OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Facets is 4. 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
Agricultural land-use change seasonally rewires stream food webs: a case study from headwater streams in the Lake Erie watershed	78
Seasonal patterns and key chemical predictors of dissolved greenhouse gases in small prairie pothole ponds	65
A more nuanced analysis of evidence-based decision-making by Canada’s protected area managers: a comment on Lemieux et al. (2021)	48
Mapping Canadian institutional research data management strategies: a cross-sectional study	40
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	31
Prior AICAR induces elevated glucose uptake concomitant with greater γ3-AMPK activation and reduced membrane cholesterol in skeletal muscle from 26-month-old rats	29
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	25
Braiding Indigenous knowledge systems and Western-based sciences in the Alberta oil sands region: A systematic review	23
Note of appreciation	23
Evaluation of a decade of management of a North American aquatic invasive species (Nitellopsis obtusa) highlights scale-dependent effectiveness and monitoring gaps	23
American lobster (Homarus americanus) hepatopancreas transcriptome reveals the significance of chitin-related genes during impoundment shell disease	22
How not to manage a pandemic, and how to recover from it: Lessons from Ecuador	21
Undermining environmental assessment laws: post-assessment amendments for mines in British Columbia, Canada, and potential impacts on water resources	20
A methodology for quantifying and characterizing litter from trash capture devices (TCDs) to measure impact and inform upstream solutions	19
A comparison of approaches to quantify carbon for ecosystem service assessments through time	19
Recent and projected climate change–induced expansion of Atlantic halibut in the Northwest Atlantic	18
COP 15: Crunch time for the world’s biodiversity	17
Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States	17
The many pathways of climate change affecting coastal ecosystems: a case study of western Vancouver Island, Canada	13
On the individual and organizational capacities supporting impact assessment: the case of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board	13
Lower extremity muscle strength reference values for young Saudi male adults aged 21 to 23 years and their correlation with anthropometric parameters and balance	13
Decolonization of care through a wholistic way of living: Gaga from the Tayal in Taiwan	13
On the troubling use of plastic ‘habitat’ structures for fish in freshwater ecosystems – or – when restoration is just littering	13
Community science to the rescue: capturing water quality data during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Does regulation delay mines? A timeline and economic benefit audit of British Columbia mines	12

Ratchet effects revisited: power effects and systematic bias in natural resource management	12
Teaching phronesis in a research integrity course	11
COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on Canada’s intensive care units	11
Opposing trends in fisheries portfolio diversity at harvester and community scales signal opportunities for adaptation	11
Community participation in coastal and marine research and monitoring in Inuit Nunangat: a scoping literature review	11
A novel energy-saving method for campus wired and dense WiFi network applying machine learning and idle cycling techniques	10
Note of appreciation	10
Patient, researcher, and organizational representatives’ experiences conducting or supporting patient-initiated research	10
Language of citation and publishing performance of graduate students in French-speaking countries with different economic and linguistic advantages	9
Amplicon-based and metagenomic approaches provide insights into toxigenic potential in understudied Atlantic Canadian lakes	9
Correction: DNA metabarcoding of faecal pellets reveals high consumption of yew (Taxus spp.) by caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in a lichen-poor environment	9
Drivers of the variability of soil phosphorus fractions in boreal forested watersheds	9
Indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs): Canada's new path forward for biological and cultural conservation and Indigenous well-being	8
If this title is funny, will you cite me? Citation impacts of humour and other features of article titles in ecology and evolution	8
A multi-criteria approach to identify priority regions for freshwater biodiversity conservation	8
Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure	7
The effect of nutrient transport downstream on food web stability in an experimental freshwater meta-ecosystem	7
Assessing a proponent-driven process for endangered species threat mitigation: Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, American Eel, and hydropower	7
DNA metabarcoding of faecal pellets reveals high consumption of yew (Taxus spp.) by caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in a lichen-poor environment	7
Comments regarding “A Canadian model for providing high-quality, timely and relevant evidence to meet health system decision-maker needs: the SPOR Evidence Alliance.”	7
Ărramăt: an example of Indigenous Peoples’ holistic approach of health and well-being	7
Safety Net Ontario: Ontario’s outsized role in the “Global Safety Net” for climate and biodiversity	7
Using community science to advance grizzly bear conservation	7
Impact of plastic pollution on atmospheric carbon dioxide	6
Learning from past collaborative experiences: setting a pathway for natural sciences and engineering researchers to support Indigenous-driven aims	6
Canada's marine carbon sink: an early career perspective on the state of research and existing knowledge gaps	6
The challenge of meaningful knowledge mobilization of climate change research in the Canadian Arctic for early-career researchers	6
Taking care of knowledge, taking care of salmon: towards Indigenous data sovereignty in an era of climate change and cumulative effects	6
Helping land trusts prepare for a new climate: experiences of challenges and facilitators for translating knowledge about climate change adaptation in Ontario, Canada	6
Additional common milkweed would help Canada meet its share of the trinational eastern migratory monarch butterfly recovery target	6
Including local voices in marine debris conversations to advance environmental justice for island and coastal communities: perspectives from St. Paul Island, Alaska	6
Models of justice evoked in published scientific studies of plastic pollution	6
Dynamic shifts and a drastic decline in reported landings for southern Gulf of St. Lawrence commercial clam fisheries over the past two decades	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
Julie Morand-Ferron retrospective (1977–2022) for FACETS	5
How do human actions affect fisheries? Differences in perceptions between fishers and scientists in the Maine lobster fishery	5
Management practices benefit endangered Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) in Manitoba tall grass prairie	5
Perceptions of reclamation success as “as close as possible to the pre-mining state” undermine public participation and Indigenous consent in mineral governance	5
The association of typical and atypical symptoms with in-hospital mortality in older adults with COVID-19: a multicentre cohort study	5
Maurice Tardif (1953–2023)	5
A pilot bioavailable strontium isotope baseline map of Southern British Columbia, Canada	5
Using the Framework Method to support collaborative and cross-cultural qualitative data analysis	5
The greenlight for government buildings: strategies for a low-carbon building portfolio	5
A review of expert group-based science advisory processes in Canada	5
Students’ mindsets on research integrity—a cross-cultural comparison	5
Correction: Spatial and seasonal determinants of arthropod community composition across an agro-ecosystem landscape	5
Investigating the potential uptake of microplastic-derived carbon into a boreal lake food web using carbon-13 labelled plastic	5
A media surveillance analysis of COVID-19 workplace outbreaks in Canada and the United States	5
Evaluation of Indigenous garments and Government of Canada cold weather clothing insulation: growing Northern economies through safer personal protective equipment	5
Assessing climate change vulnerability in Canadian marine conservation networks: implications for conservation planning and resilience	5

On evidence-based decision-making by Canada’s protected areas managers: a reply to Irvine et al.	4
Analysis of two decades of Landsat satellite images reveals long-term changes in aquatic and terrestrial vegetation in Bimini, The Bahamas with coastal development	4
Cadre législatif québécois pour la protection des espèces sauvages en situation précaire: évaluation critique et recommandations pour une révision majeure	4
Characterizing contemporary evolutionary change in a recently isolated population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)	4
Archived government correspondence reveals extreme arsenic pollution of local waterbodies from gold mining at Yellowknife, NT prior to environmental regulation	4
Mismatches in salmon social–ecological systems: Challenges and opportunities for (re)alignment in the Skeena River watershed	4
An analysis of Canada's declared live wildlife imports and implications for zoonotic disease risk	4
Sampling requirements for standardized insect biodiversity monitoring vary with abundance	4
Is Canada poised to implement a data deposit requirement?	4
Saskatchewan Condition Assessment of Lotic Ecosystems (SCALE): A multivariate tool for assessing the integrity of Northern Great Plains wadeable rivers and streams	4
Canadian wildlife health surveillance—patterns, challenges and opportunities identified by a scoping review	4
A framework for the use of conservation hatcheries to support wild Pacific salmon recovery in Canada	4
Community structure, species–habitat relationships, and conservation of amphibians in forested vernal pools in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario	4
Modelling the dispersion of infectious salmon anemia virus from Atlantic salmon farms in the Quoddy Region of New Brunswick, Canada and Maine, USA	4
Boundary spanners catalyze cultural and prescribed fire in western Canada	4
Disrupting the status quo: fostering a practice of inclusion in engineering through post-secondary allyship training	4
Canada’s framework for assessing the pathogenicity of infectious agents within fisheries and aquaculture	4
Runoff and discharge pathways of microplastics into freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
A social–ecological geography of southern Canadian lakes	4
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	4