OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Facets is 1. 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
Prior AICAR induces elevated glucose uptake concomitant with greater γ3-AMPK activation and reduced membrane cholesterol in skeletal muscle from 26-month-old rats	56
A more nuanced analysis of evidence-based decision-making by Canada’s protected area managers: a comment on Lemieux et al. (2021)	49
Using an inverted funnel analogy to develop a theory of change supporting resilient ecosystem-based adaptation in the Great Lakes Basin: a case study of Lincoln, Ontario, Canada	29
Seasonal patterns and key chemical predictors of dissolved greenhouse gases in small prairie pothole ponds	27
Introducing the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance: a partnership between researchers, patients and health system decision-makers to support rapid-learning and responsive	24
Agricultural land-use change seasonally rewires stream food webs: a case study from headwater streams in the Lake Erie watershed	24
Braiding Indigenous knowledge systems and Western-based sciences in the Alberta oil sands region: A systematic review	20
Evaluation of a decade of management of a North American aquatic invasive species (Nitellopsis obtusa) highlights scale-dependent effectiveness and monitoring gaps	19
Note of appreciation	19
How not to manage a pandemic, and how to recover from it: Lessons from Ecuador	18
A methodology for quantifying and characterizing litter from trash capture devices (TCDs) to measure impact and inform upstream solutions	16
COP 15: Crunch time for the world’s biodiversity	15
Recent and projected climate change–induced expansion of Atlantic halibut in the Northwest Atlantic	15
On the troubling use of plastic ‘habitat’ structures for fish in freshwater ecosystems – or – when restoration is just littering	11
A comparison of approaches to quantify carbon for ecosystem service assessments through time	11
American lobster (Homarus americanus) hepatopancreas transcriptome reveals the significance of chitin-related genes during impoundment shell disease	11
Undermining environmental assessment laws: post-assessment amendments for mines in British Columbia, Canada, and potential impacts on water resources	11
The many pathways of climate change affecting coastal ecosystems: a case study of western Vancouver Island, Canada	10
Decolonization of care through a wholistic way of living: Gaga from the Tayal in Taiwan	10
Lower extremity muscle strength reference values for young Saudi male adults aged 21 to 23 years and their correlation with anthropometric parameters and balance	9
Does regulation delay mines? A timeline and economic benefit audit of British Columbia mines	8
Ratchet effects revisited: power effects and systematic bias in natural resource management	8
Opposing trends in fisheries portfolio diversity at harvester and community scales signal opportunities for adaptation	8
Community science to the rescue: capturing water quality data during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
On the individual and organizational capacities supporting impact assessment: the case of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board	8

Teaching phronesis in a research integrity course	7
Correction: DNA metabarcoding of faecal pellets reveals high consumption of yew (Taxus spp.) by caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in a lichen-poor environment	7
Language of citation and publishing performance of graduate students in French-speaking countries with different economic and linguistic advantages	7
If this title is funny, will you cite me? Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution	7
Community participation in coastal and marine research and monitoring in Inuit Nunangat: a scoping literature review	7
Indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs): Canada's new path forward for biological and cultural conservation and Indigenous well-being	6
COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on Canada’s intensive care units	6
Note of appreciation	6
A novel energy-saving method for campus wired and dense WiFi network applying machine learning and idle cycling techniques	6
Ărramăt: an example of Indigenous Peoples’ holistic approach of health and well-being	6
Survey of rice (Oryza sativa L.) production ecosystems in northern Ghana confirms low risk of exposure to potential toxic elements from local grain consumption	6
Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure	6
Amplicon-based and metagenomic approaches provide insights into toxigenic potential in understudied Atlantic Canadian lakes	6
Safety Net Ontario: Ontario’s outsized role in the “Global Safety Net” for climate and biodiversity	5
Comments regarding “A Canadian model for providing high-quality, timely and relevant evidence to meet health system decision-maker needs: the SPOR Evidence Alliance.”	5
Models of justice evoked in published scientific studies of plastic pollution	5
Using community science to advance grizzly bear conservation	5
DNA metabarcoding of faecal pellets reveals high consumption of yew (Taxusspp.) by caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in a lichen-poor environment	5
Including local voices in marine debris conversations to advance environmental justice for island and coastal communities: perspectives from St. Paul Island, Alaska	5
Additional common milkweed would help Canada meet its share of the trinational eastern migratory monarch butterfly recovery target	5
Assessing a proponent-driven process for endangered species threat mitigation: Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, American Eel, and hydropower	5
The effect of nutrient transport downstream on food web stability in an experimental freshwater meta-ecosystem	5
Canada's marine carbon sink: an early career perspective on the state of research and existing knowledge gaps	5
Learning from past collaborative experiences: setting a pathway for natural sciences and engineering researchers to support Indigenous-driven aims	4
The greenlight for government buildings: strategies for a low-carbon building portfolio	4
How do human actions affect fisheries? Differences in perceptions between fishers and scientists in the Maine lobster fishery	4
Correction: Spatial and seasonal determinants of arthropod community composition across an agro-ecosystem landscape	4
Taking care of knowledge, taking care of salmon: towards Indigenous data sovereignty in an era of climate change and cumulative effects	4
Management practices benefit endangered Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) in Manitoba tall grass prairie	4
A media surveillance analysis of COVID-19 workplace outbreaks in Canada and the United States	4
The challenge of meaningful knowledge mobilization of climate change research in the Canadian Arctic for early-career researchers	4
Impact of plastic pollution on atmospheric carbon dioxide	4
Dynamic shifts and a drastic decline in reported landings for southern Gulf of St. Lawrence commercial clam fisheries over the past two decades	4
Julie Morand-Ferron retrospective (1977–2022) for FACETS	4
A pilot bioavailable strontium isotope baseline map of Southern British Columbia, Canada	4
Helping land trusts prepare for a new climate: experiences of challenges and facilitators for translating knowledge about climate change adaptation in Ontario, Canada	4
An analysis of Canada's declared live wildlife imports and implications for zoonotic disease risk	3
Forested wetlands in a protected area and the adjacent working landscape provide complementary biodiversity value based on breeding birds: A case study from Nova Scotia, Canada	3
Investigating the potential uptake of microplastic-derived carbon into a boreal lake food web using carbon-13 labelled plastic	3
Community structure, species–habitat relationships, and conservation of amphibians in forested vernal pools in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario	3
Cadre législatif québécois pour la protection des espèces sauvages en situation précaire: évaluation critique et recommandations pour une révision majeure	3
Modelling the dispersion of infectious salmon anemia virus from Atlantic salmon farms in the Quoddy Region of New Brunswick, Canada and Maine, USA	3
Using the Framework Method to support collaborative and cross-cultural qualitative data analysis	3
Assessing climate change vulnerability in Canadian marine conservation networks: implications for conservation planning and resilience	3
Mismatches in salmon social–ecological systems: Challenges and opportunities for (re)alignment in the Skeena River watershed	3
The association of typical and atypical symptoms with in-hospital mortality in older adults with COVID-19: a multicentre cohort study	3
On evidence-based decision-making by Canada’s protected areas managers: a reply to Irvine et al.	3
Students’ mindsets on research integrity—a cross-cultural comparison	3
A social–ecological geography of southern Canadian lakes	3
Canadian wildlife health surveillance—patterns, challenges and opportunities identified by a scoping review	3

Revisiting the challenge: perspectives on Canada’s freshwater fisheries policies three decades after the Pearse Report	2
Evaluating community science sampling for microplastics in shore sediments of large river watersheds	2
Effects of turbine height and cut-in speed on bat and swallow fatalities at wind energy facilities	2
Parents’ COVID-19 stressors and associations with self-rated health, symptoms of mental health problems, and substance use: a cross-sectional study	2
Pan-Canadian review of community-based monitoring projects and their capacity to enhance environmental monitoring programs for cumulative effects assessments	2
Interference in science: scientists’ perspectives on their ability to communicate and conduct environmental research in Canada	2
Characterizing contemporary evolutionary change in a recently isolated population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)	2
Changes in serum copeptin in the early onset of type 2 diabetes	2
One informs the other: Unionid species at risk and benthic macroinvertebrate community monitoring data are complementary	2
From plant biology research to technology transfer and knowledge extension: improving food quality and mitigating environmental impacts	2
Baseline composition, quantity, and condition of bycatch in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence spring and summer American lobster fisheries	2
An ensemble machine learning bioavailable strontium isoscape for Eastern Canada	2
Snow, ponds, trees, and frogs: how environmental processes mediate climate change impacts on four subarctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	2
Runoff and discharge pathways of microplastics into freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Boundary spanners catalyze cultural and prescribed fire in western Canada	2
Naphthenic acid fraction compounds, produced by the extraction of bitumen from oil sands, alter survival and behaviour of juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens)	2
Assessing species at risk legislation across Canadian provinces and territories	2
The Atlantic First Nations Water Authority: an Indigenous water utility guided by Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing	2
Climate change, species thermal emergence, and conservation design: a case study in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic	2
Assessing the representation of species included within the Canadian Living Planet Index	2
Incorporating protected areas into global fish biomass projections under climate change	2
Effects of acute suspended sediment exposure on the swimming and schooling performance of imperilled Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus)	2
Saskatchewan Condition Assessment of Lotic Ecosystems (SCALE): A multivariate tool for assessing the integrity of Northern Great Plains wadeable rivers and streams	2
Temporal diversity patterns for fungi and mites associated with decaying Sporobolus pumilus (Spartina patens) in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia	2
The influence of sociodemographic and environmental factors on wildlife carcass submissions in urban areas: Opportunities for increasing equitable and representative wildlife health surveillance	1
Toward decolonizing sustainability research: a systematic process to guide critical reflections	1
A climate-resilient marine conservation network for Canada	1
Toward more ethical engagements between Western and Indigenous sciences	1
Richard Colebrook (Cole) Harris, OC. FRSC. LL.DHonoris causa, PhD (1936–2022)	1
Dynamic coastal pelagic habitat drives rapid changes in growth and condition of juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) during early marine migration	1
Applying ensemble ecosystem model projections to future-proof marine conservation planning in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean	1
A combination of optimized threshold and deep learning-based approach to improve malaria detection and segmentation on PlasmoID dataset	1
A prospective framework to support climate-adaptive fisheries in Canada	1
Understanding the challenges associated with finding and accessing restricted data in Canada: a mixed methods study	1
Seasonal movement and habitat use of Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) near the northern geographic range extent	1
Historical gold mining increased metal(loid) concentrations in lake sediments from Nova Scotia, Canada	1
Barriers to implementation of dynamic reference points in fisheries management	1
The changing agricultural landscape in Canada’s Mixedwood Plains Ecozone (2011–2022) and the implications for biodiversity	1
Spatial and seasonal determinants of arthropod community composition across an agro-ecosystem landscape	1
The effects of L-thyroxine and its association with physical exercise decrease the inflammation in an acute lung injury model	1
Anthropogenic impacts on seagrass habitat connectivity: a model to explore potential links between human activity and marine invertebrate metapopulation persistence	1
Community-led non-invasive polar bear monitoring in the Eeyou Marine Region of James Bay, Canada: insights on distribution and body condition during the ice-free season	1
Social determinants of food insecurity experienced by Ecuadorian women during the COVID-19 pandemic of Summer 2020: an online survey at the individual level	1
River influence on mercury bioaccumulation in the coastal food web of Eeyou Istchee, James Bay, Canada	1
The Canadian Species at Risk Act at 20: an aquatic perspective	1
Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada	1
Fishing in turbulent waters: resilience, risk, and trust in British Columbia’s declining commercial salmon fishery	1
Distinct realized physiologies in green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) populations from barren and kelp habitats	1
A One Health perspective on recreational fisheries	1
Heliocaminiform structures: plant organs that function as microgreenhouses	1
Identification of infectious agents in early marine Chinook and Coho salmon associated with cohort survival	1
Urgent and long overdue: legal reform and drug decriminalization in Canada	1
An inclusive and diverse governance structure of the strategy for patient-oriented research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance	1
How to set the agenda for training in responsible conduct of research using the target audience as a narrative guide	1
Access to Environmental Justice in Canadian environmental impact assessment	1
Identifying indigenous knowledge components for Whudzih (Caribou) recovery planning	1
Burrow nests fall below critical temperatures of threatened seabirds but offer thermal refuge during extreme cold events	1
An integrated assessment of impacts to ecosystem services associated with prairie pothole wetland drainage quantifying wide-ranging losses	1
Working groups, gender, and publication impact of Canada’s ecology and evolution faculty	1
Estimating size-at-harvest from Indigenous archaeological clamshell assemblages in Coastal British Columbia	1
Way out there: pathogens, health, and condition of overwintering salmon in the Gulf of Alaska	1
Decolonizing Indigenous science: Bees and Indigenous sovereignty	1
The long-term effects of water resource development on blood mercury levels and the trophic ecology of Namew (lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens)	1