OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 67. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	585
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	464
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	271
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	232
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	195
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	177
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	168
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	164
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	153
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	152
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	148
Multicellularity for free	145
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	143
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)	141
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	135
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	132
Alignment-free integration of single-nucleus ATAC-seq across species with sPYce	132
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	124
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	121
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	121
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	121
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	120
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	118
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas	115
Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian	115

Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	107
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	106
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	105
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	104
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	104
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	103
Evolution alters ecological resilience	101
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	101
Old fish debate settled	100
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	100
Sea change	99
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	98
Several ways to balance sex differences	97
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	94
John Alcock (1943–2023)	92
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	91
Spotlight on our AI policies	90
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	88
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	88
A complicated character	86
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	83
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	81
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	80
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	80
Mapping where marine megafauna move	76
A blueprint for assessing national progress towards ‘30 by 30’	76
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	75
Pricing nature into sovereign debt	75
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	75
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	74
Alan M. Wilson (1964–2026)	74
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	74
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	73
Biodiversity buffers the effects of drought on productivity most in drier grasslands and less so in forests	72
Hidden patterns in fauna compensation values in European biodiversity legislation	72
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	71
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	70
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	69
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	68
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	68
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	68
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	68
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	67
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	67
Worn down by the weather	67