OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Ecology & Evolution is 64. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	226
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	215
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat	212
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	201
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	192
Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	171
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	158
Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data	157
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	157
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	145
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	143
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families	134
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	134
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities	129
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites	126
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development	124
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	124
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	118
Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy	112
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	112
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	108
Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut	105
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	105
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	103
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	102

Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	102
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	101
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	98
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	97
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	97
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic	96
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	96
Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time	96
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	94
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	94
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	93
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	92
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	89
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	88
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	86
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	85
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	85
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	81
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests	80
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	80
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	80
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	79
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria	78
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	78
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	77
Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities	74
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	73
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	72
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	71
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	71
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	70
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	70
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	69
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	68
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	67
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates	67
A forest loss report card for the world’s protected areas	66
The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change	65
Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures	65
Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants	64
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs	64
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	64