OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Reviews 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species	925
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	221
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	202
Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen	152
Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services	141
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna	119
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	115
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	104
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	98
Exosome‐mediated effects and applications in inflammatory bowel disease	89
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology	87
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	86
Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities	78
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	78
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	78
The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons	76
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	76
Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life‐history perspective	73
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	72
The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour	71
Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity	69
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	67
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	67
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	67
Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection	67

Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics	66
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	65
Deciphering mollusc shell production: the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics	63
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	63
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	63
The biology of human hair greying	63
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	62
Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence	61
The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps	60
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	60
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	58
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	56
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	55
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	54
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	53
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	53
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	52
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	50
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	50
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	50
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	48
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	48
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	47
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	47
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	47