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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	507
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes	164
Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage	80
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation	76
Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Loach Goby Rhyacichthys aspro Offers Insights Into Gobioid	75
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	67
Characterising Soil Eukaryotic Diversity From NEON Metagenomics Datasets	64
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs	59
An Accessible Metagenomic Strategy Allows for Better Characterisation of Invertebrate Bulk Samples	58
detectEVE : Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data	57
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference	55
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light	54
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers	53
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems	52
Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids	52
Issue Information	51
Stomach Content DNA ( scDNA ) Detection and Quantification for Predator Diet Assessment Using High	51
GeneMiner2 : Accurate and Automated Recovery of Genes From Genome Skimming Data	50
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level	49
Issue Information	49
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics	49
Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices	47
An Innovative Binding‐Protein‐Based dsRNA Extraction Method: Comparison of Cost‐Effectiveness of Virus Detection Methods Using High‐Throughput Sequen	45
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community	40
metaPR ² : A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA	40

The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies	39
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Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller‐size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics	38
Saprotrophic Arachnopeziza Species as New Resources to Study the Obligate Biotrophic Lifestyle of Powdery Mildew Fungi	36
A needle in a haystack: A new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)	36
Simulating plasticity as a framework for understanding habitat selection and its role in adaptive capacity and extinction risk through an expansion of CDMetaPOP	35
OligoN‐Design: A Simple and Versatile Tool to Design Specific Probes and Primers From Large Heterogeneous Datasets	35
Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples	34
Monitoring of multiple fish species by quantitative environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys over two summer seasons	34