OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 43. 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
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	106
Global root traits (GRooT) database	98
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	92
Handling missing values in trait data	90
The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils	90
The edaphic control of plant diversity	83
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	76
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	74
Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates	68
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	64
Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls	63
The global abundance of tree palms	62
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	61
Microbial macroecology: In search of mechanisms governing microbial biogeographic patterns	60
A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests	59
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	59
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	59
A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures	59
Simulating forest resilience: A review	58
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	56
Carbon accumulation in agroforestry systems is affected by tree species diversity, age and regional climate: A global meta‐analysis	56
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	54
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities	53
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	52
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	52

Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	49
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?	49
Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate	49
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?	49
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	48
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	48
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	47
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau	47
Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework	46
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	46
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	46
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity	45
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	45
Deforestation leakage undermines conservation value of tropical and subtropical forest protected areas	44
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales	44
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	44
Relative impacts of land‐use and climate change on grasshopper range shifts have changed over time	44
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia	43
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism	43
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests	43