OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biological Reviews is 27. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	270
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension	235
Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen	171
Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services	153
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates	140
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna	132
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application	121
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps	119
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community	116
Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities	93
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology	91
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	89
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	88
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition	87
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	82
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	81
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae	81
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	74
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests	73
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	70
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	70
Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection	70
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study	70
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	69
The biology of human hair greying	69

Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	68
Next‐generation biological control: the need for integrating genetics and genomics	67
Deciphering mollusc shell production: the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics	66
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death	65
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	62
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	62
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	61
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	61
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	60
Migration in butterflies: a global overview	60
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities	59
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	57
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	56
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	56
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	54
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	54
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	53
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	52
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	52
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	51
Adaptations to thermal stress in social insects: recent advances and future directions	50
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	49
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture	48
Plasticity of microglia	48
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	48
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions	48
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	47
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	46
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis	45
The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs	45
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction	44
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	44
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	44
Speciation across the Tree of Life	43
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence	43
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems	42
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	42
Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi‐scaled approach	42
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications	42
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis	41
A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation	41
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review	41
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	41
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	40
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	40
Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics	39
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	39
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers	39
Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene	38
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases	38

A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis	38
Towards an ecology of protective coloration	37
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability	37
A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification	37
From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models	37
Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife	37
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	37
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns	37
Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal	36
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
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	35
Impacts of exclusion fencing on target and non‐target fauna: a global review	35
Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions	35
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	34
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions	34
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology	34
Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels	34
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	33
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes	33
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	33
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	33
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	33
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	32
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods	32
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates	31
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough	31
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression	31
More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends	30
Rate of environmental change across scales in ecology	30
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	30
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective	30
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework	30
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	30
The integrative biology of genetic dominance	30
Ant‐induced evolutionary patterns in aphids	30
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	30
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	30
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	29
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions	29
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour	29
Sublethal effects of contaminants on marine habitat‐forming species: a review and meta‐analysis	29
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong	29
Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes	28
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	28
Feather function and the evolution of birds	27
Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects	27
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences	27
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition	27
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	27
Why are there so many bee‐orchid species? Adaptive radiation by intra‐specific competition for mnesic pollinators	27
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example	27
The convoluted history of haem biosynthesis	27
What is the status of metabolic theory one century after Pütter invented the von Bertalanffy growth curve?	27