OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Informatics is 52. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Multi-output regression with structurally incomplete target labels: A case study of modelling global vegetation cover	248
Editorial Board	163
Generalizing resemblance coefficients to accommodate incomplete data	159
Selection against ruderals in Danish grasslands over an eight-year period	155
Biological-based and remote sensing techniques to link vegetative and reproductive development and assess pollen emission in Mediterranean grasses	137
A data-driven approach for the assessment of the thermal stratification of reservoirs based on readily available data	125
Climate change and dispersion dynamics of the invasive plant species Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in parts of the central and eastern India	116
Application of geographical information system (GIS) in reducing accident blackspots and in planning of a safer urban road network: A review	115
Estimation of canopy nitrogen nutrient status in lodging maize using unmanned aerial vehicles hyperspectral data	114
A systematic study of the class imbalance problem: Automatically identifying empty camera trap images using convolutional neural networks	113
Spatiotemporal water dynamic modelling of Ramsar-listed lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plains using Landsat, ICESat-2 and airborne LiDAR data	111
Spatial and temporal evolution of heatwaves in Taiwan in a changing climate using multi-dimensional complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition	106
Bayesian networks as a novel tool to enhance interpretability and predictive power of ecological models	100
Automatic detection of color markings and numbers on trees in point clouds from Personal Laser Scanning (PLS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)	94
Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly	93
Predicting eucalyptus plantation growth and yield using Landsat imagery in Minas Gerais, Brazil	87
Evaluation of Gangetic dolphin habitat suitability under hydroclimatic changes using a coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic approach	85
Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier	84
Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps	83
Comparison and empirical analysis of the urban economic development level in the Yangtze River urban agglomeration based on an analogical ecosystem perspective	80
YoloXT: A object detection algorithm for marine benthos	77
Hybrid convolution neural network model for a quicker detection of infested maize plants with fall armyworms using UAV-based images	77
Comparing phenocam color indices with phenological observations of black spruce in the boreal forest	75
Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming	75
The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape	74

Effects of long-term enclosing on distributions of carbon and nitrogen in semia-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia	74
Documenting changing landscapes with rePhotoSA: A repeat photography and citizen science project in southern Africa	70
Spatiotemporal variation and prediction of NPP in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by coupling PLUS and CASA models	70
Foundation models in shaping the future of ecology	69
The TreeTalkersCheck R package: An automatic daily routine to check physiological traits of trees in the forest	68
“Flower power”: How flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity	66
Evaluation of the monitoring capability of various vegetation indices and mainstream satellite band settings for grassland drought	66
Exploring the connection of physical habitat health of the wetland with its gas regulating services	65
Construction and optimization of ecological networks in karst regions based on multi-scale nesting: A case study in Guangxi Hechi, China	64
A novel algal bloom risk assessment framework by integrating environmental factors based on explainable machine learning	62
Identifying sand and dust storm sources using spatial-temporal analysis of remote sensing data in Central Iran	62
Ecological security patterns of Chinese lakes based on ecosystem service values assessment and human threat factors evaluation	61
Beekeeping suitability prediction based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and apiary level data	61
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	60
Metric learning unveiling disparities: A novel approach to recognize false trigger images in wildlife monitoring	59
Temporal dynamics of biodiversity in benthic macroinvertebrate communities from a 140-year sedimentary DNA record and their driving mechanisms	58
Transferable species distribution modelling: Comparative performance of Generalised Functional Response models	57
Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural drought on Prince Edward Island using Google Earth engine	57
Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish	55
Leveraging citizen science to classify and track benthic habitat states: An unsupervised UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline applied to the global reef life survey dataset	55
Identification of the most suitable afforestation sites by Juniperus excels specie using machine learning models: Firuzkuh semi-arid region, Iran	55
Exploring the optimal model for assessing SOC and TN in Zanthoxylum bungeanum forest on the Loess Plateau using VNIR spectroscopy	54
Distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture for estimating density of Northern Bobwhite	53
Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle	53
An image enhancement approach for coral reef fish detection in underwater videos	53
Quantifying observer variance in expansive monitoring program indicator data with heterogeneous-variance mixed-effects models	53
Evaluation of driving effects of carbon storage change in the source of the Yellow River: A perspective with CMIP6 future development scenarios	52