OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biota Neotropica is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The herpetofauna of priority highland areas for conservation of the Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	29
Long-term ecological program reveals high species richness of medium- and large-sized mammals in forest fragments of the Cerrado	28
Medium and large-sized mammals in a mosaic within the MATOPIBA agricultural frontier, Brazil	19
Enhancing public policies for Brazilian bullfrog farming	10
The co-evolution of life and biogeochemical cycles in our planet	9
bnormal average increase in sea surface temperature may promote the first documented mortality event of a marine sponge in the Southeastern Brazil	9
Spatial structure of phytoplankton metacommunities and their functional groups in a neotropical floodplain	8
Population density estimates for three endangered bird taxa from the Pernambuco Endemism Center, northeastern Brazil	8
The neglected tropical grasslands: first record of campo com murundus and its plant communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	8
Use of a geospatial tool to predict the distribution of Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) and some native freshwater gastropods found in Brazil	7
Hidden in the dung: first record of Maculantrops hirtipes () (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Brazil	7
Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from the Western Region of Pará, Brazil	7
Ecological and biological patterns of stream fish studies from the Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí Basin (PCJ Basin, SP) assessed through a systematic review	7
Fish defaunation in reservoirs of the Lower Paranapanema River basin, Brazil	6
Ephemeroptera (Insecta) from the metropolitan region of Santarém, Pará, Brazil	6
Birds of Parque Estadual Ilha do Cardoso: ecology, conservation and natural history	5
Diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of an urban forest fragment in the Atlantic rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil)	5
The drift effect on nestedness of ephemeroptera, trichoptera and plecoptera orders in the Xingu River	5
Breeding biology of Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti Hellmayr, 1905 (Aves: Conopophagidae)	5
Updated list of long-term monitored tree species in a forest with high diversity and endemism in the highlands of Espírito Santo, Brazil	5
Threats to health and conservation of free-living sloths (Bradypus and Choloepus) under anthropic influence in the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil	5
Amphibians and reptiles of the Refúgio Biológico Bela Vista – Itaipu Dam, state of Paraná, southern Brazil	5
Antennal sensilla in Cyclocephala literata Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)	5
Jaguar and puma cannibalism in its northern distribution range in Mexico	4
Current knowledge of ferns and lycophytes in Sergipe state, northeastern Brazil	4

Social interaction in jaguars: does it promote learning?	4
Mammals in São Paulo State: diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation	4
Early larval development of the rock shrimps Sicyonia dorsalis Kingsley, 1878 and S. typica (Boeck, 1864) (Dendrobranchiata) with remarks of larval morphology of Sicyoniidae Ortmann, 1898	4
Fish fauna of the Río San Pedro and Río La Pasión, Usumacinta River Basin, Guatemala	4
Priority areas for conservation of the vascular flora in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Mexico	4
The use of birds for mapping natural grasslands in the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil	4
Floristic composition, pollination and seed-dispersal systems in a target cerrado conservation area	4
The high biodiversity of benthic organisms in a coastal ecosystem revealed by an integrative approach	4
One more place to call home: the invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata reaches the Maricá-Guarapina lagoon system (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)	4
Floristics of the herbaceous-shrub vegetation in the restinga of Araoca Beach, municipality of Guimarães, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil	4
Amazonian forest termites: a species checklist from the State of Acre, Brazil	4
Molecular and camera trap data confirm the occurrence of Dasypus septemcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil	3
Length-weight relationships of 24 stream-dwelling fish species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3
Synopsis of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil	3
Male Emphorini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) bees use flowers of Ipomoea carnea (Convolvulaceae) as overnight resting sites	3
The ichthyofauna of streams in the upper Purus-Antimary interfluve, with an expansion in the occurrence of Amazonian fish species	3
Insect galls from the Serra da Bandeira (Barreiras, Western Bahia, Brazil)	3
Everything is similar, everything is different! Trichorhina (Oniscidea, Platyarthridae) from Brazilian caves, with descriptions of 11 new species	3
Remote spatial analysis lacking ethnographic grounding mischaracterizes sustainability of Indigenous burning regime	3
Inventory of birds in two urban wetlands in Temuco (Chile): a basis for monitoring species	3
In silico analysis of the biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from the Brazilian Cerrado	3
From insect-plant interactions to ecological networks	3
A new species of Phanerothecium (Monogenea, Oogyrodactylidae), in Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae) from southeast Brazil	3
Length at first maturity of freshwater fish species targeted by artisanal fisheries in the lower Araguaia River, Tocantins–Araguaia Basin, Brazil	3
Marine and coastal biodiversity studies, 60 years of research funding from FAPESP, what we have learned and future challenges	3
An annotated list of plant viruses described in Paraguay (1920–2023)	3
Woody vegetation in Atlantic Forest inselbergs: floristic similarity, patterns of richness, pollination/dispersal syndromes, and influence of climatic variables	3
The bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Cerrado and Cerrado-Amazon Rainforest transition sites in Tocantins state, Northern Region of Brazil	3
Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) from northeast Santa Catarina and notes on the occurrence of species in the region	3
Effects of aquatic macrophytes on phytoplankton in a shallow tropical reservoir (Amazon, Brazil)	3
Phytoplankton composition from Araçá Bay and São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, Brazil	3
Entomogenous galls and their associated fauna in deciduous dry forest and woodland vegetation remnants (Caatinga) in the Northern Depressão Sertaneja, Brazil	3
Fishes from affluents of Rio Branco, Municipality of Caracaraí, Roraima State, northern Brazil	3
Building knowledge to save species: 20 years of ichthyological studies in the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin	3
Floristic data to support conservation in the Amazonian canga	3
Predicting potential distribution and evaluating biotic interactions of threatened species: a case study of Discocactus ferricola (Cactaceae)	3
Invasiveness in Schefflera s.l.: do non-native species outperform phylogenetically related native species?	3
Contribution to the knowledge of Honduran flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	3
Xylobotryum portentosum (Mont.) Pat. (Xylobotryomycetes, Ascomycota): a rare fungal species newly found in Southeastern Brazil	2
From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of amphibian biodiversity research in Brazil	2
Effects of hydrological cycles and water body connectivity on abundance and co-occurrence of two Neotropical Curculionidae species	2
A trilingual key to genera and subgenera of the Scarabaeinae from the Brazilian Amazon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	2
Flora of Paraíba, Brazil: Commelinaceae Mirb.	2
New records of Tabanidae (Diptera) in an ecotone zone between the Cerrado and the Amazon Forest and an updated list of species of Tocantins, Brazil	2
Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Cerrado and Caatinga conservation units, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Mapping threatened canga ecosystems in the Brazilian savanna using U-Net deep learning segmentation and Sentinel-2 images: a first step toward conservation planning	2
Hummingbird-plant networks in rupestrian fields and riparian forests in altitudinal areas of the Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil	2
Dung beetles in South American pasturelands	2
Erratum: Florística e fitossociologia em parcelas permanentes da Mata Atlântica do sudeste do Brasil ao longo de um gradiente altitudinal	2
Bioprospecting macroalgae, marine and terrestrial invertebrates & their associated microbiota	2

Living at the top of the forest line: medium and large mammals in a high-mountain ecotone in Peruvian Central Andes	2
Assessment of distribution of two sympatric mud crab species – Panopeus americanus and Panopeus austrobesus – in a Western Atlantic estuarine intertidal zone	2
Ichthyofauna of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park: watershed divide in the main agricultural encroachment area in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
New records of Ceratocampinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) species from the Cerrado of Maranhão, Brazil	2
Insect galls on Asteraceae in Brazil: richness, geographic distribution, associated fauna, endemism and economic importance	2
Herpetofauna of a Cerrado-Caatinga transition area in the municipality of Pedro II, Piauí state, Northeastern Brazil	2
Frontier ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) unveiled: exploring the remarkable diversity of the Brazilian Far West	2
BIOTA-FAPESP – supporting biodiversity, building partnerships, and filling the knowledge gaps	2
Reviewers Volume 24 Biota Neotropica	2
Accessing the sand fly diversity of Tocantins, Northern Brazil: species delimitation using COI DNA barcoding	2
Bryofaunal gastrotrichs from the Cerrado: First report of Dendroichthydium cf. ibyrapora from a Neotropical Savanna	2
First record of the exotic snail Zonitoides arboreus (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontidae) in the Brazilian oceanic island of Trindade, South Atlantic	2