OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 25. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	324
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	265
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	159
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	141
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	134
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	132
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	102
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	100
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	98
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	96
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	94
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	90
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	86
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	84
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	83
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	75
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	75
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	74
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	73
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	72
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	71
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	70
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	70
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	69
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	67

Wolbachiahost shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	66
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	66
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	65
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	64
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	61
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	59
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	59
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	58
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	58
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	57
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	57
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	57
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis	55
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	55
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	55
Plasticity of microglia	54
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions	54
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	54
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture	53
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications	51
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	49
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction	49
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	49
Speciation across theTree ofLife	48
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review	48
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	48
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	47
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence	47
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis	46
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems	45
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	45
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	44
Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics	44
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns	44
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases	43
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers	43
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	43
Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife	43
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes	42
From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models	41
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa	41
Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene	41
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	41
A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis	41
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability	40
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	40
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	40
Patterns and determinants of dispersal in grey wolves (Canis lupus)	39
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	38
More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends	38

A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification	38
Towards an ecology of protective coloration	38
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology	37
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	36
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	36
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	36
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	36
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression	35
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions	35
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods	35
Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions	35
Wallace's line,Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels	35
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	35
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	35
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong	34
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	34
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	34
Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review	33
Feather function and the evolution of birds	33
Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops	33
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	33
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour	32
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective	32
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough	32
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates	32
The convoluted history of haem biosynthesis	31
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions	31
Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution	31
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework	31
What is the status of metabolic theory one century afterPütter invented the vonBertalanffy growth curve?	30
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	30
The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution	30
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	30
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	30
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	30
The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants	29
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals	29
Sex roles and sex ratios in animals	29
Newborn and elderly skin: two fragile skins at higher risk of pressure injury	28
A synthesis of deimatic behaviour	28
Successional theories	28
Convergence and divergence in lizard colour polymorphisms	28
Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects	28
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape	28
Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes	28
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences	28
From fibre to function: are we accurately representing muscle architecture and performance?	27
How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe	27
Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta‐analysis	27
A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits	26
Olfactory camouflage and communication in birds	26
The terrestrial and semi‐aquatic invertebrates of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams	26
Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome	26
The phenotypic costs of captivity	26
Improving zebrafish laboratory welfare and scientific research through understanding their natural history	25
Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy	25