OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 26. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	287
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	246
Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen	177
Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services	158
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	143
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna	137
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	127
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	125
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	123
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	96
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	94
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology	92
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	92
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	87
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	86
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	84
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	83
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	77
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	72
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	72
Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics	71
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	71
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	71
The biology of human hair greying	70
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	69

The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	66
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	66
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	65
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	65
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	64
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	63
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	61
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	61
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	60
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	58
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	58
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	57
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	57
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	57
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	55
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	55
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	53
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	52
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	50
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions	50
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture	50
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis	49
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	49
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	49
Plasticity of microglia	48
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	48
The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs	47
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction	47
Speciation across the Tree of Life	47
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	46
A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation	45
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications	45
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review	45
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	44
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence	44
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems	43
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	43
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	43
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis	42
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	42
Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics	42
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	42
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases	41
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers	40
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability	40
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	40
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns	39
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	39
Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene	39
Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife	39

From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models	38
Towards an ecology of protective coloration	38
A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis	38
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes	37
Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal	37
A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification	37
Patterns and determinants of dispersal in grey wolves (Canis lupus)	36
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa	36
Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels	35
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	35
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology	35
Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions	35
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	35
More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends	34
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	34
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression	34
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	34
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions	33
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	33
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	33
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	33
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	33
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods	33
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	32
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong	32
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates	32
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	32
Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops	32
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	31
Rate of environmental change across scales in ecology	31
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework	31
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough	31
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions	30
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	30
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	30
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	30
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective	30
The convoluted history of haem biosynthesis	29
Feather function and the evolution of birds	29
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour	29
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	29
The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution	29
Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes	28
Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects	28
Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions	28
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences	28
Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review	28
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	28
A synthesis of deimatic behaviour	27
What is the status of metabolic theory one century after Pütter invented the von Bertalanffy growth curve?	27
Why are there so many bee‐orchid species? Adaptive radiation by intra‐specific competition for mnesic pollinators	27
Newborn and elderly skin: two fragile skins at higher risk of pressure injury	26
Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome	26
Interocean patterns in shallow water sponge assemblage structure and function	26
Convergence and divergence in lizard colour polymorphisms	26
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	26
Sex roles and sex ratios in animals	26
A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits	26
The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants	26
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	26