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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects	125
The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health	107
11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity	77
Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Birds and Marine Mammals in a Changing Climate	73
Florida’s Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Problem: Escalating Risks to Human, Environmental and Economic Health With Climate Change	66
Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment	65
Plastic as a Vector of Dispersion for Marine Species With Invasive Potential. A Review	65
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and the Promise of Phenomics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	65
Animal Cognition in an Urbanised World	60
Next-Generation Camera Trapping: Systematic Review of Historic Trends Suggests Keys to Expanded Research Applications in Ecology and Conservation	59
Behavior Change in Urban Mammals: A Systematic Review	58
Evidence for the Impact of Climate Change on Primary Producers in the Southern Ocean	57
Metabarcoding From Microbes to Mammals: Comprehensive Bioassessment on a Global Scale	56
The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From China	56
The Use of Barriers to Limit the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Animal Species: A Global Review	55
The Critical Importance of Old World Fruit Bats for Healthy Ecosystems and Economies	55
The Elephant in the Lab (and Field): Contamination in Aquatic Environmental DNA Studies	50
The Effect of Activity, Energy Use, and Species Identity on Environmental DNA Shedding of Freshwater Fish	50
Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior	47
The State of Migratory Landbirds in the East Asian Flyway: Distributions, Threats, and Conservation Needs	46
Sampling Plants and Malacofauna in 87Sr/86Sr Bioavailability Studies: Implications for Isoscape Mapping and Reconstructing of Past Mobility Patterns	44
The impact of environmental regulation on China’s industrial green development and its heterogeneity	44
Spatial Heterogeneity of eDNA Transport Improves Stream Assessment of Threatened Salmon Presence, Abundance, and Location	44
Evaluating DNA Barcoding for Species Identification and Discovery in European Gracillariid Moths	44
Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology	41

Money Kills Native Ecosystems: European Crayfish as an Example	41
Contemporary Oyster Reef Restoration: Responding to a Changing World	41
The Consequences of Glacier Retreat Are Uneven Between Plant Species	40
Sounding the Call for a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds	40
Exploring the Kairomone-Based Foraging Behaviour of Natural Enemies to Enhance Biological Control: A Review	39
Learning and Animal Movement	39
A Test of Species Distribution Model Transferability Across Environmental and Geographic Space for 108 Western North American Tree Species	39
The Effects of Weather on Avian Growth and Implications for Adaptation to Climate Change	39
Monitoring the Spread of Water Hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes): Challenges and Future Developments	39
Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture Through Camera Trapping: A Review of Benchmark Analyses for Wildlife Density Estimation	38
Phylogenomic Analysis of the Phylum Nematoda: Conflicts and Congruences With Morphology, 18S rRNA, and Mitogenomes	38
When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants	37