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 2020-04-01 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
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps	78
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles	78
Human disturbance has contrasting effects on niche partitioning within carnivore communities	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
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
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research	67
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds	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
How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition	63
The biology of human hair greying	63
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
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology	62
Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence	61
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management	60
The ecosystem services provided by social insects: traits, management tools and knowledge gaps	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
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress	53
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	53
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences	52
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation	50
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions	50
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda	50
Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences	48
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems	48
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution	47
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems	47
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review	47
Adaptations to thermal stress in social insects: recent advances and future directions	46
Plasticity of microglia	45
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture	44
Camouflage in predators	44
The biology and evolution of spider venoms	43
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians	42
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis	42
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies	41
Speciation across the Tree of Life	41
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels	41
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions	41
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction	40
The evolution and physiology of male pregnancy in syngnathid fishes	40
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review	40
The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non‐avian dinosaurs	40
A conceptual framework of evolutionary novelty and innovation	39
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions	39
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography	39
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia	39
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis	39
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems	39
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	39
Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi‐scaled approach	38
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution	38
A part‐dependent account of biological individuality: why holobionts are individuals and ecosystems simultaneously	38

Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics	37
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications	37
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability	35
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence	35
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions	35
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers	35
Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene	35
Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal	35
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis	34
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?	34
From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models	33
Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions	33
A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification	33
Impacts of exclusion fencing on target and non‐target fauna: a global review	32
Towards an ecology of protective coloration	32
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?	32
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases	32
Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels	32
A comprehensive hypothesis on the migration of European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla)	32
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns	32
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology	32
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	31
A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis	31
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa	31
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates	30
Modelling neurodegenerative diseases with 3D brain organoids	30
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects	30
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough	30
Patterns and determinants of dispersal in grey wolves (Canis lupus)	30
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet	30
A review of the critics of invasion biology	29
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions	29
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes	29
Innovation in chimpanzees	29
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes	29
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis	29
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions	29
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions	28
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals	28
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective	28
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)	28
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework	28
The ecology of electricity and electroreception	28
Rate of environmental change across scales in ecology	27
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis	27
Ant‐induced evolutionary patterns in aphids	27
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods	27
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression	27
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs	27
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems	26
Sublethal effects of contaminants on marine habitat‐forming species: a review and meta‐analysis	26
Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife	26