OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Alpine Botany is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Mountain definitions and their consequences	23
Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain)	22
Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought	18
History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg	16
Dominant shrub species are a strong predictor of plant species diversity along subalpine pasture-shrub transects	15
Plant speciation in the face of recurrent climate changes in the Alps	15
A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains	13
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	13
Seed mass and plant home site environment interact to determine alpine species germination patterns along an elevation gradient	11
Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya	11
Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880	11
Interactions between nurse-plants and an exotic invader along a tropical alpine elevation gradient: growth-form matters	10
Do pentaploid hybrids mediate gene flow between tetraploid Senecio disjunctus and hexaploid S. carniolicus s. str. (S. carniolicus aggregate, Asteraceae)?	10
Incongruences between nuclear and plastid phylogenies challenge the identification of correlates of diversification in Gentiana in the European Alpine System	9
Competition-free gaps are essential for the germination and recruitment of alpine species along an elevation gradient in the European Alps	8
Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains	8
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	8
Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings	7
Seedlings of alpine species do not have better frost-tolerance than their lowland counterparts	7