OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 87. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
UAV-based emergency treatment plan for flood disasters at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant	279
Spatiotemporal pattern of vegetation water use efficiency between 2003 and 2017 and its coupling relationship with artificial carbon sequestration in the karst region of Southwestern China	243
Plant-soil feedbacks in Hydrocotyle vulgaris: Genotypic differences and relations to functional traits	235
The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers	222
Hyperspectral remote sensing of chlorophyll a and pheophorbide a pigments for macrobenthos mapping on an estuarine tidal flat	187
How the flow and sediment pulse influencing the distribution and functional gene composition of bacterial communities? Case study of the lower Yellow River, China	182
Where forest may not return in the western United States	180
Phased responses of urban tree canopy cover changes to urbanization process within Beijing’s built-up area: An analytical framework coupling state, transition, and drivers	171
Ecosystems face the risk of ecological deficits in the southern foothills of the Himalayas	170
DPSR-based study and assessment of the influence pathways of Shanghai urban development level on river methane emission potential during 2011–2020	169
A multi-source data fusion method to retrieve soil moisture dynamics and its influencing factors analysis in the ecological zone of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	169
The variation of the 400 mm isohyet and its influence mechanism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2021	168
A method based on elitist genetic algorithm for calibrating the thermo-physical surface indicators: Its principles, validation and application to bioswales	168
Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping	164
Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation	160
Effects of country success on COVID-19 cumulative cases and excess deaths in 169 countries	153
Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations	151
A novel assessment framework for colored-water footprint inequality in China	150
Quantifying relative contributions of biotic interactions to bacterial diversity and community assembly by using community characteristics of microbial eukaryotes	149
Selection of suitable aggregation function for estimation of water quality index for the Orontes River	147
Invasive Spartina alterniflora in controlled cultivation: Environmental implications of converging future technologies	145
Variations in active layer soil hydrothermal dynamics of typical wetlands in permafrost region in the Great Hing’an Mountains, northeast China	145
Negative influence of a threatened species on ecological status classification: A case study of the influence of European eel within the Swedish fish index VIX	144
Functional and trophic variations in macrofaunal assemblage reflect the ecological effects of bottom-based clam farming	144
Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition	142

Feature-dependent group structures and hierarchical songbird-habitat relationships in a managed forest landscape	140
‘Pulsing’ cities and ‘swarming’ metropolises: A simplified, entropy-based approach to long-term urban development	139
Interactions between landscape structure and bird mobility traits affect the connectivity of agroecosystem networks	138
CSR strategy composition and leaf traits for herbaceous plants in garden design	138
Long-term monitoring of a species suite of ecological indicators: A coordinated conservation framework for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	138
Nematode as a biomonitoring model for evaluating ecological risks of heavy metals in sediments from an urban river	136
The non-significant correlation between landscape ecological risk and ecosystem services in Xi'an Metropolitan Area, China	134
Precipitation variation since 1748 CE in the central Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	133
Land use changes and natural disaster fatalities: Empirical analysis for India	133
Regional water cycle health evaluation and obstacle factor analysis: A case study of the Yellow River basin in Henan Province, China	132
Co-occurrence patterns and community assembly mechanisms of benthic foraminiferal communities in South Chinese bays	131
Spatiotemporal variations of water conservation and its influencing factors in the Qinghai Plateau, China	130
Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic	129
Significant influences of extreme climate on autumn phenology in Central Asia grassland	129
A new model based on coupling coordination analysis incorporates the development rate for urbanization and ecosystem services assessment: A case of the Yangtze River Delta	128
Continental-scale wetland mapping: A novel algorithm for detailed wetland types classification based on time series Sentinel-1/2 images	127
High-resolution estimation of industrial water use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei based on multi-source data	124
Environmental and economic sustainability of key sectors in China's steel industry chain: An application of the Emergy Accounting approach	124
Aboveground biomass retrieval of wetland vegetation at the species level using UAV hyperspectral imagery and machine learning	123
Study on the development trend of social-ecological systems and the drivers of sustainable development – A case study of the Loess Plateau in China	121
Spatial distribution characteristics and variability of urban ecological welfare performance in the Yangtze River economic Belt: Evidence from 70 cities	121
A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins	120
Urban compactness and patch complexity influence PM2.5 concentrations in contrasting ways: Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	119
Influence of saline intrusion on the wetland ecosystem revealed by isotopic and hydrochemical indicators in the Yellow River Delta, China	117
Monitoring phycocyanin concentrations in high-latitude inland lakes using Sentinel-3 OLCI data: The case of Lake Hulun, China	116
Tropical vs. temperate sea turtle population resilience to extreme temperatures	115
Factors on the distribution, migration, and leaching of potential toxic metals in the soil and risk assessment around the zinc smelter	115
Construction and stability evaluation of ecological networks in the Loess Plateau	111
Downscaling estimation of NEP in the ecologically-oriented county based on multi-source remote sensing data	111
Integrating ecosystem stress into the assessment of ecosystem health in karst areas and exploring its driving factors	111
Assessing sustainability environmental performance of three urban agglomerations in China: An input–output modeling approach	109
Influences of anthropogenic acids on carbonate weathering and CO2 sink in an agricultural karst wetland (South China)	109
Optimal region connection: Establishing effective ecological corridors for biodiversity conservation in Yunnan Province, China	102
Are ecosystem service bundles useful for mountainous landscape function zoning and management? A case study of Bailongjiang watershed in western China	102
Ensemble projections of fish distribution in response to climate changes in the Yellow and Bohai Seas, China	101
Full Title: Quantifying the ecological carrying capacity of alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	101
Response of spatial and temporal variations of ecosystem service value to land use/land cover transformation in the upper basin of Miyun Reservoir	100
Real curve: Identifying and quantifying the real environmental effects on migration in China	99
Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China	98
Spatio-temporal explicit mapping and quantification of ecosystem services provision area: An application for wind erosion prevention service in northern China	97
Desert oasis vegetation information extraction by PLANET and unmanned aerial vehicle image fusion	97
Integrating seasonal variation into conservation planning can provide extra benefits: A case study in the Tana River Basin, Kenya	97
Using handheld mobile laser scanning to quantify fine-scale surface fuels and detect changes post-disturbance in northern California forests	96
Impacts of spatial scale on the delineation of spatiotemporal urban expansion	96
Grazing intensity estimation in temperate typical grasslands of Inner Mongolia using machine learning models	96
Dynamic processes of water conflicts and their coupling with water crises in Asia’s transboundary river basins	95
BBEST practices: Intentional efforts to identify elusive flow-ecology thresholds	95
Global temporal and spatial changes of vegetation in desert steppe Ecosystems: Impacts of climate driving factors	95
Proposal of new Natura 2000 network boundaries in Spain based on the value of importance for biodiversity and connectivity analysis for its improvement	94
Geotagging of natural history collections for reuse in environmental research	93

Optimizing the airborne laser scanning estimation of basal area larger than mean (BALM<	93
Ecosystem functioning and ecological status in the Venice lagoon, which relationships?	92
Patterns of bird species richness explained by annual variation in remotely sensed Dynamic Habitat Indices	92
Urban rivers health assessment based on the concept of resilience using improved FCM-EWM-MABAC model	92
Optimal agricultural structure allocation based on carbon source/sink accounting	90
Tree diversity depending on environmental gradients promotes biomass stability via species asynchrony in China’s forest ecosystems	89
A novel framework for identifying causes of forest fire events using environmental and temporal characteristics of the ignition point in fire footprint	89
Quantitative contribution of climate change and vegetation restoration to ecosystem services in the Inner Mongolia under ecological restoration projects	89
Trends in vegetation and height of the topographic surface in a tidal freshwater swamp experiencing rooting zone saltwater intrusion	89
Inversed virtual water flow pattern and its influencing factors in Northwest China	88
The differential responses of gas exchange and evapotranspiration to experimental drought for seedlings of two typical tree species on the Loess Plateau	88
Accelerated vegetative growth measured by gross primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2018	88
The probabilistic site-specific species pool and dark diversity in the terrestrialized urban mangroves	87