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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	170
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	124
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	104
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	89
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	83
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	79
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	65
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Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	54
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	48
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	46
Issue Information	45
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Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	36
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	34
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	34
Nature and equity	33
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	33
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	30
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	30
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	29
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Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	28
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	28

Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	28
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	26
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	26
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	25
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	24
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Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	21
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	21
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	20
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	20
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	19
Issue Information	19
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	19
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	19
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	19
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	18
Issue Information	18
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	18
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	18
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	18
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	16
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	16
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	16
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	15
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	15
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	15
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	14
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	14
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	14
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	14
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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	13
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	13
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	13
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	13
Issue Information	13
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	12
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	12
Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade	12
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Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	12
Issue Information	12
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	12
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	12
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	12
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	12
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	11
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	11

Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	11
Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	11
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	10
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	10
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	10
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	10
Issue Information	10
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	10
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People	9
Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?	9
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk	9
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	9
Multilayer Network Analysis Reveals Connectivity Synergies Between Protected Area Levels Across Various Taxonomic Groups	9
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An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	9
Testing the Effect of Different Risk Messages on Intention to Consume Animal‐Based Medicinal Wine	9