OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Letters is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	221
Issue Information	119
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	104
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	99
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	75
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	74
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	71
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	65
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	63
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Issue Information	59
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	58
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	50
Nature and equity	47
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Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	36
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	33
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	32
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	31
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	30
Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	30
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	30
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	29

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How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	28
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	28
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	28
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	27
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	27
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	27
Empowering fishers for Great White Shark stewardship: Reply to Madigan et al. 2021	26
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	26
Issue Information	24
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	22
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	22
Issue Information	22
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)	22
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	21
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	21
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	20
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	19
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	19
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Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	17
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	17
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	16
Sustainability of social–ecological systems: The difference between social rules and management rules	16
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	16
Issue Information	15
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	15
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	15
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	14
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	14
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate	14
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	14
Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation	14
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands	13
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	13
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	13
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	13
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	13
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	12
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	12
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Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
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Issue Information	12
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	12
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	12
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	11
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	11
Mammal and bird species ranges overlap with armed conflicts and associated conservation threats	11

Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	11
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	10
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	10
What is soil biodiversity?	10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	10
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	10