OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 61. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Falcon flyways	267
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	204
Eoraptor lunensis	198
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	182
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	177
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	172
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	165
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	165
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	154
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	152
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	125
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	119
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	114
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	113
Evolution alters ecological resilience	112
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	109
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	107
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	106
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	105
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	99
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	97
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	97
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	95
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	93
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	92

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	90
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	90
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	89
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	89
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	88
Sea change	86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	83
The wilderness myth	82
Predation drives diversity	81
Old fish debate settled	80
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	78
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	78
John Alcock (1943–2023)	77
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	77
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	77
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	76
Evolution of cod supergenes	76
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	74
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	74
A complicated character	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	73
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	72
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	71
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	70
A decisive decade	69
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	69
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	68
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	68
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	65
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	64
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	64
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	64
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	62
The journey of bacterial genes	62
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	61
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	61