OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Letters is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	182
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists	116
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	87
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	85
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	77
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	62
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	60
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	60
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	53
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	52
Advancing procedural justice in conservation	50
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	47
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking	46
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	45
Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	43
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	42
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	42
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome	38
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework	37
African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species	34
Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	34
Two thirds of species in a global shark fin trade hub are threatened with extinction: Conservation potential of international trade regulations for coastal sharks	31
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	30
Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England	29
A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	28

Setting robust biodiversity goals	27
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	26
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	26
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany	25
Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action	24
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States	23
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora	23
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation	23
Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts	22
Monitoring status and trends in genetic diversity for the Convention on Biological Diversity: An ongoing assessment of genetic indicators in nine countries	22
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	21
COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions	21
A way forward for wild fungi in international sustainability policy	20
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade	20
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors	19
Vector control reduces the rate of species invasion in the world's largest freshwater ecosystem	19
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade	19
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	18
Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos	18
Long‐term fallows rate best among agri‐environment scheme effects on farmland birds—A meta‐analysis	17
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India	17
Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	17
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation	17
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	17
The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior	16
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	16
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks	16
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action	15
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	14
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	14
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	14
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species	13
Conservation genetics: 50 Years and counting	13
Teaching nonviolent communication to increase empathy between people and toward wildlife to promote human–wildlife coexistence	13
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot	13
Global distribution and conservation of avian diet specialization	12
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	12
Erasure of Indigenous Peoples risks perpetuating conservation's colonial harms and undermining its future effectiveness	12
Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas	12
How to diminish the geographical bias in IPBES and related science?	12
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands	12
Analysis of fish population size distributions confirms cessation of fishing in marine protected areas	11
Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research	11
Indo‐Pacific origins of silky shark fins in major shark fin markets highlights supply chains and management bodies key for conservation	11
Local disconnects in global discourses—The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small‐scale fishers	11
Inclusivity via ontological accountability	11
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	10
The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers	10
Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest	10
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	10

Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy	10
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	10
A multidisciplinary framework to assess the sustainability and acceptability of wildlife tourism operations	9
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	9
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate	9
Plastic ingestion is an underestimated cause of death for southern hemisphere albatrosses	9
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	9
Principles for climate resilience are prevalent in marine protected area management plans	9
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	9
Decadal changes in international advocacy toward the conservation of highly migratory fishes	9