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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

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	24
A study of the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the wild red deer herd of Exmoor	19
Body mass and physical changes of reintroduced Asiatic black bears	18
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	17
A site of bat conservation concern: Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria	17
Comparison between cavernous sinus and jugular vein as post mortem sampling sites for blood metabolic profiles in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus)	16
Controlling the abundance of invasive exotic wild boar (Sus scrofa) improves palm-tree conservation in north-eastern Argentina	15
Human presence is positively related to the number of bird calls and songs: Assessment in a national park	14
Female philopatry and unsuccessful male dispersal of a top predator in a human-modified landscape revealed by relatedness analysis	13
Occurrence and relevance of Mycoplasma spp. in free-ranging pheasants from northwestern Germany	13
Crossroad for bird migration: France should improve the conservation of its key-wetland sites used by 6 million waterbirds	12
Predation of young brown hares (Lepus europaeus) by common buzzards (Buteo buteo) in western Poland	12
Proxy variables of the closeness between humans and wildlife associated with public interest in bird species in Japan	12
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	11
The distribution of lagomorph syphilis caused by Treponema paraluisleporidarum in Europe	11
Effect of CITES Appendix I listing on illegal pangolin trade as gauged from seizure reports in Indonesia	11
Movement ecology and minimum density estimates of red foxes in wet grassland habitats used by breeding wading birds	10
Disentangling landscape features and vegetation composition effects on wild ungulate use of hay meadows in high Pyrenees	10
Challenges for recovery of large carnivores in humanized countries: attitudes and knowledge of sheep farmers towards brown bear in Western Pyrenees, Spain	10
Migration patterns of Swedish Greylag geese Anser anser—implications for flyway management in a changing world	10
The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the Vulnerable Ladakh urial in India	10
Towards standardising the collection of game statistics in Europe: a case study	9
A novel approach for trap-side restraint and blood sampling in European badgers	9

Detection of African swine fever virus and wild boar eDNA in soil and turbid water samples: towards environmental surveillance	9
Artificial intelligence as a potential tool for micro-histological analysis of herbivore diets	9
Livestock displace European mouflon from optimal foraging sites	9
Home range sizes of red deer in relation to habitat composition: a review and implications for management in Sweden	9
Lunar phase as a cue for migrations to two species of explosive breeding amphibians—implications for conservation	8
Trade in Prevost’s squirrels: legality, risk for introduction and disease transmission	8
Water voles of Lake Hula: assessing their past, present, and future	8
Abundance estimation of plains zebras via search–encounter sampling	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
Using public-sourced photos to track changes in moose antler size during a 20-year hunting ban	8
Influence of invasive Prosopis juliflora on the distribution and ecology of native blackbuck in protected areas of Tamil Nadu, India	8
Investigating people’s perceptions of alien parakeets in urban environments	8
Extent of introgressive hybridization in the Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni hermanni) from the south of France	8
Bird and small mammal community composition and abundance in upland open habitats and early conifer forests	8
Reeves’ muntjac populations continue to grow and spread across Great Britain and are invading continental Europe	7
Abundance and activity of carnivores in two protected areas of semi-arid western India with varying top predator density and human impacts	7
Combining habitat suitability with simulated movements for the predictive modelling of beaver distribution in Flanders	7
Prevalence of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella britovi in wild boars in the northeast of Spain	7
Genetic structure of Eurasian beaver in Romania: insights after two decades from the reintroduction	7
Flexibility in positional behavior is associated with ecological seasonality in Assamese macaques inhabiting limestone forests	6
Late mating behaviour in European brown bears	6
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolverine (Gulo gulo) harvest: the potential role of refugia in a quota-free system	6
Dental radiography as a low-invasive field technique to estimate age in small rodents, with the mole voles (Ellobius) as an example	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
Height and tension of electric lines: how should an electric fence be installed to effectively mitigate human-wildlife conflict?	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
The DeepFaune initiative: a collaborative effort towards the automatic identification of European fauna in camera trap images	6
Shedding light on long-term trends in Mediterranean carnivore populations: five species, one scenario, different responses	5
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
Correction to: Diseases of Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica)	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
Does the American mink displace the European polecat? A need for more research on interspecific competition between invasive and native species	5
Invasion in cold: weather effects on winter activity of an alien mesopredator at its northern range	5
Movement of amphibians in a habitat mosaic of agriculture landscape	5
Weather and hunting efficiency: Unraveling the factors impacting wild boar drive hunting	5
Seasonal pattern in browsing trees and shrubs by reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles: a study in Morocco with management implications	5
Bat behavior around double-track electrified railways	5
Pattern and composition of wildlife roadkill across urban-rural gradient in an African expanding city	5
Correction to: Compensating freshwater habitat loss—duck productivity and food resources in man‑made wetlands	5
Correction to: Minimum average pack size in Iberian wolves	5
Correction to: InfoFaunaFVG: a novel progressive web application for wildlife surveillance	5
Cats and clouds: how a citizen camera-trapping project boosts wildcat (Felis silvestris) conservation	5
Understanding recreational targets and ecological consequences: increased northern pike stocking reflected in top avian predator diet	5
Correction to: First-year dispersal in white-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla	5
How many gamebirds are released in the UK each year?	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
Correction to: Snowballing trends of saltwater crocodile conflicts in Andaman Islands: a mounting concern for conservation and sustainable coexistence	5

Observations of golden eagles attacking and consuming wolf pups	5
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
Snowballing trends of saltwater crocodile conflicts in Andaman Islands: A mounting concern for conservation and sustainable co-existence	4
Like cat and fox: diurnal interactions between two sympatric carnivores in pastoral landscapes of NW Spain	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
Genetic traces of dispersal and admixture in red deer (Cervus elaphus) populations from the Carpathian Basin	4
Effectiveness of attractants and bait for Iberian wolf detection: captivity-based and free-ranging trials	4
Home range of the Dalmatian pelican in south-east Europe	4
Looking for liver flukes: Dicrocoelium dendriticum infection in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from central Italy	4
Expanding the spatial scale in DNA-based monitoring schemes: ascertainment bias in transnational assessments	4
DoMoS − an open-source device for automated monitoring of endangered garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus)	4
Seasonal forage and diet quality in two subtropical ungulates in the Himalaya	4
Population status and distribution of endangered Asiatic lions in Gujarat, India	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
Effects of sika deer density on the diet and population of red foxes	4
Wolf attacks on hunting dogs are negatively related to prey abundance in Finland: an analysis at the wolf territory level	4
Molecular detection of novel herpesviruses and adenoviruses in two species of Australian freshwater turtles	4
New insights into biodiversity-disease relationships: the importance of the host community network characterization	4
Modelling stakeholder satisfaction for conflict resolution in wildlife management: a case of wolf population in Sweden	4
Home range overlaps of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula): implications for disease transmission	4
Against the flow: unexpected migration movements over the open sea by inexperienced ospreys	4
Artificial tunnels of hydroelectric power plants as valuable habitat for European bats	4
Housed in a lodge: occurrence of animal species within Eurasian beaver constructions in Central Italy	4
Ecological determinants of spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta occupancy in Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	4
Habitat use of golden jackals (Canis aureus) in riverine areas of northern Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Serological survey of Toxoplasma gondii infection in endangered Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) and simulation of the effect on population dynamics	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
Hybridisation and genomic diversity in British and Irish pigeons Columba livia	3
Understanding the impact of wild boar on the European wild rabbit and red-legged partridge populations using a diet metabarcoding approach	3
Recovery of an isolated badger (Meles meles) population in The Netherlands	3
Colonisation, impacts in conservation woodland and management of Reeves’ muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) in an English county	3
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the coasts of Sicily (Italy)	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
Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission	3
Assessing the use of digital photographs for the determination of duck species, age and sex	3
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a free ranging leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in India	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
Wolf (Canis lupus) predation and scavenging of reintroduced bison (Bison bison): a hallmark of ecological restoration to boreal food webs	3
Tracking wildlife diseases using community science: an example through toad myiasis	3
Seroepidemiological analyses of rabies virus in two procyonid species from La Venta urban park, in Tabasco, Mexico	3
Establishing haematological and biochemical reference intervals for free-ranging Scottish golden eagle nestlings (Aquila chrysaetos)	3
Time activity budget and foraging behavior: important determinants of resource sharing and guild structure in wintering waterbirds	3
Shrinking striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena Linnaeus, 1758) distribution in Nepal	3
A Nearctic cat in the Neotropics: spatial biases in the existing knowledge of bobcats in Mexico (1988–2019)	3
Correction to: Hunting for ecological indicators: are large herbivore skeleton measures from harvest data useful proxies for monitoring?	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
Population dynamics of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) in Central European forest clearings	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
Red 15 Hz flickering light: a novel technique for effective wild bird management	3
Dog in sheep’s clothing: livestock depredation by free-ranging dogs may pose new challenges to wolf conservation	3
Diet composition of Salt’s dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana Blainville, 1816) in Awash National Park, Ethiopia	3
Optimizing the baiting strategy for oral vaccine delivery to wild boar	3
Threats to seabirds in Portugal: integrating data from a rehabilitation centre and stranding network	3
Attacks on hunting dogs: the case of wolf–dog interactions in Croatia	3
Survey of the distribution of various frog species in each paddy field, focusing on spatial autocorrelation	3
Comparing bird strike risk assessment methods: a new perspective for safety management	3
The annual occurrence of mass mortality at a Common Pipistrelle swarming site	3
To share or not to share: DNA metabarcoding reveals trophic niche overlap between sympatric trawling bats	3
Consequences of polyploidy and divergence as revealed by cytogenetic mapping of tandem repeats in African clawed frogs (Xenopus, Pipidae)	3
Welfare assessment of European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) reared in captivity for their subsequent release	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