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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	133
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	116
Issue Information	109
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	85
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	78
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	76
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	74
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	72
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	65
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Nature and equity	57
Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	50
Issue Information	48
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	40
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	39
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	32
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	32
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	30
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	30
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	29
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	29
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	28
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	27

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Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	27
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	25
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	25
Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	25
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	23
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	23
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	22
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	22
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	21
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)	20
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	20
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	19
Issue Information	17
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	17
Issue Information	17
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	16
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	16
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	16
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	16
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	16
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Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	15
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	15
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	15
Issue Information	15
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	15
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	14
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	14
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	14
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	13
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	13
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	13
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
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate	12
Issue Information	12
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	11
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	11
What is soil biodiversity?	11
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	11
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	11
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	11
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	11
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	11
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Issue Information	11

Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	10
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	10
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	10
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	10