OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Letters is 12. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth	140
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	126
Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat	115
How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?	104
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	92
The past and future role of conservation science in saving biodiversity	79
Land‐use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry	69
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	60
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	59
Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users	58
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	58
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	56
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	54
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	53
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	53
Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species	52
Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan	51
Public attitudes toward biodiversity‐friendly greenspace management in Europe	48
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	41
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	39
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
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	36

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	36
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	34
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	33
Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	33
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	32
Advancing procedural justice in conservation	31
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome	31
African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species	31
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework	29
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	27
Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England	27
A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	26
Improving scientific rigour in conservation evaluations and a plea deal for transparency on potential biases	26
Use of the nucleotide diversity in COI mitochondrial gene as an early diagnostic of conservation status of animal species	25
Exotic animal cafes are increasingly home to threatened biodiversity	24
Setting robust biodiversity goals	23
Two thirds of species in a global shark fin trade hub are threatened with extinction: Conservation potential of international trade regulations for coastal sharks	23
Conservation behavior and effects of economic and environmental message frames	23
Coloring and size influence preferences for imaginary animals, and can predict actual donations to species‐specific conservation charities	22
How far have we come? A review of MPA network performance indicators in reaching qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11	22
Evaluating the relationships between the legal and illegal international wildlife trades	22
Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts	21
Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences	21
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	21
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany	20
Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?	20
COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions	20
Private rhino conservation: Diverse strategies adopted in response to the poaching crisis	19
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation	19
Associations between socio‐environmental factors and landscape‐scale biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating tropical and subtropical forests	18
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade	18
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States	17
Are pangolins scapegoats of the COVID‐19 outbreak‐CoV transmission and pathology evidence?	17
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	17
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora	16
Designing effective incentives for living shorelines as a habitat conservation strategy along residential coasts	16
Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action	16
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade	15
The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior	15
Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests	15
A way forward for wild fungi in international sustainability policy	15
Human adaptation strategies are key to cobenefits in human–wildlife systems	14
Vector control reduces the rate of species invasion in the world's largest freshwater ecosystem	14
The need for a more inclusive science of elephant conservation	14
Long‐term fallows rate best among agri‐environment scheme effects on farmland birds—A meta‐analysis	14
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action	14
Life below water: Fish spawning aggregations as bright spots for a sustainable ocean	14
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks	14
Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos	13
Integrating oceans into climate policy: Any green new deal needs a splash of blue	13

Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	13
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India	13
We have a steak in it: Eliciting interventions to reduce beef consumption and its impact on biodiversity	12
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	12
Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	12
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation	12
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	12
Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk	12