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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain)	29
Mountain definitions and their consequences	28
Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought	22
History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg	21
Plant speciation in the face of recurrent climate changes in the Alps	17
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	15
A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains	14
Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880	14
Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya	12
Novel plant communities after glacial retreat in Colombia: (many) losses and (few) gains	12
Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains	11
Do pentaploid hybrids mediate gene flow between tetraploid Senecio disjunctus and hexaploid S. carniolicus s. str. (S. carniolicus aggregate, Asteraceae)?	11
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	11
Incongruences between nuclear and plastid phylogenies challenge the identification of correlates of diversification in Gentiana in the European Alpine System	10
Pollinator sharing among co-flowering plants mediates patterns of pollen transfer	9
Competition-free gaps are essential for the germination and recruitment of alpine species along an elevation gradient in the European Alps	9
Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings	8
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	7
Habitat-specific effects of flowering advance on fruit-set success of alpine plants: a long-term record of flowering phenology and fruit-set success of Rhododendron aureum	7
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	7
Resident vegetation modifies climate-driven elevational shift of a mountain sedge	7