OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Letters is 11. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	148
Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat	127
How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?	116
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists	100
Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience	95
Field sizes and the future of farmland biodiversity in European landscapes	73
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	70
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	69
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	64
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	60
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	58
Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species	58
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	57
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	49
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	45
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	45
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking	44
Advancing procedural justice in conservation	40
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	40
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	39
Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	38
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	36
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome	35
Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	33
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework	33

African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species	32
Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England	30
Two thirds of species in a global shark fin trade hub are threatened with extinction: Conservation potential of international trade regulations for coastal sharks	29
A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	28
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	28
Exotic animal cafes are increasingly home to threatened biodiversity	27
Use of the nucleotide diversity in COI mitochondrial gene as an early diagnostic of conservation status of animal species	26
Conservation behavior and effects of economic and environmental message frames	25
Setting robust biodiversity goals	24
How far have we come? A review of MPA network performance indicators in reaching qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11	24
Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts	22
Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences	22
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany	22
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	22
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation	21
Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?	21
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	20
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora	20
COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions	20
Associations between socio‐environmental factors and landscape‐scale biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating tropical and subtropical forests	20
Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action	19
Are pangolins scapegoats of the COVID‐19 outbreak‐CoV transmission and pathology evidence?	19
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade	19
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States	19
A way forward for wild fungi in international sustainability policy	17
Designing effective incentives for living shorelines as a habitat conservation strategy along residential coasts	17
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	17
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors	17
Long‐term fallows rate best among agri‐environment scheme effects on farmland birds—A meta‐analysis	17
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	17
Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests	17
Vector control reduces the rate of species invasion in the world's largest freshwater ecosystem	16
Human adaptation strategies are key to cobenefits in human–wildlife systems	16
Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos	16
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
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks	15
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action	15
Monitoring status and trends in genetic diversity for the Convention on Biological Diversity: An ongoing assessment of genetic indicators in nine countries	15
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade	15
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	14
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	13
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation	13
Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	13
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India	13
Nationwide revisitation reveals thousands of local extinctions across the ranges of 713 threatened and rare plant species	13
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	13
Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas	12
Squeezed by a habitat split: Warm ocean conditions and old‐forest loss interact to reduce long‐term occupancy of a threatened seabird	12
Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk	12
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	11

Conservation genetics: 50 Years and counting	11
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands	11
Teaching nonviolent communication to increase empathy between people and toward wildlife to promote human–wildlife coexistence	11
Analysis of fish population size distributions confirms cessation of fishing in marine protected areas	11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	11
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot	11