OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 51. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Co‐occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions	402
The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis	301
Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation	254
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	248
A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology	180
Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling	158
The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi‐trophic: a meta‐analysis	130
Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies	128
Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis	126
Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change	120
Enemies with benefits: integrating positive and negative interactions among terrestrial carnivores	116
Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models	102
Ecological impacts of human‐induced animal behaviour change	99
The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity	91
Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales	90
A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research	87
Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton	83
Biotic interactions are more often important at species’ warm versus cool range edges	79
Plant community composition steers grassland vegetation via soil legacy effects	76
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	76
The seventh macronutrient: how sodium shortfall ramifies through populations, food webs and ecosystems	74
Angiosperm speciation cools down in the tropics	74
Species distribution models have limited spatial transferability for invasive species	74
The context dependence of non‐consumptive predator effects	74
Functional roles of microbial symbionts in plant cold tolerance	73

Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change	71
Root‐derived inputs are major contributors to soil carbon in temperate forests, but vary by mycorrhizal type	70
A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest	70
Sick plants in grassland communities: a growth‐defense trade‐off is the main driver of fungal pathogen abundance	66
Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude	65
Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity	65
A tipping point in carbon storage when forest expands into tundra is related to mycorrhizal recycling of nitrogen	64
Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts	63
Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions	62
The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces	60
Reduced phenotypic plasticity evolves in less predictable environments	60
Tree growth sensitivity to climate is temporally variable	60
Latitudinal patterns of terrestrial phosphorus limitation over the globe	57
The jury is still out regarding the generality of adaptive ‘transgenerational’ effects	56
Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread	55
We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data	55
Landscape simplification shapes pathogen prevalence in plant‐pollinator networks	55
Floral resource diversification promotes solitary bee reproduction and may offset insecticide effects – evidence from a semi‐field experiment	55
High water use in desert plants exposed to extreme heat	53
A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection	53
Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability	53
Adaptation and coordinated evolution of plant hydraulic traits	52
Intuitive and broadly applicable definitions of niche and fitness differences	52
Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits	52
Trait matching and phenological overlap increase the spatio‐temporal stability and functionality of plant–pollinator interactions	51
Seed size predicts global effects of small mammal seed predation on plant recruitment	51
Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone	51