OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	298
Eoraptor lunensis	210
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	204
Falcon flyways	186
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	186
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	174
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	174
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	162
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	157
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	132
Evolution alters ecological resilience	126
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	120
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	119
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	117
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	117
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	116
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	116
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	107
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	106
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	102
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	100
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	98
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	94
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	93
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	92

Lower lignin for wood efficiency	90
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	90
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	89
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	88
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	88
Old fish debate settled	87
The wilderness myth	86
Predation drives diversity	85
Sea change	85
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	83
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	82
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	81
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	80
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	80
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	79
John Alcock (1943–2023)	79
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	77
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	76
Evolution of cod supergenes	76
A decisive decade	75
A complicated character	75
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	74
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	74
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	73
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	73
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	72
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	70
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	67
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	66
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	66
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	65
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	64
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	63
The journey of bacterial genes	62
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	62
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	62
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	61
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	61
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	61