OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 86. 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
Land surface phenology detections from multi-source remote sensing indices capturing canopy photosynthesis phenology across major land cover types in the Northern Hemisphere	261
Identifying critical climate periods for temporal dynamics of aboveground net primary productivity in the Eurasian steppe region	227
Spatiotemporal variations of water conservation and its influencing factors in the Qinghai Plateau, China	221
UAV-based emergency treatment plan for flood disasters at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant	220
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	200
Precipitation variation since 1748 CE in the central Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	195
Plant-soil feedbacks in Hydrocotyle vulgaris: Genotypic differences and relations to functional traits	177
Relationships between a catchment-scale forest disturbance index, time delays, and chemical properties of surface water	176
Influence of inundation characteristics on the distribution of dryland floodplain vegetation communities	173
The evolution of settlement system and the paths of rural revitalization in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A case study of Nagqu County	170
Effects of a chain of reservoirs on temporal and spatial variation in water chemistry within an endorheic basin	165
The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers	158
Quantifying relative contributions of biotic interactions to bacterial diversity and community assembly by using community characteristics of microbial eukaryotes	156
Hyperspectral remote sensing of chlorophyll a and pheophorbide a pigments for macrobenthos mapping on an estuarine tidal flat	156
Rocket launching activities are associated with reduced insect species richness and abundance in two types of tropical plantations around the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, southern China	155
How the flow and sediment pulse influencing the distribution and functional gene composition of bacterial communities? Case study of the lower Yellow River, China	153
Soil attributes are more important than others in shaping the diversity of cultivated land quality types, southern China	151
Where forest may not return in the western United States	149
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	148
Integrating ecosystem stress into the assessment of ecosystem health in karst areas and exploring its driving factors	147
High-resolution estimation of industrial water use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei based on multi-source data	139
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	135
Ecosystems face the risk of ecological deficits in the southern foothills of the Himalayas	135
Developing an early warning system and risk assessment based on model for heat damage in rice	133
The differential responses of gas exchange and evapotranspiration to experimental drought for seedlings of two typical tree species on the Loess Plateau	132

Shells of Pearlmussels, Margaritifera dahurica (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae), as a biogeochemical indicator of the background (Holocene) and current major and trace elements content in riverine waters	132
Emergetic and cosmic exergy-based ecological assessments of long-term raised field eco-farming systems in saline–alkaline lands	131
Multi-trophic level responses to environmental stressors over the past ~150 years: Insights from a lake-rich region of the world	130
DPSR-based study and assessment of the influence pathways of Shanghai urban development level on river methane emission potential during 2011–2020	129
A novel framework for identifying causes of forest fire events using environmental and temporal characteristics of the ignition point in fire footprint	128
Monitoring microplastic pollution: The potential and limitations of Nephrops norvegicus	126
Response of soil phosphorus fractions to land use change in the subalpine ecosystems of Southeast margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Southwest China	126
Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic	125
The variation of the 400 mm isohyet and its influence mechanism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2021	125
A method based on elitist genetic algorithm for calibrating the thermo-physical surface indicators: Its principles, validation and application to bioswales	124
Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping	123
Patterns of bird species richness explained by annual variation in remotely sensed Dynamic Habitat Indices	123
Spatial distribution characteristics and variability of urban ecological welfare performance in the Yangtze River economic Belt: Evidence from 70 cities	122
The probabilistic site-specific species pool and dark diversity in the terrestrialized urban mangroves	121
Non-random species loss under human disturbance increases the nestedness component of macroinvertebrate beta diversity in tropical streams	121
Harmful blooms across a longitudinal gradient in central Europe during heatwave: Cyanobacteria biomass, cyanotoxins, and nutrients	121
Comparing the performance of machine learning algorithms for estimating aboveground biomass in typical steppe of northern China using Sentinel imageries	120
Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation	119
Quantitative contribution of climate change and vegetation restoration to ecosystem services in the Inner Mongolia under ecological restoration projects	118
Effects of country success on COVID-19 cumulative cases and excess deaths in 169 countries	117
A new framework for identifying ecological conservation and restoration areas to enhance carbon storage	117
N-microbial properties are key indicators of fertility in maturating technosols constructed for urban landscapes	116
Land use/cover change simulation research: A system literature review based on bibliometric analyses	116
Multilevel green space ecological network collaborative optimization from the perspective of scale effect	116
Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations	116
Meeting the challenges of the waste hierarchy: A performance evaluation of EU countries	115
Co-occurrence patterns and community assembly mechanisms of benthic foraminiferal communities in South Chinese bays	114
Accelerated vegetative growth measured by gross primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2018	114
Evaluation of the current status and risks of aquatic ecology in the Jialing River Basin based on the characteristics and succession trends of phytoplankton communities	114
Feature-dependent group structures and hierarchical songbird-habitat relationships in a managed forest landscape	111
‘Pulsing’ cities and ‘swarming’ metropolises: A simplified, entropy-based approach to long-term urban development	111
Optimizing the airborne laser scanning estimation of basal area larger than mean (BALM<	110
Long-term monitoring of a species suite of ecological indicators: A coordinated conservation framework for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	109
CSR strategy composition and leaf traits for herbaceous plants in garden design	109
Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition	108
Interactions between landscape structure and bird mobility traits affect the connectivity of agroecosystem networks	107
A novel remote sensing method for monitoring Large-Scale grassland aboveground Biomass: The case study of grassland key belt in the Tibetan Plateau	106
Water quality index including periphyton chlorophyll-a in forested urban watersheds from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)	106
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	104
Spatio-temporal explicit mapping and quantification of ecosystem services provision area: An application for wind erosion prevention service in northern China	104
Different responses of soil water to warming controlled by evapotranspiration during grassland degradation: A case study in the typical steppe of China	104
Determining the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the ecosystem multifunctionality in a desert-oasis ecotone	104
Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China	98
Seasonal hydrological traits in Salix psammophila and its responses to soil moisture and meteorological factors in desert areas	96
Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves	94
Influence of saline intrusion on the wetland ecosystem revealed by isotopic and hydrochemical indicators in the Yellow River Delta, China	93
Estimating the spatial distribution of soil total arsenic in the suspected contaminated area using UAV-Borne hyperspectral imagery and deep learning	92
Environmental and economic sustainability of key sectors in China's steel industry chain: An application of the Emergy Accounting approach	92
Geotagging of natural history collections for reuse in environmental research	92
Tropical vs. temperate sea turtle population resilience to extreme temperatures	92

River reach types as large-scale biodiversity proxies for management: The case of the Greater Mekong Region	91
Green logistics performance Index as a benchmarking tool for EU countries environmental sustainability	89
A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins	89
Urban compactness and patch complexity influence PM2.5 concentrations in contrasting ways: Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	89
Optimisation of ecological security patterns in ecologically transition areas under the perspective of ecological resilience − a case of Taohe River	88
Concept and method of drought disaster risk measurement based on drought propagation level--a case study of AnHui Province	88
Assessing the effects of environmental factors on filtration rate of golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei)	87
Visualization and categorization of ecological acoustic events based on discriminant features	87
Regional water cycle health evaluation and obstacle factor analysis: A case study of the Yellow River basin in Henan Province, China	87
Evaluation and optimization of a long-term fish monitoring program in the Hudson River	86
Ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) as bioindicators of environmental pressure: A karstic river case	86