OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 60. 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
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	236
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	236
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	222
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	221
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	174
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	169
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	161
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	157
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	142
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	133
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	121
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	121
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	117
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	114
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	113
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	112
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	109
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	107
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	106
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	105
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	104
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	102
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	96
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	94
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	91

ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	91
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	89
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	89
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	89
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	89
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	88
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	88
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	86
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth	84
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	79
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	79
The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change	76
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates	76
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	74
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	74
A forest loss report card for the world’s protected areas	73
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	72
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	72
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	72
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	71
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts	71
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs	71
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	70
Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures	70
Gradual evolution of allopolyploidy in Arabidopsis suecica	68
Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants	67
Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants	66
Metabolomic signatures of coral bleaching history	65
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution	64
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	64
Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history	63
Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces	62
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	61
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	61
Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation	60