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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	136
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	114
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	98
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	97
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	92
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	91
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	91
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	88
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	84
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	82
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	82
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	78
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	77
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	77
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	73
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	71
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	71
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	71
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	66
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	65

Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	65
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	64
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	64
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	61
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	61
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	58
Corrigendum	58
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	57
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	56
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	56
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	55
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	52
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	52
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	51
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	50
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	49
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	49
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	47
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	47
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	46
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	46