OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 82. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Nature’s contributions to people and biodiversity mapping in Switzerland: spatial patterns and environmental drivers	613
Multi-Scenario analysis of rooftop greening regulation on runoff effects based on adaptive Evaluation: A case study of Macau, China	231
From colonial clusters to colonial sheaths: Imaging flow cytometry analysis of Microcystis morphospecies dynamics in mesocosm and links to CyanoHABs management	215
Alpine meadow degradation regulates soil microbial diversity via decreasing plant production on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	201
Predicting regional sustainable development to enhance decision-making in brownfield redevelopment using machine learning algorithms	178
Exotic species elicit decoupled responses in functional diversity components of freshwater fish assemblages in Chile	174
Dynamic changes and key drivers of ecosystem service values in populous zones on the Tibetan Plateau: A 35-Year analysis	169
Spatial non-stationarity effects of the driving factors on landscape ecological risk: A case of the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Urban Agglomeration, China	166
Monitoring water quality parameters of freshwater aquaculture ponds using UAV-based multispectral images	160
Water security assessment and analysis incorporating blue-green water in the river basin	156
Study on the coordination and factors affecting the coupling of resource and environmental carrying capacity and regional economy in ecologically fragile areas	154
Monitoring the salinization of agricultural land and assessing its drivers in the Altay region	154
Different responses of soil water to warming controlled by evapotranspiration during grassland degradation: A case study in the typical steppe of China	153
APNet-YOLOv8s: A real-time automatic aquatic plants recognition algorithm for complex environments	148
Soil macrofauna are important bioindicators of soil quality in agroecosystems under different management	144
Assessing ecological vulnerability and resilience-sensitivity under rapid urbanization in China’s Jiangsu province	141
Indicators of biodiversity in an intensively cultivated and heavily human modified landscape	140
Changes in the severity of compound hot-dry-windy events over global land areas	140
Harmful blooms across a longitudinal gradient in central Europe during heatwave: Cyanobacteria biomass, cyanotoxins, and nutrients	137
Co-occurrences and species distribution models show the structuring role of dominant species in the Vez watershed, in Portugal	136
Response of macroinvertebrates to changes in stream flow and habitat conditions in Dinki watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia	132
Elevational patterns of trait composition and functional diversity of stream macroinvertebrates in the Hengduan Mountains region, Southwest China	130
Central European forest floor bryophytes: Richness, species composition, coexistence and diagnostic significance across environmental gradients of forest habitats	128
Assessing the effect of human activities on biophony in urban forests using an automated acoustic scene classification model	125
Response of soil nitrogen components and its vertical distribution to rainfall redistribution during Robinia pseudoacacia forest restoration on the Loess Plateau	124

Elevated physiological plasticity in xerophytic-deciduous shrubs as demonstrated in their variable maximum carboxylation rate	123
Literature review: Multi-criteria decision-making method application for sustainable deep-sea mining transport plans	123
Changes in south-Swedish vegetation composition over the last 200 years as described by species-specific indicator and trait values and documented by museum and literature records	121
Impacts of land use changes on ecosystem services at different elevations in an ecological function area, northern China	121
Can functional leaf traits be used for monitoring wetland restoration? A comparison between commonly used monitoring metrics and functional leaf traits	120
Influences of anthropogenic acids on carbonate weathering and CO2 sink in an agricultural karst wetland (South China)	119
Interactions between landscape structure and bird mobility traits affect the connectivity of agroecosystem networks	118
Land use/cover change simulation research: A system literature review based on bibliometric analyses	117
Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations	117
Bird posture recognition based on target keypoints estimation in dual-task convolutional neural networks	117
Fine-scale satellite-based monitoring of temperature and vegetation cover in microclimates, distribution ranges, and landscape connectivity for Neurergus kaiseri (Kaiser’s mountain newt) during the br	115
Ecological problem identification based on spatial and temporal dynamics of ecosystem quality: A case study	115
Gradient diffusion entropy corrected ALNS optimization for vegetation topology interaction networks	113
Exploring the potential of aerial drone imagery to distinguish breeding Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguins in Antarctica	113
Economics of ecosystem restoration	112
Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent	110
Shrubs alter microbial community dynamics across various soil depths in alpine grassland ecosystems on the eastern Tibetan Plateau	109
Characteristics and formation mechanism of carbon emission efficiency spatial correlation network: Perspective from Shandong Province	107
Long-term effect of island industrial construction on groundwater health risk	107
Focusing on the role of abiotic and biotic drivers on cross-taxon congruence	105
A Bi-level optimization approach to reduce the pollution burden of lake water with ecological compensation	105
Spatiotemporal variations and driving forces analysis of ecosystem water conservation in coastal areas of China	105
Detection and attribution of changes in cultivated land use ecological efficiency: A case study on Yangtze River Economic Belt, China	104
Precipitation variation since 1748 CE in the central Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	104
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alter plant N and P resorption of dominant species in a degraded grassland of northern China	102
Seasonal fluctuations of marsh wetlands in the headwaters of the Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Indus Rivers, Tibetan Plateau based on the adapted LandTrendr model	102
Green Neighbourhood Sustainability Index – A measure of the balance between anthropogenic pressure and ecological relevance	100
Dynamic successive assessment of Rural Human Settlements Environment in China	99
Determination and analysis of groundwater ecological level in Changling County	99
Effects of stratification and mixing on spatiotemporal dynamics and functional potential of microbial community in a subtropical large-deep reservoir driven by nutrients and ecological niche	98
Soil water retention capacity surpasses climate humidity in determining soil organic carbon content but not plant production in the steppe zone of Northern China	97
Vegetation inter-annual variation responses to climate variation in different geomorphic zones of the Yangtze River Basin, China	97
Analysis of the spatiotemporal expansion and pattern evolution of urban areas in Anhui Province, China, based on nighttime light data	97
SCAIRM: A spatial cumulative assessment of impact risk for management	97
Carbon dynamics of the plant-soil system during vegetation succession in dune-meadow cascade ecosystems in Horqin Sandy Land, China	97
Ecotoxicological response of zebrafish liver (Danio rerio) induced by di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate	96
Transportation synthetic sustainability indices: A case of Taiwan intercity railway transport	95
Combining biodiversity and geodiversity on landscape scale: A novel approach using rare earth elements and spatial distribution models in an agricultural Mediterranean landscape	95
Scientometrics of the assessment of biotic integrity in estuaries	95
Seasonal hydrological traits in Salix psammophila and its responses to soil moisture and meteorological factors in desert areas	94
Evaluating relationships between plants, water chemistry, and denitrification potential in palustrine freshwater marshes	94
Monitoring and analysis of abandoned cropland in the Karst Plateau of eastern Yunnan, China based on Landsat time series images	94
On retrieving the chromium and zinc concentrations in the arable soil by the hyperspectral reflectance based on the deep forest	93
Tree diversity depending on environmental gradients promotes biomass stability via species asynchrony in China’s forest ecosystems	93
Video-based bird posture recognition using dual feature-rates deep fusion convolutional neural network	91
Investigating the effects of tree species diversity and relative density on bird species richness with acoustic indices	91
Limitations of beta diversity in conservation site selection	91
Limited terrestrial carbon sinks and increasing carbon emissions from the Hu Line spatial pattern perspective in China	90
Spatially non-stationarity relationships between high-density built environment and waterlogging disaster: Insights from xiamen island, china	89
Leaf trait network variations with woody species diversity and habitat heterogeneity in degraded karst forests	87

The effect of summer water stress on the nutritive value of orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata L.) in permanent grassland under increased temperature and elevated atmospheric CO2	86
A metrics-based approach for modeling covariation of visual and ecological landscape qualities	85
Evaluation of water resources carrying capacity in Tarim River Basin under game theory combination weights	84
Accelerated vegetative growth measured by gross primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2018	84
Dynamic change mechanism of the desert plant Nitraria sibirica growth in natural habitat	83
Extraction of long time series wetland information based on Google Earth Engine and random forest algorithm for a plateau lake basin – A case study of Dianchi Lake, Yunnan Province, China	82
New measures for quantifying directional changes in presence-absence community data	82