OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Erratum	193
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?	112
Cover Image	108
Measuring what matters in the era of big data	91
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions	89
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	84
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COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem	70
Attracted to death	66
Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya	63
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?	62
Cover Image	59
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions	54
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	53
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship	50
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	41
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	40
How to pay for ecosystem services	38
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	38
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	38
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making	37
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Hunting on dangerous ground	32
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds	29

Dispatches	28
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors	28
RAD needs monitoring	27
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you	27
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management	26
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	26
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	25
Cities as sanctuaries	25
Sparse genetic data limit biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally	25
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	23
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems	23
The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint	22
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Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?	21
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil	20
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly	20
Issue Information	20
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?	19
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander	19
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene	19
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	18
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	18
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	18
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species	18
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	17
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	17
Generating ecological insights from historical data	16
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	16
Maximizing inference from distributed experimental networks via “add‐on” studies	16
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms	16
Size matters in nature	16
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals	16
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower	16
Standing on one foot	15
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Are all‐girls programs sexist?	15
Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas	14
Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations	14
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective	14
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	14
Transformative governance of cumulative effects through an Indigenous outlook	14
Cover Image	14
Issue Information	13
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies	13
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Glass‐like flowers in the rain	13
Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events	12
Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?	12
Issue Information	12
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields	11

Issue Information	11
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data	11
Science in a changing world	11
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era	10
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture	10
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America	10
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	10
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized	10
Ants actively carry microplastics	10
Last refuge for Arctic fauna	10
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions	10
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework	10
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta	9
Landsat@50	9
Dispatches	9
Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us	9
Can we coevolve with AI?	9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?	9
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?	9
Dispatches	9
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?	8
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science	8
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?	8
Issue Information	8
Geophagy in African savanna elephants	7
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color	7
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings	7
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Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience	6
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses	6
Setting your service agenda	6
Managing strategic linkages among natural and human systems can enhance ecosystem services	6
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat	6
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Issue Information	6
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature	6
Cover Image	6
Issue Information	5
Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks	5
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems	5
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller	5
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated	5
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients	5
Going my way?	5
Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms	5
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions	5
Exoneration of the shrike	5
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management	4
Improving our understanding of blue carbon with a net ecosystem carbon budget framework	4
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts	4
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Mermaids by another name	4
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon	4
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes	4
Clever commensalism in a harsh environment	4
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What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?	4
Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation	4
Disentangling the potential of protected areas to promote sustainable development	4
Issue Information	4
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