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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific	140
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)	87
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Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems	85
Issue Information	85
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities	85
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna	83
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe	73
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition	71
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities	70
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	67
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data	66
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa	66
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications	59
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents	59
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	59
Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles	55
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients	55
Climate and socio‐economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world	54
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models	53
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate	49
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators	48

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	47
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour	47
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)	47
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model	46
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season	45
Corrigendum	44
Corrigendum	43
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale	43
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia	43
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occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data	41
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach	40
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China	39
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions	39