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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	116
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	110
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	110
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	96
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	96
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	95
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	90
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	90
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	89
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	84
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	82
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	81
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	77
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	76
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	73
Issue Information	73
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	69
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	69
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	69
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	65

Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	63
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	63
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	62
Corrigendum	61
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	59
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	57
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	57
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	54
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	54
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	53
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	52
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	52
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	50
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	50
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	49
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	48
Issue Information	48
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	47
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	47
Issue Information	47
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	47
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	47