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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	121
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	80
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Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	55
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	51
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	51
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	48
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	43
What Comes After the European Green Deal? Analyzing the State and Perspective of the EU's Land Use and Conservation Policy	43
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	41
The Forgotten International Trade of Sawfish Rostral Teeth in Latin America	40
Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	34
Beyond Blame: Migration's Limited Role in Madagascar's Deforestation	34
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Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	30
Nature and equity	30
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	30
Issue Information	30
The Many Pathways of Mining Impacts on Biodiversity	29
Marine Subsidies Fortify a Stronghold for a Freshwater Megafish ( Hucho taimen )	25
What Drives Conservation Adoption? Social Science Insights from Cattle Ranchers in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil	25
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	25
From Alerts to Action: Operationalizing Real‐Time Mortality Monitoring for Vultures	25
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Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	24

Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	23
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Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	22
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	21
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	20
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	19
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	19
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	19
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	18
Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation	17
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Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	17
The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation	17
Citizen Science Offers Untapped Potential for Conservation Through Research Flexibility	16
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Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	16
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	15
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	15
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	15
Issue Information	14
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	14
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	14
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	14
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	14
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	14
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	14
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	14
Avoid Sacrificing Nature to Truly Achieve Net Zero	14
Issue Information	14
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	14
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	14
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	13
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	13
The Effect of Federal Delisting on US Wolf Population Dynamics	13
Online Marketplaces’ Anti‐Data Collection Policies Hinder Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Zoonotic Disease Prevention	13
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	12
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	12
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	12
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	12
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	12
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	12
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	11
An Assessment of the Fish Maw Trade in Singapore and Malaysia Reveals Threatened Species and Highlights the Need for a More Complete Assessment of the Conservation Status of the World's Fishes	11
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	11
Issue Information	11
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Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	11
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Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade	10
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	10

A Novel Fundraising Model for Conservation of a Noncharismatic Species: Lessons Learned From a Crowd‐Funded Eco‐Art Exhibition	10
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	10
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	10
What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	10
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	10
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	10
Issue Information	10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	9
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	9
Issue Information	9
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	9
Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	9
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	9
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	9
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	9
Issue Information	9
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	9
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	9
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	9