OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 46. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Five fundamental ways in which complex food webs may spiral out of control	463
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	142
A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence	134
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	123
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	123
Consequences of Local Conspecific Density Effects for Plant Diversity and Community Dynamics	113
Seed limitation interacts with biotic and abiotic factors to constrain novel species' impact on community biomass and richness	101
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	97
Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modelling approach	95
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	81
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	81
A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities	80
Method matters: pitfalls in analysing phenology from occurrence records	76
Issue Information	75
Dispersal plasticity driven by variation in fitness across species and environmental gradients	75
Evolution of butterfly seasonal plasticity driven by climate change varies across life stages	74
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 2, February 2023	73
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 1, January 2023	73
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Flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is positively correlated with the host geographic range	65

Towards a more precise – and accurate – view of eco‐evolution	61
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	61
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 10, October 2022	58
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 11, November 2022	58
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Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence	53
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Tree diversity enhances predation by birds but not by arthropods across climate gradients	52
Towards robust statistical inference for complex computer models	51
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	50
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	50
Issue Information	50
Responses of intraspecific metabolic scaling to temperature and activity differ between water‐ and air‐breathing ectothermic vertebrates	48
Getting the bugs out of AI: Advancing ecological research on arthropods through computer vision	47
Predicting the fine‐scale spatial distribution of zoonotic reservoirs using computer vision	47
The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns	46
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	46
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