OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecosystem Services is 35. 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 role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	151
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	135
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas	112
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	103
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	83
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	78
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	73
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	71
Ecosystem valuation and eco-compensation for conservation of traditional paddy ecosystems and varieties in Kerala, India	71
When are payment for ecosystems services suitable for coral reef derived coastal protection?: A review of scientific requirements	66
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	63
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	60
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	58
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	54
How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators	53
The importance of protected areas and Indigenous lands in securing ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Cerrado	52
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	51
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	51
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	50
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	49
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	48
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion	48
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	48
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	46
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward	46

Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	46
Value pluralism in ecosystem services assessments: Closing the gap between academia and conservation practitioners	43
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	41
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	39
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	39
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	37
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	36
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	35
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China	35
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	35
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests	35
Lessons learned from implementing the ecosystem services concept in urban planning	35
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	35