OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 57. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
On our (children’s) bookshelf	244
Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed	233
Life through the lens of metabolism	185
Correcting the record	181
Native Mexican adaptation	149
Dan Salah Tawfik (1955–2021)	143
Farming adaptations	134
An ocean of benefits	132
Beyond the paper	124
Colourful females	123
Metabolic models predict evolutionary dynamics	122
Rainforest origins	122
Fossilized ethics	115
Long tail of land use	112
The rise of mammals	111
Excess plant growth worsens droughts	111
Falcon flyways	107
Viral priorities from genomic signatures	104
Reply to: Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science	104
African savannah elephants call one another by ‘name’	101
Best practices for genetic and genomic data archiving	99
Gene duplication contributes to liver evolution	97
Quantifying research waste in ecology	95
Coexistence holes characterize the assembly and disassembly of multispecies systems	92
Make global biodiversity information useful to national decision-makers	91

Bridged knowledge	89
Between ice and ocean	89
Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy	87
‘Nature positive’ must incorporate, not undermine, the mitigation hierarchy	86
Estimating comparable distances to tipping points across mutualistic systems by scaled recovery rates	84
Rapid evolution of body plans	83
Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia	80
Plasmid evolution in the clinic	79
Awakening innovations in biology and culture	76
Interpreting intertidal invasions	75
Reply to: Conclusions of low extinction risk for most species of reef-building corals are premature	74
Animal power	73
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	73
Salt-stressed frogs	73
The social dimension of microbial niches	71
Memory pays off	71
Agriculture isn’t all rocket science	70
Futureproofing Europe’s forests	69
Andrew S. Brierley (1967–2024)	68
Ethical considerations for human sequences in environmental DNA	66
Parachute research is another ethical problem for Myanmar amber	66
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago	64
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	64
Useful plants have deep evolutionary roots	62
Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity	61
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	61
Mammal masses	60
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	59
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	59
Protection for migratory species	59
Neanderthal assimilation?	59
Kathy MacKinnon (1948–2023)	59
Mitigating a mine	57