OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 63. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	317
Eoraptor lunensis	221
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	216
Falcon flyways	211
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	192
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	180
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	179
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	165
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	161
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	137
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	136
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	133
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	128
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	123
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	122
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	120
Evolution alters ecological resilience	116
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	110
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	109
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	103
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	102
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	102
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	96
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	96
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	96

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	95
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	94
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	94
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	93
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	93
Old fish debate settled	93
The wilderness myth	92
Predation drives diversity	91
Sea change	90
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	87
John Alcock (1943–2023)	86
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
Evolution of cod supergenes	83
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	82
A complicated character	82
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	82
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	81
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	79
A decisive decade	79
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	78
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	77
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	77
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	77
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	76
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	75
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	75
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	74
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	70
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	70
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	69
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	69
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	68
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	66
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	65
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	65
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	63
The journey of bacterial genes	63
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	63