OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 66. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife	365
Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land	347
Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems	333
Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution	225
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	216
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	199
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat	197
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	184
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	172
Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	169
Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data	149
Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems	148
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	144
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	142
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	133
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	130
Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought	129
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families	126
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities	125
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites	123
Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome	119
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	118
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development	118
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	114
The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity	113

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	107
Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds	104
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	103
Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming	100
Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy	99
Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut	98
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	97
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	93
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	90
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	89
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic	88
Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time	88
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	87
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	87
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	86
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	86
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	86
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	85
A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria	84
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	83
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	83
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	82
The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants	81
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	79
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	79
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	77
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	76
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	75
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	75
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	73
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria	73
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests	72
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	71
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	71
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	70
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	70
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	69
Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities	69
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	68
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	68
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	67
On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks	66
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	66