale habitat fragmentation is positively related to biodiversity, despite patch‐scale ecosystem decay	53
Interaction diversity explains the maintenance of phytochemical diversity	53
Insect and plant invasions follow two waves of globalisation	53
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	52
Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies	51
Plant and soil biodiversity have non‐substitutable stabilising effects on biomass production	51
Measuring habitat complexity and spatial heterogeneity in ecology	51
Experimental nitrogen fertilisation globally accelerates, then slows decomposition of leaf litter	50
Soil fungal mycelia have unexpectedly flexible stoichiometric C:N and C:P ratios	50
Historical decrease in agricultural landscape diversity is associated with shifts in bumble bee species occurrence	50