OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Endangered Species Research is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Occupancy of four endangered aquatic species on Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA, using environmental DNA	111
The future for Australia’s flatback turtles	86
Reconstructing and forecasting the dynamics of an internationally important population of Manx shearwaters	42
Contemporary sightings of eastern North Pacific right whales, 2006 to 2023	30
A conservation status review of the Arabian bustard Ardeotis arabs	29
First genetically confirmed record of the copper shark Carcharhinus brachyurus in Chilean waters: implications for conservation	27
Post-stocking condition of endangered pallid sturgeon released at age 0	24
Photogrammetry and multievent modeling to determine effects of disturbance on seabird colony nest success	22
A focus on flatback turtles: the social acceptability of conservation interventions in two Australian case studies	21
Recovery of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) rookery on the South Atlantic Island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil: 35 years of conservation efforts	21
Expanding the known range and practical conservation issues of the Endangered Australian brook lamprey Mordacia praecox	20
Behavioral context of male fin whale Balaenoptera physalus call production on a western North Atlantic summer foraging ground	18
Characteristics of ocelot populations in Tamaulipas, Mexico, using capture-recapture techniques	17
Foraging ecology of southern sea otters at the northern range extent informs regional population dynamics	15
Fisher-based assessments of sea turtle bycatch in small-scale fisheries in Pacific Mexico	13
Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation	13
Projected future changes in the geographic distributions of the threatened Plethodon nettingi and a potential competitor	13
Incorporating prey fields into North Atlantic right whale density surface models	13
Unexpected population genetic structure in Bayou darter Nothonotus rubrus in the geomorphically dynamic Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, USA	12
Widespread occupancy of the endangered northern myotis on northeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain islands	12
Extralimital sightings of a gray whale in the western North Atlantic	12
Unveiling the trophic ecology of immature green turtles in the Gulf of Guinea, a key eastern Atlantic foraging ground	11
Using ‘pup multipliers’ to estimate demographic parameters of Mediterranean monk seals in the eastern Mediterranean Sea	11
Habitat use and movement patterns of adult male and juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks Sphyrna lewini throughout the Hawaiian archipelago	11
Beyond Calanus: changes to the copepod community in the northeast USA and implications for North Atlantic right whale foraging energetics	10

Conditioning effect on survival of foster parents of reintroduced masked bobwhite broods	10
Use of expert elicitation to understand the future viability of a threatened salmonid	10
Annual, seasonal, and diel patterns in blue whale call occurrence off eastern Canada	10
CORRECTION: Environmental DNA mitochondrial markers to assess potential occupancy of Endangered Yaqui catfish in the Yaqui River basin, Mexico	10
The Red Sea's largest coastal lagoon is a reproductive site for endangered whiprays and guitarfish	9
Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species	9
Trophic ecology of sooty albatross, segregating mechanisms from the congeneric light-mantled sooty albatross, and conservation implications	9
Classifying the effects of human disturbance on denning polar bears	9
A multistate capture-recapture model to estimate reproduction of North Atlantic right whales	9
Acoustic detections and sightings of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Seychelles, western tropical Indian Ocean (2020-2022)	9
Status of Pinna nobilis populations before and after a mass mortality event in the Tabarca Marine Reserve, SE Spain	9
Life history, population dynamics and impacts of cat predation on an endemic gadfly petrel in Cabo Verde	9
Reassessing distribution and population estimates of the golden-headed lion tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas (Primates, Callitrichidae)	9
Impact of ecologically relevant road salt levels and captivity on redside dace Clinostomus elongatus thermal tolerance and gene expression	9
Comparative non-targeted lipidomic profiles in blubber of endangered St. Lawrence Estuary belugas and their potential prey	8
Mitigating collisions between vessels and North Atlantic right whales in US waters	8
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis prey selection in Cape Cod Bay	8
Spatiotemporal patterns and causes of sea turtle strandings in Chile between 2009 and 2022	8
Acoustic telemetry reveals cross-border movements and conservation opportunities for reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in southern Africa	8
Predicting core areas of flatback turtle hatchlings and potential exposure to threats	8
Maternal den preferences, reproductive behavior, and spatial use of a wild Manis javanica during maternal and non-maternal stages in Sabah, Borneo	8
Refining capture-recapture recruitment estimation methods for Atlantic sturgeon	8
Ex situ protection and climate refugia of the Critically Endangered Beshanzu fir Abies beshanzuensis	8
First demographic parameter estimates for the Mediterranean monk seal population at Madeira, Portugal	7
Behavioral reactions of non-denning polar bears to industry activities, North Slope, Alaska, 2009–2023	7
Thermal conditions of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests in the largest rookery in the eastern Mediterranean	7
Past and present sawfish (Pristidae) records from India	7
Identifying social clusters of endangered main Hawaiian Islands false killer whales	7
Top predators, shared prey: isotopic niche dynamics and trophic interactions among dusky, tiger and white sharks	7
Quantifying the relative importance of survival threats to a long-lived reptile using expert elicitation	6
Age and repeated collection interval effects on sperm motility in the endangered delta smelt Hypomesus transpacificus	6
Acoustic detections of North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica along the eastern Aleutian Chain and northern Gulf of Alaska, 2009-2023	6
Population distribution, aggregation sites and seasonal occurrence of Australia’s western population of the grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus	6
Estimation of short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus population on the Senkaku Islands using satellite images	6
Discriminating Canadian Arctic beluga management stocks using dentine oxygen and carbon isotopes	6
Assessing the effects of incubation temperature on the cognitive ability of post-hatchling loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta	6
Population genetics of freshwater stingray require investigation to confirm DNA contamination: Reply to Alshari et al. (2023)	6
Long-term migratory alterations to whooping crane arrival and departure on the wintering and staging grounds	6
Preliminary insight into the reproductive traits of the flapper skate Dipturus intermedius using in-field ultrasonography and circulating hormone concentrations	5
Apparent survival probability and abundance of juvenile green turtles in the foraging ground at Kuroshima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago	5
Evaluating the efficacy of real-time passive acoustic monitoring near offshore wind energy development activities to help mitigate risks to North Atlantic right whales	5
Temporal dynamics of Japanese eel distribution in the Yangtze River basin	5
Long-term wild recovery and resilience of green turtles Chelonia mydas to various anthropogenic injuries	5
DNA contamination and taxonomic diversity hinder eDNA research on freshwater stingray species: Comment on Lim & Then (2022)	5
A habitat suitability model for testing and refining the range of Zuni fleabane, a threatened plant species	5
Occupancy, movement, and behaviour of namew (lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens) in an intact river in Canada	5
Status of the largetooth sawfish in Ecuador and Peru, and use of rostral teeth in cockfighting	5
News and social media in mapping the endangered Mediterranean monk seal: exceptional data gains but persistent bias	5
Determinants of post-release survival and space use for an endangered quail	5
Using environmental DNA to identify priority areas for sawfish conservation in Costa Rica, Central America	5

Naturally sampled environmental DNA helps determine the distribution of Critically Endangered species in a global hotspot of marine biodiversity	5
High historical movement rates of Antarctic blue whales on Southern Ocean feeding grounds estimated from Discovery mark data	5
Endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow ecology: actions towards recovery through landscape-scale ecosystem restoration	5
Camera-trapping reveals globally threatened mammalian biodiversity in Mindoro, Philippines	5
Summer movements of marbled murrelets from Canada to Alaska	5
An apparent case of Pb toxicosis in an American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in South Florida, USA	5
Non-lethal metabarcoding analysis of cloacal swabs from Siberian taimen Hucho taimen reveals parasitic infections and an instance of mammalophagy	5
Female reproductive dynamics in Caribbean green turtles Chelonia mydas	5
From the sky and on the beaches: complementary tools to evaluate common dolphin bycatch in the Bay of Biscay	4
High female desert tortoise mortality in the western Sonoran Desert during California’s epic 2012-2016 drought	4
Pupping grounds for the Critically Endangered tope shark Galeorhinus galeus around the Dutch Wadden Islands	4
Genetic diversity and source rookeries of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from bycatch and strandings around the Korean Peninsula	4
Movements and behaviour of southern right whales satellite-tracked in and beyond a subantarctic archipelago wintering ground	4
Intraspecific variability in flatback turtle habitat use: δ15N as an indicator of foraging locations	4
Long-term aerial monitoring of Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris in a diverse Gulf Coast environment	4
A preliminary assessment of the reproductive morphology and endocrinology of European blind cave salamander Proteus anguinus	4
Factors regulating incubation temperature and thermal stress in hawksbills in St. Croix, USVI	4
Growth rates of the Critically Endangered fan mussel Pinna nobilis in the Slovenian Sea (northern Adriatic)	4
Anthropogenic activity and Cook Inlet beluga whale presence in two Alaska rivers	4
Developing respirometry methodology for the Critically Endangered delta smelt	4
First trophic ontogeny data for the scalloped bonnethead Sphyrna corona in the Colombian Pacific	4
Drone photogrammetry reveals age-structure shifts with potential consequences for the viability of spinner dolphins in Hawai'i	4
Severe sawfish population decline in the northern Bay of Bengal	4
Risks associated with the spatial overlap between humpback dolphins and fisheries in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India	4
Tracking sarus crane movements in Cambodia and Vietnam reveals seasonal vulnerabilities and gaps in protected area coverage	4
Foraging behavior of Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales is associated with ambient noise, prey density, and the acoustic behavior of conspecifics	4
Summer and winter surveys of deep waters of the Hellenic Trench, Greece, provide insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of odontocetes	4
Application of epigenetics to understand the demography of the Lahille’s bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus gephyreus	4
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis summer habitat in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: 2017-2019	4
Underwater soundscapes within critical habitats of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal: implications for conservation	4
Current status, biology, threats and conservation priorities of the vulnerable Mediterranean monk seal	4
Movement patterns and space use of a large, aquatic turtle, with a comparison of GPS, VHF, and acoustic transmitters	4