OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Wildlife Research is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A molecular and bacteriological survey of Brucella spp. in wild venomous snake in Iran	29
Are birdwatchers willing to participate in local goose management? A case study from Sweden	25
Confirmation of avian trichomonosis among wild birds in Ireland	19
Body mass and physical changes of reintroduced Asiatic black bears	17
A study of the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the wild red deer herd of Exmoor	17
A site of bat conservation concern: Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria	16
Hares in the long grass: increased aircraft related mortality of the Irish hare (Lepus timidus hibernicus) over a 30-year period at Ireland’s largest civil airport	15
Controlling the abundance of invasive exotic wild boar (Sus scrofa) improves palm-tree conservation in north-eastern Argentina	13
Comparison between cavernous sinus and jugular vein as post mortem sampling sites for blood metabolic profiles in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus)	13
Occurrence and relevance of Mycoplasma spp. in free-ranging pheasants from northwestern Germany	12
Human presence is positively related to the number of bird calls and songs: Assessment in a national park	12
Female philopatry and unsuccessful male dispersal of a top predator in a human-modified landscape revealed by relatedness analysis	12
Proxy variables of the closeness between humans and wildlife associated with public interest in bird species in Japan	11
Crossroad for bird migration: France should improve the conservation of its key-wetland sites used by 6 million waterbirds	11
Predation of young brown hares (Lepus europaeus) by common buzzards (Buteo buteo) in western Poland	11
The distribution of lagomorph syphilis caused by Treponema paraluisleporidarum in Europe	10
Challenges for recovery of large carnivores in humanized countries: attitudes and knowledge of sheep farmers towards brown bear in Western Pyrenees, Spain	10
Effect of CITES Appendix I listing on illegal pangolin trade as gauged from seizure reports in Indonesia	10
The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the Vulnerable Ladakh urial in India	10
Hematology and biochemistry of South American coatis Nasua nasua (Carnivora: Procyonidae) inhabiting urban fragments in Midwest Brazil: differences according to intrinsic features and sampling site	10
Artificial intelligence as a potential tool for micro-histological analysis of herbivore diets	9
Disentangling landscape features and vegetation composition effects on wild ungulate use of hay meadows in high Pyrenees	9
Home range sizes of red deer in relation to habitat composition: a review and implications for management in Sweden	9
Migration patterns of Swedish Greylag geese Anser anser—implications for flyway management in a changing world	9
A novel approach for trap-side restraint and blood sampling in European badgers	9

Movement ecology and minimum density estimates of red foxes in wet grassland habitats used by breeding wading birds	9
Towards standardising the collection of game statistics in Europe: a case study	8
Investigating people’s perceptions of alien parakeets in urban environments	8
Using public-sourced photos to track changes in moose antler size during a 20-year hunting ban	8
Livestock displace European mouflon from optimal foraging sites	8
Absence of Mycoplasma spp. in nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) and blue (Cyanistes caeruleus) and great tits (Parus major) in Germany and its potential implication for evolutionary studies in bird	8
Abundance estimation of plains zebras via search–encounter sampling	8
Detection of African swine fever virus and wild boar eDNA in soil and turbid water samples: towards environmental surveillance	8
Trade in Prevost’s squirrels: legality, risk for introduction and disease transmission	8
Extent of introgressive hybridization in the Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni hermanni) from the south of France	8
Influence of invasive Prosopis juliflora on the distribution and ecology of native blackbuck in protected areas of Tamil Nadu, India	7
Genetic structure of Eurasian beaver in Romania: insights after two decades from the reintroduction	7
Water voles of Lake Hula: assessing their past, present, and future	7
Bird and small mammal community composition and abundance in upland open habitats and early conifer forests	7
Reeves’ muntjac populations continue to grow and spread across Great Britain and are invading continental Europe	6
Live decoys: an old but effective tool for attracting, capturing, and studying free-living passerines	6
Wolf (Canis lupus) litter size in Spain	6
Late mating behaviour in European brown bears	6
Prevalence of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella britovi in wild boars in the northeast of Spain	6
Abundance and activity of carnivores in two protected areas of semi-arid western India with varying top predator density and human impacts	6
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolverine (Gulo gulo) harvest: the potential role of refugia in a quota-free system	6
Combining habitat suitability with simulated movements for the predictive modelling of beaver distribution in Flanders	6
Negative trends in Rabbit populations in ‘Pest’ and ‘Non-Pest’ areas of central Spain after the outbreak of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2	6
Examining vertebrate road mortality on highways passing through protected areas of eastern Ethiopia	6
Beware of dogs! Domestic animals as a threat for wildlife conservation in Alpine protected areas	6
Broad geographic variation in age- and sex-dependent origin of harvested eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) revealed by stable-hydrogen (δ2H) isotope analyses of feathers	5
The DeepFaune initiative: a collaborative effort towards the automatic identification of European fauna in camera trap images	5
Housed in a lodge: occurrence of animal species within Eurasian beaver constructions in Central Italy	5
Correction to: Does the American mink displace the European polecat? a need for more research on interspecific competition between invasive and native species	5
Bat behavior around double-track electrified railways	5
Correction to: Diseases of Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica)	5
Height and tension of electric lines: how should an electric fence be installed to effectively mitigate human-wildlife conflict?	5
Cats and clouds: how a citizen camera-trapping project boosts wildcat (Felis silvestris) conservation	5
Population status and distribution of endangered Asiatic lions in Gujarat, India	5
Correction to: First-year dispersal in white-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla	5
Correction to: Compensating freshwater habitat loss—duck productivity and food resources in man‑made wetlands	5
Pattern and composition of wildlife roadkill across urban-rural gradient in an African expanding city	5
Movement of amphibians in a habitat mosaic of agriculture landscape	5
Seasonal pattern in browsing trees and shrubs by reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles: a study in Morocco with management implications	5
Flexibility in positional behavior is associated with ecological seasonality in Assamese macaques inhabiting limestone forests	5
Shedding light on long-term trends in Mediterranean carnivore populations: five species, one scenario, different responses	5
How many gamebirds are released in the UK each year?	5
Does the American mink displace the European polecat? A need for more research on interspecific competition between invasive and native species	5
Correction to: A questionnaire‑based investigation to explore the social and legal implications derived from the use of camera traps for wildlife monitoring and conservation	5
Weather and hunting efficiency: Unraveling the factors impacting wild boar drive hunting	5
Dental radiography as a low-invasive field technique to estimate age in small rodents, with the mole voles (Ellobius) as an example	5
Ecological determinants of spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta occupancy in Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	4
First molecular report of the Chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 (ChHV5 Scutavirus chelonidalpha5) in a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) with fibropapillomatosis in the southwest Gulf of Mexico	4
Correction to: Snowballing trends of saltwater crocodile conflicts in Andaman Islands: a mounting concern for conservation and sustainable coexistence	4
Home range overlaps of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula): implications for disease transmission	4

Genetic traces of dispersal and admixture in red deer (Cervus elaphus) populations from the Carpathian Basin	4
Thyroxine administration at the end of the rutting season does not affect testosterone secretion or horn growth in the Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica)	4
Understanding the patterns of livestock predation by wild carnivores for conservation planning in Kupwara, Kashmir Himalaya	4
Against the flow: unexpected migration movements over the open sea by inexperienced ospreys	4
Effects of sika deer density on the diet and population of red foxes	4
Geospatial based AHP analysis for habitat suitability of elephants and the effects of human elephant conflict in a tropical forest of Western Ghats in India	4
Like cat and fox: diurnal interactions between two sympatric carnivores in pastoral landscapes of NW Spain	4
Invasion in cold: weather effects on winter activity of an alien mesopredator at its northern range	4
Observations of golden eagles attacking and consuming wolf pups	4
New insights into biodiversity-disease relationships: the importance of the host community network characterization	4
Looking for liver flukes: Dicrocoelium dendriticum infection in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from central Italy	4
DoMoS − an open-source device for automated monitoring of endangered garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus)	4
Effectiveness of attractants and bait for Iberian wolf detection: captivity-based and free-ranging trials	4
Seasonal forage and diet quality in two subtropical ungulates in the Himalaya	4
Artificial tunnels of hydroelectric power plants as valuable habitat for European bats	4
Correction to: InfoFaunaFVG: a novel progressive web application for wildlife surveillance	4
Correction to: Minimum average pack size in Iberian wolves	4
Expanding the spatial scale in DNA-based monitoring schemes: ascertainment bias in transnational assessments	4
Molecular detection of novel herpesviruses and adenoviruses in two species of Australian freshwater turtles	4
Snowballing trends of saltwater crocodile conflicts in Andaman Islands: A mounting concern for conservation and sustainable co-existence	4
Serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii infection in endangered Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) and simulation of the effect on population dynamics	4
Prevalence of nasopharyngeal myiasis in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from an area with high sympatry between wild and domestic ungulates in Central Spain	4
Threats to seabirds in Portugal: integrating data from a rehabilitation centre and stranding network	3
Optimizing the baiting strategy for oral vaccine delivery to wild boar	3
Recovery of an isolated badger (Meles meles) population in The Netherlands	3
Red 15 Hz flickering light: a novel technique for effective wild bird management	3
Diet composition of Salt’s dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana Blainville, 1816) in Awash National Park, Ethiopia	3
Survey of the distribution of various frog species in each paddy field, focusing on spatial autocorrelation	3
Montane grassland resources drive gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) nesting behaviors in the Ebo forest, Littoral Region, Cameroon	3
An experimental assessment of biomass loss due to red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) grazing on agricultural grass meadows in Norway	3
Does the interface with plantation forests provide suitable habitat for axis deer (Axis axis) to avoid systematic hunting pressure in a protected area of north-eastern Argentina?	3
Fascioloides magna and other liver parasites in cloven-hoofed game from northeastern Bavaria, Germany: occurrence and pathological findings with special emphasis on red deer (Cervus elaphus)	3
Colonisation, impacts in conservation woodland and management of Reeves’ muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) in an English county	3
Population dynamics of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) in Central European forest clearings	3
Captive-introduced tortoises in wild populations: can we identify them by shell morphology?	3
Understanding the impact of wild boar on the European wild rabbit and red-legged partridge populations using a diet metabarcoding approach	3
Wolf attacks on hunting dogs are negatively related to prey abundance in Finland: an analysis at the wolf territory level	3
Hybridisation and genomic diversity in British and Irish pigeons Columba livia	3
Assessing the use of digital photographs for the determination of duck species, age and sex	3
Correction to: Hunting for ecological indicators: are large herbivore skeleton measures from harvest data useful proxies for monitoring?	3
Wolf (Canis lupus) predation and scavenging of reintroduced bison (Bison bison): a hallmark of ecological restoration to boreal food webs	3
White-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) in protected Danube wetlands as carriers of Escherichia coli with resistance and virulence genes	3
Spatial and temporal dynamics of wild boars Sus scrofa hunted in Alpine environment	3
Seroepidemiological analyses of rabies virus in two procyonid species from La Venta urban park, in Tabasco, Mexico	3
Time activity budget and foraging behavior: important determinants of resource sharing and guild structure in wintering waterbirds	3
Dog in sheep’s clothing: livestock depredation by free-ranging dogs may pose new challenges to wolf conservation	3
Home range of the Dalmatian pelican in south-east Europe	3
Establishing haematological and biochemical reference intervals for free-ranging Scottish golden eagle nestlings (Aquila chrysaetos)	3
Modelling stakeholder satisfaction for conflict resolution in wildlife management: a case of wolf population in Sweden	3
Satellite-derived measures of habitat structure perform as well as locally recorded measures in predicting predation on artificial nests in central European agricultural landscapes	3
Consequences of polyploidy and divergence as revealed by cytogenetic mapping of tandem repeats in African clawed frogs (Xenopus, Pipidae)	3
Comparing bird strike risk assessment methods: a new perspective for safety management	3
Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission	3
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a free ranging leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in India	3
Welfare assessment of European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) reared in captivity for their subsequent release	3
Tracking wildlife diseases using community science: an example through toad myiasis	3
To share or not to share: DNA metabarcoding reveals trophic niche overlap between sympatric trawling bats	3