OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Endangered Species Research is 5. 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
The future for Australia’s flatback turtles	84
Broad-scale geographic and temporal assessment of northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) maternity colony-landscape association	44
Occupancy of four endangered aquatic species on Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA, using environmental DNA	33
Post-stocking condition of endangered pallid sturgeon released at age 0	28
Contemporary sightings of eastern North Pacific right whales, 2006 to 2023	24
Biology and conservation of marine turtles in the northwestern Indian Ocean: a review	22
Reconstructing and forecasting the dynamics of an internationally important population of Manx shearwaters	21
Acoustic occurrence of baleen whales, particularly blue, fin, and humpback whales, off eastern Canada, 2015-2017	19
Serotonin-manipulated juvenile green sea turtles Chelonia mydas exhibit reduced fear-like behaviour	19
Expanding the known range and practical conservation issues of the Endangered Australian brook lamprey Mordacia praecox	16
A focus on flatback turtles: the social acceptability of conservation interventions in two Australian case studies	15
Potential future changes in the geographic distributions of the threatened Plethodon nettingi and a potential competitor	15
Foraging ecology of southern sea otters at the northern range extent informs regional population dynamics	15
Characteristics of ocelot populations in Tamaulipas, Mexico, using capture-recapture techniques	14
More vaquita porpoises survive than expected	14
Captive breeding and the conservation of the threatened houbara bustards	13
Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation	13
Unexpected population genetic structure in Bayou darter Nothonotus rubrus in the geomorphically dynamic Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, USA	12
First evidence of underwater vocalizations in green sea turtles Chelonia mydas	12
Using ‘pup multipliers’ to estimate demographic parameters of Mediterranean monk seals in the eastern Mediterranean Sea	12
Habitat use and movement patterns of adult male and juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks Sphyrna lewini throughout the Hawaiian archipelago	12
Social facilitation for conservation planning: understanding fairy tern behavior and site selection in response to conspecific audio-visual cues	12
Widespread occupancy of the endangered northern myotis on northeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain islands	11
Annual, seasonal, and diel patterns in blue whale call occurrence off eastern Canada	11
Beyond Calanus: changes to the copepod community in the northeast USA and implications for North Atlantic right whale foraging energetics	11

Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species	10
Conditioning effect on survival of foster parents of reintroduced masked bobwhite broods	10
CORRECTION: Environmental DNA mitochondrial markers to assess potential occupancy of Endangered Yaqui catfish in the Yaqui River basin, Mexico	10
High annual survival suggested by size structure of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles captured by coastal research trawling in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean since 1990	10
Acoustic detections and sightings of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Seychelles, western tropical Indian Ocean (2020-2022)	10
A multistate capture–recapture model to estimate reproduction of North Atlantic right whales	10
Life history, population dynamics and impacts of cat predation on an endemic gadfly petrel in Cabo Verde	10
Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation	9
Shifts of trade in Javan ferret badgers Melogale orientalis from wildlife markets to online platforms: implications for conservation policy, human health and monitoring	9
Thermal conditions of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests in the largest rookery in the eastern Mediterranean	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
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis prey selection in Cape Cod Bay	9
Top predators, shared prey: isotopic niche dynamics and trophic interactions among dusky, tiger and white sharks	8
Predicting core areas of flatback turtle hatchlings and potential exposure to threats	8
Effects of moisture during incubation on green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) development, morphology and performance	8
Status of the largetooth sawfish in Ecuador and Peru, and use of rostral teeth in cockfighting	8
First demographic parameter estimates for the Mediterranean monk seal population at Madeira, Portugal	8
Past and present sawfish (Pristidae) records from India	8
Elasmobranch bycatch in US West Coast groundfish fisheries	8
Identifying social clusters of endangered main Hawaiian Islands false killer whales	8
Warming conditions boost reproductive output for a northern gopher tortoise population	8
Refining capture-recapture recruitment estimation methods for Atlantic sturgeon	8
Rice’s whales in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: call variation and occurrence beyond the known core habitat	8
Occupancy, movement, and behaviour of namew (lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens) in an intact river in Canada	7
Endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow ecology: actions towards recovery through landscape-scale ecosystem restoration	7
The island hoppers: how foraging influences green turtle Chelonia mydas abundance over space and time in the Lakshadweep Archipelago, India	7
Population genetics of freshwater stingray require investigation to confirm DNA contamination: Reply to Alshari et al. (2023)	7
Long-term migratory alterations to whooping crane arrival and departure on the wintering and staging grounds	6
Age and repeated collection interval effects on sperm motility in the endangered delta smelt Hypomesus transpacificus	6
Using environmental DNA to identify priority areas for sawfish conservation in Costa Rica, Central America	6
Individuality in houbara chick calls and its dynamics throughout ontogeny	6
Apparent survival probability and abundance of juvenile green turtles in the foraging ground at Kuroshima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago	6
Summer movements of marbled murrelets from Canada to Alaska	6
Maternal behavior and early behavioral ontogeny of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in Greece	6
High historical movement rates of Antarctic blue whales on Southern Ocean feeding grounds estimated from Discovery mark data	6
Population distribution, aggregation sites and seasonal occurrence of Australia’s western population of the grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus	6
Acoustic detections of North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica along the eastern Aleutian Chain and northern Gulf of Alaska, 2009-2023	6
Discriminating Canadian Arctic beluga management stocks using dentine oxygen and carbon isotopes	6
Preliminary insight into the reproductive traits of the flapper skate Dipturus intermedius using in-field ultrasonography and circulating hormone concentrations	6
New management unit for conservation of the Endangered green turtle Chelonia mydas at the Xisha (Paracel) Islands, South China Sea	5
DNA contamination and taxonomic diversity hinder eDNA research on freshwater stingray species: Comment on Lim & Then (2022)	5
Impacts of invasive cane toads on an Endangered marsupial predator and its prey	5
Impact of an IUCN national Red List of threatened flora on scientific attention	5
Risks associated with the spatial overlap between humpback dolphins and fisheries in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India	5
Summer and winter surveys of deep waters of the Hellenic Trench, Greece, provide insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of odontocetes	5
Low mitochondrial genetic diversity in the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin Sousa plumbea in South African waters	5
Long-term aerial monitoring of Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris in a diverse Gulf Coast environment	5
Current status, biology, threats and conservation priorities of the vulnerable Mediterranean monk seal	5
Evaluation of spot patterns and carapace abnormalities of an Endangered freshwater turtle, Clemmys guttata, as a potential tool for population assignment	5

Disentanglement network data to characterize leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea bycatch in fixed-gear fisheries	5
Goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara oral history, use, and conservation status in the Mexican Caribbean and Campeche Bank	5
Intraspecific variability in flatback turtle habitat use: δ15N as an indicator of foraging locations	5
Modeling ringed seal Pusa hispida habitat and lair emergence timing in the eastern Bering and Chukchi Seas	5
Movements and behaviour of southern right whales satellite-tracked in and beyond a subantarctic archipelago wintering ground	5
Characterizing suitable habitat for the largest remaining population of the threatened Florida scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens	5
Underwater soundscapes within critical habitats of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal: implications for conservation	5