OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is 42. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package	487
ENMeval 2.0: Redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions	289
geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: Enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience	282
Predicting into unknown space? Estimating the area of applicability of spatial prediction models	189
Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses	159
Redundancy analysis: A Swiss Army Knife for landscape genomics	131
Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty	114
Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists	112
Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species	109
rTPC and nls.multstart: A new pipeline to fit thermal performance curves in r	96
A deep active learning system for species identification and counting in camera trap images	91
SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology	89
Machine learning and deep learning—A review for ecologists	87
Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution	85
The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography	79
Generalized hidden Markov models for phylogenetic comparative datasets	76
dartR v2: An accessible genetic analysis platform for conservation, ecology and agriculture	71
Outstanding challenges and future directions for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science data	71
On the measurement of microclimate	70
Unbiased population heterozygosity estimates from genome‐wide sequence data	70
A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution	66
Automated detection of wildlife using drones: Synthesis, opportunities and constraints	62
Autocorrelation‐informed home range estimation: A review and practical guide	62
Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data	55
The Flora Incognita app – Interactive plant species identification	53

spOccupancy: An R package for single‐species, multi‐species, and integrated spatial occupancy models	51
An assessment of minimum sequence copy thresholds for identifying and reducing the prevalence of artefacts in dietary metabarcoding data	51
Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions	51
ubms: An R package for fitting hierarchical occupancy and N‐mixture abundance models in a Bayesian framework	49
Acoustic indices perform better when applied at ecologically meaningful time and frequency scales	48
ALPACA: A fast and accurate computer vision approach for automated landmarking of three‐dimensional biological structures	47
track2KBA: An R package for identifying important sites for biodiversity from tracking data	47
Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization	46
flexsdm: An r package for supporting a comprehensive and flexible species distribution modelling workflow	45
A new joint species distribution model for faster and more accurate inference of species associations from big community data	45
Navigating the temporal continuum of effective population size	45
Meta‐analysis of primary producer amino acid δ¹⁵N values and their influence on trophic position estimation	45
RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes	43
aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation	43
Phylogenetically aligned component analysis	43
Replication in field ecology: Identifying challenges and proposing solutions	42
Robust ecological analysis of camera trap data labelled by a machine learning model	42
rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back	42
Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology	42