OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is 37. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands	97
Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects	92
The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health	78
Effects of Pollution on Fish Behavior, Personality, and Cognition: Some Research Perspectives	68
Endogenous Programs and Flexibility in Bird Migration	68
Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness	68
11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity	64
Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Birds and Marine Mammals in a Changing Climate	63
Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment	58
Decomposing the Causes for Niche Differentiation Between Species Using Hypervolumes	57
Variable Climates Lead to Varying Phenotypes: “Weird” Mammalian Torpor and Lessons From Non-Holarctic Species	55
The Role of Vector Trait Variation in Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics	54
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and the Promise of Phenomics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	54
Thermal Plasticity in Insects’ Response to Climate Change and to Multifactorial Environments	52
Brain Size and Life History Interact to Predict Urban Tolerance in Birds	50
The Critical Importance of Old World Fruit Bats for Healthy Ecosystems and Economies	50
Metabarcoding From Microbes to Mammals: Comprehensive Bioassessment on a Global Scale	49
Predicting Plant-Soil Feedback in the Field: Meta-Analysis Reveals That Competition and Environmental Stress Differentially Influence PSF	49
Plastic as a Vector of Dispersion for Marine Species With Invasive Potential. A Review	47
The Use of Barriers to Limit the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Animal Species: A Global Review	45
The Elephant in the Lab (and Field): Contamination in Aquatic Environmental DNA Studies	44
Evidence for the Impact of Climate Change on Primary Producers in the Southern Ocean	43
Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy	43
Florida’s Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Problem: Escalating Risks to Human, Environmental and Economic Health With Climate Change	43
Improving Restoration Programs Through Greater Connection With Ecological Theory and Better Monitoring	42

Aphid Facultative Symbionts Aid Recovery of Their Obligate Symbiont and Their Host After Heat Stress	41
A Systematic Review of Sources of Variability and Uncertainty in eDNA Data for Environmental Monitoring	41
The Effect of Activity, Energy Use, and Species Identity on Environmental DNA Shedding of Freshwater Fish	41
Evaluating DNA Barcoding for Species Identification and Discovery in European Gracillariid Moths	40
Next-Generation Camera Trapping: Systematic Review of Historic Trends Suggests Keys to Expanded Research Applications in Ecology and Conservation	40
The Mitochondrial Genome in Nematode Phylogenetics	40
Behavior Change in Urban Mammals: A Systematic Review	40
Animal Cognition in an Urbanised World	40
The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From China	39
The impact of environmental regulation on China’s industrial green development and its heterogeneity	39
Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology	39
Sampling Plants and Malacofauna in 87Sr/86Sr Bioavailability Studies: Implications for Isoscape Mapping and Reconstructing of Past Mobility Patterns	38
The State of Migratory Landbirds in the East Asian Flyway: Distributions, Threats, and Conservation Needs	37
Putting COI Metabarcoding in Context: The Utility of Exact Sequence Variants (ESVs) in Biodiversity Analysis	37