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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	482
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	388
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	241
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	227
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	226
Multicellularity for free	201
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	174
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	165
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	160
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	155
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	151
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	149
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	143
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	135
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	134
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	134
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	130
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	126
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	126
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	125
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	120
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	114
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	114
Evolution alters ecological resilience	112
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	111

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	111
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	109
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	108
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	106
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	105
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	104
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	103
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	99
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	97
Old fish debate settled	96
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	96
Sea change	96
Several ways to balance sex differences	94
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	93
John Alcock (1943–2023)	92
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	91
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	91
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	90
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	89
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	88
Spotlight on our AI policies	88
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
A complicated character	84
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	82
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	80
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	79
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	78
Mapping where marine megafauna move	77
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	77
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	77
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	75
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	74
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	74
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	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
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	69
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	68
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	68
Worn down by the weather	68
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	67
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	66
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	66
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	66
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	66
Action on ambition	66