OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 62. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Falcon flyways	299
Ocean science and advocacy work better when decolonized	265
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	219
Eoraptor lunensis	189
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	175
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	163
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	161
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	161
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	155
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	155
Evolution alters ecological resilience	146
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	136
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	133
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	133
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	131
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	123
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	122
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	121
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	116
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	116
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	108
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	104
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	100
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	99
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	96

Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	95
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	94
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	91
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	86
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	85
Sea change	85
The wilderness myth	83
Predation drives diversity	83
A decisive decade	81
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	79
Old fish debate settled	79
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	75
Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease	75
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	74
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	73
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	71
John Alcock (1943–2023)	71
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	70
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	69
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	68
Evolution of cod supergenes	68
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	68
Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	67
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	67
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	65
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	65
A complicated character	65
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	65
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	64
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	64
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	64
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	64
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	63
The journey of bacterial genes	63
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	62
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	62