OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Informatics is 54. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Bayesian networks as a novel tool to enhance interpretability and predictive power of ecological models	291
Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier	203
Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly	182
Predicting eucalyptus plantation growth and yield using Landsat imagery in Minas Gerais, Brazil	143
Exploring the connection of physical habitat health of the wetland with its gas regulating services	136
Selection against ruderals in Danish grasslands over an eight-year period	131
Multi-output regression with structurally incomplete target labels: A case study of modelling global vegetation cover	130
Comparing phenocam color indices with phenological observations of black spruce in the boreal forest	128
Editorial Board	119
Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps	115
Seasonal habitat suitability and distribution patterns of Mediterranean fin whales	115
Evaluation of Gangetic dolphin habitat suitability under hydroclimatic changes using a coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic approach	114
Exploiting facial side similarities to improve AI-driven sea turtle photo-identification systems	105
Automated detection of sea cucumbers in turbid subtidal marine habitats: An explainable approach	102
Remote sensing algorithm for dissolved organic carbon in the Laptev Sea: Correction of photobleaching effect using spectral slope	98
Multilabel classification of peatland plant species from high-resolution drone images	93
A novel algal bloom risk assessment framework by integrating environmental factors based on explainable machine learning	92
Spatiotemporal water dynamic modelling of Ramsar-listed lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plains using Landsat, ICESat-2 and airborne LiDAR data	90
Spatial and temporal evolution of heatwaves in Taiwan in a changing climate using multi-dimensional complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition	87
Biological-based and remote sensing techniques to link vegetative and reproductive development and assess pollen emission in Mediterranean grasses	86
YoloXT: A object detection algorithm for marine benthos	84
ResHAN-GAM: A novel model for the inversion and prediction of soil organic matter content	83
“Flower power”: How flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity	82
Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks	81
Identifying sand and dust storm sources using spatial-temporal analysis of remote sensing data in Central Iran	80

Construction and optimization of ecological networks in karst regions based on multi-scale nesting: A case study in Guangxi Hechi, China	79
Estimation of canopy nitrogen nutrient status in lodging maize using unmanned aerial vehicles hyperspectral data	79
Spatiotemporal variation and prediction of NPP in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by coupling PLUS and CASA models	78
Climate change and dispersion dynamics of the invasive plant species Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in parts of the central and eastern India	77
The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape	74
Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming	72
Foundation models in shaping the future of ecology	70
Hybrid convolution neural network model for a quicker detection of infested maize plants with fall armyworms using UAV-based images	70
Automated plant species identification from the stomata images using deep neural network: A study of selected mangrove and freshwater swamp forest tree species of Bangladesh	69
Functional diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and fluvial habitat quality: Key biological trait categories	68
Advancing long-term precipitation pattern forecasting in Atlantic Canada using successive variational mode decomposition, recursive LSTM, and graph-based feature selection	66
Ecological security patterns of Chinese lakes based on ecosystem service values assessment and human threat factors evaluation	66
Beekeeping suitability prediction based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and apiary level data	65
Effects of long-term enclosing on distributions of carbon and nitrogen in semia-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia	64
Deep-CABPred: Deep learning model for predicting functional chlorophyll a-b binding proteins in trait-based plant ecology using hybrid embedding with semi-normalized temporal convolutional networks	63
A data-driven approach for the assessment of the thermal stratification of reservoirs based on readily available data	63
Automatic detection of color markings and numbers on trees in point clouds from Personal Laser Scanning (PLS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)	62
Evaluation of the monitoring capability of various vegetation indices and mainstream satellite band settings for grassland drought	61
Spatiotemporal changes and driving mechanism of ecosystem carbon sink in karst peak cluster depression basin in Southwest Guangxi based on the interaction of “water-rock-soil-air-biology”	58
Spatial modeling tool to assess and rank peri-urban land use in an agricultural region of the Midwestern United States	58
Quantifying observer variance in expansive monitoring program indicator data with heterogeneous-variance mixed-effects models	58
Overcoming cloud obstruction: Fast forest-damage assessment in post-tropical cyclone optical remote sensing	58
Flood-drought shifts monitoring on arid Xinjiang, China using a novel machine learning based algorithm	57
Temporal dynamics of biodiversity in benthic macroinvertebrate communities from a 140-year sedimentary DNA record and their driving mechanisms	57
The dynamic driving mechanisms of wetland change from an asynchrony-spatiotemporal perspective: A case study in Pearl River Delta, China	57
Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural drought on Prince Edward Island using Google Earth engine	57
Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle	55
Transferable species distribution modelling: Comparative performance of Generalised Functional Response models	54
Metaweb approaches for understanding complex ecological interactions: A review	54
Metric learning unveiling disparities: A novel approach to recognize false trigger images in wildlife monitoring	54
Machine learning approach for estimating length–weight relationships in key shark species to support fisheries management	54