OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is 47. 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
occupancyTuts: Occupancy modelling tutorials with RPresence	658
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FlywayNet: A hidden semi‐Markov model for inferring the structure of migratory bird networks from count data	182
Revticulate: An R framework for interaction with RevBayes	165
A network theoretic method for the basic reproductive number for infectious diseases	135
Assimilating ecological theory with empiricism: Using constrained generalized additive models to enhance survival analyses	132
AF‐vapeR: A multivariate genome scan for detecting parallel evolution using allele frequency change vectors	122
Nearest neighbour distance matching Leave‐One‐Out Cross‐Validation for map validation	112
poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern‐oriented validation	107
BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns	107
ECOGEN: Bird sounds generation using deep learning	93
OCCUR Shiny application: A user‐friendly guide for curating species occurrence records	91
Empirical dynamic programming for model‐free ecosystem‐based management	89
plantR: An R package and workflow for managing species records from biological collections	80
Integrated community occupancy models: A framework to assess occurrence and biodiversity dynamics using multiple data sources	77
Cover Picture and Issue Information	76
Using cloud radar to investigate the effect of rainfall on migratory insect flight	75
Nighthawk: Acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration in the Americas	73
Exploring congruent diversification histories with flexibility and parsimony	72
How to get the most out of phylogenetic imputation without abusing it	69
A new centrality index designed for multilayer networks	66
Exploring noise, degeneracy and determinism in biological networks with the einet package	65

Incidence‐data‐based species richness estimation via a Beta‐Binomial model	64
Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution	64
Using identity calls to detect structure in acoustic datasets	63
Filtering heart rates using data densities: The boxfilter R package	63
The Flora Incognita app – Interactive plant species identification	62
Cover Picture and Issue Information	59
Integrated movement models for individual tracking and species distribution data	58
An open future for MEE	58
Going beyond richness: Modelling the BEF relationship using species identity, evenness, richness and species interactions via the DImodels R package	56
Gone with the wind: Inferring bird migration with light‐level geolocation, wind and activity measurements	56
EcoEnsemble: A general framework for combining ecosystem models in R	55
A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs	55
Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals	55
Long‐term automated visual monitoring of Antarctic benthic fauna	53
Navigating through space and time: A methodological approach to quantify spatiotemporal connectivity using stream flow data as a case study	53
Moving‐resting process with measurement error in animal movement modeling	53
A systematic method for hypothesis synthesis and conceptual model development	52
MoonShine: A software‐hardware system for simulating moonlight ground illuminance and re‐creating artificial moonlight cycles in a laboratory environment	52
treetop: A Shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists	51
Scalable semantic 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning	50
Continuous on‐board behaviour classification using accelerometry: A case study with a new GPS‐3G‐Bluetooth system in Pacific black ducks	50
A 3D modelling approach to measuring structural characteristics of bird nest interiors	48
Individual‐based simulations of genome evolution with ancestry: The GenomeAdmixR R package	47
Chronospaces: An R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times promotes the assessment of methodological sensitivity	47