OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Reviews is 53. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms	445
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A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	211
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	210
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	180
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	149
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	137
Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	131
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours	117
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	116
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	115
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	110
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	102
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	101
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	101
Avian adjustments to cold and non‐shivering thermogenesis: whats, wheres and hows	98
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Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	86
Issue Information	84
The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles	83
Issue Information	82
Impacts of volcanic eruptions and early recovery in freshwater environments and organisms	81
Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	80
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	80
Successional theories	77

On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	77
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	73
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	73
Temporal resource partitioning mitigates interspecific competition and promotes coexistence among insect parasites	73
The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution	73
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	73
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	72
Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	71
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	71
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	69
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	68
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	68
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	67
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	65
Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	65
The secretome of Verticillium dahliae in collusion with plant defence responses modulates Verticillium wilt symptoms	64
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	64
Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity	63
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus	63
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	61
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	61
Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory	61
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	60
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour	60
Issue Information	58
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	58
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration	56
The IDIP framework for assessing protein function and its application to the prion protein	54
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	53
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	53
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements	53
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade	53