OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecosystem Services is 34. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	164
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	156
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	119
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	105
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	102
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	86
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	74
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	70
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	69
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	67
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	67
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	65
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	65
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	62
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	60
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	53
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	46
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	45
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	44
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	43
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	43
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	43
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	42
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	42

Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	41
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	40
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	39
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	39
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	39
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	37
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	37
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	36
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	36
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	34
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	34
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets	34