OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology Resources is 35. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
An Innovative Binding‐Protein‐Based dsRNA Extraction Method: Comparison of Cost‐Effectiveness of Virus Detection Methods Using High‐Throughput Sequencing	424
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light	110
Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Loach Goby Rhyacichthys aspro Offers Insights Into Gobioidei Evolution	80
Stomach Content DNA (scDNA) Detection and Quantification for Predator Diet Assessment Using High‐Throughput Nanofluidic Chip Technology: Species‐Specific qPCR Assay Pa	74
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation	66
Issue Information	65
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes	63
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics	59
Characterising Soil Eukaryotic Diversity From NEON Metagenomics Datasets	59
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs	57
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level	56
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers	51
Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids	49
detectEVE : Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data	47
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference	47
An Accessible Metagenomic Strategy Allows for Better Characterisation of Invertebrate Bulk Samples	45
Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices	44
The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies	44
Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage	43
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community	43
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems	42
metaPR ² : A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA	42
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A minimally invasive, field‐applicable CRISPR/Cas biosensor to aid in the detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative fungal agent of white‐nose syndrome in bats	42
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Inference of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations is affected by single nucleotide polymorphism filtering methods, sample size and population structure	41
Monitoring of multiple fish species by quantitative environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys over two summer seasons	39
Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller‐size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics	39
Beware of Plant DNA in Animal Dietary Metabarcoding: Lessons From a Strictly Insectivorous Bat	39
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments: Guidelines, considerations and the new tool supeRbaits	37
Saprotrophic Arachnopeziza Species as New Resources to Study the Obligate Biotrophic Lifestyle of Powdery Mildew Fungi	37
Simulating plasticity as a framework for understanding habitat selection and its role in adaptive capacity and extinction risk through an expansion of CDMetaPOP	37
MaxTemp: A Method to Maximise Precision of the Temporal Method for Estimating N_e in Genetic Monitoring Programs	37
RETRACTION: Age Prediction of Green Turtles With an Epigenetic Clock	37
Independent Avian Epigenetic Clocks for Ageing and Development	35