OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Ecology and Evolution is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Notes on Neotropical litter-gathering Rubiaceae, and distinction between Faramea tinguana from southern Brazil, and F. humicapiens sp. nov. from French Guiana	19
And the twain shall meet at the end: a phylogeny of Myrcianthes (Myrtaceae, Myrteae) with phytogeographic and morphological insights	12
Floral ontogeny links Dialypetalanthus (Condamineeae) with the floral developmental morphology of other Rubiaceae	11
The reproductive traits that contribute to the invasive success of Mediterranean onionweed (Asphodelus fistulosus)	11
Passion and combat on a floral stage: a new species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) from Monts de Cristal, Gabon, with notes on its unique pollination ecology	9
Climate change and shifting distributions of medicinal and aromatic Lippia and Salimenaea species (Verbenaceae) in southern South America: a species distribution modelling approach	7
The family Zingiberaceae in Rwanda with description of two new species of Renealmia	7
Past, present, and future potential distributions of the African multipurpose tree Detarium senegalense (Fabaceae)	7
How does a plant species swarm maintain coexistence on an isolated mountain in northern Madagascar?	6
Barking up the wrong tree: the dangers of taxonomic misidentification in molecular phylogenetic studies	6
The vascular plant diversity of Burundi	6
Population genomics of Ulex europaeus in the Northern Andes: insights into an invasive species in high-mountain ecosystems	6
A striking new species of Rhipidocladum (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) with single, terminal-spikelet synflorescences, endemic to Jalisco, Mexico	6
Smallholder farmers’ knowledge on management of Cinchona in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	6
Development of new microsatellite markers for Cola acuminata (Malvaceae), a socio-economically important fruit tree species in Central Africa	5
Floristic and structural distinctness of monodominant Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forest in the western Congo Basin	5
A new Actinella species (Eunotiaceae, Bacillariophyta) from the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
A new species of Phragmanthera (Loranthaceae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon	5
A new and endemic species of Struthanthus (Loranthaceae) from Guerrero, Mexico	5
Molecular phylogeny and character-mapping support the synonymy of Cordobia and Gallardoa in Mionandra (Malpighiaceae)	5
The genus Orthoseira (Orthoseiraceae, Bacillariophyta) in Papua New Guinea with the description of two new species	4
Why fitness impacts of different herbivores may combine nonadditively, and why it matters to the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore communities	4
Rhynchospora section Pleurostachys (Cyperaceae): a phylogeny and three new species from the dry forests of Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil	4
Pollen grain evolution in Zornia evidences the homoplastic nature of a stenopalynous genus of Leguminosae	4
New species of Cladoceras and Rutidea (Rubiaceae) from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea	3

High-throughput sequence-based microsatellite genotyping for the non-model Neotropical tree species Anadenanthera colubrina (Leguminosae)	3
Symmetry and structure re-visited: is symmetry still over-emphasised as a taxonomic character for naviculoid diatoms?	3
Flora and fire in an old-growth Central African forest-savanna mosaic: a checklist of the Parc National des Plateaux Batéké (Gabon)	3
Morphological and phenological variation of flower colour morphs in a wild population of Opuntia streptacantha (Cactaceae)	3
Novitates Gabonenses 93: a fresh look at Podostemaceae in Gabon following recent inventories, with a new combination for Ledermanniella nicolasii	3
A new type of epicotyl dormancy in crypto-viviparous fruits of Aegiceras corniculatum (Primulaceae), the first report from a true mangrove species	3
Reassessment of morphological species delimitations in the Cyperus margaritaceus-niveus complex using morphometrics	2
Rediscovery and revalidation of the Brazilian endemic Vanilla schwackeana Hoehne (Orchidaceae): its distribution and phylogenetic position	2
Palliocystidium, a new genus in the family Hydnodontaceae (Trechisporales)	2
An integrative taxonomic revision of the Chaerophyllum hirsutum complex (Apiaceae) using morphological and molecular markers	2
Hidden in plain sight: a new species of Habenaria (Orchidaceae) from the Espinhaço range in Minas Gerais, Brazil, plus an updated checklist of the genus from Grão Mogol	2
Cyperus kilelai (Cyperaceae), a new species from a thermal spring in Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo)	2
Specialized fly pollination in Apoballis mutata (Araceae): high reproductive success in the absence of a trap system	2
The genera of Cyperaceae of Madagascar	2
The fate of Holoregmia, a monospecific genus endemic to the Brazilian Caatinga, under different future climate scenarios	2
Waltheria marielleae (Byttnerioideae, Malvaceae), a new species from north-eastern Brazil supported by morphological and phylogenetic evidence	2
Tropical African diatoms from the Eunotia asterionelloides (Bacillariophyta) species complex, with descriptions of new species	2
Nuclear ribosomal phylogeny of Brachystegia: new markers for new insights about rain forests and Miombo woodlands evolution	2
Does size matter? The integrated roles of light, adaptive sex expression, and hybridization in a widespread Arisaema (Araceae) species from western Japan	2
From the Brazilian lowlands to the Andes: specialist fungus gnat pollination and self-incompatibility in two Malaxis species (Malaxidinae: Orchidaceae)	2