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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
On our (children’s) bookshelf	287
Life through the lens of metabolism	259
Correcting the record	211
Native Mexican adaptation	176
Farming adaptations	168
An ocean of benefits	161
Beyond the paper	157
Colourful females	154
Fossilized ethics	147
Rainforest origins	147
Long tail of land use	140
The rise of mammals	130
Falcon flyways	129
Viral priorities from genomic signatures	129
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	126
Multispecies migratory connectivity indicates hemispheric-scale risk to bird populations from global change	119
Bridged knowledge	117
Between ice and ocean	115
Pervasive gene flow despite strong and varied reproductive barriers in swordtails	112
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	109
Awakening innovations in biology and culture	108
Interpreting intertidal invasions	105
Salt-stressed frogs	103
Animal power	102
The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales	96

Agriculture isn’t all rocket science	96
The social dimension of microbial niches	96
‘Nature positive’ must incorporate, not undermine, the mitigation hierarchy	93
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	91
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	89
Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds	86
Mammal masses	85
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	81
Protection for migratory species	81
Mitigating a mine	79
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	78
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	77
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	77
Nitrogen-fixing organelle	76
Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life	76
Homoploid hybrids in Heliconius	76
Spring comes earlier but not equally among species	74
Better plans are needed for mitigating the ecological impacts of Cambodia's Funan Techo Canal	73
Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections	73
Convergent resistance to GABA receptor neurotoxins through plant–insect coevolution	72
Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	72
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	71
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	68
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago	68
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	68
Environmental selection and epistasis in an empirical phenotype–environment–fitness landscape	67
Reply to: Conclusions of low extinction risk for most species of reef-building corals are premature	67
Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice	67
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	66
Adapting to vaccination	64
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes	64
Increasing climatic decoupling of bird abundances and distributions	63
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	63
The sex of scents	63
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	63
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	62
Fish community structure and dynamics are insufficient to mediate coral resilience	62