OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Wildfires and global change	219
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species	88
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework	87
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales	86
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming	82
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application	77
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people	73
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters	71
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding	71
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires	69
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes	68
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning	65
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept	63
Urban evolution of invasive species	63
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges	61
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	59
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades	57
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions	50
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions	48
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	47
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands	43
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	42
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands	42
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	41
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems	40

Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales	40
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry	38
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use	38
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe	38
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations	37
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes	36
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	34
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study	34