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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern‐oriented validation	539
Geographic principles applied to population dynamics: A spatially interpolated integrated population model	328
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Cover Picture and Issue Information	174
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Bayesian views of generalized additive modelling	135
Food web visualisation: Heat map, interactive graph and animated flow network	124
ngsLCA—A toolkit for fast and flexible lowest common ancestor inference and taxonomic profiling of metagenomic data	117
The role of large language models in interdisciplinary research: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward	104
Identifying flow modules in ecological networks using Infomap	94
Concurrent ordination: Simultaneous unconstrained and constrained latent variable modelling	89
spOccupancy: An R package for single‐species, multi‐species, and integrated spatial occupancy models	85
Spot size, distance and emissivity errors in field applications of infrared thermography	84
A machine learning approach for classifying and quantifying acoustic diversity	82
Signalling in groups: New tools for the integration of animal communication and collective movement	76
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ECOGEN: Bird sounds generation using deep learning	70
Cover Picture and Issue Information	68
Estimating the cumulative impact and zone of influence of anthropogenic features on biodiversity	58
A framework for computer‐aided design and manufacturing of habitat structures for cavity‐dependent animals	58
Cover Picture and Issue Information	55
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“Fractional replication” in single‐visit multi‐season occupancy models: Impacts of spatiotemporal autocorrelation on identifiability	51

CATS: A high‐performance software framework for simulating plant migration in changing environments	50
3D photogrammetry and deep‐learning deliver accurate estimates of epibenthic biomass	49
Individual‐based models of avian migration for estimating behavioural traits and predicting ecological interactions	47
Continuous‐surface geographic assignment of migratory animals using strontium isotopes: A case study with monarch butterflies	47
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Development of a new low‐cost device to measure calcium carbonate content, reactive surface area in solid samples and dissolved inorganic carbon content in water samples	45
Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature‐size responses in British butterflies	45
A standardised biologging approach to infer parturition: An application in large herbivores across the hider‐follower continuum	45
optimLanduse: A package for multiobjective land‐cover composition optimization under uncertainty	45
Implementing GitHub Actions continuous integration to reduce error rates in ecological data collection	44
Cover Picture and Issue Information	44
scikit‐maad: An open‐source and modular toolbox for quantitative soundscape analysis in Python	44
Optimizing stable isotope sampling design in terrestrial movement ecology research	43
A comparison of design‐based and model‐based approaches for finite population spatial sampling and inference	43
TransMCL enables the assembly of full‐length coding genes for collecting complete hierarchical orthogroups	43
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A comparison of photographic and spectrometric methods to quantify the colours seen by animal eyes	42
PoolDilutionR: An R package for easy optimization of isotope pool dilution calculations	42