Nature Ecology & Evolution

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.)
ArticleCitations
Falcon flyways267
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort204
Eoraptor lunensis198
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity182
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen177
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk172
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics165
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people165
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain154
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts152
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference125
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits119
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range114
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans113
Evolution alters ecological resilience112
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel109
Lower lignin for wood efficiency107
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA106
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction105
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation99
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance97
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity97
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands95
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats93
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature92
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally90
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction90
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition89
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability89
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments88
Sea change86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells83
The wilderness myth82
Predation drives diversity81
Old fish debate settled80
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence78
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change78
John Alcock (1943–2023)77
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure77
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant77
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons76
Evolution of cod supergenes76
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation74
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles74
A complicated character74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak73
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring72
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species71
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees70
A decisive decade69
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution69
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area68
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom68
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes65
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils64
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters64
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations64
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)62
The journey of bacterial genes62
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions61
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change61
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