OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biological Reviews is 49. 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
Avian colouration in a polluted world: a meta‐analysis	372
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Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	171
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	168
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	153
Capturing wild animal welfare: a physiological perspective	146
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	121
Trade‐off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions	106
Issue Information	105
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	102
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Diversity of ‘simple’ multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity	86
Evaluation of physiological stress in free‐ranging bears: current knowledge and future directions	84
In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non‐human animals	82
A general framework for modelling trade‐offs in adaptive behaviour	80
Scavenging with invasive species	80
Phosphorylation‐mediated signalling in flowering: prospects and retrospects of phosphoproteomics in crops	75
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	74
How plants affect amphibian populations	74
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach	73
Systematic review of avian hatching failure and implications for conservation	73
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Heterotrophy in marine animal forests in an era of climate change	72
Cloning in action: can embryo splitting, induced pluripotency and somatic cell nuclear transfer contribute to endangered species conservation?	67

Sex roles and sex ratios in animals	66
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms	65
The language of light: a review of bioluminescence in deep‐sea decapod shrimps	64
Issue Information	63
Dissecting calvarial bones and sutures at single‐cell resolution	63
Regulation of the conserved 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease EXOSC10/Rrp6 during cell division, development and cancer	63
Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene	62
A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	62
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	62
Social pressure drives “conversational rules” in great apes	61
Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes	59
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	59
Changing our view of the Schistosoma granuloma to an ecological standpoint	56
Monsters reveal patterns: bifurcated annelids and their implications for the study of development and evolution	55
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	55
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	54
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	54
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	54
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	52
Species diversity and interspecific information flow	51
Corrigendum to ‘A review of predation as a limiting factor for bird populations in mesopredator‐rich landscapes: a case study of the UK’, published in Biological Reviews 93, p	51
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours	50
Moments of weaknesses – exploiting vulnerabilities between germination and encystment in the Phytomyxea	50
Breaking down shell strength: inferences from experimental compression and future directions enabled by3Dprinting	49