OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Ecology Resources is 34. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids	334
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes	95
Issue Information	70
Good from far, but far from good: The impact of a reference genome on evolutionary inference	64
The endangered White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) genome reveals low diversity and heterogenous patterns of differentiation	62
Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Loach Goby Rhyacichthys aspro Offers Insights Into Gobioidei Evolution	61
Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage	61
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community	59
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level	59
Chromosome‐scale assembly and whole‐genome sequencing of 266 giant panda roundworms provide insights into their evolution, adaptation and potential drug targets	58
detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data	50
Stomach Content DNA (scDNA) Detection and Quantification for Predator Diet Assessment Using High‐Throughput Nanofluidic Chip Technology: Species‐Specific qPCR Assay Pa	50
Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices	50
Molecular assays of pollen use consistently reflect pollinator visitation patterns in a system of flowering plants	45
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation	44
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers	43
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	43
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs	42
A chromosome‐scale genome assembly and annotation of the spring orchid (Cymbidium goeringii)	42
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light	42
metaPR²: A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists	40
Alignment‐free methods for polyploid genomes: Quick and reliable genetic distance estimation	40
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics	39
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference	39
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems	38

The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies	38
Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller‐size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics	37
MaxTemp: A Method to Maximise Precision of the Temporal Method for Estimating N_e in Genetic Monitoring Programs	37
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Chromosome‐level genome assembly reveals genomic architecture of northern range expansion in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	35
The chromosome‐scale assembly of the Canary Islands endemic spiderDysdera silvatica(Arachnida, Araneae) sheds light on the origin and genome structure of chemoreceptor gene families in chelicer	35
A needle in a haystack: A new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)	35
Single‐molecule long‐read sequencing reveals extensive genomic and transcriptomic variation between maize and its wild relative teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)	35
Deciphering the molecular signal from past and alive bacterial communities in aquatic sedimentary archives	34