OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Conservation Letters is 30. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth	136
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	118
Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat	113
How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?	103
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists	94
Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience	90
The past and future role of conservation science in saving biodiversity	77
Land‐use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry	66
Toward a climate‐informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climate‐change refugia and corridors in conservation planning	61
Field sizes and the future of farmland biodiversity in European landscapes	57
Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users	56
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	55
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	55
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	53
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	53
Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species	51
Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan	50
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	50
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	46
Public attitudes toward biodiversity‐friendly greenspace management in Europe	44
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	38
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking	38
Dams and protected areas: Quantifying the spatial and temporal extent of global dam construction within protected areas	38
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	38
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	35

Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	33
Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	33
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	31
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	31
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	30