OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 39. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity	102
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Issue Information	99
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications	96
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents	86
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems	82
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis	81
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas	74
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity	73
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities	73
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates	66
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe	65
Issue Information	63
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa	62
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities	61
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna	60
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	58
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	58
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data	56
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)	51
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition	51
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions	49

Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N₂O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming	48
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour	48
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)	47
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season	46
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions	45
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data	45
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model	45
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators	45
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	45
Corrigendum	43
Corrigendum	41
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China	40
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The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients	39